Renée Adorée

Renée Adorée

Born: September 30, 1898
Died: October 6, 1933
in Lille, Nord, France
Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.

Movies for Renée Adorée...

Twenty Years After
Title: Twenty Years After
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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The Movies March On
Title: The Movies March On
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.
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Call of the Flesh
Title: Call of the Flesh
Character: Lola
Released: August 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Masha
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
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The Pagan
Title: The Pagan
Character: Madge
Released: April 26, 1929
Type: Movie
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring her up as a 'proper' Christian, but who also lusts after her himself, plots to keep them apart.
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Tide of Empire
Title: Tide of Empire
Character: Josephita
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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The Spieler
Title: The Spieler
Character: Cleo d'Alzelle
Released: December 20, 1928
Type: Movie
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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The Michigan Kid
Title: The Michigan Kid
Character: Rose Morris
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
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The Mating Call
Title: The Mating Call
Character: Catharine
Released: July 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
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The Cossacks
Title: The Cossacks
Character: Maryana
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
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Forbidden Hours
Title: Forbidden Hours
Character: Marie de Floriet
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
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A Certain Young Man
Title: A Certain Young Man
Character: Henriette
Released: May 19, 1928
Type: Movie
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.
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Back to God's Country
Title: Back to God's Country
Character: Renee DeBois
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
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On Ze Boulevard
Title: On Ze Boulevard
Character: Musette
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by Earl Baldwin, William Scott Darling, Joseph Farnham and Richard Schayer. The film stars Lew Cody, Renée Adorée, Anton Vaverka, Dorothy Sebastian and Roy D'Arcy.
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Mr. Wu
Title: Mr. Wu
Character: Nang Ping
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Marcelle
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Salome
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Jeanne-Marie
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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Blarney
Title: Blarney
Character: Peggy Nolan
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: Carita
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
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The Exquisite Sinner
Title: The Exquisite Sinner
Character: Silda
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
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La Bohème
Title: La Bohème
Character: Musette
Released: March 13, 1926
Type: Movie
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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The Blackbird
Title: The Blackbird
Character: Fifi Lorraine
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
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The Big Parade
Title: The Big Parade
Character: Melisande
Released: November 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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Exchange of Wives
Title: Exchange of Wives
Character: Elise Moran
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Two couples engage in an exchange.
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Parisian Nights
Title: Parisian Nights
Character: Marie
Released: September 27, 1925
Type: Movie
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
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Man and Maid
Title: Man and Maid
Character: Suzette
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
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1925 Studio Tour
Title: 1925 Studio Tour
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Francine
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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The Bandolero
Title: The Bandolero
Character: Petra
Released: October 20, 1924
Type: Movie
When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.
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Defying the Law
Title: Defying the Law
Character: Lucia Brescia
Released: June 3, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film starring Lew Cody and Renée Adorée directed by Bertram Bracken
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A Man's Mate
Title: A Man's Mate
Character: Wildcat
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches fighting over Wildcat, a sultry stepper in a cafe. He becomes an apache himself, falls in love with Wildcat and paints her portrait--his masterpiece. Wildcat learns Paul's identity and restores him to his family, though realizing that she will lose him. Surgery restores Paul's memory, but some subconscious force guides him back to the cafe and Wildcat's love.
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Women Who Give
Title: Women Who Give
Character: Becky Keeler
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Women Who Give (1924)
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The Eternal Struggle
Title: The Eternal Struggle
Character: Andree Grange
Released: October 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
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Day Dreams
Title: Day Dreams
Character: The Girl (as Renee Adoree)
Released: November 27, 1922
Type: Movie
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
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Mixed Faces
Title: Mixed Faces
Character: Mary Allen Sayre
Released: October 21, 1922
Type: Movie
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West of Chicago
Title: West of Chicago
Character: Della Moore
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo McCullough.
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Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Character: Eugénie Danglars
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
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Honor First
Title: Honor First
Character: Moira Serern
Released: August 27, 1922
Type: Movie
'Honor First' was the first film Adorée and John Gilbert made together.
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A Self-Made Man
Title: A Self-Made Man
Character: Anita Gray
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film starring William Russell and Renée Adorée.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Miss Lowry
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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The Strongest
Title: The Strongest
Character: Claudia
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The Strongest is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.
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£500 Reward
Title: £500 Reward
Character: Irene
Released: November 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast.