Jane Marken [Jeanne]Filmography

Patate

Actors: Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Anne Vernon, Pierre Dux, Sylvie Vartan

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a toy inventor travels to the factory of his childhood friend, now an industrial magnate, and tries to persuade him to lend financial backing to his newest invention. Unfortunately their reunion is marred by the reopening of old emotional wounds, but fortunately, the Read More

La Bonne Soupe

Actors: Marie Bell, Annie Girardot, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and Read More

Des Femmes Disparaissent

Actors: Robert Hossein, Philippe Clay, Jacques Dacqmine, Magali Noël, Estella Blain

Synopsis: In this drama, the hero finds himself beaten by gang members whose operation involves capturing young women and selling them as prostitute/slaves. When the hero's own fiancee ends up involved, he does everything he can to save her. Fortunately the police intervene, with guns blazing, and the day Read More

Le Miroir à Deux Faces

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Elizabeth Manet, Gérard Oury

Synopsis: With Mirror Has Two Faces (Miroir a Deux Faces), French director Andre Cayatte takes a respite from his usual broadsides against the iniquities of the French judicial system. Michele Morgan stars as a plain, middle-aged woman, miserably unhappy with her go-nowhere existence. She submits to plastic Read More

Maxime

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Charles Boyer, Arletty, Felix Marten, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly because he needs a steady source of income, arranges the romantic assignations of his protégé, wealthy Hubert (Felix Marten). The old rake's current mission is to weaken the Read More

Les Trois Font la Paire

Actors: Michel Simon, Sophie Desmarets, Darry Cowl, Philippe Nicaud

Synopsis: A film company on location happens to photograph a murder in progress. Ambitious police inspector Bernard (Michel Simon) hopes to advance his career by nabbing the culprit. Unfortunately for Bernard, the murderer closely resembles a set of identical twins! Once Simon finally figures out who's who Read More

... And God Created Woman

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Isabelle Corey

Synopsis: This Roger Vadim production was released in the US as ...And God Created Woman. Vadim's then-wife Brigitte Bardot plays the central character, a curvaceous nymphet with a voracious sexual appetite. In fact, it isn't what Bardot does in bed but what she might do that drives the three Read More

Chiens Perdus Sans Collier

Actors: Jean Gabin, Anne Doat, Serge Lecointe

Synopsis: Chiens Perdus sans Collier (Lost Dogs without Collars) is a small-scale venture from director Jean Delannoy, who at the time was more closely associated with more elaborate efforts. Like many American films of the period, Delannoy's picture deals with the ever-growing problem of juvenile Read More

Le Trou normand

Actors: Bourvil, Nadine Basile, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Synopsis: The title of this French low-comedy opus refers to a fancy, family-owned hotel. Village buffoon Hippolyte (Bourvil) hopes to inherit the hotel, but he's opposed by his crafty relatives. In order to qualify for the inheritance, Hippolyte is forced to enroll in grade school, from which he'd never Read More

Monsieur Taxi

Actors: Michel Simon, Jean Brochard, Jean Carmet, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a bottle of wine. One day, Pierre looks into the back seat of his cab and finds a huge amount of money. Though he's never really done anything dishonest in his life, he is Read More

Le Secret D'Une Mere

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Gregoire Aslan

Monsieur Leguignon Lampiste

Actors: Yves Deniaud, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Bernard Lajarrige

Knock

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir, Pierre Bertin, Jean Brochard

Synopsis: Jules Romain's satirical theatre piece Dr. Knock was brought to the screen by director Guy Lefranc in 1950. Louis Jouvet plays the title character, a medical charlatan who banks upon the hypochondria of others. He convinces every resident in a small French village that they're suffering from some Read More

Et Ta Soeur

Actors: Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

L'Homme De Ma Vie

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Jeanne Moreau, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: L'Homme De Ma Vie (Man of My Life) stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine manages to give her daughter an expensive girl's-school education, all the while Read More

Maneges

Actors: Simone Signoret, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Jacques Baumer, Bernard Blier, Frank Villard

