Françoise RosayFilmography

Born:: April 19, 1891 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Françoise Bandy de Nalèche
Biography:: Parisian actress/singer Francoise Rosay enjoyed a starring career that spanned 61 years. After receiving her training at the Conservatoire National de Declamation, Francoise made her stage bow in 1908, originally intending to become an opera singer. In 1917, she turned to "straight" dramatics...Read More

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Der Fussgänger

Actors: Ruth Hausmeister, Gustav Rudolf Sellner

Synopsis: The Pedestrian (Der Fussganger) was the second filmed directorial effort of German actor Maximillian Schell. Billed third under Gustav Rudolf Sellner and Ruth Hausmeister, Schell plays Andreas Giese, a Krupp-like industrialist whose past suddenly returns to haunt him. A newspaper article reveals Read More

1974
Pas folle la guêpe

Actors: Bruno Pradal, Philippe Clay, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: The wealthy old lady (Françoise Rosay) in this French comic crime caper is largely unaware of the machinations of her servants and relatives to arrange to be the beneficiaries of her will. She is completely in the dark about their many unsuccessful efforts to bring her life to a premature Read More

11/15/72
Trois Milliards Sans Ascenseur

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Michel Bouquet, Françoise Rosay, Amidou

Synopsis: Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a group of people living in a blue-collar neighborhood which is being demolished for a new office and housing development. In order to save their neighborhood, they get Read More

8/18/72
Un Merveilleux Parfum D'Oseille

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Francis Blanche, Yves Renier, Noël Roquevert

1969
Faut Pas Prendre Les Enfantes Du Bon Dieu Pour Des Canards Sauvages

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier, Marlène Jobert, André Pousse

Synopsis: The English translation of this French film is "It Won't Do To Take God's Children For Wild Geese." A young girl tries to double-cross a gun-toting gangster moll in order to make off with some stolen money. The mood of this feature is an uneven blend of comedy and satire complete with Read More

1968
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

4/26/67
La Metamorphose des Cloportes

Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud, Irina Demick, Georges Géret

Synopsis: It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major painting-theft planned by some formerly small-time gangsters is a good idea. He gives the idea his backing and support and winds up holding the bag for the crime as the others Read More

9/9/65
Up from the Beach

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells the story of a courageous squadron of Yankee soldiers endeavoring to protect and bring to safety a village full of French civilians whom they saved from German captors Read More

1965
End of Mrs. Cheney

Synopsis: In this French drama, set upon the Riviera, a widow works a jewel thief on the side. She keeps this up until she meets a handsome gent. She soon cleans up her act. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

Actors: Thomas Fritsch, Alexandra Stewart, Gino Cervi, Senta Berger, Linda Christian

Synopsis: As young and penniless Rik roams about Rome, he finds lady luck on his side for a spell. Not only does he receive a bounty of coins from a weighing machine, but he also wins cash from a restaurant which awards him as its 10,000th customer. Not to mention the car. And the job. And the women. Before Read More

1963
The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

1962
Die Gans Von Sedan

Synopsis: The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The soldiers meet while swimming in the same place. They become friends. When they get out of the water, they accidentally trade uniforms. Together they go to a Read More

1962
La Mysterieuse Madame Cheney

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Martin Held, Françoise Rosay

1962
Le Cave Se Rebiffe

Actors: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Frank Villard, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against three others as they work on a counterfeiting operation. Le Dabe has just been cooling his heels in the hot tropics and has now resurfaced in France where he hooks up with the Read More

8/26/61
Frau Cheneys Ende

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Martin Held, Françoise Rosay, Maria Sebaldt

Synopsis: Mrs. Cheney (Lilli Palmer) is a genteel widow whose outward appearances hide her involvement as a thief. With the help of her faithful butler, she steals diamonds from a wealthy matron. When she falls in love with a handsome international playboy, her thoughts quickly change from larceny to love Read More

