Gisèle Préville

Gisèle Préville

Born: December 11, 1918
Died: November 26, 2006
in Paris, France

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Character: Dr. Jekyll's mother
Released: June 17, 1981
Type: Movie
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery
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The Witness
Title: The Witness
Character: Louise Maurisson
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker with political views on the town hall, who hides, under an affable air and an irreproachable dignity, a libertine and cynical temperament. Charged by the notable with the restoration of paintings exhibited in the cathedral, the artist calls on Cathy, a young girl from the choir, to serve as his model. The young girl will be found dead a few hours after their interview, near one of Robert's properties.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: L'héritière
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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The President
Title: The President
Character: Odette Lauzet-Duché
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Aged 73, the former President of the French Council Émile Beaufort still plays a central role in the political life of the country. Writing his memoirs allows him to look back on his career and discuss his relationships with Philippe Chamalont, about to become President of the Council.
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It Happened All Night
Title: It Happened All Night
Character: Madame Lenormand
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
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The Turkey
Title: The Turkey
Character: Maggy Pacarel
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
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The Dancing Years
Title: The Dancing Years
Character: Maria Zeiter
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
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Return to Life
Title: Return to Life
Character: Lilian (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Released: September 14, 1949
Type: Movie
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
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Against the Wind
Title: Against the Wind
Character: Julie
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
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Criminal Brigade
Title: Criminal Brigade
Character: Christine
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
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Mirror
Title: Mirror
Character: Anna
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
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Counter Investigation
Title: Counter Investigation
Released: March 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
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Loves of Casanova
Title: Loves of Casanova
Character: Esther Van Hope
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
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Thirty and Forty
Title: Thirty and Forty
Character: Aurélia
Released: July 3, 1946
Type: Movie
The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...
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Vautrin the Thief
Title: Vautrin the Thief
Character: Madame de Maufrigneuse
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
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Two Shy Ones
Title: Two Shy Ones
Character: Cécile Vancouver
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Jules Frémissin is shy and in love. The father of the object of his flame is also shy. The marriage proposal is very laborious, because before marrying Cécile Thibaudier, Jules must fight a duel with the arrogant Vancouver, convinced that all this eager and awkward courtship was intended for his own wife, also named Cécile.
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Mélodie pour toi
Title: Mélodie pour toi
Released: November 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Famous singer, René Sartène, falls in love with a young bourgeois, Marie. Irène, her stage partner and the director of the show combine their efforts to annihilate this budding happiness.
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Paris-New York
Title: Paris-New York
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
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Nightclub Hostess
Title: Nightclub Hostess
Character: Lucienne Noblet
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
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Cocoanut
Title: Cocoanut
Character: Nathalie
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Mother Love
Title: Mother Love
Character: Girl
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willingness, but soon will become intrusive.
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
Title: Three Artillerymen on the Move
Character: Monique Chabert
Released: April 24, 1938
Type: Movie
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Alice
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.
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French White Cargo
Title: French White Cargo
Character: Béatrice ou Inès
Released: February 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Adventure in Paris
Title: Adventure in Paris
Released: November 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
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Adventure in Paris
Title: Adventure in Paris
Character: Solange Surnisse
Released: November 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.