Louis Vonelly

Louis Vonelly

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Edward and Caroline
Title: Edward and Caroline
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 Strollers
Title: The Strollers
Character: Le vieux beau (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
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Lost Souvenirs
Title: Lost Souvenirs
Character: Un général (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
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Monsignor
Title: Monsignor
Character: A tailor (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned). According to him he is none other than the monarch's great grandson. Louis's life is soon turned upside down as he becomes the center of attention of a group of ardent royalists. Even a duchess "gives" him her love to make sure that he accepts his role as pretender to the throne...
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Manon
Title: Manon
Character: Mr. Dégrieux (uncredited)
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.
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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
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Square of Knaves
Title: Square of Knaves
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
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Carbon Copy
Title: Carbon Copy
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
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Mademoiselle X
Title: Mademoiselle X
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.
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Life of Pleasure
Title: Life of Pleasure
Character: General (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1944
Type: Movie
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
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The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Title: The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1943
Type: Movie
With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no room for fun in her dull businesswoman's life. Then, a car accident drops Claude Dubois, a painter, into her lap. But the artist will have to deploy all his subtle wiles and clever tricks to rouse Hélène's feelings and get her to enjoy the cozy life of a cherished wife.
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Nine Bachelors
Title: Nine Bachelors
Character: Le valet de Margaret (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
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Deux de la réserve
Title: Deux de la réserve
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taking him for the famous Remy, inventor of a device of interest to national defence.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Character: Dubertret (as Vonelli)
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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Ultimatum
Title: Ultimatum
Character: Diplomate
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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Un fichu métier
Title: Un fichu métier
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the Prince by a double. The man chosen is Castin, a Parisian haberdasher, who looks like Alexis feature for feature.
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Gosse de riche
Title: Gosse de riche
Character: Lurvin
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
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Quadrille
Title: Quadrille
Character: Le Chef de Réception
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
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A Picnic on the Grass
Title: A Picnic on the Grass
Released: December 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
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La robe rouge
Title: La robe rouge
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
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Champignol malgré lui
Title: Champignol malgré lui
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A young man in love with a married woman takes the husband's place in the barracks and finds his rival there. But the fact that there are two Champignols in the ranks gives rise to many misunderstandings. But the husband preferring his painting, willingly abandons his pretty wife to the lover.
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Clochard
Title: Clochard
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Midnight Gentleman
Title: The Midnight Gentleman
Released: August 17, 1931
Type: Movie
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Karina the Dancer
Title: Karina the Dancer
Released: January 18, 1928
Type: Movie
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Napoléon
Title: Napoléon
Character: Poet André Marie Chénier
Released: April 7, 1927
Type: Movie
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
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Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Title: Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Released: November 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...
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Mister Mustard's Millions
Title: Mister Mustard's Millions
Character: Le secrétaire
Released: July 2, 1926
Type: Movie
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
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Bibi-la-Purée
Title: Bibi-la-Purée
Character: Lavalette
Released: February 12, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Death of the Sun
Title: The Death of the Sun
Character: Daniel Voisin
Released: January 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A young doctor is asked by her husband to choose between her profession and her family.