1961
Stop Me Before I Kill!

Actors: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Braden

Synopsis: In this heavy drama, a race car driver suffers a head injury on his wedding day and becomes a mental case. The couple puts off their honeymoon while he is treated by a psychiatrist. Later when they make love, he tries to strangle her. This behavior becomes a habit, for every time they are romantic Read More

1961
Le Bois des Amants

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: Murky and rather uninspired, this wartime drama by director Claude Autant-Lara is set in France during World War II. At the crux of the story is a German woman, Herta (Erika Remberg) who longs to be with her husband for awhile. He is in the German occupying forces in France and in order to even Read More

8/3/60
Les Yeux De L'Amour

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a miserable mother who harps on the supposed "fact" that Jeanne is ugly. Jeanne comes into close association with Pierre (27-year-old Jean-Claude Brialy) a young blind man who is Read More

11/25/59
Du Rififi Chez Les Femmes

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monfort, Roger Hanin, Pierre Blanchar

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a criminal mastermind and his gang plan to rob the Bank of Belgium during the Brussels Exposition as the roof of the bank is being repaired. Included in his gang are a woman, haunted by wartime memories, who loves money, her assistant, and a man pretending to be a construction Read More

5/20/59
The Sound and the Fury

Actors: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters

Synopsis: In this filmed adaptation of William Faulkner's seminal work, Yul Brynner stars as Jason Compson, the oldest son of a once-proud Southern family rife with inner turmoil. His promiscuous sister, Caddy (Margaret Leighton), has suddenly rolled back into town with an illegitimate daughter called Read More

1959
Sans Tambour Ni Trompette

Actors: Jean Richard, Hardy Kruger, Françoise Rosay, Dany Carrel

Synopsis: Effective in its message that war itself is idiotic, this slowly, slowly evolving, conventional comedy drama by director Helmut Kautner takes place during the Franco-Prussian hostilities of 1870. Jumping into its main point early on, the story has two soldiers, one French and one German Read More

1959
Le Joueur

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Nadine Alari, Bernard Blier, Françoise Rosay, Jean Danet

Synopsis: Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century Baden-Baden, the film details the trials and tribulations of several chronic gamblers, foremost among them young Alevei (Gerard Philipe). In love with Pauline (Liselotte Pulver Read More

11/12/58
Me and the Colonel

Actors: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he commanders the car of a Polish colonel who hates Jews. In order to save himself, the colonel helps the fellow escape. En route, they pick up the officer's girl friend. Trouble Read More

1958
The Seventh Sin

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sanders, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor Parker as Carol Carwin, a cold, self-centered woman married to a caring, dedicated doctor (played by Bill Travers). Ignorant of what a fine man she is married to and eager for Read More

1957
Interlude

Actors: June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Cook, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Like many of his best works, filmmaker Douglas Sirk's Interlude is a remake of an earlier Universal soap opera. In this case, Sirk's source material is the 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer vehicle When Tomorrow Comes. Based on a story by (of all people) James M. Cain, the story concerns the romance Read More

1957
Le Long Des Trottoirs

Actors: Anne Vernon, Françoise Rosay, Danik Patisson

Synopsis: Le Long des Trottoirs was released in English-speaking countries as Along the Sidewalks and Diary of a Bad Girl. The film was one of several French-language efforts by Russian-born director Leonide Moguy. As its various titles indicate, this is the story of a young prostitute, played by newcomer Read More

5/18/56
That Lady

Actors: Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, (Olivia de Havilland) who is secretly loved by her good friend the King. Unfortunately for the monarch, she marries one of his ministers and bears his son. Her husband Read More

1955
La Reine Margot

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Armando Francioli, Françoise Rosay, Louis de Funès, Henri Genes, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: Though the screenplay for La Reine Margot (The Queen Margot) was written by legendary filmmaker Abel Gance, the directorial reins were handled by Jean Dreville. Adapted from a novel by Alexandre Dumas, the film centers around Margot (Jeanne Moreau), the headstrong sister of France's King Charles Read More

