Jane Pierson
Also Known As: Jeanne Pierson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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A Man's Neck

Overview: Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Le Million

Overview: Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-04
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Bubble Gum

Overview: Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the director and of the all crew by being off the beat when he is asked to cry or to laugh. Nobody manages to reason with him, with the exception of a grip who uses the rough way. A good beating and everything comes right in the end. The grip is promoted to the rank of production manager.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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Un coup de téléphone

Overview: A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Night at the Crossroads

Overview: A gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a jewel thief, the heat is on.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-18
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La Dame de bronze et le monsieur de cristal

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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-10-04
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The King of Grease

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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L'affaire Coquelet

Overview: There are collectors and collectors. As far as he is concerned, Monsieur Coquelet has brought together a collection of historical... garters! So imagine his reaction when he realizes his most invaluable piece has been stolen... Municipal police and gendarmerie are alerted. The culprit is caught at long last but he is not... among the usual suspects!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Un drôle de numéro

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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Overview: Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-11
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Deputy Eusèbe

Overview: Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

Overview: In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Cavalcade of Love

Overview: Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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Les Affaires publiques

Overview: A slapstick comedy centered on two neighboring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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Portrait of Innocence

Overview: A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Jeunesse

Overview: After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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Fire in the Straw

Overview: Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it. Christian's second film is a disaster and faced with the collapse of his son, Antoine forgets his jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Threats

Overview: "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Le Bouif errant

Overview: Bicard nicknamed Le Bouif earns 1,000 francs for lending his body to the experiments conducted by Professor Caligari. Further adventures await him when he encounters Ladislas, a young reveler, who happens to be the crown prince of Corinthia. This one, who favors living it up over his royal duty, commissions Bicard to replace him on the throne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-24
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Marie-Martine

Overview: The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-05-11
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L'Escalier sans fin

Overview: An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-25
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen

Overview: To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-16
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Land Without Stars

Overview: Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-02
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Silence Is Golden

Overview: Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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Beauties of the Night

Overview: A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Le Bled

Overview: A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-05-17
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July 14

Overview: A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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Little Devil May Care

Overview: Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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La Chienne

Overview: Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Under the Roofs of Paris

Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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The Three Masks

Overview: During a carnival, the two brothers of a poor girl ,who has been impregnated by the son of a well to do farmer, seek vengeance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-01
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Forty Little Mothers

Overview: After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-05
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Mandrin

Overview: Directed by Henri Fescourt.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-02-15
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La Tradition de minuit

Overview: Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-22
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The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans

Overview: Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin's secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-09-23
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