Gaby Morlay

Gaby Morlay

Born: June 7, 1893
Died: July 4, 1964
in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France.

Morlay began acting in the era of silent films, and became known as co-star with Max Linder in his "Max" series. She starred in a series of "Gaby" films such as Gaby en auto (1917) and more than 20 other silent films. She moved easily into talking films in the early 1930s. She played Queen Victoria in the 1939 historical film Entente cordiale.

She had an affair with the government minister Max Bonnafous (1900–75) during World War II, and as a result, she was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation of France. Later she married Bonnafous. Morlay continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s.

She was an art lover and was a friend and admirer of the Italian painter Beretta Dimario who lived in Nice.

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

Movies for Gaby Morlay...

Monsieur
Title: Monsieur
Character: Mme Bernadac mère
Released: April 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Désespéré par la mort de sa femme, le banquier René Duchesne se promène le long de la Seine. Seule la rencontre de Suzanne, son ancienne femme de chambre lui révélant les infidélités de Madame, le sauve du suicide. Monsieur décide alors d'aider sa protégée à sortir de la prostitution, et d'empêcher ses beaux-parents de faire main basse sur l'héritage.
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La bande à Bobo
Title: La bande à Bobo
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
In Castallet, a village in Provence, cats are swarming and disturbing the peace and quiet of the inhabitants. The municipality decides to get rid of these invasive felines, but a group of children nicknamed "la bande à Bobo" (Bobo's gang) comes to their defense.
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Le mari ne compte pas
Title: Le mari ne compte pas
Character: La mère de Denise
Released: April 2, 1963
Type: Movie
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Fortunate
Title: Fortunate
Character: Mlle Emilienne Massillon
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
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Quai des illusions
Title: Quai des illusions
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
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Ramuntcho
Title: Ramuntcho
Character: Dolores
Released: August 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France.
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Sacred Youth
Title: Sacred Youth
Character: Zabeth Longué
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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Le Tombeur !!!
Title: Le Tombeur !!!
Character: Agathe
Released: July 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?
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My Darned Father
Title: My Darned Father
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Roberte, who now lives in Florence with her niece Maria, asks Roger to arrange a student exchange so that Maria can come to Paris to perfect her French. Roger approaches Jean's son Philippe, a student at the Beaux-Arts, who agrees to go to Florence. Maria and Philippe meet on the platform at Pisé station. They miss their respective trains and take a walk together. A flirtation begins, then each goes back to the other. Jean finds Maria charming and, like an unrepentant Don Juan, decides to win her over, but thanks to his old maid, his intrigues come to nothing and Maria can marry Philippe.
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The Twilight Girls
Title: The Twilight Girls
Character: Mme Ancelin
Released: May 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: madame Brunel
Released: December 4, 1956
Type: Movie
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it is taken from remorse and confides to a young prostitute. The latter, very believing, advises him to go. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him. He is soon struck by remorse, and confides in a young prostitute, who advise him to surrender. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him.
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Les lumières du soir
Title: Les lumières du soir
Character: Rose Hessler
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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When the Child Appears
Title: When the Child Appears
Character: Annie Fouquet
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Charles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe, although not that young, is expecting a baby. His daughter Annie, as for her, is pregnant by her fiance. And let's not forget Georges, Fouquet's son, who has seduced Natacha, his close (too close!) collaborator. As if that were not enough, a former mistress of Charles' comes and reveals to him the existence of a son he knew nothing about. But Charles is a man of action and he is not so easily deterred: he WILL take action against this abundance of offspring.
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Title: Plaisir du théâtre
Character: La mère de Denise
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: Gabrielle Langlois, la mère
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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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
Title: The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
Character: Germaine Martin
Released: June 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Title: The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Character: Mademoiselle
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
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Fantaisie d'un jour
Title: Fantaisie d'un jour
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typist chose a fur cape, much to her parents' disappointment. She has a fiancé, François, whom she now scorns a little. She returns to him, however, after an unfortunate foray into the big wide world, and gets rid of the cumbersome cape forever.
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: Gabrielle Langlois, la mère
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Les amoureux de Marianne
Title: Les amoureux de Marianne
Released: July 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Comtesse de la Motte
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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The Love of a Woman
Title: The Love of a Woman
Character: Germaine Leblanc
Released: December 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
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The Girl with the Whip
Title: The Girl with the Whip
Character: Lamberta
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
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Foyer perdu
Title: Foyer perdu
Character: Alice Barbentin
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home, because he has given birth to his girlfriend. His wife then reveals to him that he is not Pierrot's father and she flees with her lover. Abandoned, Eugene will be saved by his mother who will restore the situation with energy and determination.
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Le Plaisir
Title: Le Plaisir
Character: Denise - la femme d'Ambroise
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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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Mother superior
Released: December 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
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Mammy
Title: Mammy
