Cast
Françoise Rosay
Acting
Cast
Françoise Rosay
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-04-17
From
Paris, France
Died
1974-03-28
Also known as Francoise Rosay, Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, Frances Rosay
Biography
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.
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as Vincenzino's mother
Maternité
as Mrs. Duchemin
Interlude
as Comtesse Reinhart
The Gambler
as Aunt Antonia
That Lady
as Bernardine
Jenny
as Jenny Gauthier
Quartet
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as The Electress Sophia
The 25th Hour
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Le Billet de mille
as Russian Countess
The Counterfeiters of Paris
as Madame Pauline
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Madame Dubreuil
The Full Treatment
as Madame Prade
He
as Madame Husson
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Queen Margot
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
September Affair
as Maria Salvatini
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
The Sound and the Fury
as Caroline Compson
Carnival in Flanders
as Madame Burgomaster
The Great Game
as Blanche
Cloportes
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Riff Raff Girls
as Berthe
L'Âge heureux
as Mme Aubry
The Halfway House
as Alice Meadows
Johnny Frenchman
as Lanec Florrie
Up from the Beach
as Lili's Grandmother
Madame Récamier
as Madame de Staël
The Robber Symphony
as The fortune teller
Two Timid Souls
as The aunt
The Pedestrian
as Frau Dechamps
Échec au roi
as The Queen
The Stream
as Régina Berry
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
as Borgia
Smuggler's Ball
as Gabrielle Demeuse
Girls of Today
as padrona della pensione
The Seventh Sin
as Mother Superior
Me and the Colonel
as Madame Bouffier
Wanda the Sinner
as Anna Steiner
Life Dances On
as Marguerite Audié
Nobody's Children
as La contessa Canali
He Who Is Without Sin...
as La contessa Lamieri
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Louise de Kerfuntel
My Son the Minister
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
One Only Loves Once
as Mme Monnier
Portrait of a Woman
as Fanny Helder
Crainquebille
as Shoe Store Customer
Back Streets of Paris
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
The 13th Letter
as Mrs. Gauthier
The Naked Heart
as Laura Chapdelaine
Si l'empereur savait ça
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Armchair 47
as Gilberte Boulanger
Tambour battant
as The Princess Mother
The Woman Dressed As a Man
as Princess Marie
Bizarre, Bizarre
as Margaret Molyneux
The Chess Player
as Catherine II
Without Trumpet or Drum
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
The Magnificent Lie
as Rosa Duchêne
All for Nothing
as Mrs. Bossu
The Little Cafe
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Whirlpool
as Madame Gardane
Le bateau de verre
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Lovers Woods
as Madame Parisot
Serge Panine
as Madame Devarenne
The Red Inn
as Marie Martin
They Were Twelve Women
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Eyes of Love
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
Stefanie in Rio
as Leonora Guala
La Pouponnière
as Mrs. Delannoy
The Barton Mystery
as Élisabeth
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self (archive footage)
Women Without Names
as The Countess
A Father Without Knowing It
as Madame Jacquet
Luck
as Mme Mougeot
Frau Cheneys Ende
as Mrs. Webley
The Island
as Silvia
People Who Travel
as Flora
Marie des angoisses
as Mme de Quersac
The Dream Vagabonds
as Mireille Dombreval
Casanova Against His Will
as Blanche Brissac
Not Dumb, the Bird
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Pension Mimosas
as Louise Noblet
Buster se marie
as Polly Hathaway
Abbot Constantine
as La comtesse de Laverdens
Fahrendes Volk
as Madame Flora
Marchand d'amour
as Clara
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as La veuve
Gangster malgré lui
Ruy Blas
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Jenny Lind
as Rosatti
Ramuntcho
as Dolorès Detcharry
Gribiche
as Edith Maranet
The Secret of Polichinelle
as Mrs. Jouvenel
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
as Countess Brévannes
The One Woman Idea
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Marius à Paris
Let Us Be Gay
as Madame Boucijon
Vers l'abîme
as Sylvia
Coralie and Company
Peace on the Rhine
as Francoise Scheffer
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
as Madame Alexandra
Carnival in Flanders
as Cornelia
Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Lady of Sant'Agata
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
as Noemi, die Amme
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
as Nadja Danouw
Les éloquents
as Self