Synopsis: Yves Allegret's Maneges was released in English-speaking countries as The Riding School, The Cheat and Riding for a Fall. Allegret and his screenwriter Jacques Sigurd use their melodramatic plotline to skewer several varieties of hypocrisy. Simone Signoret plays a thoroughly mercenary young woman Read More

The Ways of Love

Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More

Ma Pomme

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Desmarets, Raymond Bussières, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Ma Pomme is not only the title of this charming Gallic comedy, but also the name of its principal character, a carefree tramp. As portrayed by Maurice Chevalier, Ma Pomme is a cheerful indigent who has voluntarily dropped out of the Mainstream, preferring to sing for his supper in the streets. His Read More

The Cheat

Synopsis: In this Italian drama, an independent, sensual woman married to the owner of a riding academy has a string of affairs. She is looking for a bigger better husband and is assisted in her endeavors by her mother. Though she succeeds in destroying her marriage and the fortune of her husband, she does Read More

La Marie Du Port

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Claude Romain

Synopsis: Recovering from his disastrous experience with the never-completed La Fleur de L'Age, French filmmaker Marcel Carne proved he hadn't lost his touch with La Marie du Port. Played by Nicole Courcel, the eponymous Marie is the younger sister of Odile (Blanchette Burnoy). Odile in turn is the mistress Read More

Just Me

Synopsis: In this drama, a free-spirited vagabond's life changes dramatically when he learns that he has inherited a fortune. Unfortunately, he also learns that he has also been named the estate's executor. He refuses and this causes problems for the other two heir who cannot claim their share until he Read More

Une Si Jolie Petite Plage

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Servais, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Some film historians regard Yves Allegret's Une si Jolie Petite Plage (aka Such a Pretty Little Beach and Riptide) as the French director's finest work. Yet, it was twice ignored by American filmgoers when it was released in the U.S. in February and July of 1949. Perhaps those filmgoers weren't Read More

Clochemerle

Actors: Maximilienne, Saturnin Fabre, Christiane Muller, Felix Oudart

Synopsis: Scandals of Clochemerie proved that Hollywood filmmakers had no monopoly so far as poking fun at the movie industry is concerned. This French effort is a glorious lampoon of the "typical" Gallic film, complete with broadly caricatured characters and deliberately exaggerated cliches. Adapted by Read More

La Femme Que J' Ai Assassinee

Actors: Charles Vanel, Micheline Francey, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Armand Bernard

Il Miracolo

Actors: Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Rapide De Nuit

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Roger Pigaut, Maurice Teynac

Confessions of a Rogue

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Madeleine Suffel

Synopsis: This French comedy offers a tour-de-force for Jouvet who plays most of the major characters. His main role is that of a super con-artist whose newest con involves selling museums to naive clients. He is assisted by many shady look-a-likes. Trouble ensues when one of his assistants is arrested and Read More

Dedee D'Anvers

Actors: Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Originally released in France as Dedee D'Anvers in 1948, this tight little melodrama was both directed and co-written by Yves Allegret. The title character, played by Simone Signoret, lives in near-squalor near the docks of Anvers. Her only companions are practitioners in that left-handed form of Read More

Les Portes De La Nuit

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Jean Vilar

Synopsis: Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted by Carne's longtime collaborator Jacques Prevert, the film is set in Paris just after its liberation from the Nazis. The script points out that this was not only a time for Read More

L'Arche De Noe

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Jacqueline Pierreux, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: The title of this French domestic comedy translates as Noah's Ark, but there's nothing remotely Biblical about the film. Much of the action takes place aboard a ramshackle houseboat, owned by a very large family. The fun begins when an "outsider" falls in love with one of the family members. Based Read More

Parade Du Rire

Actors: Jane Marken [Jeanne], Annette Poivre, Claude Dauphin

L'Amour Autour De La Maison

Actors: Maria Casarés, Pierre Brasseur, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: This French romantic melodrama moved a bit too slowly for American audiences, but its original Gallic fans were more than satisfied. Maria Casares stars as Therese, who after being deserted by her lover decides to get her revenge on the world by denying her younger sister Nicole (Claude Larue) any Read More

