Suzanne Desprès
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Verdun, Meuse, France
Birthday: November 19, 1875
Deathday: July 01, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Miarka
Overview: Cattion d'Urville takes in a gypsy, Sarah, and her granddaughter Miarka, in an outbuilding of her chateau. Miarka, while growing up, attracts the attention of Luigi, Cattion's nephew who, little by little, falls in love with her. Sarah raised her daughter in the tradition of gypsies who curse anyone who marries a man who is not a gypsy. Miarka ends up loving Luigi and he wants to marry her. The law of race opposes it. Fortunately, a well-conducted genealogical investigation will discover that Luigi is of the gypsy race. They will marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-29
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La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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What a Funny Kid!
Overview: Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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Wolves Between Them
Overview: A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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Boissière
Overview: In 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past, took in Jean le Barois, a young soldier lost in territory occupied by the Germans, who was none other than the son of the man she loved, then ruined. The young man, after having despised her, falls madly in love with the woman who pushed his father to suicide.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-27
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The Woman Thief
Overview: The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin the husband she is happy with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-30
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Sunless Neighborhood
Overview: In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are forced to leave home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-31
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The Pretty Miller Girl
Overview: Franz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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The Tournament
Overview: Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-12-09
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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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Flight Into Darkness
Overview: During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-22
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Le Carnaval des vérités
Overview: Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-06-04
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Panic
Overview: Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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A Girl Knew
Overview: An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has always succeeded; however this son has difficulties with Corinne (Dany Robin) who considers herself his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Les soeurs ennemies
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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Louise
Overview: What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier had revolutionized the "historical epic" genre with the awesome Napoleon. There was, however, little that was revolutionary in this cinemadaption of Gustave Charpentier's opera. Moore plays Louise, a poor seamstress who is led astray by the rakish Julien (Georges Thill). After falling from grace (no pun intended), our heroine is rescued by her understanding father (Andre Pernet), who demonstrates his forgiveness by singing to her (it is, after all, an opera). Though it played to enthusiastic crowds in both London and Paris, Louise turned out to be Grace Moore's final film; conversely, Abel Gance continued to make commercial potboilers well into the 1970s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-16
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The Bread Peddler
Overview: The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-14
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