Character: Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfortunately, Maurice's plane crashes and catches fire. The young man is reported missing, presumably dead. Pierre, Mammy's husband, can't bring himself to announce such a shocking news. Desperate, he finds no other solution than subterfuge : he will ask a young couple to pass themselves off as Maurice and his girlfriend.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: Mathilde de Mergrand / Mathilde Chaperon
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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Born of Unknown Father
Title: Born of Unknown Father
Character: Mrs. Nogent
Released: December 12, 1950
Type: Movie
By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
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First Communion
Title: First Communion
Character: Maria Carloni (Mme Dupont)
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Title: Without Trumpet or Drum
Released: June 13, 1950
Type: Movie
For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family tree. In order to erase any doubt he invites in his castle a cousin of his established in Scotland, whom he instructs to bring him his titles of nobility. A first person introduces himself, calling himself his cousin, but it's not him. Then one, then two, then three false cousins ​​appear in turn. Will the real Saint-Rosay of Scotland eventually present itself?
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Summer Storm
Title: Summer Storm
Character: Mrs. Arbelot
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.
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Millionaires for One Day
Title: Millionaires for One Day
Character: Hélène Berger
Released: December 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
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Ève et le serpent
Title: Ève et le serpent
Character: Laurence Barrois
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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Gigi
Title: Gigi
Character: Tante Alicia
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
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Three Boys, One Girl
Title: Three Boys, One Girl
Character: Hélène Dourville
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
A seemingly united family is suddenly shaken by the turmoil caused by the discovery of a letter from the father. He announces his intention to divorce. The children immediately mobilize to preserve the nest, they just manage to do so. The family building will be consolidated.
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Title: The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Character: Maryse
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
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The Lost Village
Title: The Lost Village
Character: Angélique Barrodet
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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Hyménée
Title: Hyménée
Character: Agnès d'Aubarède
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by his cousin Agnés, a spinster. Marianne loves him but she prefers to marry Rémy, and ultimately Agnés leaves Pierre to his wife and kids.
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A Lover's Return
Title: A Lover's Return
Character: Geneviève Gonin
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques Sauvage, whom he had ousted in a "radical" way with a young heiress. Only Savage is not dead, and here he is on the scene of his first love.
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Mensonges
Title: Mensonges
Character: Marie Leroux
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handsome industrialist, who is in the process of leaving his fiancée Corinne, despite her being pregnant by him. It is easy for the confirmed womanizer he is, to seduce Marie, who very foolishly thinks she has found true love. Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Marie. The latter, who finds the corpse, believes her husband has committed suicide. Which is not the police's opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Annihilated by such unfair treatment and, worse, by the separation from her beloved eight-year-old daughter, she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence.
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Her Last Part
Title: Her Last Part
Character: Hermine Wood
Released: July 24, 1946
Type: Movie
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill.
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Lunegarde
Title: Lunegarde
Character: La comtesse Armance de Lunegarde
Released: January 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate music halls.
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The Last Metro
Title: The Last Metro
Character: Mathilde Bourgeot
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.
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Farandole
Title: Farandole
Character: Actress
Released: February 10, 1945
Type: Movie
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
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L'Enfant de l'amour
Title: L'Enfant de l'amour
Character: Liane Orland
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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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Character: Suzanne
Released: April 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Love Around the Clock
Title: Love Around the Clock
Character: La mère de Pierrot
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young sportsman, to a singer tired of the selfishness of his listeners and to a condemned man. To each, she brings the imperative message of Time...
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
Title: Mademoiselle Béatrice
Character: Béatrice
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union.
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Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Title: Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Character: Madame de Saint-André
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
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White Wings
Title: White Wings
Character: Sister Claire
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 Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Louise Jarraud
Released: November 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
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L'Arlésienne
Title: L'Arlésienne
Character: Rose Mamaï
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as a wife because she had a fling with a soldier. His entourage attempt to cheer him up but he intends to commit suicide.
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Mlle. Desiree
Title: Mlle. Desiree
Character: Désirée Clary épouse Bernadotte / la Reine Desideria de Suède
Released: July 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.
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The Black Diamond
Title: The Black Diamond
Character: Mademoiselle Marthe Dubard
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.
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They Were Twelve Women
Title: They Were Twelve Women
Character: Madame Marion
Released: April 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
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Paris-New York
Title: Paris-New York
Character: Gaby
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
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La Mode rêvée
Title: La Mode rêvée
Released: January 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's characters, beautiful ladies, escape, scattering across Paris after a tour of the fashion houses.
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Sacred Woods