The Eternal Husband

Synopsis: This dark drama, based on Dostoyevsky's novella, chronicles the exploits of a jealous widower who is enraged to discover that his child is really the product of a union between his wife and her secret lover. For revenge, the widower forces the lover to take the child. Unfortunately, the child Read More

A Day in the Country

Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Georges Darnoux, Paul Temps

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country is a short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French countryside. While the men go off to fish, the mother (Jeanne Marken) has a harmless flirtation with a rural Read More

Copie Conforme

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Jean-Jacques Delbo

Le Beau Voyage

Actors: Renée Saint-Cyr, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Le Beau Voyage (The Beautiful Trip) is usually not listed among the credits of its star, French film favorite Renee Saint Cyr. This may be because the film was neither a critical nor a financial success when it first came out in 1947. For the record, the plot concerns a shipboard romance between a Read More

The Children of Paradise

Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand, Albert Remy, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions Read More

Lumière d'Été

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Paul Bernard, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: The French upper class is chastised in this socially conscious drama that centers on a naive young woman who travels to a mountain resort to be with her fiancé. She is expecting a romantic weekend, but she is terribly disappointed to discover that the wealthy patrons are naught but soulless Read More

Adrien

Actors: Fernandel, Paulette Dubost, Jean Tissier, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

L'Eternel Retour

Actors: Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Murat, Yvonne de Bray, Junie Astor

Synopsis: Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan counterpart, Patrice (Jean Marais), falls in love with the modern-day Isolde, named Nathalie. Actually he has fallen for two Nathalies: when Nathalie I (Madeleine Sologne) Read More

The Open Road

Actors: Victor Francen, Tania Fedor, Morton

Synopsis: Originally La Chemineau, The Open Road is a generally satisfying if overlong rural drama. Returning after a 20-year absence, a shabby vagabond (Victor Francen) discovers that his son has been raised to believe that another man is his natural father. At present, the boy is involved in a romance Read More

Hotel du Nord

Actors: Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by Quai des Brumes and Le Jour se Leve. Star-crossed lovers Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont draw up a suicide pact, making their fatal rendezvous at the Hotel du Nord. Aumont shoots Read More

Remontons les Champs-Elysees

Actors: Jacqueline Delubac, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Lucien Baroux, Sacha Guitry, Mila Parély, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry not only wrote and directed Remontons les Champs-Elysses (Remounting the Champs Elysses), but also plays five roles, including Louis XV and Napoleon III. The film proposes to detail the history of the famous Parisian thoroughfare of the title, beginning with its inception under the Read More

Gueule d'amour

Actors: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, René Lefèvre, Marguerite Deval

Synopsis: The English-language title of this French slice-of-life drama is Lady Killer, an apt description of anti-hero Lucien (Jean Gabin). A colonial cavalry officer, Lucien gives his love to whomever he fancies, then forgets about them as he moves from post to post. The one he can't forget is Madeline (Mireille Balin Read More

Abel Gance's Beethoven

Actors: Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jany Holt, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent Beethoven's affliction is notable. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Chemineau

Actors: Tania Fedor, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Victor Francen

La Dame aux Camelias

Actors: Yvonne Printemps, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Pierre Fresnay

Synopsis: Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. The Argentine film was heavily modernized, while the French version returns to Dumas' 19th-century milieu. Micheline Presle is excellent as Read More

The Threepenny Opera

Actors: Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Margo Lion, Albert Prejean, Lotte Lenya, Ernst Busch, Gaston Modot, Valeska Gert, Fritz Rasp

Synopsis: Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's adaptation of Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreisgoschenoper) is every bit as good as the stage original, and sometimes even better. Filmed in both German and French versions with different casts (a planned English-language version was abandoned), Threepenny Read More

Chouquette et Son As

Actors: Jane Marken [Jeanne], Prince