Fernand Gravey

Fernand Gravey

Born: December 25, 1905
Died: November 2, 1970
in Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium
Fernand Gravey (25 December 1905 in Ixelles (Belgium) – 2 November 1970 in Paris, France), also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was the son of actors Georges Mertens and Fernande Depernay, who appeared in silent films produced by pioneer Belge Cinéma Film (a subsidiary of Pathé).

Gravey started performing at age five under his father's direction.

Before World War I, he received an education in Britain and could speak both French and English fluently, something which became useful in his movie roles. During the war, Gravey served in the British Merchant Marine Corp.

In 1936, he married the French actress Jane Renouardt, who was 15 years his senior. They remained together until his death on 2 November 1970 of a heart-attack. Jane died on 3 February 1972. They had no children.

Gravey performed in four films in 1913 and 1914 (as Fernand Mertens), but his first film of importance was L'Amour Chante, released in 1930. In 1933, he made Bitter Sweet, his first English language movie, which became more famous in its 1940 incarnation with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

In 1937, after several more French and British movies, Gravey went to Hollywood, where the spelling of his last name was altered to Gravet, and he became the focus of a rather extensive Hollywood publicity campaign (instructing moviegoers to pronounce his name properly: "Rhymes with Gravy"). Unfortunately for Gravey, he was offered only standard parts, the type of Gallic-lover roles that Louis Jourdan played in the 1950s and 1960s.

The first two films he made in Hollywood were for Warner Brothers: The King and the Chorus Girl (1937), with Joan Blondell and Jane Wyman, and Fools for Scandal (1938), with Carole Lombard and Ralph Bellamy. Gravey then signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was cast as Johann Strauss in the expensive biopic The Great Waltz, with Luise Rainer and Miliza Korjus.

MGM next planned to star Gravey in a film version of Rafael Sabatini's adventure novel Scaramouche, but instead he returned to France just before the Nazi occupation began. Although he had agreed to appear in German-approved French films, Gravey was an underminer of the invaders as a member of the French Secret Army and the Foreign Legion.

At the end of the war, Gravey was considered a war hero, and continued to be featured in French productions such as La Ronde (with Danielle Darrieux), and Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954). Among his last English language performances were How to Steal a Million (1966), Guns for San Sebastian (1968) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), in which he played the police inspector.