11/2/54
Wanda La Pecheresse

Actors: Frank Villard, Yvonne Sanson, Françoise Rosay, Camillo Pilotto

8/17/52
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Jacqueline Plessis, Henri Vidal, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
Le Banquet Des Fraudeurs

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Yves Deniaud, Christiane Lenier, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska Read More

1952
L'Auberge Rouge

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Gregoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Jacques Charon

Synopsis: Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a remote rural area of France. The inn's proprietors Pierre (Carette) and Marie (Francoise Rosay) industriously support themselves by murdering the various stagecoach passengers Read More

1951
The 13th Letter

Actors: Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: A remake of the French Le Corbeau ("The Raven"), The Thirteenth Letter is a film noir in a curious setting -- a rural village deep in Quebec, seemingly sleepy and typical. Dr. Laurent (Charles Boyer) returns from a medical convention in Montreal, anxious to see his much younger wife, Cora Read More

1951
The Naked Heart

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore, Françoise Rosay, Jack Watling

Synopsis: The Naked Heart was also released as Maria Chapdelaine, which also happened to be the title of its source, a novel by Louis Hemon. Adapter-director Marc Allegret has fashioned the material into a vehicle for one of his most successful discoveries, Michele Morgan. This is the story of a young woman Read More

1950
September Affair

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay, Jessica Tandy, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the dialogue becomes too verbose. Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten star as married couple Manina and David. Trouble is, they're not married to each other. Through a series of Read More

1950
Maria Chapdelaine

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore, Philippe Lemaire, Françoise Rosay

1950
Les Vagabonds Du Reve

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Colette Darfeuil, Raymond Cordy

1949
Donne Senza Nome

Actors: Simone Simon, Françoise Rosay, Valentina Cortese, Vivi Giot

Synopsis: Femmes sans Nom is the second film in a proposed trilogy conceived by Hungarian director Geza Radvanyi (the first was Somewhere in Europe). In each of these three films, Radvanyi hoped to dramatically convey the plight of those left homeless and destitute by WW II. Femmes sans Nom is set in a Read More

1949
On N'Aime Qu'Une Fois

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Renée Faure, Pierre Larquey, Marcel Herrand

Synopsis: Venerable French character actress Francoise Rosay heads the cast of On Aime Qu'une Fois. Rosay is cast as the self-sacrificing mother to end them all. Determined that her son (Jacques Berthier) will be able to attend medical school, she denies herself everything -- including her one and only Read More

1949
Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

1948
Le Mystère Barton

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Françoise Rosay, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Marchat

1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers

Actors: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk

Synopsis: This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman Read More

1948
Macadam

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Paul Meurisse, Andrée Clement, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: Generally forgotten today, Macadam opened to good reviews and excellent business when it first came out in 1946. The film takes place in the "demimonde" of Paris' Montmartre district. The incomparable Francoise Rosay heads the cast in this atmospheric, melodramatic yarn about French gangsters Read More

1946
La Dame De Haut Le Bois

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Raymond Loyer

1946
Johnny Frenchman

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Ralph Michael, Paul Dupuis

Synopsis: Johnny Frenchman uses humor to drive home the point that, despite all previous rivalries and hostilties, the French and English should pull together during WW2. Aldwych farceur Tom Walls plays Nat Pomeroy, harbourmaster of a Cornwall fishing village, who is continually outsmarted by clever French Read More

1945
The Halfway House

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Mervyn Johns, Esmond Knight, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: The British Half-Way House is from the Thunder Rock and Outward Bound school of Divine Intervention films. A group of travellers, all of whom have reason to regret the actions of the past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. There's something eerie about the place and its owner (Mervyn Read More

1944
Une Femme disparait

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Henri Guisol, Ettore Cella, Claire Gérard

