Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray

Born: November 27, 1923
Died: June 13, 1994
in Bucarest, Romania
Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.

Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). She left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the Communist takeover after World War II. Her film debut was in L'Inconnu d'un soir in 1949. Perhaps her best-known role was in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960).

She played a guest role in an episode of the television series The Prisoner ("The Chimes of Big Ben", 1967).

She was first married to N. Goldenberg (later Herescu), a wealthy businessman from Chișinău, then to Constantin Cantacuzino, a Romanian aristocrat who was one of Romania's top fighter aces of the war. They were married from 1946 to his death in 1958. Her third husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman (1912-2003). They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York City from a stroke.

Source: Article "Nadia Gray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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The Naked Runner
Title: The Naked Runner
Character: Karen Gisevius
Released: July 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
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Two for the Road
Title: Two for the Road
Character: Françoise Dalbret
Released: April 27, 1967
Type: Movie
On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
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The Oldest Profession
Title: The Oldest Profession
Character: Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
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Thunder at the Border
Title: Thunder at the Border
Character: Michele Mercier
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.
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Title: Illusions perdues
Character: La marquise d'Espard
Released: March 5, 1966
Type: TV
1819, Angouleme, France, a young ambitious poet, Lucien Chardon is introduced in the salon of Mme de Bargeton where meets the high society of the city. Lucien dreams of going to Paris to conquer the glory. But if Paris is the city where he can find fame, it is also that of great disappointments.
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Adventurer of Tortuga
Title: Adventurer of Tortuga
Character: Doña Rosita
Released: August 12, 1965
Type: Movie
In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress.
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The Crooked Road
Title: The Crooked Road
Character: Cosima
Released: February 3, 1965
Type: Movie
An investigative reporter travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its dictator's family secrets.
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Encounters in Salzburg
Title: Encounters in Salzburg
Character: Felicitas Willke
Released: March 20, 1964
Type: Movie
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Maniac
Title: Maniac
Character: Eve Beynat
Released: May 20, 1963
Type: Movie
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Character: Comtesse
Released: May 3, 1963
Type: Movie
In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
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Title: Lieben Sie Show ?
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 1962
Type: TV
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Wenn beide schuldig werden
Title: Wenn beide schuldig werden
Character: Hilde Goetz
Released: March 14, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Game of Truth
Title: The Game of Truth
Character: Solange Vérate
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 Crumblers Are Doing Well
Title: The Crumblers Are Doing Well
Character: Thérèse
Released: November 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His children disagree and they tell him so .
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To Die of Love
Title: To Die of Love
Released: August 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Michel, a writer of detective novels, is married to Pat, a pretty woman he's been neglecting. One day, the results of a private investigation reveal that his wife is cheating on him. But he'd never contacted a private detective before. The facts are all the more disturbing in that they coincide with the detective story he is writing with his beautiful young secretary. Pat is murdered and found next to her dying lover, who is said to have attempted suicide. But the police soon realize that this is a double murder. The investigation develops; Michel is strongly suspected, as many presumptions seem to weigh heavily on him. The outcome of the investigation brings a surprise that clears Michel's name.
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Gioventù di notte
Title: Gioventù di notte
Released: May 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Elio is a member of a group of youngsters, all from good families, who have fun spending their days taking on silly challenges and perpetrating illicit activities. Their actions escalate and lead them to commit a robbery. Unfortunately, the robbery ends badly and a death ensues, leaving the group implicated in a murder. The police are groping in the dark due to the complexity of the investigation. Meanwhile, Elio meets and falls in love with a nightclub stripper, Suzette. The rest of the group, after a while, think they've got away with it, but make a reckless mistake that allows the police to track them down and arrest them.
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Mr. Topaze
Title: Mr. Topaze
Character: Suzy
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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The Pavements of Paris
Title: The Pavements of Paris
Character: Monique
Released: February 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Title: Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Character: La dame de compagnie / Dame
Released: December 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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María, matrícula de Bilbao
Title: María, matrícula de Bilbao
Character: Berta
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Bilbao in the fifties. To continue the family marine tradition, El Viejo, an old sailor, forces his grandson Luiso to follow the profession of their ancestors as skipper of the ship Maria.
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Letto a tre piazze
Title: Letto a tre piazze
Character: Amalia
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.
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Death at Dawn
Title: Death at Dawn
Character: Victoria Costa
Released: June 7, 1960
Type: Movie
The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.
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Death at Dawn
Title: Death at Dawn
Character: Victoria
Released: June 7, 1960
Type: Movie
The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.
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Le signore
Title: Le signore
Character: Tatiana Becker
Released: May 3, 1960
Type: Movie
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La Dolce Vita
Title: La Dolce Vita
Character: Nadia
Released: February 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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Violent Summer
Title: Violent Summer
Released: November 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Holiday Island