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

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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Title: The House in the Woods
Character: Les marquis
Released: September 12, 1971
Type: TV
During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.
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The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Character: Labrize
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.
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Promise at Dawn
Title: Promise at Dawn
Character: Jean-Michel Serusier
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
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Give Her the Moon
Title: Give Her the Moon
Character: Le capitaine Ragot
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Title: The Madwoman of Chaillot
Character: Police sergeant
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: Movie
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.
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Guns for San Sebastian
Title: Guns for San Sebastian
Character: Governor
Released: March 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
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How to Steal a Million
Title: How to Steal a Million
Character: Grammont
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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The Woman from Beirut
Title: The Woman from Beirut
Character: Dr. Castello
Released: November 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Greek" and his partner lover Gloria. The couple is posing as entertainment promoters but they are really running a prostitution ring based in Beirut. They offer Isabel a two-year contract to perform in "night clubs" in the Near and Mideast even after they learn that she cannot travel abroad due to her legal status. Upon arrival in Beirut, Isabel and the other girls are sped away to a luxurious villa where they discover the real intentions of the pseudo-promoters. They are expected to sing and dance but also to engage in sexual activities with the rich clients that patronize the place. Isabel pretends to go along with the situation but she has a plan to get away
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Title: Harry's Girls
Character: Andre Giraud
Released: September 13, 1963
Type: TV
Harry's Girls is an American situation comedy which appeared on NBC from September 13, 1963, to January 3, 1964. The series stars Larry Blyden portraying Henry Burns, the leader of a vaudeville troupe consisting of three young women. The co-stars were Dawn Nickerson as Lois, Susan Silo as Rusty, and Diahn Williams as Terry.
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The Crumblers Are Doing Well
Title: The Crumblers Are Doing Well
Character: François Legrand
Released: November 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His children disagree and they tell him so .
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Toto in Paris
Title: Toto in Paris
Character: Il dottor Duclos
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
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School for Coquettes
Title: School for Coquettes
Character: Stanislas de La Ferronière
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Title: Hardboiled Egg Time
Character: Raoul Grandvivier
Released: March 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
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La Garçonne
Title: La Garçonne
Character: Georges Sauvage
Released: April 5, 1957
Type: Movie
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
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Mitsou
Title: Mitsou
Character: Pierre Duroy-Lelong
Released: December 24, 1956
Type: Movie
During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...
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Slightly Ahead
Title: Slightly Ahead
Character: Olivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc
Released: October 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Thirteen at the Table
Title: Thirteen at the Table
Character: Antoine Villardier
Released: December 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Madeleine Villardier is terribly superstitious, and she's in a lot of trouble for the New Year's Eve party she's planning. Inexorably, the number of guests is down to thirteen. To add to her dismay, the presence under her roof of a certain Consuelo is proving cumbersome, especially as this lady has revelations to make about Antoine Villardier's stormy past. The mistress of the house's trances alternate with marital explanations. But why not consider the fateful number as a lucky charm?
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Molière
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 Age of Indiscretion
Title: The Age of Indiscretion
Character: Padre di Andrea, presidente del tribunale
Released: August 23, 1953
Type: Movie
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Title: My Husband Is Marvelous
Character: Claude Chatel
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
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The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Character: Armand Dupuis-Martin
Released: November 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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My Wife Is Formidable
Title: My Wife Is Formidable
Character: Raymond Corbier, sculpteur et mari de Sylvia
Released: December 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
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Gunman in the Streets
Title: Gunman in the Streets
Character: Commissioner Dufresne
Released: December 13, 1950
Type: Movie
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
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Le Traqué
Title: Le Traqué
Character: Commissioner Dufresne
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van.
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La Ronde
Title: La Ronde
Character: Charles Breitkopf, son mari
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Title: Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Character: André Ternay
Released: September 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
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Du Guesclin
Title: Du Guesclin
Character: Bertrand du Guesclin
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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Captain Blomet
Title: Captain Blomet
Character: Blomet
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.
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Once Is Enough
Title: Once Is Enough
Character: Jacques Reval
Released: October 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Christine Jourdan is a highly rated sculptor who, to oust her impresario Ancelin, invented a lover named Nicolas. Soon she marries Jacques, but he proves to be jealous of the supposed lover. The newspapers publishing the death of a Nicolas, Christine takes the opportunity to announce the death of her lover. But the man in question was murdered by a woman. Jacques and Ancelin suspect Christine and indulge in the worst eccentricities.
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Paméla
Title: Paméla
Character: Paul Barras
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
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La Rabouilleuse
Title: La Rabouilleuse
Character: Colonel Philippe Brideau
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder.
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Domino
Title: Domino
Character: Domino
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller galleries to try to sell his statuette. He gets Heller’s wife, who uses him to deflect the suspicions of her jealous husband: she had an affair before their marriage. Domino gets carried away and persuades the young woman to go away with him.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Baron de Cigognac
Released: June 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
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Fantastic Night
Title: Fantastic Night
Character: Denis
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
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Threesome Romance
Title: Threesome Romance
Character: Charles
Released: June 17, 1942
Type: Movie
