Junie Astor

Junie Astor

Born: December 21, 1911
Died: August 22, 1967
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Movies for Junie Astor...

Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
Title: Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
Character: Gangster's wife
Released: January 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.
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L'homme de l'Interpol
Title: L'homme de l'Interpol
Released: May 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A months-long investigation by Interpol's special services has already revealed the identity of the main trafficker in Paris, a certain Chando and his accomplice Magda. They run a cabaret in Montmartre where the drug is regularly distributed, but the police are still powerless to discover the means used by the traffickers to move opium between Istanbul and the major capitals. A network is organized to follow a certain Madeleine who regularly makes the journey. Her luggage was searched in vain, and the consul, when asked about her, could only praise her: she had long been devoted to repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who had died abroad, free of charge, when the families so wished. On the other hand, the French police are on the trail of Mathias, accused of murdering an old peasant who claimed the inheritance of his son, who died abroad.
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Cadavres en vacances
Title: Cadavres en vacances
Character: Madame Lever
Released: August 21, 1963
Type: Movie
The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances.
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Dossier AST-555
Title: Dossier AST-555
Character: Magda
Released: November 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.
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Business
Title: Business
Character: Lawyer
Released: January 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Two women, Léa and Clotilde, with two men, Ludovic and Papillon, form a nice quartet of crooks. Their targets: pharmacists, diamond dealers, and gogos of all kinds who respond to enticing classified ads. Business is booming, but the police are watching. Commissioner Masson will eventually arrest them, but, ironically, for a matter of which they are totally innocent.
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Les Violents
Title: Les Violents
Character: Irène Raalten
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
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Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
Title: Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
Character: Béatrice, mère d'Isabelle
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her mother and aunt, worried about this tender friendship, forbade her to see again. This doesn't stop Isabelle from meeting Yves and learning that friendship and love are not the same thing: the sweet little friend is left alone with his dreams and the memory of a too-pretty girlfriend.
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La peau de l'ours
Title: La peau de l'ours
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
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Les Truands
Title: Les Truands
Character: Ginette
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in anecdotal fashion.
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Hotbed of Sin
Title: Hotbed of Sin
Character: Evelyne
Released: July 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act. A man gets killed. The dancer is suspected for being jealous of all the other men. Another potential culprit could the father of Gina since he overprotected his daughter. The real culprit will be unmasked after the police detective finds the murder has something to with the Occupation period.
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Released: June 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Charles Walter, a forestry contractor, has helped Noël Portal to start a new life. When Victor, the new foreman and Charles'wife's lover, is found murdered, everything points to the guilt of the deceived husband. To save his benefactor, Noël decides to accuse himself of the the crime. He is condemned to death.
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The Beautiful Image
Title: The Beautiful Image
Character: La Sarrazine
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.
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A Certain Mister
Title: A Certain Mister
Character: Edmée Lamour / Augustine
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned police commissioner and his clumsy assistant, young inspector César, join forces with a colorful trio of thieves nicknamed Le Pouce (Thumb), L'Index (Index Finger) and Le Majeur (Middle Finger)...
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Sorceror
Title: Sorceror
Character: Simone Lesourd
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
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Du Guesclin
Title: Du Guesclin
Character: Tiphaine Raguenel
Released: June 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
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L'échafaud peut attendre
Title: L'échafaud peut attendre
Character: Maître Fontanie, lawyer
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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Piège à hommes
Title: Piège à hommes
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
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Triple enquête
Title: Triple enquête
Character: Madame Robert
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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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Title: The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Character: Hélène Tassin
Released: March 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
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Secret Cargo
Title: Secret Cargo
Character: Mme Mendoza
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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L'Homme de la nuit
Title: L'Homme de la nuit
Released: August 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
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The Beautiful Days of King Murat
Title: The Beautiful Days of King Murat
Character: Queen Caroline
Released: May 13, 1947
Type: Movie
For the past few weeks, revolt has been brewing in the Kingdom of Naples. The handsome Castelli is at the head of the conspiracy that wants to put an end to the reign of King Murat. To carry out his plan, he decides to infiltrate the court in order to become an intimate of the king. But his ploy works too well: he manages to enter the court thanks to his talents as a singer and very quickly seduces Queen Geneviève. But this imprudence costs him a lot. He is soon arrested by the king's men and immediately condemned to death.
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The Eleventh Hour Guest
Title: The Eleventh Hour Guest
Character: Isabelle Bourgoin
