Palmyre Levasseur

Palmyre Levasseur

Born: December 24, 1888
Died: August 4, 1963
in Cuvergnon - Oise - France
Palmyre Levasseur est une actrice française née Palmyre Augustine Thion, le 24 décembre 1888 à Cuvergnon (Oise), et morte à Paris 4e le 4 août 1963.

    

Movies for Palmyre Levasseur...

Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Marie
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Soeur Pérpétue
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Mannequins of Paris
Title: Mannequins of Paris
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promising artist career to design the styles which make their firm a success. The trouble is that Véronique lives only for her job and does not allow herself -and her husband for that matter - a moment's respite. In Cannes, Pierre meets Wanda, a young singer with strange, fascinating eyes. The frustrated husband falls for her but gradually realizes that the light mercurial creature cannot possibly fulfill him. Véronique, feeling miserable, understands she is on the wrong track. She promises Pierre that she will make efforts to reconcile work and married life. Véronique and Pierre will live and work together again, each one forgiving the other for their faults.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: Mme Calomel (non créditée)
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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French Cancan
Title: French Cancan
Character: Une blanchisseuse (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Yours Truly, Blake
Title: Yours Truly, Blake
Character: Michèle's concierge (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decides to discover Paris by Night. As of his first night out, he gets to know Michèle Marley, a beautiful entertainer, and looks forward to a wonderful night of pleasure. But things do not go according to plan. Indeed, Laurent, Michèle's partner is found dead and not only is Michèle accused of killing him but Larry is suspected of being her accomplice as well ...
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Wild Fruit
Title: Wild Fruit
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Lyon, 1953. Maria Manzana is the oldest of a family with five children and the only one who has a job. Maria's mother is deceased and her father is regularly drunk and violent. One evening when he wants to beat his daughter Christine, Mary helps her sister and accidentally she kills her father. At Maria's advice the family would prefer to flee. Anna, the girlfriend of Mary's brother Michael, accompanies them. Michael doesn't want to leave her behind. A friendly trucker brings Mary and her company to the south. The group then walks on deserted roads to a village, that was abandoned more than 25 years ago due to lack of water.
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The Midnight Witness
Title: The Midnight Witness
Released: February 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime.
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Pleasures of Paris
Title: Pleasures of Paris
Character: The owner of the cafe
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre, a pianist, is also the composer of a revue he would very much like Maroni, a famous theater producer, to put on. Maroni is not interested. All he wants at the moment is to impose Violette, a pretty young singer whose career he supervises. He has her dressed up as a flower seller. When he meets her, Jean-Pierre, who does not realize that she is in disguise, falls in love with her at first sight.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: La dame au parapluie (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Drôle de noce
Title: Drôle de noce
Character: The concierge
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
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Mister Taxi
Title: Mister Taxi
Character: Un témoin de l'accrochage (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
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The Forest of Farewell
Title: The Forest of Farewell
Character: Aunt
Released: July 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.
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Matrimonial Agency
Title: Matrimonial Agency
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
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Leathernose
Title: Leathernose
Character: Maryvonne (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her forever
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Jamais deux sans trois
Title: Jamais deux sans trois
Character: Concierge
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
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Young Love
Title: Young Love
Character: The fortune teller (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
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No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Title: No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Character: A creditor
Released: November 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Title: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Martineau's young mistress. However, there are other comely contestants among whom Christiane, the daughter of a general, Jackie, an unemployed actress, Colette, the daughter of a distiller and Marie, a secretary engaged to serious-minded construction foreman Robert. So, will things turn out exactly the way Martineau and Gabory want them...?
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: La femme de l'adjoint (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
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Le Roi des camelots
Title: Le Roi des camelots
Character: La concierge (non créditée)
Released: January 11, 1951
Type: Movie
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Title: Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Character: Une cliente
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
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The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Title: The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
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Fugitive from Montreal
Title: Fugitive from Montreal
Released: November 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.
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The Sad Sack
Title: The Sad Sack
Character: La caissière
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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The First Weapons
Title: The First Weapons
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
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Minne
Title: Minne
Character: L'infirmière (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
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Le 84 prend des vacances
Title: Le 84 prend des vacances
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-saving device of his invention. Very close to his vehicle, he may have somewhat neglected his wife Paulette, who lets herself got round by the smooth words of Pierrot. The gigolo has indeed managed to persuade her to follow him to the Mont Saint-Michel, "a wonderful nest for their burgeoning love" as he says. The trouble is that Gaston, while driving his dear 84, catches sight of the car, and suddenly aware of his misfortune, sees red. He immediately sets off in pursuit of the culprits, involving his load of helpless passengers in the chase.
