Madeleine Suffel

Madeleine Suffel

Born: November 26, 1899
Died: April 11, 1974
in Paris, France

Movies for Madeleine Suffel...

Trouble Among Widows
Title: Trouble Among Widows
Character: Mme Doche
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Character: La locataire (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Character: La locataire
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Love on a Pillow
Title: Love on a Pillow
Character: La vieille dame dans le train
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
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The Bureaucrats
Title: The Bureaucrats
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee and songwriter in his spare time.
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Love Is My Profession
Title: Love Is My Profession
Character: La concierge d'Yvette (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
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Too Many Lovers
Title: Too Many Lovers
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
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Black Dossier
Title: Black Dossier
Character: La voisine
Released: May 10, 1955
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.
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Diabolique
Title: Diabolique
Character: Counter Clerk
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Piédalu député
Title: Piédalu député
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow citizens won him popularity, but he had to reckon with the wiles of his political opponents if he ran for deputy. The support of the son of one of his rivals, who loves Françoise Piédalu, and above all his stubborn common sense and natural malice, help him to overcome all obstacles.
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Good Lord Without Confession
Title: Good Lord Without Confession
Character: La marchande des quatres saisons
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Title: Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Character: Emma Paussier, la gouvernante de Geneviève
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and even acquire a country mansion. Retirement beckons and he is going to be able to enjoy the quiet life at last. The wedding of his daughter, Genevieve with Andre du Velin, a well born playboy is going to endanger this dream, for Genevieve is ignorant of her father's job. However, her fiance doesn't see any problem with this.
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Title: Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Character: Une voisine de Pignot (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
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La peau d’un homme
Title: La peau d’un homme
Character: Concierge
Released: March 9, 1951
Type: Movie
Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself unmasked by an investigator.
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The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Title: The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Character: Someone crazy
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
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Justice Is Done
Title: Justice Is Done
Character: La bonne des Vaudrémont
Released: September 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
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L’atomique Monsieur Placido
Title: L’atomique Monsieur Placido
Released: July 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived by the gangster who also takes advantage of the resemblance to track down a band of thugs who are chasing him. Virtue is ultimately rewarded.
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Miquette
Title: Miquette
Character: Noémie
Released: April 14, 1950
Type: Movie
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
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Nous avons tous fait la même chose
Title: Nous avons tous fait la même chose
Released: March 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge.
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The Ferret
Title: The Ferret
Character: Madame Barbe
Released: February 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
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The Inn of Sin
Title: The Inn of Sin
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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Triple enquête
Title: Triple enquête
Character: La standardiste
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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La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
Title: La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
Character: Lucie
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neighbor Casimir. But the Carcass, too, feels attracted to the young woman...
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Title: The Eleven O'Clock Woman
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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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
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By the Window
Title: By the Window
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Title: The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
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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Square of Knaves
Title: Square of Knaves
Character: Albertine Pignolet, la concierge (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
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Love Around the House
Title: Love Around the House
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
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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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Carbon Copy
Title: Carbon Copy
Character: Mrs. Charles
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Maid
Released: June 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
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The Unknown Singer
Title: The Unknown Singer
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Julien Mortal, a singer from Portugal suffering from amnesia, made a career in France under the name of Paolo. One day, he discovers the truth about his past: a man tried to assassinate him.
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L'homme traqué
Title: L'homme traqué
Released: February 14, 1947
Type: Movie
A Parisian baker boy, tired of his monotonous and hopeless life, kills the owner of a hotel to rob him. A woman of questionable morals noticed his absence. To buy his silence, he makes her his friend. Rivaled by their secret and not really loving each other, they indulge in imprudences which throw them into the hands of the police.
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Télévision, œil de demain
Title: Télévision, œil de demain
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise from the science fiction author René Barjavel, called Cinema Total, 1944.
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Title: The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Released: July 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
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Christine se marie
Title: Christine se marie
Character: The maid
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
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Roger the Disgrace
Title: Roger the Disgrace
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
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La Route du bagne
Title: La Route du bagne
Character: Belles Mirettes
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
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My First Love
Title: My First Love
Released: September 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Bob, a student, is very emotionally close to his mother Suzanne. He is alarmed when she seems about to begin a relationship with a novelist, regarding it as a betrayal.
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The Eleventh Hour Guest
Title: The Eleventh Hour Guest
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 Last Metro
Title: The Last Metro
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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Mademoiselle X
Title: Mademoiselle X
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.
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Farandole
Title: Farandole
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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Le mort ne reçoit plus
Title: Le mort ne reçoit plus
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!
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Le bal des passants
Title: Le bal des passants
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
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Adieu Léonard
Title: Adieu Léonard
Character: Other half
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
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L'Escalier sans fin
Title: L'Escalier sans fin
Character: The janitor
Released: August 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Title: Monsieur des Lourdines
Character: Julie
Released: June 9, 1943
Type: Movie
A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
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À la Belle frégate
Title: À la Belle frégate
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, she prefers his good friend René. Another suitor, Pierre, owns the "À la Belle frégate" a café where Yvonne works as a waitress. Madam(e )Juliette, pretends she helps Yvonne and tries to make her an "entraineuse"(hostess) for less-than -handsome guests. But the girl knows better and will choose one of her suitors.
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Soyez les bienvenus
Title: Soyez les bienvenus
Released: July 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobilization, the manager becomes flight captain, Boisleroi a simple waykeeper and Jacques wants to enlist. Refugees arrive: an actress, a player, an old marquis, former owner of the castle and who will die there. All this life together culminates in the marriage of Jacques and Geneviève.
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Dédé la musique
Title: Dédé la musique
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug trafficking and prostitution. He sets his sights on a young girl, fresh and naive, Odette, saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette. But he is touched by the charm of this midinette.
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Title: Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Character: Marthe
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
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They Met on Skis
Title: They Met on Skis
Character: Mlle Fleuriot
Released: December 14, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes bad. Michel decides to participate in a ski competition to help uncle.
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Monsieur Hector
Title: Monsieur Hector
Character: Suzanne Brichon
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.
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Sixième étage
Title: Sixième étage
Character: Berthe
Released: September 2, 1940
Type: Movie
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
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Miquette
Title: Miquette
Character: Perrine
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.
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Schubert's Serenade
Title: Schubert's Serenade
Character: Anny
Released: February 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
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Narcisse
Title: Narcisse
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
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Whirlwind of Paris
Title: Whirlwind of Paris
Character: Cashier
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
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Conflit
Title: Conflit
Character: La sœur de Marguerite
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
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The Train for Venice
Title: The Train for Venice
Character: Berthe
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this relationship by the seducer himself and ends up leaving with his wife for another wedding night in Venice.
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Tricoche and Cacolet
Title: Tricoche and Cacolet
Character: Virginie, la bonne du bureau de placement (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is hired by Van der Pouf, a rich banker who wants him to watch over his wife Bernardine while the latter, on her part, seeks the services of Thicoche.
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
Title: Three Artillerymen on the Move
Character: Madame Plume
Released: April 24, 1938
Type: Movie
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
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Gibraltar
Title: Gibraltar
Character: Nelly / Manicurist (as Suffel)
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: La bonne
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.
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Le chanteur de minuit
Title: Le chanteur de minuit
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Bonnefoy, who has a talent for singing, is unemployed. So he is very happy the day he is offered a post as a music teacher in a college for young women. But he soon realizes the job is only a mixed blessing as a group of girls have set about making life tough for him. Among them is Anny Laforcade, a student who finally changes sides, taking pity on her teacher and falling in love with him. At one point, Jean meets Zébulon, a talent agent who decides to launch his singing career. Zébulon has a far-fetched idea: He asks Anny to disappear for a few days thus making people believe that she has committed suicide out of love for Jean. The latter, who is not aware of the scheme, is devastated.
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Bizarre, Bizarre
Title: Bizarre, Bizarre
Character: Victory - la dame de compagnie de Mrs. McPhearson
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
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Bizarre, Bizarre
Title: Bizarre, Bizarre
Character: Victory
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
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The Beauty of Montparnasse
Title: The Beauty of Montparnasse
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Mr. Pontbichot has long dreamed of cheating on his wife. To achieve his goals, he looks for a son-in-law who could help him, and finds him in the person of a young painter, who pleases his daughter.
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Take the Road
Title: Take the Road
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't allow. He demands that Jacques get married. More or less reluctantly, Jacques decides to comply but on the way to his father's home - where he is to meet the bride Dad has chosen for him - the young man comes across the charming Simone and falls in love with her at first sight. He elopes her, determined to ignore his progenitor's orders. Little does he know that Simone, the girl of his heart, is none other than the one he was supposed to marry...
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Trois... six... neuf
Title: Trois... six... neuf
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnès then concludes a pact with him. During the three months that Clément will be absent, Pierre will be able to see her as much as he wants. She thinks that this time will be enough for the young man to realize that she is not the ideal woman for him.
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Un mauvais garçon
Title: Un mauvais garçon
Character: Marie, la bonne
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
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Symphonie D'Amour
Title: Symphonie D'Amour
Character: Yvette's friend
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
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Une gueule en or
Title: Une gueule en or
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
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Under Western Eyes
Title: Under Western Eyes
Character: La bonne
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
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Martha
Title: Martha
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
At the English court, at the beginning of the 18th century, Lady Henriett fell in love with a farmer, Lionel, who, following a mistake, believes her to be his servant. By learning his quality, Lionel refuses to receive the one he already considered his fiancée. The queen herself will appease this lover's quarrel and, moreover, will free the peasants of his kingdom.
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School for Coquettes
Title: School for Coquettes
Character: Amélie
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners and behaviours that will open her the doors to a richer world, she quickly chooses wealth over love.
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Bonne chance
Title: Bonne chance
Character: la gantière
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl, Marie, who got engaged to a boy who is leaving for military training (thirteen days) wins two million on the raffle, thanks to an older man, Claude, whom she calls her good luck …
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Les Époux scandaleux
Title: Les Époux scandaleux
Character: Sylvia
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A couple get married, not out of love, but to get away from their families. When they run out of gas and have to stop at a mountain hotel, they discover their love is now real.
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A Rare Bird
Title: A Rare Bird
Character: la baronne Tourtau
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
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A Rare Bird
Title: A Rare Bird
Character: La baronne Tourtau
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
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La fusée
Title: La fusée
Character: Loulou
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board of Directors.
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Ça colle
Title: Ça colle
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Two average French people decide to paste wallpaper in the dining room of one of them. The result is not up to their intentions.
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He has lost a bride
Title: He has lost a bride
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A young bank employee is engaged to the manager's daughter. He is very much in love but she thinks she is married for her dowry and breaks off her engagement on the wedding day...
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Pas un mot à ma femme
Title: Pas un mot à ma femme
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
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Full view
Title: Full view
Released: January 20, 1931
Type: Movie