Paulette Dubost

Acting

Paulette Dubost

Born October 8, 1910 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Died September 21, 2011 · aged 100

Paulette Dubost (8 October 1910 – 21 September 2011) was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera. She appeared in over 250 films and worked with directors such as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls (Le Plaisir 1952 and Lola Montès, 1955) and François Truffaut. Her best-known role is as Lisette in Renoir's The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu, 1939). Originall…

Known For

BécassineBécassine · 1940
Bécassine
6.01940
MovieComedy
A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
Le Prince des Six JoursLe Prince des Six Jours · 1934
Le Prince des Six Jours
10.01934
MovieComedy
How a simple fellow who took on the identity of a famous cyclist manages to win the famous Six Days race.
Hôtel du NordHôtel du Nord · 1938
Hôtel du Nord
7.21938
MovieRomanceDrama
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Lola MontèsLola Montès · 1955
Lola Montès
6.91955
MovieDramaHistory
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Viva Maria!Viva Maria! · 1965
Viva Maria!
6.11965
MovieAdventureComedy
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
Six Hours to LoseSix Hours to Lose · 1947
Six Hours to Lose
6.21947
MovieDramaComedy
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
White as SnowWhite as Snow · 1948
White as Snow
6.51948
MovieComedy
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
Ferdinand the RoistererFerdinand the Roisterer · 1935
Ferdinand the Roisterer
6.71935
MovieComedy
Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter.

Movies

BécassineBécassine · 1940
Bécassine
6.01940
MovieComedy
A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
Le Prince des Six JoursLe Prince des Six Jours · 1934
Le Prince des Six Jours
10.01934
MovieComedy
How a simple fellow who took on the identity of a famous cyclist manages to win the famous Six Days race.
Hôtel du NordHôtel du Nord · 1938
Hôtel du Nord
7.21938
MovieRomanceDrama
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Lola MontèsLola Montès · 1955
Lola Montès
6.91955
MovieDramaHistory
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Viva Maria!Viva Maria! · 1965
Viva Maria!
6.11965
MovieAdventureComedy
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
Six Hours to LoseSix Hours to Lose · 1947
Six Hours to Lose
6.21947
MovieDramaComedy
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
White as SnowWhite as Snow · 1948
White as Snow
6.51948
MovieComedy
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
Ferdinand the RoistererFerdinand the Roisterer · 1935
Ferdinand the Roisterer
6.71935
MovieComedy
Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter.
Dear InspectorDear Inspector · 1978
Dear Inspector
5.91978
MovieComedy
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Sans familleSans famille · 1958
Sans famille
6.11958
MovieAdventureFamily
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
PlaytimePlaytime · 1961
Playtime
5.81961
MovieDrama
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
The Rules of the GameThe Rules of the Game · 1939
The Rules of the Game
7.51939
MovieDramaComedy
The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
Way of YouthWay of Youth · 1959
Way of Youth
6.21959
MovieComedy
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
Charlots' ConnectionCharlots' Connection · 1984
Charlots' Connection
3.61984
MovieComedy
Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
The Last MetroThe Last Metro · 1980
The Last Metro
7.21980
MovieDramaRomance
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Maigret Sees RedMaigret Sees Red · 1963
Maigret Sees Red
6.31963
MovieCrimeDrama
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
Girls in UniformGirls in Uniform · 1958
Girls in Uniform
6.11958
MovieDrama
A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.
May FoolsMay Fools · 1990
May Fools
6.91990
MovieComedyDrama
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
The Seven Deadly SinsThe Seven Deadly Sins · 1962
The Seven Deadly Sins
5.81962
MovieComedy
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.
Banana PeelBanana Peel · 1963
Banana Peel
5.91963
MovieComedy
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
The Sheep Has Five LegsThe Sheep Has Five Legs · 1954
The Sheep Has Five Legs
5.81954
MovieComedy
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
My Brother from SenegalMy Brother from Senegal · 1953
My Brother from Senegal
6.81953
MovieComedy
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
Holiday for HenriettaHoliday for Henrietta · 1952
Holiday for Henrietta
7.21952
MovieComedy
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
The Clear EyesThe Clear Eyes · 2005
The Clear Eyes
6.52005
MovieDrama
Fanny is a schizophrenic woman in her early thirties living under the care of her brother Gabriel, a schoolteacher. Following a violent altercation with his wife, Fanny steals her brother's car and sets off on a road trip to Germany to visit the grave of their father, whose funeral she was not allowed to attend...

TV Shows

Midi PremièreMidi Première · 1975
Midi Première
9.01975
Series
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
30 millions d'amis30 millions d'amis · 1976
30 millions d'amis
6.21976
SeriesDocumentary
Janique AiméeJanique Aimée · 1963
Janique Aimée
7.51963
SeriesDrama
Un certain Richard DorianUn certain Richard Dorian · 1973
Un certain Richard Dorian
9.01973
Series
Le Tiroir secretLe Tiroir secret · 1986
Le Tiroir secret
4.31986
SeriesDrama
Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.