Acting

Michèle Morgan

Born February 29, 1920 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Died December 20, 2016 · aged 96

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michèle Morgan (born Simone Renée Roussel; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered one of the greatest French actresses of the 20th century. Morgan was the inaugural winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In …

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Bluebeard

Bluebeard · 1963

MovieDramaCrime

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol · 1948

The Fallen Idol

MovieDramaThriller

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows · 1938

Port of Shadows

MovieRomanceDrama

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins · 1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

MovieComedyDrama

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Lost Command

Lost Command · 1966

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

The Grand Manoeuvre

The Grand Manoeuvre · 1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

MovieComedyRomance

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

Fabiola

Fabiola · 1949

MovieHistoryDrama

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.

The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful · 1953

The Proud and the Beautiful

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

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Bluebeard

Bluebeard · 1963

MovieDramaCrime

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

Mme Buisson

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol · 1948

The Fallen Idol

MovieDramaThriller

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Julie

Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows · 1938

Port of Shadows

MovieRomanceDrama

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

Nelly

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins · 1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

MovieComedyDrama

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Anne-Marie de Pallières (segment "L'Orgueil")

Lost Command

Lost Command · 1966

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

Countess de Clairefons

The Grand Manoeuvre

The Grand Manoeuvre · 1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

MovieComedyRomance

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

Marie-Louise Rivière

Fabiola

Fabiola · 1949

MovieHistoryDrama

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.

Fabiola

The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful · 1953

The Proud and the Beautiful

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

Nellie

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later · 1986

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

MovieDramaRomance

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.

Une spectatrice de '40 ans déjà'

Fortunate

Fortunate · 1960

MovieDramaComedy

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

Juliette Valcourt

Winter Holidays

Winter Holidays · 1959

Winter Holidays

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.

Steffa Tardier

Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille · 1944

Passage to Marseille

MovieAdventureDrama

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

Paula Matrac

Napoleon

Napoleon · 1955

MovieDramaHistory

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine · 1990

Everybody's Fine

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Femme dans le train

Two Tickets to London

Two Tickets to London · 1943

Two Tickets to London

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

Jeanne

Stormy Waters

Stormy Waters · 1941

MovieDramaRomance

A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

Catherine

Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse · 1975

MovieComedyCrime

A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.

Madame Richard

Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris · 1942

MovieRomanceWar

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.

Joan

Love on the Riviera

Love on the Riviera · 1958

Love on the Riviera

MovieComedyRomance

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Micheline

There's Always a Price Tag

There's Always a Price Tag · 1957

There's Always a Price Tag

A wealthy businessman's wife tries to cover up his suicide to cash in his life insurance policy.

Hélène Fréminger

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle · 1950

The Glass Castle

MovieRomanceDrama

Evelyne, the young wife of Judge Bertal, falls in love with Remy, who lives in Paris, on holiday in Italy. After following him in the lovers city, she realises Remy is whom she really loves, and decides to return home to inform her husband – but her plane crashes.

Evelyne Lorin-Bertal

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat · 1963

MovieHistoryAdventure

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.

Princess Sofia

The Chase

The Chase · 1946

MovieThrillerCrime

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Lorna Roman

Heart of Paris

Heart of Paris · 1937

MovieComedyDrama

Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.

Natalie Roguin

Studio One

Studio One · 1948

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Carol

Le Tiroir secret

Le Tiroir secret · 1986

Le Tiroir secret

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.

Colette Dutilleul-Lemarchand