Jean Gaven

Jean Gaven

Born: January 16, 1922
Died: May 5, 2014
in Saint-Rome de Cernon, Aveyron, France
Jean Gaven (16 January 1922 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996.

Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014.

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Les Bidochon
Title: Les Bidochon
Character: Maître Nerval
Released: July 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.
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The Eagle and the Horse
Title: The Eagle and the Horse
Released: November 14, 1994
Type: Movie
French Canadian TV-Movie
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L'Œil écarlate
Title: L'Œil écarlate
Character: Etienne Delvaux
Released: July 21, 1993
Type: Movie
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.
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Juillet en septembre
Title: Juillet en septembre
Character: Monsieur Challe
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Juillet is a young orphan girl who returns to the town she was born in to find her mother. She tries to befriend her yuppie neighbors Marie and Jacques with comic consequences. The thrilling part (supposedly) of the film finds Marbas as a timid psycho killer who targets pretty young women.
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Fred connexion
Title: Fred connexion
Released: October 22, 1986
Type: Movie
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Venus on Fire
Title: Venus on Fire
Character: Waldo
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Two American executives for a cosmetics company travel to the Greek islands in search for a model for their new line of suntan lotion, "Venus". They run into more than they bargained for
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One Deadly Summer
Title: One Deadly Summer
Character: Leballech, boss of the sawmill
Released: May 11, 1983
Type: Movie
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
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Signé Furax
Title: Signé Furax
Character: L'agent sans panier à salade
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Title: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Character: Salpetre
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
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Madame Claude
Title: Madame Claude
Character: Gustave Lucas
Released: May 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
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The Groper
Title: The Groper
Character: Sicilian killer
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
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Bad Starters
Title: Bad Starters
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.
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The Story of O
Title: The Story of O
Character: Pierre
Released: August 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: L'Illustre Maurin
Character: Maurin
Released: January 8, 1974
Type: TV
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And Hope to Die
Title: And Hope to Die
Character: Rizzio
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Where Did Tom Go?
Title: Where Did Tom Go?
Character: Anton Caras
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Dietrich
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
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Rider on the Rain
Title: Rider on the Rain
Character: Inspector Toussaint
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: Movie
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
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Pasha
Title: Pasha
Character: Marc, un inspecteur
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
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Our Men in Bagdad
Title: Our Men in Bagdad
Character: General Yuri Fiodorenko
Released: August 12, 1966
Type: Movie
The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the countries rich oil resources. The USSR sent a team of their best secret agents to rob the document, so that later they can apprehend the ship which must pass through one of the Russian ports... After special training in a secret island in the Black Sea, Alex, Sadov and Sonia are sent in to get the documents. All goes according to plan, and Sadov gives the handbag to the mastermind, General Fiodorenko. On opening it though, the handbag explodes. Who is the infiltrated agent in the most secret of the Soviets secret ring?
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A Trap for Cinderella
Title: A Trap for Cinderella
Character: Gabriel
Released: October 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
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Title: La Route
Character: Dupuy
Released: December 21, 1963
Type: TV
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Emile's Boat
Title: Emile's Boat
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
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Emile's Boat
Title: Emile's Boat
Character: un pêcheur
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
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Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Title: Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Character: Grégoire
Released: January 13, 1961
Type: Movie
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Title: Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Released: August 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, whose relations seem rather shady. Jo, a guide in a tourist agency specializing in nightlife in Paris, has a "shadow" of his own in the scatterbrained Annette, who is determined to marry him. While touring the capital's cabarets, Jo meets a model, Jacynthe, and her photographer, Daniel, as well as a star, Jackie, and her manager, Helios. The latter organizes a mock jewel robbery for publicity purposes, with Jackie as the victim. But contrary to expectations, the robbery takes place.
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Minuit treize
Title: Minuit treize
Character: Le commissaire Bignon
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
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Visa to Hell
Title: Visa to Hell
Character: Carlos
Released: May 24, 1959
Type: Movie
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer whom he asks her to help him get to Spain.
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Riff Raff Girls
Title: Riff Raff Girls
Character: Henri / James
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Adventures in Indochina
Title: Adventures in Indochina
Character: Le Scaph
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A bunch of losers who can afford the price of the boat travel to Marseille are hired by a blonde woman for a mysterious mission in the jungle.
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Young Girls Beware
Title: Young Girls Beware
Character: Petit Jo
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
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The Witches of Salem
Title: The Witches of Salem
Character: Peter Corey
Released: April 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
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The River of Three Junks
Title: The River of Three Junks
Character: Capitaine Brichet
Released: January 25, 1957
Type: Movie
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traffickers with one of their agents to uncover a trade in bacteriological bombs.
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Law of the Streets
Title: Law of the Streets
Character: André Remoulin "Dédé la Glace"
Released: April 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
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If All the Guys in the World...
Title: If All the Guys in the World...
Character: Jos - il secondo
Released: February 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
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La Môme Pigalle
Title: La Môme Pigalle
Character: Félix Michaux, l'inspecteur de la PJ infiltré
Released: November 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.
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Girl on the Third Floor
Title: Girl on the Third Floor
Character: Ernest Sapinaud
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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La madone des sleepings
Title: La madone des sleepings
Character: Don Armando Félix
Released: June 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a uranium deposit in a South American country, attracts the attention of international secret agents. Lady Diana is at the center of a spider's web, with the French, British and Germans all trying to get their hands on her. Helped by the love of Armando, whom she met in San Miguel, she gives the deposit to her secretary Gérard as a reward for his services.
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The Babes Make the Law
Title: The Babes Make the Law
Character: Frédéric Langlet, le mari de Christine
Released: March 29, 1955
Type: Movie
When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she galvanizes her three other daughters into action.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Alexandre Buisson
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
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The Big Flag
Title: The Big Flag
Character: Lieutenant Lachenal
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
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The Wild Oat
Title: The Wild Oat
Character: l'abbé Daniel
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
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Feather in the Wind
Title: Feather in the Wind
Character: François Bontemps
Released: October 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
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Le crime du Bouif
Title: Le crime du Bouif
Character: Michel
Released: March 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Marcel - le boxeur
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
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Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Title: Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Character: Finot
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
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Duel à Dakar
Title: Duel à Dakar
Character: Fred
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
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La peau d’un homme
Title: La peau d’un homme
Character: Moussac
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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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Title: Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Character: Johnny Buck
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disputes, it borders on disaster but living together has obvious charms.
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At the Grand Balcony
Title: At the Grand Balcony
Character: Belfort
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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La Bataille du feu
Title: La Bataille du feu
Character: Jacques Legrand
Released: April 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
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Rapide de nuit
Title: Rapide de nuit
Character: One of the two accomplices
Released: September 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everything and replaces the suitcase with a similar one. The police do not understand anything, but the pretty girl promises to become honest like the one who almost was her pigeon.
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History of Singing
Title: History of Singing
Character: Jack Bing
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
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Six Hours to Lose
Title: Six Hours to Lose
Character: Antoine
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
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Dropped from Heaven
Title: Dropped from Heaven
Character: Robert
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Title: The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Character: Young inspector Gustave Perkinson
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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Son of France
Title: Son of France
Character: Lieutenant Brévannes
Released: May 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
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Les Cadets de l'océan
Title: Les Cadets de l'océan
Character: Albertini, dit Tino
Released: November 14, 1945
Type: Movie
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in town, friendships, bullying, and loves.