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
Title: Keep an Eye on Amelia
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
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Ève et le serpent
Title: Ève et le serpent
Character: Marinette
Released: December 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Georges, a medical student, falls in love with Louisette, his pretty neighbor, and gets engaged to her. They are as happy as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One small hitch is that Georges' father has serious money troubles and cannot support his son anymore. But what does it matter? Georges and Louisette just have to find work. The latter is hired by a rich tenant of the apartment building she lives in with her fiancé. Another hitch lies in the fact that Monsieur Grompat, her employer is a bit like the serpent in the Book of Genesis : he only aims to tempt her and to seduce her out of the arms of Georges. But Louisette is not Eve and she manages to emerge unscathed from the adventure. She will live happily with the man of her heart for the rest of her days.
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The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Title: The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Character: La logeuse
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed.
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Cage of Girls
Title: Cage of Girls
Character: The head supervisor
Released: October 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Micheline, who fled to Paris with the man she is in love with, finds herself on her own when he abandons her. She lands in a reformatory from which she manages to escape.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Character: Tenant
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Bonheur en location
Title: Bonheur en location
Character: une concierge
Released: June 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Saint-Aignan needs a family. He hires people to act as his people to achieve his goal: to succeed in the business world.
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Dr. Laennec
Title: Dr. Laennec
Character: Angélique
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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Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Title: Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Character: La concierge (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.
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Dark Sunday
Title: Dark Sunday
Character: La logeuse
Released: March 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the poor man tries to overcome his grief by writing "Gloomy Sunday", a song so desperate that it can drive its listeners to suicide. Max, a music publisher, likes the song and decides to launch it by all means, foul or fair. Bob, his accomplice, manages to talk his mistress Michèle into committing a fake suicide. She obeys him and the scheme is a success as a result. On this occasion, Jan gets to know Michèle and the two young people fall in love. Happiness seems to be in store for Jan again but this is without counting with Bob. Jealous of Jan, the naughty fellow indeed tells him that Michèle's attempted suicide was nothing but an advertising pretense.
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The Lovers of Verona
Title: The Lovers of Verona
Released: March 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
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L'échafaud peut attendre
Title: L'échafaud peut attendre
Character: Landlady
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
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Fantomas Against Fantomas
Title: Fantomas Against Fantomas
Character: La femme de ménage (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
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Toute la famille était là!
Title: Toute la famille était là!
Character: A mother
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
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The Woman I Murdered
Title: The Woman I Murdered
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
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The Cupboard Was Bare
Title: The Cupboard Was Bare
Character: Une actrice (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
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The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Title: The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Character: Dame Pasquier (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
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Triple enquête
Title: Triple enquête
Character: La patronne de l'hôtel
Released: June 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.
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Scandals of Clochemerle
Title: Scandals of Clochemerle
Character: Babette Manapoux (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
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Emile the African
Title: Emile the African
Character: The dresser
Released: May 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
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After Love
Title: After Love
Character: The neighbor on the phone (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The girl dies during childbirth. In a spirit of revenge and to keep his real son, the scorned husband exchanges the babies.
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By the Window
Title: By the Window
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
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Secret Cargo
Title: Secret Cargo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestra, its singer, the sister of the conductor, some policemen. Imprisonment and death are at the end of the adventures.
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A Cop
Title: A Cop
Character: Une commère (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life.
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La Grande Maguet
Title: La Grande Maguet
Character: Cook
Released: October 22, 1947
Type: Movie
The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelaine, Suzanne de Norvaisis. Edmond, the husband of the latter, during a trip abroad, falls madly in love with another and will go, to conquer this one, to poison his wife. Imprisoned then released, the lord will finally marry the one for whom he has become a criminal. But the great Maguet will avenge her beloved murdered benefactress...
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Love Around the House
Title: Love Around the House
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
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Anger of the Gods
Title: Anger of the Gods
Released: April 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
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The Room Upstairs
Title: The Room Upstairs
