Elina Labourdette

Elina Labourdette

Born: May 21, 1919
Died: September 30, 2014
in Paris, France
Elina Labourdette (1919–2014) was a French film actress.

Movies for Elina Labourdette...

Les Jeunes Filles
Title: Les Jeunes Filles
Character: Mme Dandillot
Released: November 9, 1979
Type: Movie
French TV movie.
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Président Faust
Title: Président Faust
Character: Cathy Faust
Released: January 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A modern variation on the myth of Faust, the film features Henri Faust, an influential man at the head of a gigantic financial empire. One day, the Devil himself visits her. The Evil One offers him a range of happiness, youth, love, fortune, power; but Faust has everything he wants and he refuses the pact offered to him. However, a fault exists and the Devil will know how to discover it.
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Earth Light
Title: Earth Light
Character: La Femme Guide
Released: November 18, 1970
Type: Movie
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
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Young Wolves
Title: Young Wolves
Character: Madame Sinclair
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he goes out with a girl of his age, Sylvie, who despite her bold attitude has never had a lover.
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Wall Engravings
Title: Wall Engravings
Character: La Patronne du bar Au Pan Coupé
Released: February 7, 1968
Type: Movie
Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.
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The Double Contempt
Title: The Double Contempt
Character: Madame Lambert
Released: April 2, 1967
Type: Movie
In Paris, under the Restoration, Julie de Chaverny, a young woman admired and envied by all, has been suffering for six years from an unhappy marriage to her husband, M. de Chaverny. She finally gives in to the advances of a young man she's known since childhood, deciding at last to live her own life. She wants to run away with him, but discovers it's only a passing fancy. Feeling disgraced and laughed at, she sets off for Nice to join her mother.
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La Cousine Bette
Title: La Cousine Bette
Released: November 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Élisabeth Fischer, a farmer's daughter and cousin of Adeline Fischer, now Baroness Hulot d'Ervy, has been furiously jealous of the latter since their early childhood. After arriving in Paris as a passementerie worker, she set out to harm the Hulot d'Ervy family by any means necessary. She pushed the Baron into debauchery and tried to destroy the relationship between his niece Hortense Hulot and Wenceslas Steinbock. But her schemes bring her no satisfaction, and she dies of rage.
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The Sword and the Balance
Title: The Sword and the Balance
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
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Five Miles to Midnight
Title: Five Miles to Midnight
Character: Mme. Lafont
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor, Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Mme de Saint-Aigne
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Character: Jacqueline (segment "Sophie")
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
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Vacation in Hell
Title: Vacation in Hell
Released: May 26, 1961
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Madame Desnoyers
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
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The Truth About Women
Title: The Truth About Women
Character: Comtesse
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Baffled and at a loss to understand the mentality of Diana, his wife, Anthony makes a frantic visit to the home of her parents to discover that she is staying with them.
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The Night of the Suspects
Title: The Night of the Suspects
Character: Gaby Farnoux
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Marcel Farnoux, an industrialist, lives with eight women: his wife, his two daughters, his mother, his sister-in-law and two maids. One night, he is found dead, shot through the heart. Inspector Duret has a hard time unmasking the killer from among his eight suspicious wives.
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Elena and Her Men
Title: Elena and Her Men
Character: Paulette Escoffier
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
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It Happened in Aden
Title: It Happened in Aden
Character: Simone
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: Marguerite, la fleuriste
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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To Paris with Love
Title: To Paris with Love
Character: Sylvia Gilbert
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
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Rhine Virgin
Title: Rhine Virgin
Character: Geneviève Labbé, la femme de Maurice
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Title: My Husband Is Marvelous
Character: Micheline
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 Case Against X
Title: The Case Against X
Character: Catherine Villard
Released: June 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
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Nocturnal Uproar
Title: Nocturnal Uproar
Character: Caroline, the secretary
Released: November 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scandal, his granddaughter Marie Varescot convinces Frank, his cousin, to take responsibility for this "accidental" death, he who is in love with Caroline. But Commissioner Legrand, who has designs on Marie, only agrees to close the affair if Marie marries her, and if Frank leaves with Caroline, abandoning his share of the inheritance. The arrangement is accepted and life goes on.
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Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Title: Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Character: La comtesse de la Porte
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
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Edward and Caroline
Title: Edward and Caroline
Character: Florence Borch de Martelie
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
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The Glass Castle
Title: The Glass Castle
Character: Marion
Released: December 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
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Les Aventuriers de l'air
Title: Les Aventuriers de l'air
Character: Gisèle Lesieur
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence.
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Trafiquants de la mer
Title: Trafiquants de la mer
Character: Hélène
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and arrests an accomplice who is about to collect the drugs dropped off from a yacht. This person happens to be a public figure of a nearby village...
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Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Title: Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Character: Agnès
Released: September 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
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Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Title: Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Character: Germaine
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
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The Pavilion Burns
Title: The Pavilion Burns
Character: Denise
Released: December 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.
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The Shanghai Drama
Title: The Shanghai Drama
Character: Vera
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.