Released: August 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of relatives, including his fiancée, and it seems to turn into a tragedy: he is found lifeless, apparently poisoned. A man calling himself a police officer begins to investigate.
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The Eternal Return
Title: The Eternal Return
Character: Nathalie la brune
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.
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Patrouille blanche
Title: Patrouille blanche
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten their profits.
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Title: Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Released: October 8, 1941
Type: Movie
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
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Anything for the Woman
Title: Anything for the Woman
Character: Elsa Ducrò
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
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Beating Heart
Title: Beating Heart
Character: La comtesse Florence d'Argay - l'ambassadrice
Released: February 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
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Latin Quarter
Title: Latin Quarter
Character: Flossie
Released: August 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a struggling artist. He falls in love with a student from the Sorbonne and moves into the same boarding house as her while continuing his pretence of poverty.
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Title: Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Character: Madame Lecoeur
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Une actrice
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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Petite peste
Title: Petite peste
Character: Georgette Rousson
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
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Cocoanut
Title: Cocoanut
Character: Colette Ventadour
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
Title: Adrienne Lecouvreur
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.
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Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Title: Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Character: Francine
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although having no competence in the matter, accepts. He anticipates adventures and misadventures but also happy surprises.
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Human Freight
Title: Human Freight
Character: Elisabeth Nelissen
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
1915, in invaded Belgium, the Germans seek in vain to dismantle the organization of the smugglers of men who help volunteers to cross the Dutch border.
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Social Police
Title: Social Police
Character: Lucienne Réville
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
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La Bête aux sept manteaux
Title: La Bête aux sept manteaux
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.
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Culprit
Title: Culprit
Character: Louise Donadieu
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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The Lower Depths
Title: The Lower Depths
Character: Natacha, la sœur de Vassilissa
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
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In the Service of the Tsar
Title: In the Service of the Tsar
Character: Lucie Leroy
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
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27, rue de la Paix
Title: 27, rue de la Paix
Character: Olly
Released: November 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.
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Joli monde
Title: Joli monde
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
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Girls' Club
Title: Girls' Club
Character: Hélène - la standardiste
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
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Train de plaisir
Title: Train de plaisir
Character: Florist
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Marguerite and Verdurin, both employed in l'Atout Prix, a store run by Prosper Biscoton, would like to take a vacation at the beach, but they need more money than they earn. They decide to trick their boss into paying for the trip by pretending Marguerite is interested in him. Biscoton falls in the trap and puts himself in a difficult position with his own wife.
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Toi, c'est moi
Title: Toi, c'est moi
Character: Viviane
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Bobby Guibert and Pat Duvallon are the best of friends. They are also big party animals. Honorine, Bobby's aunt, is outraged by her nephew's bad behavior, all the more as it is with her money that the young man paints the city red, always accompanied by Pat. She then decides to send them both to the West Indies, where she owns a sugar-cane plantation, in the hope that far from temptation they will reform. Once there, the two revelers come up with nothing better than - swap identities, which will be the cause of a series of cheerful misunderstandings. Everything will end not in one, but several marriages.
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Stradivarius
Title: Stradivarius
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A French-language version of Stradivari (1935).
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Tovaritch
Title: Tovaritch
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), two members of the Russian nobility who'd been forced to relocate to France after the Revolution. Though the regal couple has been entrusted with the Imperial crown jewels, they'd sooner starve to death than betray the late Czar by selling the gems. As a result, they're reduced to taking jobs as servants in the home of a wealthy but somewhat zany family. Robert E. Sherwood's Americanized version of Deval's Tovaritch was filmed by Warner Bros. in 1937, with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
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Skylark
Title: Skylark
Character: Marguerite
Released: October 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of the struggle, flees in a plane with his comrade Michelet whom he believes to be an instructor. For three days and three nights, the unfortunates turn in a closed circuit, thus beating the world record.
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Étienne
Title: Étienne
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infidelities. He tries to seduce his father's next conquest without his knowledge.
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Love and Cool Water
Title: Love and Cool Water
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of him and falls in love with him. She has a fat, selfish, boorish husband whom she abandons to her imaginary illnesses to marry her nice wounded man.