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.
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Homeland
Title: Homeland
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Title: The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Character: Woman who makes a statement (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
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120, rue de la Gare
Title: 120, rue de la Gare
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.
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Driving Lesson
Title: Driving Lesson
Character: A woman at the bistro (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
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Goodbye Darling
Title: Goodbye Darling
Released: April 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
Title: A Friend Will Come Tonight
Character: Une villageoise (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Title: Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Character: Une femme du peuple
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
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The King of Dodgers
Title: The King of Dodgers
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
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Destitute Mary
Title: Destitute Mary
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?
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The French Way
Title: The French Way
Character: La patronne du bistrot
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
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Adrien
Title: Adrien
Character: The Boulevard Suchet concierge (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
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Douce
Title: Douce
Character: La patronne de l'hôtel
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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L'Escalier sans fin
Title: L'Escalier sans fin
Character: Madame Masson
Released: August 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
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Shop Girls of Paris
Title: Shop Girls of Paris
Released: July 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu, sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
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White Wings
Title: White Wings
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
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The Honorable Catherine
Title: The Honorable Catherine
Character: Ccleaning lady (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
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Signé illisible
Title: Signé illisible
Character: The laundress
Released: July 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.
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Le moussaillon
Title: Le moussaillon
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent behavior and smuggling and leaves on a ship, just like his father.
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Sins of Youth
Title: Sins of Youth
Character: The cook (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
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The Mondesir Heir
Title: The Mondesir Heir
Character: La patronne du bistro (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
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The Musicians of the Sky
Title: The Musicians of the Sky
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Title: The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Character: Emilie, the cook (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
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The Emigrant
Title: The Emigrant
Character: Nun of the Lisbon hospice
Released: January 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
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The Mayor's Dilemma
Title: The Mayor's Dilemma
Character: Mme Rossignol
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
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The Deserter
Title: The Deserter
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents.
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Le Prince Bouboule
Title: Le Prince Bouboule
Released: January 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
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Second Childhood
Title: Second Childhood
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-younger girl, remaining faithful to her even after he realizes that she cares only for his money.
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Place de la Concorde
Title: Place de la Concorde
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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The Tamer
Title: The Tamer
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
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The Stream
Title: The Stream
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
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Tricoche and Cacolet
Title: Tricoche and Cacolet
Character: La bonne de Tricoche (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is hired by Van der Pouf, a rich banker who wants him to watch over his wife Bernardine while the latter, on her part, seeks the services of Thicoche.
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The Postmaster's Daughter
Title: The Postmaster's Daughter
Character: Nanny
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
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Bouquets from Nicholas
Title: Bouquets from Nicholas
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
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Le Fraudeur
Title: Le Fraudeur
Character: Mélanie
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Florimond, a dangerous smuggler, and his mistress Viviane try in vain to transfer illegal precious stones. When Viviane gets to know young Théo, a naive young peasant, she immediately capitalizes on the encounter. Thanks to her charm, she seduces him into becoming her accomplice. And, naturally, the operation is a success. Unfortunately for Florimond and Viviane, things soon go awry. Indeed, Théo's godfather, a customs officer, who has heard of the affair, lectures Théo and makes him become aware of the offense he has committed. The young man now wants to makes amends. Which is not to Florimond's liking.
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Courier of Lyons
Title: Courier of Lyons
Character: The woman Grossetête
Released: November 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
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Culprit
Title: Culprit
Character: Rosalie
Released: January 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Une locataire
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
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July 14
Title: July 14
Character: La mère d'Anna (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th.
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Fun in the Barracks
Title: Fun in the Barracks
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Released: January 28, 1932
Type: Movie