Synopsis: Completed in 1941, Portrait of a Woman (Une Femme disparait) was the final effort of veteran director Jacques Feyder. Though filmed in Switzerland, this is French production through and through, both in terms of production personnel and subject matter. Francoise Rosay, Feyder's wife, stars as a Read More

1942
Elles Etaient Douze Femmes

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Françoise Rosay, Micheline Presle, Betty Stockfeld

Synopsis: The English-language title of this stagebound French drama is They Were Twelve Women. The eponymous leading ladies run the full gamut age-wise, from twentysomething Micheline Presle to fiftyish Francoise Rosay. The story concerns the efforts of a dozen females from various walks of life to Read More

1940
Le Joueur d'Echecs

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Micheline Francey, Bernard Lancret, Conrad Veidt

Synopsis: In one of his last European film appearances, Conrad Veidt heads the cast of Le Joueur D'Echecs (The Checker Player). Set during the reign of Russia's Catherine the Great, the film recreates Poland's ongoing efforts to wrest free of Russian tyranny. Paul Cambo plays Polish patriot Bosleslas Read More

1939
Le Ruisseau

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Ginette Leclerc

Synopsis: Le Ruisseau (The Stream) begins as orphan girl Gaby Sylvia escapes from her guardians and stows away on board a ship. She is discovered by officer Paul Cambo, thereby launching a brief shipboard affair. Feeling a bit guilty about taking advantage of the girl's naivete, Cambo sends the girl to live Read More

1938
Serge Panine

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Youcca Troubetzkoy, Pierre Renoir

1938
Paix Sur Le Rhin

Actors: Dita Parlo, Françoise Rosay, John Loder, Abel Jacquin

1938
Fahrendes Volk

1938
Un Carnet De Bal

Actors: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Harry Baur, Fernandel, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Richard-Willm

Synopsis: In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all of her former partners. Her search becomes the framework for the episodes. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1937
Les Gens Du Voyage

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Marie Glory, Fabien Loris

Synopsis: Flora (Francoise Rosay), a hard-bitten female lion-tamer, tends to treat the people around her with the same harsh brutality that she doles out to her lions. Even so, she reacts in fear and loathing when her former lover Fernand (Andre Brule) escapes from prison. Threatening to tell the world that Read More

1937
Le Fauteuil 47

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Raimu, André Lefaur

1937
Jenny

Actors: Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay, Lisette Lanvin, Albert Prejean

Synopsis: Marcel Carne's first film as director -- one of seven collaborations with screenwriter Jacques Prevert -- was this average crime story. Francoise Rosay stars as Jenny, who manages a sleazy nightclub owned by the nasty Benoit (Charles Vanel). Jenny runs afoul of Benoit, as well as her own daughter (Lisette Lanvin Read More

1936
Drôle de Drame

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel

Synopsis: In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just walked out, the writer's wife hides out from the vicar, taking care of the cooking Read More

1936
Le Secret De Polichinelle

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Janine Crispin, Raimu, André Alerme, Bernard Lancret

Synopsis: Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri (Bernard Lacret). The baby is adopted by its grandparents, Monsieur and Madame Jouvenol (Raimu and Francoise Rosay). At first taking charge of the Read More

1936
La Symphonie Des Brigands

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Jim Gérald

1936
Marie Des Angoisses

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Mireille Balin, Pierre Dux, Henri Rollan

1935
Gangster Malgre Lui

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Hélène Perdrière, Georges Milton, Samson Fainsilber

1935
La Kermesse Héroïque

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet, Lyne Clévers, André Alerme, Micheline Cheirel

Synopsis: Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing Read More

1935
Marchand D'Amour

Actors: Rosine Derean, Françoise Rosay, Jean Galland, Robert Arnoux

1935
Maternite

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Felix Oudart

Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the French Alps, Motherhood is the melancholy story of servant girl Marthe (Hella Muller). Unmarried and pregnant, Marthe dolefully gives up her baby for adoption, reasoning that it's all for the best. The child is taken in by the wealthy Duchemin family, growing up in Read More

