Charles Vissières

Charles Vissières

Born: October 29, 1880
Died: April 13, 1960
in Caen, Calvados, France

Movies for Charles Vissières...

The Magic of the Kite
Title: The Magic of the Kite
Character: the oldman
Released: December 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Title: The Rebels of Lomanach
Character: Un marquis (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
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The Return of Don Camillo
Title: The Return of Don Camillo
Character: Il vescovo
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Title: Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Character: Le concierge
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Title: My Husband Is Marvelous
Character: Le membre de l'institut
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
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Endless Horizons
Title: Endless Horizons
Character: The old gentleman
Released: April 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is first seen in 1930, leaving her millinery shop behind in favor of the wild blue yonder. Though the world of aviation was still essentially an all-male one (despite England's Amy Johnson and America's Amelia Earhart), Boucher perseveres, eventually breaking all existing male and female speed and height records. A bit slow on the uptake in the dramatic scenes, the film soars (no pun intended) during the aerial sequences. Horizons san Fin was the winner of the Catholic Award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Road to Damascus
Title: The Road to Damascus
Character: The old
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
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Woman Are Angels
Title: Woman Are Angels
Character: Pelure
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
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L'éternel espoir
Title: L'éternel espoir
Released: June 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
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The Case Against X
Title: The Case Against X
Character: Le détective Henri Bouteiller
Released: June 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
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Rooster in dough
Title: Rooster in dough
Released: June 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Title: The Little World of Don Camillo
Character: Il Vescovo
Released: March 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
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Le Plaisir
Title: Le Plaisir
Character: Le vieux normand dans le train
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
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Paris Vice Squad
Title: Paris Vice Squad
Character: 'Grand-père', l'expert graphologue
Released: April 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.
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Under the Paris Sky
Title: Under the Paris Sky
Character: Le vieil homme (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
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Rue des Saussaies
Title: Rue des Saussaies
Character: The witness
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot take action herself. The way she finds is to ask police detective Pierre Leblanc to help her do it. Pierre gives his agreement and starts following the trail. He soon finds out that Brasier belongs to a gang whose boss, Cortedani, has ordered the murder.
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Lost Souvenirs
Title: Lost Souvenirs
Character: Le fidèle valet (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
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La Ronde
Title: La Ronde
Character: Le concierge du théatre (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Title: The Elders of Saint-Loup
Character: Le Portier
Released: September 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Title: Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Character: Le curé
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
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Dr. Laennec
Title: Dr. Laennec
Released: June 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
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Suzanne and Her Brigands
Title: Suzanne and Her Brigands
Released: June 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.
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Manon
Title: Manon
Character: An Old Man (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
Title: Such a Pretty Little Beach
Character: The Old Man
Released: January 19, 1949
Type: Movie
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
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The Spice of Life
Title: The Spice of Life
Character: Le speaker
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
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Impasse of Two Angels
Title: Impasse of Two Angels
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
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Monelle
Title: Monelle
Character: Le beau-père
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Le docteur Jacquier
Released: April 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.
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The Lost Village
Title: The Lost Village
Released: November 26, 1947
Type: Movie
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
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Jenny Lamour
Title: Jenny Lamour
Character: Fallourd
Released: October 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
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Antoine & Antoinette
Title: Antoine & Antoinette
Character: L'habitué du Tabac
Released: September 27, 1947
Type: Movie
She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.
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Not Guilty
Title: Not Guilty
Released: September 24, 1947
Type: Movie
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
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Devil in the Flesh
Title: Devil in the Flesh
Character: Anselme
Released: September 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
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Clockface Cafe
Title: Clockface Cafe
Character: Victor, garçon de café
Released: June 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Julien Couturier (Bernard Blier) and his wife Louise (Blanchette Brunoy), a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become the owners of the "Café du Cadran" ("Clockface Cafe"). On opening day, they meet the people who will become their clientele. It's a busy place, with regular customers served by two waiters, Jules (Robert Le Fort) and Victor (Charles Vissières). While Julien is comfortable in his role as boss, Louise doesn't quite get used to this urban world, where everything moves faster, especially human feelings. She often misses Marcenait, the village in Auvergne where she and her husband ran the "Café du Commerce". Mr. Luigi (Aimé Clariond), a café customer and violinist who performs at the "Café de Paris", has undertaken Louise's cultural education. He teaches her how to dress and do her hair, while recounting his musical successes and travels, skilfully playing on his undeniable seductiveness...
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Title: The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Character: Samson
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
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Gringalet
Title: Gringalet
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turned into an artist.He is nicknamed "Gringalet" .Now his father wants him to meet his half-brother ,his mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Gringalet will turn this bourgeois family upside down:they become nice,the big brother becoming a perfect businessman who stops scouring nightclubs to spend most of his time with his fiancee Josette.There's the rub,cause Gringalet is also in love with her.
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The Idiot
Title: The Idiot
Released: June 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
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Strange Fate
Title: Strange Fate
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, who is killed in action during a battle of the First World War. At least, this is only the official truth, for Alain is not dead. Patricia indeed recognizes him one day. But the inverse does not work the other way around: Alain has become amnesiac and he does not remember her. And worst of all, he lives in a conjugal relationship with Germaine, his dedicated nurse, who is now pregnant by him. What has the future in store then for the three (not to say four) of them?
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Title: L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Character: Innkeeper
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
During the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
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The Temptation of Barbizon
Title: The Temptation of Barbizon
Character: Abbé
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
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Roger the Disgrace
Title: Roger the Disgrace
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Released: October 31, 1945
Type: Movie
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
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A Cage of Nightingales
Title: A Cage of Nightingales
Character: Le vieux garçon de bureau
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
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L'Enfant de l'amour
Title: L'Enfant de l'amour
Character: Raymond
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Title: Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Released: February 16, 1944
Type: Movie
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
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Douce
Title: Douce
Character: Le mari de Thérèse
Released: November 9, 1943
Type: Movie
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
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My Love is Near You
Title: My Love is Near You
Character: The servant (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with real tramps.
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The Phantom Baron
Title: The Phantom Baron
Character: Toussaint - le domestique
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
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Carnival of Sinners
Title: Carnival of Sinners
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
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Strangers in the House
Title: Strangers in the House
Character: Le greffier de Ducup (non crédité)
Released: May 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
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Annette and the Blonde Woman
Title: Annette and the Blonde Woman
Character: The Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.
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The Last One of the Six
Title: The Last One of the Six
Character: Le concierge
Released: September 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.
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Sacred Woods
Title: Sacred Woods
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to sleep with Champmorel, the Director of Fine Arts and one of the judges for the awarding of the coveted medal.
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Cavalcade of Love
Title: Cavalcade of Love
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Le médecin
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.