Rolla Norman
Also Known As: Edouard Charles Normand
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 24, 1889
Age: 135 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 18, 1971
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The Children of Edward IV
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1909-10-28
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A Star Vanishes
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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Checkmate
Overview: After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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La maison du mystère
Overview: Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny, who grants her hand to Villandrit. Mad with jealousy, Corradin will use all means to break up the couple: he does not hesitate to compromise Régine, to send Julien to prison for a crime he did not commit, to spread misfortune. But despite a long and painful separation, Julien and Régine will find each other, still bound by the same love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Quelqu'un a tué...
Overview: A Scotland investigation into the sinister Lamberton family castle, where a servant was mysteriously killed and then a doctor strangled a few nights later. The servants are wrongly suspected and the truth provokes the suicide of the real culprit.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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La cinquième empreinte
Overview: Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Cease Firing
Overview: When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Le Clown Bux
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
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Sous la Terreur
Overview: During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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One of the Legion
Overview: Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance, he's seduced to a bar by a shady man. The rogue gets Fernand drunk, knocks him out and switches costumes and papers. He's now Robert Durand, a voluntary Foreign legion recruit. After failed attempts to explain, he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then, marriage. But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-02
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The Two Boys
Overview: The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-08
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Ballerina
Overview: As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) is set in the special world of the ballet. Young dance student Janine Charrat idolizes her teacher-role-model Yvette Chauvire, and will do anything to help Chauvire further herself.
Genres: Drama Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Firmin de Saint-Pataclet
Overview: Firmin, who returned mute from the war of 14-18, has never displeased anyone for twenty years in terms of political life where low blows, jealousy and betrayal are rife in his Provençal village. But an explosion gives him the floor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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Peace on the Rhine
Overview: During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-10
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Overview: Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Maxim's Porter
Overview: The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Les 3 tambours
Overview: 12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Face au destin
Overview: Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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The Musicians of the Sky
Overview: A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-10
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L'Éternel féminin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-09-15
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Sorceror
Overview: A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-27
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The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
Overview: The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-11-17
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The Yellow Dog
Overview: Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders, sowing terror in the population. The police seem helpless. It must be said that it has no significant evidence.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-07-01
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La Grande Passion
Overview: This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-12-21
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Salammbô
Overview: Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-08-09
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L'Ile enchantée
Overview: The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-13
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Héliogabale
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-01
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Antoinette
Overview: Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Le chant de l'amour triomphant
Overview: The story of two artists in love with the same woman.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-21
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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La dame de Monsoreau
Overview: The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-26
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The Big House
Overview: French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-05-14
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Gribiche
Overview: Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-04-02
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Rocambole
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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Stolen Affections
Overview: The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Der Bastard
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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Counter-investigation
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-05
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The Queen's Lover
Overview: Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Overview: Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Adieu Vienne
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Das letzte Fort
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-07-08
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Miss Edith, Duchess
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-04-15
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La veine
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-11-23
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Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: The atheism of a French doctor is tested when he sees for himself the miraculous healing powers of the shrine at Lourdes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Lopez, le bandit
Overview: Lopez and his gang attack a ranch where he finds a man who once saved his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Le masque d'Hollywood
Overview: Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-01
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The Aviator
Overview: Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-30
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Louis XI
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Original Language: fr
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