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Françoise Rosay
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Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.
Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet.
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Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet. Her first recorded film was Falstaff in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in several films under her husband's direction, including Le Grand Jeu (1933), Pension Mimosas (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935) and Les Gens du voyage (1937). Rosay spent the duration of World War II in England and Switzerland, where she taught acting classes at the Conservatoire de Genève. She still appeared in films during this time, notably the British Halfway House (1944) as the refugee French wife of a British sea captain. During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel and Jean-Louis Barrault. In Hollywood, she co-starred with Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton and worked with directors such as William Dieterle (September Affair, 1949), Martin Ritt (The Sound and the Fury, 1958), Ronald Neame (The Seventh Sin, 1956) and Peter Glenville (Me and the Colonel, 1957) with Danny Kaye. In England she appeared in The Alien Corn, a segment of the W. Somerset Maugham anthology film Quartet. A highly accomplished pianist herself in real life, she played the role of a famous piano virtuoso who gives aspiring pianist Dirk Bogarde a compassionate but honest and devastating critical appraisal of his likelihood of becoming a great musician – which results in his suicide. She performs in the film Schubert's Impromptu in E flat. In 1950 she appeared on stage at London's Winter Garden Theatre, playing the title role in 'Madame Tic Tac' but it had only a short run. It was not until 1938 that her biological father, Count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche, acknowledged her as his daughter. Her final appearance on film was in the Maximilian Schell-directed Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian). She died in Montgeron, Île-de-France, near Paris. Her grave is located in Sorel-Moussel, Île-de-France, where she is buried with her husband, movie director Jacques Feyder. They had three sons. There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues. Source: Article "Françoise Rosay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self (archive footage)
The Pedestrian
as Frau Dechamps
Not Dumb, the Bird
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Madame Dubreuil
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Louise de Kerfuntel
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
The 25th Hour
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
L'Âge heureux
as Mme Aubry
Cloportes
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Up from the Beach
as Lili's Grandmother
Ruy Blas
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
as Borgia
Frau Cheneys Ende
as Mrs. Webley
The Counterfeiters of Paris
as Madame Pauline
The Full Treatment
as Madame Prade
Stefanie in Rio
as Leonora Guala
Lovers Woods
as Madame Parisot
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
as Madame Alexandra
Without Trumpet or Drum
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
Eyes of Love
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
Riff Raff Girls
as Berthe
The Sound and the Fury
as Caroline Compson
The Gambler
as Aunt Antonia
Me and the Colonel
as Madame Bouffier
Non sono più guaglione
as Vincenzino's mother
Interlude
as Comtesse Reinhart
The Seventh Sin
as Mother Superior
Girls of Today
as padrona della pensione
That Lady
as Bernardine
Queen Margot
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
No Poster
Les éloquents
as Self
Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Lady of Sant'Agata
He Who Is Without Sin...
as La contessa Lamieri
Wanda the Sinner
as Anna Steiner
Smuggler's Ball
as Gabrielle Demeuse
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Nobody's Children
as La contessa Canali
The Red Inn
as Marie Martin
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
as Noemi, die Amme
The 13th Letter
as Mrs. Gauthier
The Naked Heart
as Laura Chapdelaine
September Affair
as Maria Salvatini
One Only Loves Once
as Mme Monnier
Women Without Names
as The Countess
The Barton Mystery
as Élisabeth
The Dream Vagabonds
as Mireille Dombreval
Quartet
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as The Electress Sophia
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
as Countess Brévannes
Back Streets of Paris
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Johnny Frenchman
as Lanec Florrie
The Halfway House
as Alice Meadows
Portrait of a Woman
as Fanny Helder
They Were Twelve Women
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Serge Panine
as Madame Devarenne
Fahrendes Volk
as Madame Flora
The Chess Player
as Catherine II
Peace on the Rhine
as Francoise Scheffer
The Stream
as Régina Berry
People Who Travel
as Flora
Ramuntcho
as Dolorès Detcharry
Bizarre, Bizarre
as Margaret Molyneux
Life Dances On
as Marguerite Audié
No Poster
My Son the Minister
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
The Robber Symphony
as The fortune teller
Armchair 47
as Gilberte Boulanger
Jenny
as Jenny Gauthier
No Poster
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
as Nadja Danouw
The Secret of Polichinelle
as Mrs. Jouvenel
Carnival in Flanders
as Cornelia
Carnival in Flanders
as Madame Burgomaster
Marie des angoisses
as Mme de Quersac
Gangster malgré lui
No Poster
Maternité
as Mrs. Duchemin
Whirlpool
as Madame Gardane
Pension Mimosas
as Louise Noblet
Le Billet de mille
as Russian Countess
Marchand d'amour
as Clara
The Island
as Silvia
Vers l'abîme
as Sylvia
Coralie and Company
The Great Game
as Blanche
No Poster
Tambour battant
as The Princess Mother
Abbot Constantine
as La comtesse de Laverdens
All for Nothing
as Mrs. Bossu
La Pouponnière
as Mrs. Delannoy
The Woman Dressed As a Man
as Princess Marie
No Poster
A Father Without Knowing It
as Madame Jacquet
He
as Madame Husson
No Poster
Luck
as Mme Mougeot
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as La veuve
Casanova Against His Will
as Blanche Brissac
Jenny Lind
as Rosatti
The Magnificent Lie
as Rosa Duchêne
Buster se marie
as Polly Hathaway
No Poster
Let Us Be Gay
as Madame Boucijon
The Little Cafe
as Mademoiselle Edwige
No Poster
Échec au roi
as The Queen
Si l'empereur savait ça
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Marius à Paris
The One Woman Idea
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Two Timid Souls
as The aunt
Madame Récamier
as Madame de Staël
Le bateau de verre
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Gribiche
as Edith Maranet
Crainquebille
as Shoe Store Customer