From three successive marriages, Loys Erland had three very different boys: Charles, a convinced sportsman, Marcel, who runs a bank and Pierre, a young composer. All three meet, then reunite with the lovely Huguette. Everyone is courting. Charles seems favored, but Huguette ultimately slips away. The three brothers will thus see their mutual friendship and trust strengthened.
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Foolish Husbands
Title: Foolish Husbands
Character: Gérard Barbier
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.
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Paradis perdu
Title: Paradis perdu
Character: Pierre Leblan
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
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The Last Turning
Title: The Last Turning
Character: Frank
Released: May 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Rene (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Released: November 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Title: Hollywood Goes to Town
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
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Fools for Scandal
Title: Fools for Scandal
Character: Rene
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
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The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Title: The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Character: Lieutenant Franz Korff
Released: November 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Title: The King and the Chorus Girl
Character: Alfred Bruger VII
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
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Mister Flow
Title: Mister Flow
Character: Antonin Rose
Released: December 2, 1936
Type: Movie
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
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Symphonie D'Amour
Title: Symphonie D'Amour
Character: Charles Panard
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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Seven Men, One Woman
Title: Seven Men, One Woman
Character: Le vicomte Brémontier
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
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Fanfare of Love
Title: Fanfare of Love
Character: Jean Rameau / Jeanette, piano des " Tulipes Hollandaises "
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all -female orchestra "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.
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Touche-à-tout
Title: Touche-à-tout
Character: Georges Martin aka 'Touche-à-Tout'
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte d'Azur. A young maid comes to his aid before he loses everything. She reveals to him that she is in fact a successful novelist.
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Varieté
Title: Varieté
Character: Pierre
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
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Monsieur Sans-Gêne
Title: Monsieur Sans-Gêne
Character: Fernand Martin
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.
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Antonia
Title: Antonia
Character: Captain Douglas Parker
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed her and outlines a flirtation with an aviator engaged to her niece. The presence of mind of the latter pleasantly closes the adventure.
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Si j'étais le patron
Title: Si j'étais le patron
Character: Henri Janvier
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
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C'était un musicien
Title: C'était un musicien
Character: Jean
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
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The Queen's Affair
Title: The Queen's Affair
Character: Carl
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Court Waltzes
Title: Court Waltzes
Character: Franz
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Premature Father
Title: The Premature Father
Character: Édouard Puma & Fred
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Edouard Puma, seduced by a seamstress at the age of 18, had a son whom he raised in secret, never having dared to confess his fault to his terrible father. Having grown up, the son comes to revive his father. After a series of complicated adventures, Father Puma learns the truth and everything works out.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Carl Linden
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Carl
Released: August 8, 1933
Type: Movie
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rented room is next to a cinema with its frankfurter-munching projectionist and romantic musical numbers that seem to permeate their lives. Might they meet and fall in love?' (BFI)
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The Improvised Son
Title: The Improvised Son
Character: Fernand Brassart
Released: November 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman who is the mistress of a well off antiquarian receives a visit from a younger man. Is her lost son from long ago?
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Passionately
Title: Passionately
Character: Robert Perceval
Released: September 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceval.
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A Star Vanishes
Title: A Star Vanishes
Character: Self
Released: August 22, 1932
Type: Movie
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Ladies Hairdresser
Title: Ladies Hairdresser
Character: Mario
Released: May 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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You Will Be a Duchess
Title: You Will Be a Duchess
Character: Marquis André de la Cour
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
"Tu seras duchesse!" ("You'll Be a Duchess!") With these words, self-made industrialist Poisson orders his daughter Lucie to marry a wealthy Duke. The duke's father objects to the union, whereupon Poisson arranges another marriage for his daughter, this time to an impoverished and sickly young marquis. Poisson's strategy runs something like this: the Marquis is expected to die soon, whereupon the widowed Lucie will become a marquess, and thus a worthy bride for the Duke. But the Marquis foils these plans by staging a miraculous recovery. The explanation? The Marquis and Lucie have been in love all along, and this was the only way that they could wed with Poisson's blessing. Darned clever, these Frenchmen!.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Character: Francis Latour
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.
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Love Songs
Title: Love Songs
Character: Armand Petitjean
Released: November 21, 1930
Type: Movie
To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.
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Loyalty
Title: Loyalty
Character: Jonge Jefke / Young Jefke
Released: April 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage the two children have decorated with tulips wins the first prize. The next day, during a thunderstorm, lightning destroys the mill and kills Schoonejans. A life of misery starts for his widow and daughter. Remembering how the theatre manager Boolmans had applauded the dancing of Kaatje and Jef at the floral parade, the widow takes her daughter to Amsterdam, where Boolmans engages Kaatje. The years pass, and Kate has become a famous dancer.
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Monsieur Beulemeester, Civic Guard
Title: Monsieur Beulemeester, Civic Guard
Character: Le petit Paul
Released: December 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Commissioned by Pathé Frères, Alfred Machin shoots several local stories in Belgium, in a typically Belgian setting. Machin produces not only historical dramas, but also some comedies mainly portraying the Brussels "zwanze", the typical humour of the city's inhabitants, which is characterised by a finely-balanced mix of self-deprecation and exaggeration. In doing so he made his films accessible and recognizable to his audience. Mr Beulemeester, notorious member of the local militia and very possessive when it comes to his daughter, is in this film fooled by charmer and suitor Van Soest.
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Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis
Title: Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis
Character: Fernand Mertens
Released: March 7, 1913
Type: Movie
A cheetah runs away from a fair and steals Belgium's national symbol: Manneken Pis.