Rosy Varte

Rosy Varte

Born: November 22, 1923
Died: January 13, 2012
in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Rosy Varte (22 November 1923 – 14 January 2012) was a French actress of Armenian descent. She made almost 100 film and television appearances since 1949.

She starred in the 1972 film The Bar at the Crossing, which was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. She was a voice actress in the cartoon Western movies, Daisy Town (1971, as "Lulu Carabine") and La Ballade des Dalton (1978, as "Miss Worthlesspenny").

Born Nevarte Manouelian in Istanbul, Turkey, she emigrated to France at an early age. She appeared in comedies. From 1985 to 1993, she had the title role (Maguy Boissier) in 333 episodes of the hit TV series Maguy. In 2007, she won the 7 d'Or award for Best Actress for playing Maguy Boissier.

She died 14 January 2012 at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 88, following a battle with bronchitis, which degenerated into a lung infection, according to her widower, director Pierre Badel.

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

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Hubert et le chien
Title: Hubert et le chien
Character: Éléonore
Released: April 16, 2007
Type: Movie
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Rosalie Hits the Road
Title: Rosalie Hits the Road
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Rosalie has had enough of "family life", in other words of Georges, her weak husband, and of her cantankerous mother-in-law. One day she decides to hit the road, not knowing where she is going. Joséphine is fed up with... being fed up with life. One day she decides to say no to cancer and depression and she hits the road. Her goal is to join her daughter Carole with whom she has been at odds for ten years. Rosalie and Joséphine, the two confused women meet, journey together, help each other and little by little become inseparable friends.
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Bonnes vacances
Title: Bonnes vacances
Character: Blanche Dumont-Farel
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: Movie
They're broke and they're going on vacation in a cave, an economical solution...
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Chère canaille
Title: Chère canaille
Released: December 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thirteen-year-old godson, accepts Francis' proposal to record a record without much enthusiasm. His voice, combined with his physique, gives rise to hope. Francis will be able to pay off his debts; Lino and Daisy, David's parents, will be able to do some work in their café. Everything would be just fine if Frédérique Henriot, a young lawyer, hadn't come to live in the house where they all live, in this village in the center of Paris called the Marais.
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Title: Maguy
Character: Maguy Boissier (Née Bernardini)
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: TV
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Happy Easter
Title: Happy Easter
Character: Marlène Chataigneau, la mère de Julie
Released: October 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
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Waiter!
Title: Waiter!
Character: Gloria, l'ex-femme d'Alex
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: Movie
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
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Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Title: Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Character: Miss Worthlesspenny (voice)
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
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Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Title: Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, produced and/or supervised over 700 films between 1896 an the 1920s, in France and, for a period, in the US.
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Title: Le Braconnier de Dieu
Character: La première musicienne en voiture
Released: January 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Title: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Character: Madame Jourdain
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the play by Molière, Monsieur Jourdain, social climber, nouveau rich but naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. He hires masters of music, dance, philosophy. He has gone mad with thoughts of honors, decorations, and power.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Les bons bourgeois
Title: Les bons bourgeois
Character: Dorothée, the mother
Released: July 15, 1981
Type: Movie
In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own idiosyncratic way. The play harks back to Molière's plays 'Femmes savantes' and 'Précieuses ridicules'
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Nina
Title: Nina
Character: Nina
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
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La Grâce
Title: La Grâce
Character: Thérèse Dupérier
Released: April 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: La Mère de Colette
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Title: Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character: Mme Vigerie
Released: November 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: Germaine Doizon
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Big Deal
Title: Big Deal
Character: Therese
Released: March 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
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The Bar at the Crossing
Title: The Bar at the Crossing
Character: Maria
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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The Annuity
Title: The Annuity
Character: Elvire Galipeau
Released: January 19, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
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Daisy Town
Title: Daisy Town
Released: November 1, 1971
Type: Movie
When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Man with Connections
Title: The Man with Connections
Character: The Mother
Released: April 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...
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My Uncle Benjamin
Title: My Uncle Benjamin
Character: Bettine, soeur de Benjamin
Released: November 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
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La Honte de la famille
Title: La Honte de la famille
Character: Perrine Hadol
Released: November 7, 1969
Type: Movie
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
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Would-Be Gentleman
Title: Would-Be Gentleman
Character: Mme Jourdain
Released: December 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Character: Berthe
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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Father's Trip
Title: Father's Trip
Character: La barmaid blonde du bistrot "La Patrie"
Released: September 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
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Three Disordered Children
Title: Three Disordered Children
Character: Mme Gisèle Duchemin
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.
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The Sultans
Title: The Sultans
Character: Girl in the club
Released: May 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces them to have fun. When he goes through a delicate family situation caused by his daughter's adventure with a much older man, Lisa understands how much she is in love and how little she can expect from him.
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Ubu Roi
Title: Ubu Roi
Character: Mother Ubu
Released: September 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland. Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. Along his side, is the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu, who's like a foul mouthed Lady Macbeth.
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Thomas the Impostor
Title: Thomas the Impostor
Character: Mme Valiche
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
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La Mégère apprivoisée
Title: La Mégère apprivoisée
Character: Catarina
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
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Male Companion
Title: Male Companion
Character: La mère d'Isabelle
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
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Love at Twenty
Title: Love at Twenty
Character: La mère de Colette (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Antoine and Colette
Title: Antoine and Colette
Character: Colette's Mother
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
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The Vendetta
Title: The Vendetta
Character: Mme Lauriston
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Arbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur Lauriston has decided to spend his old age there with his wife Marthe. Encouraged by Giuseppe, the owner of the Napoleon bar, he is promoted to mayor. This brings him the wrath of Captain Bartoli, owner of the Café Bonaparte, a self-styled pirate and navigator who has long aspired to this honorable position. Further complications arise when Lauriston's nephew romances Antonia, the daughter of Amoretti, the last bandit of honor in the area and the town's main tourist attraction.
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The Busybody
Title: The Busybody
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants.
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Fortunate
Title: Fortunate
Character: Rosette Falk
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
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The Gigolo
Title: The Gigolo
Character: Marilyn
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shores of Lac du Bourget, not far from Aix-les-Bains. For the past four years, she has been involved in an affair with a twenty-four-year-old artist, Jackie, that is beginning to weigh heavily on her. The frequent visits of a brilliant Aix doctor to the sick old man's bedside have distracted Agathe from her very young lover. She'd like to send him away, but he clings to her desperately, and we witness the drama of this break-up, both feared and rejected by Agathe. Blinded by jealousy, Jackie decides to leave, but not without behaving like a spoiled, insolent child.
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The Little Professor
Title: The Little Professor
Character: Mme Léa
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
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A Legitimate Defense
Title: A Legitimate Defense
Character: Rita la Gitane, une prostituée
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre. Tired of putting up with Albert the King's demands, Pierrot kills the gangster during a bar brawl. His first instinct is to flee, but on Gustave's advice, he turns himself in to the law. All things considered, he'll be safer in prison than exposed to the reprisals of the "underworld". Pierrot goes to trial. He was acquitted as having acted in self-defense. But his release leaves him open to the vengeance of Bob, one of Albert's accomplices. Pierrot narrowly escapes an ambush, but is finally able to rid himself of the threat hanging over him, thanks to the friendship of Inspector Gustave, and finally reunites with the companion of his life, Dora, who has never stopped trembling for him.
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Forgive Our Trespasses
Title: Forgive Our Trespasses
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
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Les assassins du dimanche
Title: Les assassins du dimanche
Character: Marie Simonet
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every turn of the wheel. Robert finally alerts the police, and the breathless pursuit of the Mercedes begins, turning into a thriller that ends to everyone's satisfaction.
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The Hussars
Title: The Hussars
Character: Juliette
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
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Pleasures and Vices
Title: Pleasures and Vices
Released: September 2, 1955
Type: Movie
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.
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French Cancan
Title: French Cancan
Character: Habituée du café (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Title: Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune smiles on him when he saves the life of a young woman. Gisèle, the young lady in question, happens to be the daughter of a car manufacturer. Robert and Gisèle fall for each other and decide to marry. They get on quite well except on one point: Gisèle does not want her husband to take part in car races. But passion is the strongest and, breaking the ban, Gilbert wins the La Baule car event. Overcoming her aversion, Gisèle finally allows her husband to pursue his brilliant career.
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Men Think Only of That
Title: Men Think Only of That
Released: June 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make his sentimental education.
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Virgile
Title: Virgile
Character: La grande Léa
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Sweet Virgil believes himself to be a victim of the same bad luck that has pursued parents, grandparents and ancestors before him. Terribly complexed by this misfortune, he nevertheless awkwardly tries his hand at journalism, supported by a charming editor. By chance, he comes face to face with the thundering gangster Esposito. In this cat-and-mouse struggle, the mouse wins. Esposito is arrested and Virgil is rid of his inhibitions forever.
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Title: Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Character: Mme Boulay, l'épicière
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
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Lettre ouverte
Title: Lettre ouverte
Character: Madame Pépin, the concierge
Released: March 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Paméla
Released: August 13, 1952
Type: Movie
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.
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Les bonnes manières
Title: Les bonnes manières
Released: June 11, 1952
Type: Movie
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Vendetta in Camargue
Title: Vendetta in Camargue
Released: August 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The young Huguette arrives in Camargue to take over the farmhouse and the breeding of bulls from which she has just inherited - Huguette has to face the thefts of horses and bulls by the Romanichels and stand up to the Gardians, who do not appreciate being commanded by a young woman. Fortunately, her neighbor Fred will be there to help her to overcome all these obstacles.
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Vendetta in Camargue
Title: Vendetta in Camargue
Character: Conchita
Released: August 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The young Huguette arrives in Camargue to take over the farmhouse and the breeding of bulls from which she has just inherited - Huguette has to face the thefts of horses and bulls by the Romanichels and stand up to the Gardians, who do not appreciate being commanded by a young woman. Fortunately, her neighbor Fred will be there to help her to overcome all these obstacles.
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Manon
Title: Manon
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.