Claudine Auger

Claudine Auger

Born: April 26, 1941
Died: December 18, 2019
in Paris, France
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Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger; 26 April 1941 – 18 December 2019) was a French actress best known for her role as Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative of Miss World) and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.

Auger was born in Paris, France. She made her film debut when still in school.

When she was 18, she married the 43-year-old writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit (the couple later divorced). He cast her in several films, including Le Masque de fer (1962) and Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963).

When she was on holiday in Nassau, writer-producer Kevin McClory saw Auger and recommended that she audition for his film Thunderball (1965). The role of Domino was originally to be an Italian woman, Dominetta Petacchi. Auger impressed the producers so much that they rewrote the part to that of a French woman, to better suit her. Although she took lessons to perfect her English, her voice was eventually dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl. Thunderball launched Auger into a successful European movie career, but did little for her otherwise in the United States.

Auger died on 18 December 2019 in Paris.

Movies for Claudine Auger...

The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball'
Title: The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball'
Character: Domino (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A tour of the exotic locations of 'Thunderball'.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Domino (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Madame de Fervaques
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: TV
In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
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The Red and the Black
Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Madame de Fervaques
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.
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A Still Storm
Title: A Still Storm
Character: Artémise d'Aubec
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: Movie
A love and hatred story based on classic novel by Françoise Sagan.
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L'ombra della sera
Title: L'ombra della sera
Released: March 16, 1994
Type: Movie
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Salt on Our Skin
Title: Salt on Our Skin
Character: George's Mother
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
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La bocca
Title: La bocca
Character: Countess Veronica Rospigliosi
Released: March 22, 1991
Type: Movie
A young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess.
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Love of a Woman
Title: Love of a Woman
Character: Madre di Gabriella
Released: July 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Sparrow's Fluttering
Title: The Sparrow's Fluttering
Character: Dino's Widow
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Title: Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Character: La mère
Released: November 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold those men.
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The Repenter
Title: The Repenter
Character: Moglie di Ragusa
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
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Secret Places
Title: Secret Places
Character: Sophie Meister
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Isadora Klein
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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The Devil's Lieutenant
Title: The Devil's Lieutenant
Character: Lily Wencel
Released: January 11, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Die goldenen Schuhe
Character: Katja Milenkaja
Released: December 5, 1983
Type: TV
German miniseries based upon the novel by Vicky Baum.
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Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Title: Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Character: La princesse de Cadignan
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Jill Stradford
Released: September 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises.
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Title: The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Character: Ginette Beauchurch
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Diana
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble.
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Fantastica
Title: Fantastica
Character: Johanne McPherson
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In this Canadian made oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
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The Associate
Title: The Associate
Character: Agnès Pardot, épouse de Julien
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
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Lobster for Breakfast
Title: Lobster for Breakfast
Character: Carla Rebaudengo Spinosi
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Lovers and Liars
Title: Lovers and Liars
Character: Elisa Massacesi
Released: January 5, 1979
Type: Movie
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Title: Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character: La femme à l’imperméable
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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The Bermuda Triangle
Title: The Bermuda Triangle
Character: Sybil
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle and mysterious things start happening.
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Pane, burro e marmellata
Title: Pane, burro e marmellata
Character: Betty
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra
Title: Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra
Character: Sol
Released: August 8, 1976
Type: Movie
In the medieval Castile, Don Tello de Buinesa, the boastful feudal lord, lives with his three sons and their beautiful wives.
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Big Pot
Title: Big Pot
Character: Maggie Vanderberg
Released: June 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. But before being captured, the gangster had managed to hide the loot in a sewer. Five years later, Mackenzie, an insurer, pretending to be a mafia boss, assigns three petty criminals to arrange his escape. Once free, Lemmon finds the booty but now he has to deal with his new 'partners'.
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Que C'est Triste Paris
Title: Que C'est Triste Paris
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Jiro Takimura, a painter, falls in love with Marie, a beautiful married woman who is studying painting abroad in France.
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Flic Story
Title: Flic Story
Character: Catherine
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
Title: Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
Character: Sophie Gérard, journaliste Nice Matin