Title: Holiday Island
Character: Carla Occhipinti
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
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La Parisienne
Title: La Parisienne
Character: La reine Greta
Released: December 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Title: Sénéchal the Magnificent
Character: La princesse Marida Ludibescu
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
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The Black Devil
Title: The Black Devil
Character: Duchessa Lucrezia
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his supposed niece Isabella to Charles V’s nephew, Prince Rodriguez, to confirm Spain’s dominance. The Black Devil, a heroic masked avenger, falls in love with the fake Isabella and takes vengeance on Lorenzo with the help of his friend Ruggerio and his men.
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Parola di ladro
Title: Parola di ladro
Character: Ursula
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.
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An Evening at the Music Hall
Title: An Evening at the Music Hall
Character: Suzy Morgan
Released: November 19, 1956
Type: Movie
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.
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Hengst Maestoso Austria
Title: Hengst Maestoso Austria
Character: Gräfin Marika Szilady
Released: August 29, 1956
Type: Movie
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Ambush on the Sea
Title: Ambush on the Sea
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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Der goldene Falke
Title: Der goldene Falke
Character: Ines Della Torre
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
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Musik im Blut
Title: Musik im Blut
Character: Gina Martelli
Released: December 20, 1955
Type: Movie
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Title: La moglie è uguale per tutti
Character: Lea
Released: October 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
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It Happens in Roma
Title: It Happens in Roma
Character: Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo
Released: May 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.
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Casta diva
Title: Casta diva
Character: Giuditta Pasta
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
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Il cardinale Lambertini
Title: Il cardinale Lambertini
Character: Gabriella di Roccasibalda
Released: December 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
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Sins of Casanova
Title: Sins of Casanova
Character: Marie-Thérèse
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
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The Two Orphans
Title: The Two Orphans
Character: Diana Contessa de Linières
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
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House of Ricordi
Title: House of Ricordi
Character: Giulia Grisi
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Title: I cinque dell'Adamello
Character: Magda
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
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Neapolitan Carousel
Title: Neapolitan Carousel
Character: la bella stracciona
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
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Crossed Swords
Title: Crossed Swords
Character: Fulvia
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.
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Dames Don't Care
Title: Dames Don't Care
Character: Henietta Aymes
Released: May 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme.
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Pietà per chi cade
Title: Pietà per chi cade
Character: Anna Savelli
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.
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Gran varietà
Title: Gran varietà
Released: March 13, 1954
Type: Movie
A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
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100 Years of Love
Title: 100 Years of Love
Character: Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin")
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Title: Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Character: Principessa Alina
Released: December 5, 1953
Type: Movie
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Finalmente libero
Title: Finalmente libero
Character: Carla
Released: November 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
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Rhine Virgin
Title: Rhine Virgin
Character: Maria Meister, la fille du patron de la péniche
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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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Cristina Vernini
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Tania
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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Melody of Love
Title: Melody of Love
Character: Nadia Sandor
Released: October 29, 1952
Type: Movie
A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
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Inganno
Title: Inganno
Character: Anna Comin
Released: September 18, 1952
Type: Movie
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Wife for a Night
Title: Wife for a Night
Character: Geraldine
Released: July 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
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Valley of the Eagles
Title: Valley of the Eagles
Character: Kara Niemann
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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Night Without Stars
Title: Night Without Stars
Character: Alix Delaisse nee Malinay
Released: April 3, 1951
Type: Movie
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
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Monsignor
Title: Monsignor
Character: The Duchess of Lémoncourt
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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The Spider and the Fly
Title: The Spider and the Fly
Character: Madeleine Saincaize
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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L'inconnu d'un soir
Title: L'inconnu d'un soir
Character: Édith
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the café she works in, is forced to pull up due to a technical incident. And out of a carriage gets ... a company of dancers, who start rehearsing before Edith's amazed eyes. She meets the director of the company, handsome dancing star Harry Belmont, who takes an interest in her beauty and in her natural talent. When she leaves her obnoxious father for Vienna, Harry is absent. She nearly gets seduced by a libidinous man but, after a narrow escape, she gets a job from Treberg, the owner of the restaurant she had dined in. Treberg finds her there, hires her as a dancer and the pair soon meets tremendous success. A star is born but, realizing that he comes second to her, he prefers to vanish.
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Liebling der Welt
Title: Liebling der Welt
Character: Gaby Desroses
Released: March 11, 1949
Type: Movie