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. 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.
Known for
Credits
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
as Madame Pauline
That Lady (1955)
as Bernardine
The Gambler (1958)
as Aunt Antonia
Queen Margot (1954)
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
The 25th Hour (1967)
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Quartet (1948)
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
The Seventh Sin (1957)
as Mother Superior
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
as Caroline Compson
Me and the Colonel (1958)
as Madame Bouffier
Ruy Blas (1965)
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
as The Electress Sophia
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
September Affair (1950)
as Maria Salvatini
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Frau Dechamps
Cloportes (1965)
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Back Streets of Paris (1946)
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
The Stream (1938)
as Régina Berry
Jenny (1936)
as Jenny Gauthier
Le Billet de mille (1935)
as Russian Countess
Carnival in Flanders (1935)
as Madame Burgomaster
He Who Is Without Sin... (1952)
as La contessa Lamieri
The Red Inn (1951)
as Marie Martin
Nobody's Children (1951)
as La contessa Canali
Maternité (1935)
as Mrs. Duchemin
The Chess Player (1938)
as Catherine II
Let Us Be Gay (1931)
as Madame Boucijon
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969)
as Louise de Kerfuntel
Luck (1931)
as Mme Mougeot
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
as Margaret Molyneux
Whirlpool (1935)
as Madame Gardane
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe (1960)
as Madame Alexandra
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois (1947)
as Countess Brévannes
Up from the Beach (1965)
as Lili's Grandmother
Non sono più guaglione (1957)
as Vincenzino's mother
Eyes of Love (1959)
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
Madame Récamier (1928)
as Madame de Staël
The Halfway House (1944)
as Alice Meadows
Si l'empereur savait ça (1930)
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Lovers Woods (1960)
as Madame Parisot
Crainquebille (1922)
as Shoe Store Customer
They Were Twelve Women (1940)
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
The Naked Heart (1950)
as Laura Chapdelaine
The Full Treatment (1960)
as Madame Prade
Marchand d'amour (1935)
as Clara
Life Dances On (1937)
as Marguerite Audié
The Robber Symphony (1937)
as The fortune teller
Gribiche (1926)
as Edith Maranet
Interlude (1957)
as Comtesse Reinhart
Two Timid Souls (1928)
as The aunt
My Son the Minister (1937)
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
3000 Million Without an Elevator (1972)
as Madame Dubreuil
Ramuntcho (1938)
as Dolorès Detcharry
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets (1964)
as Borgia
A Father Without Knowing It (1932)
as Madame Jacquet
Casanova Against His Will (1931)
as Blanche Brissac
He (1932)
as Madame Husson
Pension Mimosas (1935)
as Louise Noblet
Échec au roi (1930)
as The Queen
The 13th Letter (1951)
as Mrs. Gauthier
Buster se marie (1931)
as Polly Hathaway
Serge Panine (1939)
as Madame Devarenne
Portrait of a Woman (1944)
as Fanny Helder
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
as Lanec Florrie
The Magnificent Lie (1931)
as Rosa Duchêne
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1931)
as La veuve
The Dream Vagabonds (1949)
as Mireille Dombreval
Women Without Names (1950)
as The Countess
Riff Raff Girls (1959)
as Berthe
The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936)
as Nadja Danouw
Sul ponte dei sospiri (1953)
as Lady of Sant'Agata
The Little Cafe (1931)
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Girls of Today (1955)
as padrona della pensione
Carnival in Flanders (1936)
as Cornelia
The Island (1934)
as Silvia
L'Âge heureux (1966)
as Mme Aubry
All for Nothing (1933)
as Mrs. Bossu
The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932)
as Princess Marie
The Great Game (1934)
as Blanche
Armchair 47 (1937)
as Gilberte Boulanger
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
La Pouponnière (1933)
as Mrs. Delannoy
Abbot Constantine (1933)
as La comtesse de Laverdens
Wanda the Sinner (1952)
as Anna Steiner
Smuggler's Ball (1952)
as Gabrielle Demeuse
The Secret of Polichinelle (1936)
as Mrs. Jouvenel
One Only Loves Once (1950)
as Mme Monnier
Without Trumpet or Drum (1959)
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
The One Woman Idea (1929)
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Jenny Lind (1931)
as Rosatti
Fahrendes Volk (1938)
as Madame Flora
Frau Cheneys Ende (1962)
as Mrs. Webley
Vers l'abîme (1934)
as Sylvia
Peace on the Rhine (1938)
as Francoise Scheffer
Stefanie in Rio (1960)
as Leonora Guala
The Barton Mystery (1949)
as Élisabeth
Le bateau de verre (1927)
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Les éloquents (1954)
as Self
Tambour battant (1934)
as The Princess Mother
K – Das Haus des Schweigens (1951)
as Noemi, die Amme
Marie des angoisses (1935)
as Mme de Quersac
People Who Travel (1938)
as Flora
Gangster malgré lui (1935)
Actor
Coralie and Company (1934)
Actor
Marius à Paris (1930)
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