Maurice Chevit

Maurice Chevit

Born: October 31, 1923
Died: July 2, 2012
in Paris, France
Maurice Chevit (31 October 1923 – 2 July 2012) was a French actor.

Maurice Chevit made his theatrical début just after the Second World War, and made his first screen appearance in 1946 in René Clément's film Le Père tranquille. In August 1950, the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris presented Pepita ou Cinq cents francs de bonheur, a three-act comedy that Chevit co-wrote with Henri Fontenille; Chevit himself appeared in it, playing alongside Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Mondy and Jacques Jouanneau. He was seen in many small film roles during the 1950s and 1960s, working with producers such as Henri Decoin and André Cayatte, but he was best known as a stage actor.

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En marge des jours
Title: En marge des jours
Character: Simon
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
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Premonition
Title: Premonition
Character: le vieil homme
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
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Le Cid
Title: Le Cid
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.
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L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs
Title: L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs
Character: Le docteur Maussène
Released: December 6, 2004
Type: Movie
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.
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Mon fils d'ailleurs
Title: Mon fils d'ailleurs
Character: Marcel
Released: November 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.
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The Giraffe's Neck
Title: The Giraffe's Neck
Character: Maurice
Released: September 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
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Anna in Corsica
Title: Anna in Corsica
Character: Jules
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Shattered by the death of her husband, a young woman takes refuge in Corsica at her grandmother's who will do everything to pull her out of her despair.
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Title: Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
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Man on the Train
Title: Man on the Train
Character: Hairdresser
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Title: The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Character: le père du gouverneur
Released: April 19, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
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XXL
Title: XXL
Character: David Stern
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
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A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
Title: A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
Character: Forstock
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experienced by males in his family. If Zak does not impregnate a woman before his 33rd birthday, the joys of sex evaporate forever. However, Zak's interest in married women creates a roadblock. Even his current girlfriend, art auctioneer Florence (Cristiana Reali) is a married mother of triplets. So Zak's rabbi cousin Joseph (Thomas Langmann) fixes him up with an attractive supermodel (Joanna Rhodes). It's a race against time before permanent impotence strikes.
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Love, Math and Sex
Title: Love, Math and Sex
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: August 5, 1997
Type: Movie
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
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Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Title: Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Character: Simon
Released: June 4, 1997
Type: Movie
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
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Je m'appelle Régine
Title: Je m'appelle Régine
Character: Monsieur Ley
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.
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Ridicule
Title: Ridicule
Character: Le notaire
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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L'Huissier
Title: L'Huissier
Character: The tailor
Released: January 3, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Hairdresser's Husband
Title: The Hairdresser's Husband
Character: Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian
Released: October 3, 1990
Type: Movie
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
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I Have You Under My Skin
Title: I Have You Under My Skin
Character: L'abbé Roussel
Released: July 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
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The Comedy of Work
Title: The Comedy of Work
Character: Le vieux chômeur
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
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Le Passager du Tassili
Title: Le Passager du Tassili
Character: M. Ernest
Released: August 5, 1987
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Les A.M.I. du Tassili by the Algerian Akli Tadjer about Algerian immigration in France.
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Levy & Goliath
Title: Levy & Goliath
Character: Mardoshe
Released: January 27, 1987
Type: Movie
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
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Les Idées fausses
Title: Les Idées fausses
Character: Judge
Released: November 7, 1985
Type: Movie
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Leave All Fair
Title: Leave All Fair
Character: Alain
Released: June 24, 1985
Type: Movie
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
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Le Bonheur à Romorantin
Title: Le Bonheur à Romorantin
Released: November 14, 1983
Type: Movie
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Title: French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Character: Marius Franceschini, l'amant de Christiane
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Title: The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Character: Nemrod (Voice)
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
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The Kick of Sirocco
Title: The Kick of Sirocco
Character: Bauvergne
Released: April 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
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Sugar
Title: Sugar
Character: Lomont
Released: October 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
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Molière
Title: Molière
Character: Le curé de l'école
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
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Title: La Filière
Character: Bellème, le sénateur
Released: January 5, 1978
Type: TV
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Title: Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: Totor, the drunkard
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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Big Deal
Title: Big Deal
Released: March 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
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Title: Graf Luckner
Character: Huitema
Released: February 20, 1973
Type: TV
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.
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The Donkey of Zigliara
Title: The Donkey of Zigliara
Character: Mayor of Sainte-Marie
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Maddalena finds that her donkey has reappeared after being missing for months. However, on the same day, a donkey disappears in a neighboring village. The unfortunate coincidence leads to "war" between the two villages.
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Title: L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Released: April 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Title: Asterix and Cleopatra
Character: Voix additionnelles (voice)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
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Asterix the Gaul
Title: Asterix the Gaul
Character: Voix additionnelles / Jules César (voice)
Released: December 20, 1967
Type: Movie
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic potion, which gives superhuman strength. Learning of this potion, a Roman centurion kidnaps the druid to get the secret formula out of him.
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The Curse of Belphegor
Title: The Curse of Belphegor
Character: Garnier
Released: November 8, 1967
Type: Movie
At the Opera of Toulon, the cast and crew hoping to put on a Satanism / human sacrifice-themed ballet entitled “La malédiction de Belphégor” soon find their numbers dwindling.
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The Mad Dog
Title: The Mad Dog
Released: September 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Title: The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: Un inspecteur, sous les ordres de Tarquin
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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Relax Yourself Darling
Title: Relax Yourself Darling
Character: Hubert
Released: August 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and he convinces her that the apparent well-balanced nature of her husband is in fact a cover for horrible tragedies.
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Les baisers
Title: Les baisers
Character: Henri, the father (Episode 4: 'Baiser de 16 ans')
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
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The Sword and the Balance
Title: The Sword and the Balance
Character: Un inspecteur
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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How to Succeed in Love
Title: How to Succeed in Love
Character: L'agent
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: un chevalier envoyé du Gurthenberg
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Croquemitoufle
Title: Croquemitoufle
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
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Operation Abduction
Title: Operation Abduction
Character: Dédé
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: Movie
The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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Why Women Sin
Title: Why Women Sin
Character: Consumer (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1958
Type: Movie
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Title: On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Character: Léon
Released: September 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
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Whereabouts Unknown
Title: Whereabouts Unknown
Released: July 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
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The Hussars
Title: The Hussars
Character: le hussard Camille
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
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Yours Truly, Blake
Title: Yours Truly, Blake
Character: An accomplice
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decides to discover Paris by Night. As of his first night out, he gets to know Michèle Marley, a beautiful entertainer, and looks forward to a wonderful night of pleasure. But things do not go according to plan. Indeed, Laurent, Michèle's partner is found dead and not only is Michèle accused of killing him but Larry is suspected of being her accomplice as well ...
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Lettre ouverte
Title: Lettre ouverte
Character: The cafe owner (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
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Clara de Montargis
Title: Clara de Montargis
Character: Edward, the butler
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
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Under the Paris Sky
Title: Under the Paris Sky
Character: Le peintre (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
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Without Leaving an Address
Title: Without Leaving an Address
Character: Soldat dans la salle d'attente, gare de Lyon (non crédité)
Released: January 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
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Here Is the Beauty
Title: Here Is the Beauty
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
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Strange Tales
Title: Strange Tales
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Title: Between Eleven and Midnight
Character: L'employé aux empreintes (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
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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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Mr. Orchid
Title: Mr. Orchid
Released: April 30, 1946
Type: Movie
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.