Françoise Brion

Françoise Brion

Born: January 29, 1933
in Paris, France
Françoise Brion (born 29 January 1933) is a French film actress. She has appeared in 75 films since 1957. She starred in the 1963 film L'Immortelle, which was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. She was married to Jacques Doniol-Valcroze.

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She Is Conann
Title: She Is Conann
Character: Conann Reine
Released: November 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.
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Le Début de la fin
Title: Le Début de la fin
Character: Nathalie
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
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Der Chauffeur von Madame
Title: Der Chauffeur von Madame
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Title: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Character: La maîtresse du chien accidenté
Released: July 23, 2008
Type: Movie
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
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Housewarming
Title: Housewarming
Character: Mamika
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?
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Le Divorce
Title: Le Divorce
Character: Bookstore Owner
Released: August 8, 2003
Type: Movie
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Character: Madame Volanges
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: TV
Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian high society. The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt when he becomes engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile.
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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Title: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Character: Lucie
Released: August 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
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Vincennes Neuilly
Title: Vincennes Neuilly
Character: Olivia
Released: April 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Jérôme and Sophie are "foreigners". They evolve in a world whose rules seem to them as many constraints and adopt unusual behaviors which can disorientate their interlocutors. They say they are brother and sister and many people prefer to believe them and be satisfied with this version for fear of supporting a situation that is too scabrous. Only Olivia accepts to assume the situation. Her taste for derision and her humor allow her to overcome the provocations of the couple and to take an ascendancy on them.
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Isabelle Eberhardt
Title: Isabelle Eberhardt
Released: November 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Rue du Bac
Title: Rue du Bac
Character: Alice
Released: March 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.
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Title: Les Hordes
Character: Morgane
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: TV
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form hordes that increasingly worry the state. In order to thwart the small group, a police officer declared dead infiltrates the hordes ...
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Title: The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Character: Mme Dumont
Released: August 24, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
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Follow My Gaze
Title: Follow My Gaze
Character: La mère de la jeune fille borgne
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
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The Frog Prince
Title: The Frog Prince
Character: Madame Bourneuf
Released: February 21, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British girl journeys to Paris to go to college, and is determined to find the man of her dreams and fall madly in love. However, things don't work out quite the way she planned.
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The Temptation of Isabelle
Title: The Temptation of Isabelle
Character: Isabelle's mother
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain in the past, Bruno invites Alain to a surprise birthday party for her at a hotel -- what better way to judge her feelings than to get them together? Alain arrives with his current girlfriend Lio. Soon after the two couples start the evening off, their polite exteriors deteriorate.
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Title: Mistral's Daughter
Character: Patricia Falkland
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: TV
Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.
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Title: Tarendol
Character: Mme Margherite
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: TV
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Attention, the Kids Are Watching
Title: Attention, the Kids Are Watching
Character: Melle Millard
Released: April 12, 1978
Type: Movie
In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
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Focal Point
Title: Focal Point
Character: Mrs. Yvonne
Released: October 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
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Nea
Title: Nea
Character: Judith Ashby
Released: August 17, 1976
Type: Movie
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year old publisher. When he drops her for her older sister, should she seek revenge or recapture? In subplots, she gets along badly with her sister and her father, and she encourages her mother's affair with dad's sister. Axel has problems too besides the determined Sibylle: he must come to terms with the drowning death of his mother years ago.
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The French Detective
Title: The French Detective
Character: Marthe Rigaux, boss of the brothel
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
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The Track
Title: The Track
Character: Françoise Sutter
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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Rosebud
Title: Rosebud
Character: Melina Nikolaos
Released: March 24, 1975
Type: Movie
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
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Family Jewels
Title: Family Jewels
Character: Hélène
Released: March 5, 1975
Type: Movie
The head of an aristocratic family died, so everyone gather to mourn him and see who gets what from his estate. Greed, lust, love and class conflict between the family and their payed servants create a real mess rather quickly.
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Caravan to Vaccarès
Title: Caravan to Vaccarès
Character: Stella
Released: August 8, 1974
Type: Movie
American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist
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The Obscene Mirror
Title: The Obscene Mirror
Character: Carla
Released: September 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
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The Vertical Smile
Title: The Vertical Smile
Character: Lennie
Released: March 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the far past and far future) in which naked humans fight one another with animalistic aggression.
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The Suns of Easter Island
Title: The Suns of Easter Island
Character: Françoise
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
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Love Me Strangely
Title: Love Me Strangely
Character: Jacqueline
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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The Erasers
Title: The Erasers
Character: Hélène
Released: May 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.
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To Grab the Ring
Title: To Grab the Ring
Character: Hélène
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
This film takes a decidedly satirical look at the inner workings of the gangster underworld. Alfred Lowell is a washed-up actor sent to London to take care of some mob business. Alfred's mind is not on his job, as he prefers to probe his past for the reasons why he has failed as a thespian. He entertains thoughts of suicide, but his involvement in the gang prevents him from ending his life.
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Very Happy Alexander
Title: Very Happy Alexander
Character: Eliane Gartempe, aka 'La Grande'
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
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De cuerpo presente
Title: De cuerpo presente
Character: Enna
Released: August 28, 1967
Type: Movie
After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.
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The Blonde from Peking
Title: The Blonde from Peking
Character: Erica Olsen
Released: August 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.
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Attack of the Robots
Title: Attack of the Robots
Character: Lady Cecilia Addington Courtney
Released: April 27, 1966
Type: Movie
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess who has formulated a computer-powered plot to overthrow the governments of Europe. 'Cartes sur table' is at once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly-popular James Bond films.
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Un monde nouveau
Title: Un monde nouveau
Character: Martine
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Anne, a beautiful free-lance photographer, meets with the French medical student Carlo and falls in love. After a passionate love affair Anne becomes pregnant. Now the formerly free-wheeling Carlo finds himself facing a difficult situation. Carlo decides that Anne should abort the child. To raise enough cash Carlo sleeps with a wealthy older woman. Then Ann decides to annul the abortion.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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The Salary of Crime
Title: The Salary of Crime
Character: Elsa
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface.
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Portuguese Vacation
Title: Portuguese Vacation
Character: Eléonore
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
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Sweet and Sour
Title: Sweet and Sour
Character: Striptease Girl
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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Codine
Title: Codine
Character: Irène
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
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L'Immortelle
Title: L'Immortelle
Character: L, the Woman
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
A melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring. She disappears after their relationship lasts a few days, and though he searches for her, those around him pretend not to know who he is speaking of.
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And Satan Calls the Turns
Title: And Satan Calls the Turns
Character: Monica
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. A wealthy heiress, Emmanuelle, has designs on a handsome adolescent, Ivan, but his interests lie elsewhere. Having gratified Emmanuelle’s womanly needs, Ivan immediately sets out to make his next conquest, the mistress of a well-known writer...
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The Denunciation
Title: The Denunciation
Character: Elsa Jussieu
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
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Ladies' Man
Title: Ladies' Man
Character: Marie-Christine
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Character: Jacqueline (segment "Françoise")
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
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The French Game
Title: The French Game
Character: Dominique
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Martine
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.
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The Dance of Death
Title: The Dance of Death
Character: Norma
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a millionaire who is threatened with death.
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Le bel âge
Title: Le bel âge
Character: Carla
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
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A Game for Six Lovers
Title: A Game for Six Lovers
Character: Milena
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: Sophie
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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Witness in the City
Title: Witness in the City
Character: Jeanne Ancelin
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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That Night
Title: That Night
Character: Jeanne d'Arc (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.
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Nathalie
Title: Nathalie
Character: Un mannequin
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
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Give Me My Chance
Title: Give Me My Chance
Character: Fabienne
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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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV