Françoise Prévost

Françoise Prévost

Born: January 13, 1929
Died: November 30, 1997
in Paris, France
Françoise Prévost (13 January 1930 – 30 November 1997) was a French actress, journalist and author. She was the daughter of writer Marcelle Auclair. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1949 and 1985.

Prévost was born and died in Paris, France. She made her film debut at 18, in Jean de la Lune. After several minor roles she emerged with the Nouvelle Vague, with roles of weight in films by Pierre Kast, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco and Jacques Rivette. Starting from 1960s she was also pretty active in the Italian cinema, starring in leading roles in dramas, comedies and genre films. In 1975 Prévost gained critical appreciation and commercial success as an author, with an autobiographical book about her struggle against an incurable disease, Ma vie en plus.

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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Renee Novick
Released: October 8, 1981
Type: Movie
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.
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Le Soleil en face
Title: Le Soleil en face
Character: Jeanne
Released: January 16, 1980
Type: Movie
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
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Mala, Love and Death
Title: Mala, Love and Death
Character: Adalgisa Belli
Released: February 17, 1977
Type: Movie
The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.
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The Pink Telephone
Title: The Pink Telephone
Character: Françoise Castejac, épouse de Benoît
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
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The Return of the Exorcist
Title: The Return of the Exorcist
Character: Barbara
Released: August 23, 1975
Type: Movie
An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possession of him via a cursed amulet.
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Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
Title: Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
Character: Mme de Saintange
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
Title: The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
Character: The Abbess
Released: March 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the horrifying depravity of the covent's abbess, Sister Incarnation. Can Esteban rescue his love from this madhouse before the inquisitor discovers what is going on and has everyone executed?
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La prova d'amore
Title: La prova d'amore
Character: Angela Mother
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Van der Valk and the Rich
Title: Van der Valk and the Rich
Character: Arlette
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.
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The Angels
Title: The Angels
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, weak, lazy and eager to show off, who lives on the hooks of an elderly woman. The two thugs sympathize and cause, by game, a fatal accident. From perverse games to silly games, they enter a deadly spiral.
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When Love Is Lust
Title: When Love Is Lust
Character: Giulia Sanfelice
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A decadent countess, middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter to marry a rich butcher. But the couple’s sexual relation is troubled, because the girl has her fair share of inhibitions. So she abandons her house and seeks refuge at her sister’s place. During her absence, her husband finds consolation in his mother in law’s arms.
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Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
Title: Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
Character: Laura Gaudenzi
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...
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The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Character: Charlotte
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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The Beasts
Title: The Beasts
Character: Clara Borsetti
Released: April 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Lovemakers
Title: The Lovemakers
Character: Virginia
Released: December 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
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Mont-Dragon
Title: Mont-Dragon
Character: La comtesse Germaine de Boismenil
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Because he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the colonel and husband of the beautiful. After the death of the Count of Boismenil, Dormont arrived at the castle of the widow with the firm intention of taking revenge. From the outset, he seduces Pierrette, the servant, revives the heart of Germaine, having gotten an appointment with the widow, he makes her naked, humiliates and leaves her. Witness of the scene, Martha, the proud orphan, throws herself into the arms of Gaston, faithful order of the colonel, to avenge her mother. George soon flouted their feelings. He then forces Germaine to reveal his attachment to Pierrette and causes a beautiful scandal.
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Your Sweet Body to Kill
Title: Your Sweet Body to Kill
Character: Diana Ardington
Released: June 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Tells the story of a husband who wants to kill his unfaithful wife. He has many murderous fantasies in which he murders her. After the disposal of her beautiful dead body our hero loses an incriminating suitcase. It's time to get the crime evidence back.
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Un caso di coscienza
Title: Un caso di coscienza
Character: Sandra Solfi
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Winter Wind
Title: Winter Wind
Released: December 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
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Les vieilles lunes
Title: Les vieilles lunes
Released: May 7, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Fourth Wall
Title: The Fourth Wall
Character: Cristiana
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Marco Baroni spent four years in an English school. When he returns to Rome, the behavior of his family members finds him unprepared: his father, mother and sister Marzia have changed so much that they have not been recognized. He is deeply troubled by their immoral behavior.
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Rabbit in the Pit
Title: Rabbit in the Pit
Character: Francine Pouliard
Released: April 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love for the first time, but she has a dark secret and her boyfriend is on the verge of finding out.
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La donna a una dimensione
Title: La donna a una dimensione
Character: Paola
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement, meetings she attends. Paula tries to convert even her teenage children Afdera and Prando, to the ideas of the movement, who end up accepting the mother's convictions and agree to participate in an action of sabotage against a large factory. But when they discover that the factory to be sabotaged is precisely that of the father, they renounce the mission, disappointing the mother.
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A Woman on Fire
Title: A Woman on Fire
