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Françoise Rosay
Born · April 17, 1891
Died · March 28, 1974 (82 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Bio
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. 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 3.0.
The Pedestrian
Frau Dechamps
6.4
1973
Not Dumb, the Bird
Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
6.0
1972
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Madame Dubreuil
5.1
1972
Midi trente
Self · (9 episodes)
6.0
1972
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Louise de Kerfuntel
3.0
1969
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
6.0
1968
The 25th Hour
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
7.8
1967
L'Âge heureux
Mme Aubry
7.0
1966
Cloportes
Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu
6.3
1965
Up from the Beach
Lili's Grandmother
8.0
1965
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Borgia
5.0
1964
Frau Cheneys Ende
Mrs. Webley
0.0
1962
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Madame Pauline
7.0
1961
The Full Treatment
Madame Prade
6.1
1960
Stefanie in Rio
Leonora Guala
0.0
1960
Lovers Woods
Madame Parisot
4.6
1960
Without Trumpet or Drum
La grand-mère de Marguerite
0.0
1959
Eyes of Love
Mrs. Montcatel mother
4.9
1959
Riff Raff Girls
Berthe
5.8
1959
The Sound and the Fury
Caroline Compson
6.6
1959
The Gambler
Aunt Antonia
6.3
1958
Me and the Colonel
Madame Bouffier
6.2
1958
Non sono più guaglione
Vincenzino's mother
0.0
1957
Interlude
Comtesse Reinhart
5.5
1957
The Seventh Sin
Mother Superior
5.3
1957
Girls of Today
padrona della pensione
6.4
1955
That Lady
Bernardine
6.0
1955
Queen Margot
Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
6.8
1954
Les éloquents
Self
0.0
1954
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Lady of Sant'Agata
5.0
1953
He Who Is Without Sin...
La contessa Lamieri
6.4
1952
Wanda the Sinner
Anna Steiner
5.0
1952
Smuggler's Ball
Gabrielle Demeuse
4.8
1952
The Seven Deadly Sins
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
6.0
1952
Nobody's Children
La contessa Canali
7.3
1951
The Red Inn
Marie Martin
6.8
1951
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
Noemi, die Amme
0.0
1951
The 13th Letter
Mrs. Gauthier
5.5
1951
The Naked Heart
Laura Chapdelaine
0.0
1950
September Affair
Maria Salvatini
6.1
1950
One Only Loves Once
Mme Monnier
0.0
1950
Women Without Names
The Countess
6.3
1950
The Barton Mystery
Élisabeth
0.0
1949
The Dream Vagabonds
Mireille Dombreval
7.0
1949
Quartet
Lea Makart
6.0
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Electress Sophia
6.0
1948
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Countess Brévannes
0.0
1947
Back Streets of Paris
Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
6.1
1946
Johnny Frenchman
Lanec Florrie
6.0
1945
The Halfway House
Alice Meadows
6.4
1944
Portrait of a Woman
Fanny Helder
0.0
1944
They Were Twelve Women
La duchesse de Vimeuse
5.3
1940
Serge Panine
Madame Devarenne
6.0
1939
Fahrendes Volk
Madame Flora
4.0
1938
The Chess Player
Catherine II
4.7
1938
Peace on the Rhine
Francoise Scheffer
7.0
1938
The Stream
Régina Berry
7.5
1938
People Who Travel
Flora
7.0
1938
Ramuntcho
Dolorès Detcharry
0.0
1938
Bizarre, Bizarre
Margaret Molyneux
6.9
1937
Life Dances On
Marguerite Audié
7.0
1937
My Son the Minister
Sylvie - seine Mutter
6.1
1937
The Robber Symphony
The fortune teller
5.8
1937
Armchair 47
Gilberte Boulanger
6.1
1937
Jenny
Jenny Gauthier
5.9
1936
The Secret of Polichinelle
Mrs. Jouvenel
0.0
1936
Carnival in Flanders
Cornelia
0.0
1936
Carnival in Flanders
Madame Burgomaster
7.4
1935
Marie des angoisses
Mme de Quersac
0.0
1935
Gangster malgré lui
0.0
1935
Maternité
Mrs. Duchemin
0.0
1935
Whirlpool
Madame Gardane
5.9
1935
Pension Mimosas
Louise Noblet
6.8
1935
Le Billet de mille
The Russian Countess
0.0
1935
Marchand d'amour
Clara
0.0
1935
Die Insel
Silvia
5.0
1934
Vers l'abîme
Sylvia
0.0
1934
Coralie and Company
0.0
1934
The Great Game
Blanche
7.1
1934
Tambour battant
The Princess Mother
0.0
1934
Abbot Constantine
La comtesse de Laverdens
5.0
1933
All for Nothing
Mrs. Bossu
0.0
1933
La Pouponnière
Mrs. Delannoy
0.0
1933
The Woman Dressed As a Man
Princess Marie
0.0
1932
A Father Without Knowing It
Madame Jacquet
0.0
1932
He
Madame Husson
5.9
1932
Luck
Mme Mougeot
0.0
1931
The Trial of Mary Dugan
The widow
0.0
1931
Casanova wider Willen
Blanche Brissac
0.0
1931
Jenny Lind
Rosatti
0.0
1931
The Magnificent Lie
Rosa Duchêne
0.0
1931
Let Us Be Gay
Madame Boucijon
0.0
1931
The Little Cafe
Mademoiselle Edwige
0.0
1931
Échec au roi
The Queen
0.0
1930
Si l'empereur savait ça
Princess Plata d'Ettingen
0.0
1930
Marius à Paris
0.0
1930
The One Woman Idea
Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
1.0
1929
Two Timid Souls
The aunt
6.0
1928
Madame Récamier
Madame de Staël
0.0
1928
Le bateau de verre
Madame d'Arcy, his wife
0.0
1927
Gribiche
Edith Maranet
6.5
1926
Crainquebille
Shoe Store Customer
7.2
1922