Title: Sacred Woods
Character: Adrienne Champmorel
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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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Queen Victoria
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.
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Behind the Facade
Title: Behind the Facade
Character: Gaby Valrose, l'amante du ministre
Released: March 14, 1939
Type: Movie
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron (Lucien Baroux), the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté" (Jacques Baumer). To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Title: The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Character: Giuseppina Strepponi
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
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Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Title: Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Character: Hélène Voronine
Released: March 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
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Hercule
Title: Hercule
Character: Juliette Leclerc
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
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Quadrille
Title: Quadrille
Character: Paulette Nanteuil
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
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A Picnic on the Grass
Title: A Picnic on the Grass
Character: Manon Watteau
Released: December 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
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The Messenger
Title: The Messenger
Character: Marie
Released: September 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
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Nights of Fire
Title: Nights of Fire
Character: Lisa Andreieva
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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The King
Title: The King
Character: Marthe Bourdier
Released: October 29, 1936
Type: Movie
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.
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The Seniors
Title: The Seniors
Character: Hélène Lormier
Released: September 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
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The Terrible Lovers
Title: The Terrible Lovers
Character: Annette Fournier
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are tempted to give in to their old passion...
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The Fear
Title: The Fear
Character: Irène Sylvain
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Anne-Marie d'Andeline
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
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Aux portes de Paris
Title: Aux portes de Paris
Character: 'La Madone'
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
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Le Billet de mille
Title: Le Billet de mille
Character: The desperate
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Jeanne
Title: Jeanne
Character: Madeleine Préolier
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Le Bonheur
Title: Le Bonheur
Character: Clara Stuart
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
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Le Scandale
Title: Le Scandale
Character: Charlotte Férioul
Released: February 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
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We Are Not Children
Title: We Are Not Children
Character: Roberte
Released: January 25, 1934
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an important businessman. One evening, he meets Roberte, who has become the wife of a wealthy American. She does not love her husband any more than he loves his wife. They recall their memories. They seem to still love each other. They plan to rebuild their lives. Together, they will spend a few days in Dieppe, as they did in the past after their first meeting. They feel so different from what they were twenty years ago that they understand that the past cannot live again.
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The Ironmaster
Title: The Ironmaster
Character: Claire de Beaulieu
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
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Once Upon a Time
Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Ellen / Mary
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.
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The Dreamy Mouth
Title: The Dreamy Mouth
Character: Gaby
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discovers Marcel, a brilliant concerto soloist, and falls in love with him. Pierre and Marcel are friends, which complicates the situation. Pierre invites his friend to the house, without suspecting what will happen. The young woman, trying to find a clever pretext for a one-on-one meeting, quickly reveals her feelings to Marcel.
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Ariane, Russian Maid
Title: Ariane, Russian Maid
Character: Ariane
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
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Companion Wanted
Title: Companion Wanted
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
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When Love Is Over
Title: When Love Is Over
Character: Germaine
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.
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Faubourg Montmartre
Title: Faubourg Montmartre
Character: Ginette Gentilhomme
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
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Dance House
Title: Dance House
Character: Estrella
Released: January 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.
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Accused, Stand Up!
Title: Accused, Stand Up!
Character: Gaby Delange
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
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The New Gentlemen
Title: The New Gentlemen
Character: Susanne Verrier
Released: November 20, 1929
Type: Movie
The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "protector," powerful politician Count Montoire (Henry Roussell). When the Opera personnel go on strike, Gaillac is appointed leader of the strikers, doing his job so well that he is ultimately elected Secretary of Labor in the French cabinet. Now on equal footing with Montoire, Gaillac is at last a "worthy" suitor for Suzanne -- who can't make up her mind between her two well-connected admirers, leading to a political rivalry the likes of which Paris has never seen. This harmless political satire ended up being banned by the French government for undermining "the dignity of Parliament and its ministers". (moviefone.com)
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Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Title: Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Character: Pauline Bretonneau
Released: November 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...
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The Death Agony of the Eagles
Title: The Death Agony of the Eagles
Character: Lise Charmoy
Released: February 3, 1922
Type: Movie
After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.
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Max's Vacation
Title: Max's Vacation
Released: January 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Max is invited to join his uncle for a holiday, but he hasn't invited his wife, so he sneaks her in in his suitcase, always hiding her from his uncle...