1934
Pension Mimosas

Actors: Arletty, Paul Bernard, Françoise Rosay, André Alerme

1934
Vers L'Abime

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Françoise Rosay, Raymond Rouleau, Henry Roussell

1934
Le Grand Jeu

Actors: Charles Vanel, Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Pierre Richard-Willm, Camille Bert

Synopsis: Jacques Feyder's sole directorial contribution in 1934 (and his first film since 1931) was the superior Foreign Legion melodrama Le Grand Jeu (The Full Deck). Scripted by frequent Feyder collaborator Charles Spaak, the film focuses on Pierre Martel (Pierre Richard-Willm), whose efforts to support Read More

1934
Remous

Actors: Jeanne Boitel, Jean Galland, Lyne Clévers

Synopsis: Released in English-speaking countries as Eddies, this feverish romantic melodrama involves a "damaged" husband and a restless wife. Paralyzed from the waist down in an auto accident, Henri St. Clair (Jean Gallard) is all too aware that he can no longer satisfy his young wife Jeanne (Jeanne Read More

1933
Tambour Battant

Actors: Josseline Gael, Françoise Rosay, Georges Rigaud, Felix Oudart

1933
L'Abbe Constantin

Actors: Leon Belieres, Françoise Rosay, Claude Dauphin, Pauline Carton

1933
Quand On Est Belle

Actors: Lili Damita, Mona Goya, André Luguet, Françoise Rosay, Rolla Norman

Synopsis: Quand on Est Belle (When She's Pretty) is the French-language version of the MGM drama The Easiest Way. Lily Damita takes over from Constance Bennett in the role of Laura, a poor-but-proud department store clerk. Discovered by a commercial artist, Laura lands a job as a model, and before long Read More

1932
La Pouponniere

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Robert Arnoux

1932
La Chance

Actors: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Marcel André, Fernand Fabre, Pierre de Guingand

Synopsis: La Chance (Luck) was based on a story by Yves Mirande, who also supervised the production. Marie Bell plays Tania, a Russian widow who can't stay away from the gaming tables of the Riviera. A chronic gambler, Tania overextends her monthly allowance and is stone broke when she meets handsome Read More

1932
Papa Sans Le Savoir

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Noël-Noël, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: The "unaware papa" of the title is played by French comedian Noel-Noel. Ordered by his father to marry a wealthy heiress, our hero changes his mind when he discovers that his former sweetheart has given birth to his child. Noel-Noel sneaks into the maternity hospital and swipes the baby, leading Read More

1932
La Femme en homme

Actors: Carmen Boni, Françoise Rosay, Andre Dubosc, Armand Bernard

Synopsis: Carmen Boni plays La Femme en Homme (The Woman Dressed as a Man) in this Gallic romp. The real star of the show, however, is Andre Dubosc, cast as a misogynistic old nobleman. Told that he is to take charge of his grandson, Dubosc is taken aback when he discovers that "he" is actually a "she." At Read More

1932
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Actors: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Dorothy Christy, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious mixture of all that was good and everything that was bad in Buster Keaton's talkie features. Keaton plays Reginald Irving, a dimwitted bill-poster who finds himself the Read More

2/28/31
Le Rosier De Madame Husson

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Mady Berry, Marguerite Perry, Fernandel, Marcel Simon, Marcel Carpentier

Synopsis: Also known as Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, He is based on a story by Guy De Maupassant. The story takes place in a tiny French village, where every year a cash prize is awarded the most virtuous girl in town. Alas, virtue is so rare a commodity that the villagers are compelled to select a boy as Read More

1931
The Magnificent Lie

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: The only thing magnificent about Magnificent Lie is its title. As usual, Ruth Chatterton plays a woman of variable morals, this time a seedy cafe entertainer. Ralph Bellamy costars as a recently blinded man, whose sole reason for living is his adulation of a famous French singing star. To boost Read More