Character: Clara Frisotti
Released: February 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her husband. Unfortunately, she learns this with a handsome lifeguard, who finally makes her succumb to his psycho-sexual games.
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Spirits of the Dead
Title: Spirits of the Dead
Character: Friend of Countess (segment "Metzengerstein")
Released: May 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
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Johnny Hamlet
Title: Johnny Hamlet
Character: Gertry
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?
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Italian Secret Service
Title: Italian Secret Service
Character: Elvira Spallanzani
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: Movie
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
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The Other One
Title: The Other One
Character: Simone
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.
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Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Title: Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Character: Paolo's Mother
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: Movie
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Enter Inspector Maigret
Title: Enter Inspector Maigret
Character: Simone
Released: November 25, 1966
Type: Movie
After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.
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Via Macau
Title: Via Macau
Released: July 27, 1966
Type: Movie
An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal. A French diplomat travels to Macao, hoping to locate a sexy spy who had stayed in Lisbon.
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The Murder Clinic
Title: The Murder Clinic
Character: Gisèle
Released: March 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors
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Galia
Title: Galia
Character: Nicole
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works...
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The Glass Cage
Title: The Glass Cage
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel.
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Thank You, Natercia
Title: Thank You, Natercia
Character: Françoise
Released: February 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
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Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
Title: Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
Character: Lucy
Released: January 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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Portuguese Vacation
Title: Portuguese Vacation
Character: Françoise
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
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A Sentimental Attempt
Title: A Sentimental Attempt
Character: Carla
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.
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The Verona Trial
Title: The Verona Trial
Character: Frau Beetz
Released: March 2, 1963
Type: Movie
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
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Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
Title: Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
Character: Lilli
Released: January 4, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Condemned of Altona
Title: The Condemned of Altona
Character: Leni von Gerlach
Released: October 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
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Bon Voyage!
Title: Bon Voyage!
Character: The Girl
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his three children will prove to be more troublesome
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Sign of the Lion
Title: Sign of the Lion
Character: Hélène (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: La Donna
Released: March 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.
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Paris Belongs to Us
Title: Paris Belongs to Us
Character: Terry Yordan
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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The Game of Truth
Title: The Game of Truth
Character: Guylaine de Fleury
Released: November 26, 1961
Type: Movie
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Title: The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Character: Eléonore San Real
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A man becomes obsessed with a woman, who is unreceptive to his advances. Jealous of her attraction to another, he becomes increasingly desperate. His frustration reaches a peak when the woman hints at another liaison.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Lucienne, une mère
Released: August 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.
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The Season for Love
Title: The Season for Love
Character: Françoise
Released: June 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved to the country so they could be together and he could write.
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Playtime
Title: Playtime
Character: Anne de Limeuil
Released: February 23, 1961
Type: Movie
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
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Time Out for Love
Title: Time Out for Love
Character: Gladys
Released: February 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.
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Payroll
Title: Payroll
Character: Katie Pearson
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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The Enemy General
Title: The Enemy General
Character: Nicole
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Isabelle
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.
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Le bel âge
Title: Le bel âge
Character: Françoise
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
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That Night
Title: That Night
Character: La secrétaire
Released: September 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Ketty
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
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Leathernose
Title: Leathernose
Character: A young guest
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her forever
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Clara de Montargis
Title: Clara de Montargis
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
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Miracles Only Happen Once
Title: Miracles Only Happen Once
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1951
Type: Movie
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once.
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Jean de la Lune
Title: Jean de la Lune
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant dreamer, falls madly in love with her. Marceline first turns him down but finally accepts him after she breaks up with Richard. But the coquette has not given up her escapades to which the young florist, nicknamed "Jean de la Lune" for his naivety, turns a blind eye. Little time after their wedding , Marceline becomes infatuated with the good looks of a superficial young man, Alexandre. But Jeff, who has developed a fondness for Jean, intervenes to save the couple.