Arlette Marchal
Also Known As: Arlette Marchall
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 29, 1902
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 11, 1984
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Die Dame mit der Maske
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Born to the West
Overview: Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt, goes west to Colorado, as does most of his Kentucky friends and enemies. The feud between Dare and Bate is renewed, and Dare learns that Nell's father is in jail on a trumped-up charge made by Bate in order to force Nell to marry him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-14
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The Hen
Overview: Mr. Silvestry, nicknamed "The Hen" because he is raising his five daughters alone, for whom he does the housework, the shopping and the cooking, is invited to the Côte d'Azur by a wealthy American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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The Little King
Overview: King Michel VIII is still a child, but when revolution threatens, the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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An Ideal Woman
Overview: Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according to what he says. But when, while on holiday, Grégoire meets beautiful Madeleine, the shy young man becomes fired up. Back to his place of work, he can't help communicating his enthusiasm for Madeleine, so much so that he too is taken for a Don Juan. But Madeleine is not for him. Nevertheless, his unexpected change of attitude will have helped him to conquer the heart of Denise, a typist who loved him in secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Overview: The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Father Serge
Overview: An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-04
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Blonde or Brunette
Overview: Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Overview: A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-07
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Diplomacy
Overview: Heroine Dora de Zares comports herself in a most mysterious fashion in this spy mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-20
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Toboggan
Overview: Toboggan, the 1934 Henri Decoin French boxing sports romantic love triangle melodrama (about a washed up boxer who makes a comeback for a sexy dancer, but she is two-timing him, and she brings her boyfriend into the arena during the climactic boxing match) starring Georges Carpentier (real life heavyweight boxing champion), Arlette Marchal, Paul Amiot, John Anderson, and Raymond Cordy. Note that because Carpentier was a real life boxer, he naturally was able to do his own boxing scenes, and the producer of the movie interwove footage of Carpentier from his actual matches into the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Milady of Liban
Overview: The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre Benoit's novels, " La châtelaine du Liban," and the film exploits the scenic backgrounds of the novel, Beirut, Palmyra and the Syrian Desert. A young captain in the Camel Corps. goes mad when he finds himself on the point of selling his country's secrets to get the money to satisfy the enchantress whose mysterious activities are concerned with espionage. The captain's eventual return to his Camel Corps. and the desert provides the opportunity for a fight with Bedouins, which marks the dramatic climax of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Hula
Overview: The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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Moon of Israel
Overview: A Jewish slave girl falls in love with the Pharaoh's son during the Exodus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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A Gentleman of Paris
Overview: Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-30
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The Oil Sharks
Overview: The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-07-14
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Die Frau von gestern und morgen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-07-13
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Without Leaving an Address
Overview: A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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The Spotlight
Overview: Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer. As Olga Rostova, an exotic Russian, she meets Norman Brooke, whose infatuation turns to love. Hoffman suggests that Norman could never care for Lizzie and proves his point. Heartbroken, Lizzie decides to see no more of him. On closing night, when he proposes to her in her dressing room and she refuses, Norman declares he must believe all the lurid details of her past; in desperation, she bares her true identity, only to find it is not her glamorous image but rather her real self that he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-19
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Wings
Overview: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Genres: Drama Action War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-12
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Law of the North
Overview: Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-04
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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Heritage
Overview: There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water. Pancho, Maria del Carmen's fiancé, hurts Xavier, son of the rich Domingo, so he has to leave the country. Maria proposes to take care of Xavier in exchange for Pancho's freedom. Unfortunately, Xavier falls in love with her and Domingo forces her to marry his son. Pancho reappears, ready to defy Xavier, but the two overhear a conversation and learn that Xavier's days are numbered. So he asks Pancho to elope with Maria.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-19
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The Portrait
Overview: Three men fall in love with a woman from a window photograph. When they find her living as a recluse in an isolated Hungarian mansion, they decide against a visit because she wouldn't live up to their idealized images of her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-02
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Figaro
Overview: A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-03-04
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The Cat's Pajamas
Overview: Sally, seamstress for a fashionable modiste, supports a disabled father and adores her kitten, Tommy. Though loved by Jack a taxi driver, she is infatuated with Don Cesare Gracco, an operatic sensation. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Don Quixote
Overview: Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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The Manor House of Fear
Overview: Since a mysterious stranger and his servant settled in a manor near a Provençal village, a wave of crimes has beenfall the country and spread terror among the inhabitants. Young Jean Lormeau, refusing to give in to fear, leaves to meet the disturbing owner to discover his secret.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-06-03
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Sarati, le terrible
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-07
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Boudoir diplomatique
Overview: The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to change her husband's mind about a treaty he opposes. Complications both political and romantic ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-19
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La marche nuptiale
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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An Ideal Woman
Overview: Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-07-05
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Forlorn River
Overview: A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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