Thérèse Dorny

Thérèse Dorny

Born: September 18, 1891
Died: March 14, 1976
in Paris, France
Thérèse Dorny (born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni; 18 September 1891 - 14 March 1976) was a French film and stage actress.

Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni was born on 18 September 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, the only child to Gaudence Jean Baptiste Marie Longo-Dorni (born 1859) and Marie Antonia Longo-Dorni (née Junghaans, born 1865).

She began her career as a stage actress in 1913, and made her debut as a film actress in the 1930 film The Sweetness of Loving. She was best known for her roles in Cognasse (1932) and Les Diaboliques (1955).

Dorny married the French painter and graphic artist André Dunoyer de Segonzac on 19 December 1964 in Viroflay, Île-de-France, France, who she remained with until his death in 1974.

Dorny died on 14 March 1976 in Saint-Tropez, Var, France.

Source: Article "Thérèse Dorny" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Oh! What a Mambo
Title: Oh! What a Mambo
Character: La belle-mère
Released: May 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.
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Diabolique
Title: Diabolique
Character: Mrs. Herboux
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Adam Is... Eve
Title: Adam Is... Eve
Character: Mme Beaumont
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a man gets a sex change to fulfil his wish to become a cabaret artiste.
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La belle de Cadix
Title: La belle de Cadix
Character: Blanche
Released: December 24, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown gypsy named Maria-Luisa.
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Le Passage de Vénus
Title: Le Passage de Vénus
Character: Zoé Chantoiseau
Released: August 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and raped a strange woman in the Luxembourg Gardens, so he decides to give himself up. On that occasion he gets to know his victim, Hortense, as well as her husband, an astronomer. Lazare realizes he is innocent, which does not prevent from becoming... Hortense's lover!
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The Sad Sack
Title: The Sad Sack
Character: Mme Blandin d'Ombelles
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has blue blood in his veins, hopes to go through a nice and comfortable military service. Unfortunately he becomes Corporal Bourrache's pet aversion. Nevertheless, against all expectations, Jean ends up taking a liking for military life.
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Caught in the Foreign Legion
Title: Caught in the Foreign Legion
Character: Solange Duroc, la tante d'André
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is discovered, he must flee and, thanks to a uniform, takes part in the great maneuvers.
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Faust and the Devil
Title: Faust and the Devil
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
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3rd chimney on the right
Title: 3rd chimney on the right
Character: Concierge
Released: April 21, 1948
Type: Movie
The difficulty in finding accommodation in Paris, will cause many stories, between some colorful characters.
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Mystery Tour
Title: Mystery Tour
Character: Mademoiselle Roberta
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
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Devil's Daughter
Title: Devil's Daughter
Character: Aunt Hortense
Released: April 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
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Box of Dreams
Title: Box of Dreams
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
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Le mort ne reçoit plus
Title: Le mort ne reçoit plus
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!
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Behold Beatrice
Title: Behold Beatrice
Character: Aunt Hermance
Released: March 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marriage to a young man she loves, whom she will however end up marrying. The young girl herself is not without reproach; she has missed a mother's love: in this ordeal, she has no sense of feminine dignity.
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Portrait of a Woman
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Released: January 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her in-laws. Some time later, a body is found in a nearby lake.
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Title: Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Character: Madame Noblet
Released: July 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
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A Dog's Life
Title: A Dog's Life
Character: Léocadie
Released: June 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of Mr. Calumet, agrees to marry the brave professor, but believes each onstant that her husband has returned in the form of his brave little dog Medor. After incredible situations and an immeasurable pursuit, Gustave Bourdillon and widow Émilie will live a deserved happiness.
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Little Nothings
Title: Little Nothings
Character: L'habilleuse
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
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The Italian Straw Hat
Title: The Italian Straw Hat
Character: la baronne
Released: June 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In order to save the woman's honor, Fadinard must find the exact same type of hat to replace the one his horse ate and still be able to get to his wedding on time.
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The Acrobat
Title: The Acrobat
Character: Pauline
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
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Whirlwind of Paris
Title: Whirlwind of Paris
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
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Visages de femmes
Title: Visages de femmes
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player. Soon fed up with his new conquest, he returns to Fred. But Aline is pregnant from him. Showing an admirable sense of self-sacrifice, Fred manages to persuade Georges to marry Aline.
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Return at Dawn
Title: Return at Dawn
Character: The fashion house director
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital. - Written by jsanchez from IMDB.com
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Prince de mon cœur
Title: Prince de mon cœur
Character: Isabelle Gatemouille
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: La baronne
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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Abused Confidence
Title: Abused Confidence
Character: La logeuse
Released: November 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
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Colonial Canteen
Title: Colonial Canteen
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his military superiors,he reigns ,so to speak ,over the grunts' grub. One fine day,opportunity knocks: his brother has just died;would you believe it,he made a fortune in America ,and our canteen man is the sole legatee: 100 million bucks. Overnight,his life (and his wife's ) change:not only his mates tell him stories to make his heart bleed to get some dough,but two aristocrats,a marquis and an earl,short of the readies,want the canteen man's daughter, a wise girl in love with a deserving young lawyer doing his military service,to become their daughter-in-law ,and to latch on to the girl's dowry.
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À nous deux, madame la vie
Title: À nous deux, madame la vie
Character: Wife of 'Toto la Vache'
Released: March 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
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Ménilmontant
Title: Ménilmontant
Character: Toinon
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
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One of the Legion
Title: One of the Legion
Character: Antoinette Espitalion
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance, he's seduced to a bar by a shady man. The rogue gets Fernand drunk, knocks him out and switches costumes and papers. He's now Robert Durand, a voluntary Foreign legion recruit. After failed attempts to explain, he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then, marriage. But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria?
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Passé à vendre
Title: Passé à vendre
Character: Marthe Dupont
Released: September 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
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Les Sœurs Hortensia
Title: Les Sœurs Hortensia
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian. Aline's husband meets a little dancer, Marie, who looks like his wife. Marie is the daughter of a former friend of Aline's father. The two young women perform a dance number, the Argentinian is ruined and the spouses are reconciled.
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Divine
Title: Divine
Character: La Poison
Released: November 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
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La Mascotte
Title: La Mascotte
Character: Dame Turlurette
Released: June 26, 1935
Type: Movie
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in bad shape. In order for her to retain her beneficial power, an attempt is made to separate her from her lover, but in vain.
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Monsieur Sans-Gêne
Title: Monsieur Sans-Gêne
Character: La féministe
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.
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Ciboulette
Title: Ciboulette
Character: Zénobie
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
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Knock
Title: Knock
Character: La dame en violet
Released: November 8, 1933
Type: Movie
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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Title: Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Character: La dame en violet
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a different movie from the 1951 version where Louis Jouvet also plays Dr Knock.
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To have known
Title: To have known
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
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The Sweetness of Loving
Title: The Sweetness of Loving
Character: Lorette
Released: October 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims them as his own work.The writer comes to the city and for a while gets even with his relative by having a fling with the man's wife.