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