1931
Buster Se Marie

Actors: Jeanne Helbling, Françoise Rosay, Buster Keaton, André Luguet

1931
Echec Au Roi

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Pauline Garon, Emile Chautard, Jules Raucourt, Jacques Jou-Jerville

Synopsis: Echec au Roi (The King Checkmated) was adapted from The Queen's Husband, a play by Robert E. Sherwood. The story concentrates on the amiable but ineffectual king (Emile Chautard) of a mythical island who gets more than he bargained for when his wife, the Queen (Francoise Rosay) decides to visit Read More

1931
Le Proces De Mary Dugan

Actors: Huguette Duflos, Françoise Rosay, Charles Boyer

1931
Soyons Gais

Actors: Lili Damita, Françoise Rosay, Adolphe Menjou, Marcel André

1931
A Lady's Morals

Actors: Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Françoise Rosay, Wallace Beery, André Luguet, André Berley, Gus Shy, Jobyna Howland

Synopsis: Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, who was ballyhooed to stardom by 19th-century showman P.T. Barnum (Wallace Beery, who'd re-create the role in 1934's The Mighty Barnum). Most Read More

1930
Si L'Empereur Savait Ca

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Tania Fedor, André Luguet, André Berley, Georges Mauloy

Synopsis: His Glorious Night, the first talkie version of Ferenc Molnar's Olympia, is remembered today as the film that ruined John Gilbert. Legend has it that silent-screen-idol Gilbert's voice recorded so badly that audiences laughed out loud when he declared his love for Catherine Dale Owen, though this Read More

1930
Let Us Be Gay

Actors: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where she is changed from a frowsy hausfrau to a sexy, sophisticated lady. A wealthy dame asks her to help destroy the affair between her granddaughter and the woman's ex-husband. Read More

1930
Le Petit Cafe

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Tania Fedor, Emile Chautard, Françoise Rosay, André Berley

Synopsis: La Petite Café is the French-language version of Playboy of Paris, with Maurice Chevalier essaying the same role in both. The star is cast as Albert Loriflan, an insouciant young waiter who is fired by his dyspeptic boss Philibert (Emile Chautard) But when Albert inherits a huge fortune, his Read More

1930
One Woman Idea

Actors: Rod La Rocque, Marceline Day, Sharon Lynn, Sally Phipps

Synopsis: Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady Alicia Douglas, and as alluring half-caste dancing girl Alizar. Honorable Prince Ahmed (Rod La Rocque) harbors a platonic love for the prim-and-proper Lady Alicia, while her Read More

1929
Madame Recamier

Actors: Marie Bell, Jean Debucourt

1928
Les Deux Timides

Actors: Vera Flory, Françoise Rosay, Maurice de Féraudy, Pierre Batcheff

1928
Visages d'enfants

Crew: First Assistant Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rachel Devirys, Henri Duval

Synopsis: In 1988, the Belgian Film Archive released a restored print of the 1925 film Visages d'enfants by the renowned Belgian director Jacques Feyder (1885-1948), who had a considerable influence on European filmmaking. His films were noteworthy for their introduction of the style of "poetic realism," Read More

1925
Gribiche

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Henry Duval, Rolla Norman

Synopsis: Gribiche, a 1925 French production written and directed by Jacques Feyder, was distributed in America three years later under the title Mother of Mine. Directed and designed in what has been described as an "art deco" style, the film showcased the matchless Francoise Rosay in her first important Read More

1925
Crainquebille

Actors: Jeanne Cheirel, Maurice de Féraudy

Synopsis: Based on a story by Anatole France, the silent Crainquebille was updated and directed by Jacques Feyder. Heavily influenced by the then-popular school of German symbolism, the film nonetheless bears traces of the French realism that would dominate the Gallic cinema of the 1930s. This 6-reeler Read More

1923
Falstaff

1913

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