Suzy DelairFilmography

Born:: Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lively French leading lady Suzy Delair was a cabaret singer before inaugurating her film career in 1947. Her screen assignments ranged from the sublime (1960's Rocco and His Brothers) to the ridiculous (1966's Is Paris Burning) to the sublimely ridiculous (1956's Fernandel the Dressmaker)....Read More

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The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob

Actors: Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Claude Giraud, Henri Guybet

Synopsis: This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding, the outspoken DeFunes accidentally gets mixed up in an Arab nationalist uprising. Through a bizarre and nearly indescribable combination of events, the fiercely anti-Semitic DeFunes Read More

10/18/73
Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

1966
Du Mouron Pour les Petits Oiseaux

Actors: Dany Saval, Paul Meurisse, Suzy Delair, Jean Richard

Synopsis: Ruthless and for some viewers, also vulgar and unpleasant, this uneven comedy by Marcel Carne has a madhouse of characters of dubious morals going through equally questionable antics. Their objectives are primarily self-serving. A former gangster (Paul Meurisse) is interested only in keeping birds Read More

2/15/63
Rocco and His Brothers

Actors: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori Read More

10/6/60
Les Regates de San Francisco

Actors: Folco Lulli, Suzy Delair, Daniele Gaubert, Laurent Terzieff, Nelly Benedetti

Synopsis: That fair city on the West Coast of America has almost nothing to do with this one-dimensional, undistinguished tale of a sexually evocative fifteen-year-old girl (Daniele Gaubert) and the man she wants to seduce. The man is a young lothario in her neighborhood, and she is shown doing her best to Read More

4/20/60
Gervaise

Actors: Maria Schell, François Perier, Armand Mestral, Mathilde Casadesus, Suzy Delair

Synopsis: Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour movie an entire mini-series worth of problems have been compressed about a young woman to whom life has dealt hard blows. Set in the 19th-century, this woman deals with an Read More

9/5/56
Le Couturier de ces Dames

Actors: Fernandel, Suzy Delair, Françoise Fabian, Georges Chamarat, Robert Pizani

Synopsis: This Gallic farce is better known to "Late Late Show" fanatics as Fernandel the Dressmaker. Sure enough, horse-faced comedian Fernandel is cast as a couturier, permitting director Jean Boyer to trot out a variety of underdressed young ladies at the slightest opportunity. The plot concerns Read More

1956
Un Fil A La Patte

Actors: Noël-Noël, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol, Bourvil

Synopsis: The title of this French bedroom farce translates to A Fly in the Ointment. That "fly" is music-hall performer Lucette (Suzy Delair), the current girlfriend of rakish roue Bois D'Enghien (Noel-Noel). Preparing to marry into a wealthy and honorable family, Boris is bedeviled by Lucette, who refuses Read More

1954
Utopia

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy

Synopsis: In their very last feature film, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy travel to London so that Stan can claim his uncle's inheritance. All of the cash has been eaten up by taxes, but at least Stan is able to claim a tax-free island and yacht that his uncle has left him. Boarding the yacht (actually a Read More

10/25/51
Je Suis de la Revue

Actors: Fernandel, Suzy Delair, Louis Armstrong, Katherine Dunham

Synopsis: Two Italian films directed by Mario Soldati were released in Europe within two days of each other. The first was the lighthearted musical comedy Je Suis de la Revue. The vivacious Suzy Delair, more or less playing herself, stars as a popular actress making a personal appearance in Rome. The Read More

1951
Botta E Risposta

Actors: Suzy Delair

Synopsis: Botta e Rispota is Tales of Manhattan, Italian style. A modish dress gets lost while being shipped from Paris to Rome. This single incident unifies a series of specialty turns by a variety of the top acting and musical talent in the Free World. Fernandel, Nino Taranto, Isa Barzizza and Suzy Delair Read More

2/18/50
Lady Paname

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol, Raymond Souplex

Synopsis: The vivacious Suzy Delair, whose leading men ranged from France's Bernard Blier to Hollywood's Laurel and Hardy, stars in Lady Paname. Delair plays Caprice, a popular Parisian music-hall performer of the early 1900s. Caprice falls in love with a struggling young composer (Henri Guisol), leading to Read More

1950
Pattes Blanches

Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Delair, Paul Bernard, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: In the traditions of Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau, Pattes Blanches is a heady mixture of stark realism and fairytale artifice. The title translates to "white spats", said spats being worn constantly by the wealthy, eccentric Fernand Ledoux. Already an object of derision from the villagers, Ledoux Read More

1949
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

1948
Quai des Orfèvres

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Following a three-year suspension from filmmaking after his Le Corbeau (1943) was judged too critical of his native France, director Henri-Georges Clouzot returned with this thriller that's equal parts crime drama and character study. Suzy Delair stars as Jenny Lamour, an ambitious music hall Read More

10/3/47
Par La Fenetre

Actors: Suzy Delair, Bourvil, André Alerme, Mona Dol

1947
Copie Conforme

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

1946
L'Assassin Habite au 21

Actors: Suzy Delair, Pierre Fresnay, Noël Roquevert, Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's maiden feature-length effort was the intricate mystery thriller The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L'Assassin habite au 21). Businesslike homicide detective Wens (Pierre Fresnay) goes on the prowl for a methodical mass murderer, who seemingly manages to be everywhere Read More

8/7/42
La Vie de Bohème

Actors: Maria Denis, Louis Jourdan, Suzy Delair, Jean Parédès

Synopsis: La Vie de Bohème is adapted from Henri Murger's libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème with the Puccini music relegated to the background. Louis Jourdan plays Rudolphe, the "starving artist" who falls in love with the beautiful but sickly Mimi (Maria Denis). As the tragic Rudolphe-Mimi Read More

1942
Defense D'Aimer

Actors: Suzy Delair, Mona Goya, Paul Meurisse, André Gabriello

1942
Le Dernier des Six

Actors: Michele Alfa, Pierre Fresnay, Jean Tissier, Suzy Delair, André Luguet

Synopsis: Six friends who have won a large sum of money decide to split their fortune and reunite in five years to share all the money they will have earned in the meantime. When the time comes, one of them gets killed on his way back to France. Another gets shot and his body disappears. Police inspector Read More

1941