Acting
Simone Bourday
Born August 23, 1912 · Le Raincy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Died December 27, 1943 · aged 31
Simone Bourday, real name Simone Edmonde Lourdelet, born August 23, 1912 in Raincy, died December 27, 1943 in Paris of tuberculosis, is a French actress. (Wikipedia translated)
Known For
Mountain Man · 1934Mountain Man
★ 10.01934
MovieDrama
The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.
Sous la Terreur · 1936Sous la Terreur
★ 10.01936
MovieDramaHistory
During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.
In Old Alsace · 1933In Old Alsace
★ 7.71933
MovieComedyDrama
The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.
The Golden Can · 1932The Golden Can
★ 6.31932
MovieComedy
A hawker, pursued by the law, finds refuge in a garage and finds there a former comrade who has become a mechanic. As he looks like a car driver, he finds himself forced to sit behind the wheel of a car to participate in a race, but not knowing how to drive, he finds himself dead last.
He · 1932He
★ 6.01932
MovieComedyDrama
In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who becomes rosier
My Crimes After Mein Kampf · 1940My Crimes After Mein Kampf
★ 5.31940
MovieDramaHistory
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
The Merry Monarch · 1933The Merry Monarch
★ 8.01933
MovieRomanceComedy
Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise · 1936Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
★ 9.01936
MovieComedy
After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.








