Gisèle Grandpré

Gisèle Grandpré

Born: November 28, 1912
Died: October 19, 2002
in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Movies for Gisèle Grandpré...

La Pension des surdoués
Title: La Pension des surdoués
Character: Mademoiselle de la Motte
Released: April 8, 1981
Type: Movie
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Ladies House of Pleasure
Title: Ladies House of Pleasure
Character: Madame de La Motte
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism because Martine is a prostitute in Pigalle. She is saving money to buy the house of her dreams in the country. Her husband Roger "works" for the same goal, but in a brothel for women. There, duchesses rub elbows with businesswomen, militant members of women's lib and other female pleasure-seekers.
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The Track
Title: The Track
Character: Mme Paulette
Released: May 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
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Sexy Boom
Title: Sexy Boom
Character: Madame Arrieu
Released: October 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Madame Arrieu is the owner of an apartment building in Paris, where she lives with her three respectful nieces. Then, Elvira, a lady who paints nudes, gets behind in her lodging payments. Elvira, wishing to impress a prospective customer from the United States, asks Mme. Arrieu to let her use her (better) apartment, to receive him - just for a couple of hours. The lady refuses, but then she must leave for a short spell... Temptation is too big.
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Alyse et Chloé
Title: Alyse et Chloé
Character: La maîtresse de maison
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, he tends to neglect her as he is too busy with his work. Chloé, who runs an advertising agency, takes advantage of these off-days to seduce Alyse. Alyse tries to hide the situation from Luc but the latter realizes what is happening. He urges Alyse to go with him on a trip to the West Indies but she refuses and joins Chloé, not without suffering from being separated from Luc...
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The Mad Heart
Title: The Mad Heart
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.
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A Little Virtuous
Title: A Little Virtuous
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
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The Woman Is a Stranger
Title: The Woman Is a Stranger
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Cannes, lures her to his hotel room and strangles her. His mother finds out, but can she keep her mouth shut to protect her son? Meanwhile, the young killer meets another pretty blonde...
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Les Arnaud
Title: Les Arnaud
Character: Nelly Raynaud
Released: October 12, 1967
Type: Movie
In the sunny landscapes of Provence, Henri Arnaud is a conscientious law student who's got a lovely girlfriend, Tina. The person who used to pay for his studies dies and the poor young man's disposable funds are low. He asks an antique dealer if he can lend him some money. This shady guy agrees, but in return for homosexual relations. Henri kills him and runs away. Fortunately, a good judge, who bears the same name as him, comes to his rescue.
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Le solitaire passe à l'attaque
Title: Le solitaire passe à l'attaque
Released: June 30, 1966
Type: Movie
A powerful bomb is stolen and is set to explode in a populated area in less than 48 hours, unless French S.S. Agente, Roger Hanin can find and defuse it in time. Larry Anderson.
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Coplan, Agent 005
Title: Coplan, Agent 005
Released: April 30, 1964
Type: Movie
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Title: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Character: Madame Germaine (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1964
Type: Movie
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
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Carom Shots
Title: Carom Shots
Character: Mme Charolais
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
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A Martian in Paris
Title: A Martian in Paris
Character: Madame Walter
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Title: Signed, Arsène Lupin
Character: Madame du Bois-Lambert
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
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The Great Deception
Title: The Great Deception
Character: Blanche d'Éon de Beaumont
Released: September 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.
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Sacred Youth
Title: Sacred Youth
Character: Armande Longué, épouse d'Étienne
Released: August 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his insurer, but Mr. Longué has decided to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland, at Dr. Koranoff's establishment. The effect was striking, and he was given a new lease on life, leaving his heirs and insurer in complete disarray. His wife, witnessing her husband's metamorphosis, also undergoes the treatment, and off they go on a second honeymoon to Italy.
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Elevator to the Gallows
Title: Elevator to the Gallows
Character: Jacqueline Mauclair
Released: January 29, 1958
Type: Movie
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Give Me My Chance
Title: Give Me My Chance
Character: Mme Harri
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
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The Singer from Mexico
Title: The Singer from Mexico
Character: La Tornada
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: La Marquise de Sévigné
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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Les hommes en blanc
Title: Les hommes en blanc
Character: Mme Daumont
Released: May 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to accept him. Nerac leaves for the Auvergne. An old doctor will soon die, but replacing him will be difficult, as one of Jean's colleagues has failed. However, with patience, skill, modesty and friendship, Jean Nerac overcame the mistrust of his patients. He settled in these austere mountains, and Marianne, convinced of the young man's worth, helped him with her presence.
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Count of Bragelonne
Title: Count of Bragelonne
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
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The Beautiful Otero
Title: The Beautiful Otero
Character: La présentatrice
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
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Vice Dolls
Title: Vice Dolls
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
In this French crime drama, a young man gets revenge upon the criminals who caused his grandfather to kill himself. Unfortunately, the fellow doesn't realize how bad the criminals are. Fortunately, a kindly hooker, who does know the crooks, saves him from the same fate.
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Title: The Rebels of Lomanach
Character: La solliciteuse
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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La fille perdue
Title: La fille perdue
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Marguerite Le Goff has a sad destiny. Daughter-mother to a holidaymaker at the age of sixteen, she tried to earn a living in Nantes, but succumbed to the promises of the disreputable Pierre who had found her in a sailors' box. Deprived of her child, what would she do if good people didn't sympathize and her childhood friend Jean-Marie didn't take her with him?
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My Brother from Senegal
Title: My Brother from Senegal
Character: La maman
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
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L'étrange amazone
Title: L'étrange amazone
Released: April 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Michel, a young painter in poor health, enters the grounds of a château and faints when he sees a haughty young woman in the simplest of garb. The chatelaine, Eliane, takes care of him and calls in Pierre Fournier, a Parisian doctor. A disreputable Count Ostrowsky turns up to blackmail her. He is found murdered. But who's the killer? Pierre or Eliane? Quite simply Michel, who, before dying, showed his gratitude to the woman who had taken him in. Pierre and Eliane were living apart, but they were husband and wife. Such adventures unite them, this time, forever.
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The Lovers of Midnight
Title: The Lovers of Midnight
Character: Madame Paul
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate whim him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.
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Mon ami le cambrioleur
Title: Mon ami le cambrioleur
Character: Félicia
Released: October 30, 1950
Type: Movie
When Nadia, his unfaithful mistress, breaks up with him, Patrick Lambert decides to kill himself. But before he reaches the point of no return he is stopped in the act by Camille, a burglar who has just broken into his house. Thanks to him and also to Rosita, Camille's girlfriend who falls for him, Patrick forgets his gloomy thoughts. It is the beginning of a series of crazy misunderstandings and adventures.
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L'homme sans nom
Title: L'homme sans nom
Character: Assomption's mother
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent Berteaux used to be a surgeon in Paris. When Assomption, a young holidaymaker, arrives in the village in the company of her mother, little does Vincent know that the past returns to his life.