Released: June 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A surgeon saves an notorious mobster's life. This could be the answer to the doctor's problems, as he is engaged to an unbearable, hysterical woman. The mobster agrees to assassinate her. Except for one thing. The mobster has the wrong target, a young, innocent journalist who resembles his fiancee. When the surgeon discovers they are after the wrong woman, he takes off in a mad race to Cote d'Azur to save the wrong woman from being murdered.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Borsalino and Co.
Title: Borsalino and Co.
Character: Passenger on the liner (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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Bloody Sun
Title: Bloody Sun
Character: Consuelo
Released: May 31, 1974
Type: Movie
Arriving at a copper mine in South America, Jonathan (Chris Mitchum) arrives and comes into conflict with the brutal mine manager.
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Summertime Killer
Title: Summertime Killer
Character: Michèle - Alfredi's Secretary
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop has been tracking them down.
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Orders are Orders
Title: Orders are Orders
Character: The Friend
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
Title: A Little Sun in Cold Water
Character: Nathalie Silvener
Released: October 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
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A Bay of Blood
Title: A Bay of Blood
Character: Renata Donati
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Title: The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Character: Laura
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
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Equinox
Title: Equinox
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Ginette Beauchurch
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Love Birds
Title: Love Birds
Character: Marina
Released: November 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Barbara
Released: October 29, 1968
Type: Movie
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.
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Adriatic Sea of Fire
Title: Adriatic Sea of Fire
Character: Mirjana
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender.
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Listen, Let's Make Love
Title: Listen, Let's Make Love
Character: Ida Bernasconi
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: Movie
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
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Escalation
Title: Escalation
Character: Carla Maria Mannini
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
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The Head of the Family
Title: The Head of the Family
Character: Adriana
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
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Anyone Can Play
Title: Anyone Can Play
Character: Esmerelda
Released: September 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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The Killing Game
Title: The Killing Game
Character: Jacqueline Meyrand
Released: April 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
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The Devil in Love
Title: The Devil in Love
Character: Maddalena De Medici
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: Paulette
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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The Treasure of San Gennaro
Title: The Treasure of San Gennaro
Character: Concettina
Released: November 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
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The Man from Marrakech
Title: The Man from Marrakech
Released: April 24, 1966
Type: Movie
In southern Morocco, a hold-up is organized on the road linking the northern towns to a major factory built on a gold deposit. Several accomplices have perfected a carefully thought-out "scenario" that should bring them success. Travis, a specialist, and his mistress, Lila, a former barmaid, "work" in liaison with Vibert, the mine engineer. José, the local mechanic, and Georges, the truck driver, have already been sacrificed.
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Thunderball
Title: Thunderball
Character: Dominique 'Domino' Derval
Released: December 11, 1965
Type: Movie
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Title: The Incredible World of James Bond
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
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Yoyo
Title: Yoyo
Character: Isolina
Released: February 19, 1965
Type: Movie
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
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Games of Desire
Title: Games of Desire
Character: Elektra Tzanou
Released: October 2, 1964
Type: Movie
The wife of the Swedish Ambassador of Greece becomes involved in a romantic triangle, but the man who comes between husband and wife has a preference for the husband.
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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Title: The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Character: Amrita
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted assistant, escape with the complicity of Amrita
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Title: Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Character: Amrita
Released: November 6, 1963
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
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In the French Style
Title: In the French Style
Character: Clio Andropolous
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Isabelle de Saint-Mars
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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L'Envie
Title: L'Envie
Character: New maid (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client. (Segment of "Les sept pêches capitaux")
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: La Nouvelle Servante (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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Panurge's Sheep
Title: Panurge's Sheep
Character: Monique
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
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Wasteland
Title: Wasteland
Character: Prisunic
Released: November 9, 1960
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Parisian council housing estates lies a vast wasteland that still retains its mysteries in this day and age, and serves as a refuge for people who, in their spare time, escape or are often ejected from their overcrowded dwellings. They form small, rather harmless bands, share their first secrets, build up their "treasures" and submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their rebellions is underscored by initiation through blindfolded jumping and a blood test. An impossible love story is born between two members of the same clan, Dan, a beautiful, tomboyish girl, and Lucky, a sweet but feisty boy.
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Testament of Orpheus
Title: Testament of Orpheus
Character: Minerve
Released: February 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
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Oggi ho vinto anch'io
Title: Oggi ho vinto anch'io
Character: Milena Sormani
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie