Odette Laure

Odette Laure

Born: February 28, 1917
Died: June 10, 2004
in Paris, France
Odette Laure (28 February 1917 – 10 June 2004) was a French actress and cabaret singer. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Daddy Nostalgia (1990). She was born Odette Yvonne Marie Dhommée in Paris, where she died.

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Le Prof
Title: Le Prof
Character: Mamie
Released: April 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A teacher uses new methods to captivate his audience. Some kids take it too far, some colleagues are worried traditional ways are going to be lost... but eventually, everything turns out OK.
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La Dilettante
Title: La Dilettante
Character: Zoé de la Tresmondière
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.
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Title: Entre terre et mer
Character: Mme Louvet
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: TV
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Little Nothings
Title: Little Nothings
Character: Madame Yvonne
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.
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Les Mamies
Title: Les Mamies
Character: Arlette
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
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Stranger in the House
Title: Stranger in the House
Character: Patronne du bordel
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.
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Le bal des Casse-pieds
Title: Le bal des Casse-pieds
Character: Madame Vandubas
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
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Jalousie
Title: Jalousie
Character: Gisèle
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.
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Daddy Nostalgia
Title: Daddy Nostalgia
Character: Miche
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Périgord noir
Title: Périgord noir
Character: Constance
Released: June 21, 1989
Type: Movie
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.
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Title: Intrigues
Released: October 24, 1988
Type: TV
A French crime anthology show, and one of two entires (with "Mésaventures") in the "Drôles d'histoires" umbrella title that ran for 10 years.
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Title: Le Gerfaut
Character: Mademoiselle Marjon
Released: July 8, 1987
Type: TV
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Un garçon de France
Title: Un garçon de France
Character: Mrs. Donnadieu
Released: June 6, 1985
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.
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The Chicks
Title: The Chicks
Character: La mère de Christine
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Title: Le Braconnier de Dieu
Character: La seconde 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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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Make Room for Tomorrow
Title: Make Room for Tomorrow
Character: L'employée des Postes
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
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Les Insulaires
Title: Les Insulaires
Character: Mme Palladion
Released: January 27, 1979
Type: Movie
TV movie adaptation of a novel by Jacques Perret.
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Title: Banlieue Sud-Est
Character: Marie Lubin
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: TV
French miniseries.
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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Title: Stop Calling Me Baby!
Character: Olga the janitor
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Title: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Character: Voix additionnelles / Employée du guichet II (voice)
Released: June 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
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Chat en poche
Title: Chat en poche
Character: Self / Membre du public (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Le bonheur des autres
Title: Le bonheur des autres
Character: Athénaïs, femme de lettres, sœur de Rose
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Annuity
Title: The Annuity
Character: Marguerite 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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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La visite de la vieille dame
Title: La visite de la vieille dame
Character: Annette, la femme du maire
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to the rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Self / Membre du public (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Athénaïs, femme de lettres, sœur de Rose
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Guinguette
Title: Guinguette
Character: Tartine
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her new lover, Marco, offers her the use of an unused adjoining barn to store the second-hand cars he trades in. But the "used" cars are actually stolen, and the charming Marco is a bad boy. After a few deaths and various vicissitudes, love finally triumphs.
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School for Coquettes
Title: School for Coquettes
Character: Amélie
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
Title: It Happened on the 36 Candles
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Madame Berthelin
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
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Holiday for Henrietta
Title: Holiday for Henrietta
Character: Valentine
Released: December 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
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Lady Paname
Title: Lady Paname
Character: La grue
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activities of Caprice, who has become Lady Paname and, in the absence of morality, makes love triumph.
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Lady Paname
Title: Lady Paname
Character: la grue qui aborde Marval
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activities of Caprice, who has become Lady Paname and, in the absence of morality, makes love triumph.
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Marie of the Port
Title: Marie of the Port
Character: Françoise
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.