Gaby André
Also Known As: Габи Андре, Gaby Andre, Gaby Andreu
Biography: Gaby André (1920—1972) was a French film actress. She may also be known as Gabrielle Louise Mathilde Andreu.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France [now Châlons-en-Champagne]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 05, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 27, 1972
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The Mondesir Heir
Overview: Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-07
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Angel of the Night
Overview: A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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The End of the Day
Overview: Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Hoboes in Paradise
Overview: In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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The Shanghai Drama
Overview: A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Sleepwalker
Overview: Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-27
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Highway 301
Overview: The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Goliath and the Dragon
Overview: A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-12
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The Green Glove
Overview: In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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Le Chant de l'exilé
Overview: In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is called into question when, during a fight, he believes he has killed a bad boy. He flees to Algeria where, with a friend, he joins the Saharan Pioneers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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The Strange World of Planet X
Overview: Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Hélène
Overview: Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-17
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Overview: An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-03
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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A Foolish Maiden
Overview: A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Fort Dolorès
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Strange Suzy
Overview: To prevent her husband from starting a divorce procedure, a wife simulates madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Parade in 7 Nights
Overview: In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-24
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Départ à zéro
Overview: Two young people, cousins to each other, inherit a domain where three comrades come to camp. The castle serves as a reserve for a black market band whose leader will do his best to clear out the new occupants. An inventor, an archaeologist, an inspector and a goatherd enter the circle...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-23
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Overview: The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who predicts a total success on stage. Having become a star, she returns to the Camargue where, still abused, she tries to commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-21
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The House of the Seven Maidens
Overview: A widower is in trouble with money, and has seven daughters to marry. A creditor, a timid suitor, is unable to make up his mind.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Secrets of a Ballerina
Overview: In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-25
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Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
Overview: Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-03
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Guilt Is Not Mine
Overview: Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Incognito
Overview: Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for the FBI, to roll up the organization that manufactures fake U.S. dollars. A violent confrontation is insurmountable.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-09
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Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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La campana di San Giusto
Overview: The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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120, rue de la Gare
Overview: On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-06
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Prima di sera
Overview: A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client and, unaware that he is wanted by the police, is more than once about to swallow the pills; but every time an obstacle prevents him from fulfilling his purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-21
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Adémaï bandit d'honneur
Overview: Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives have just been shot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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East of Kilimanjaro
Overview: American photojournalist Marsh Conners is assigned to cover a cattle epidemic. Falling in love with research scientist Dr. Marie Avedon, Conners attempts to help her convince the Masai tribesmen to have their cattle inoculated, and to locate the source of the disease.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-29
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Sign of Zorro
Overview: General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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Four Flights to Love
Overview: In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Tua per la vita
Overview: A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-04
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Overview: An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
Overview: "Remove your legs from the windshield" - Alberto, an engineer over forty years old, on his return from an inspection, a nineteen-year-old Parisian student called Sylvie is looking for a ride. Even though the girl reminds him of her daughter Francesca's age, Alberto decides to accompany her to Rome, with the secret hope of being able to derive an adventure from her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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Donatella
Overview: Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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Une femme coupée en morceaux
Overview: Four men in love with the same woman put on a music-hall show and travel the world in search of the beauty. They will find success and fortune, but their sentimental quest will be a failure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-29
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Cake in the Sky
Overview: This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake).
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-28
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Siamo ricchi e poveri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-19
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Natika
Overview: The film concerns a destructive romance between a young harpist studying in Rome, and a louche playboy and heir to Europe's wealthy corporate and governing class, played by J. D. Barrymore.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna
Overview: A musician loses his job after he is seriously injured in a car crash. After his wife leaves him to pursuit an acting career, he is forced to take care of his mother and his daughter by himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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