Vanda Gréville
Also Known As: Wanda Carliez, Vanda Vangen, Wanda Carlier
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 10, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 26, 1997
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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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A Gentleman of the Ring
Overview: Chouchou leads a happy life between his comrades and his fiancée. But his father wants him to marry a rich American in love with him. Chouchou refuses and looks for work in order to be independent and to marry the one he loves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-21
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The Ball
Overview: The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-10
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L'Or dans la rue
Overview: A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Le monde où l'on s'ennuie
Overview: Suzanne de Villiers, an illegitimate daughter of a noble family, has a lot of difficulty getting the people of the "high" to accept her feelings for her tutor, the Viscount of Ceran...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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The Tomboy
Overview: The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Le train d'amour
Overview: A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The Suitors Club
Overview: As playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Faut ce qu'il faut
Overview: In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little girl. He tells her that he is married and that for him the outcome of this adventure was not really planned. The mobilization separates them but the young man will end up divorcing and with the relentless help of a friend, will find his mistress and his child and will be able to marry her in spite of the chaos of the war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-12
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La Troisième Dalle
Overview: A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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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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The End of the World
Overview: The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-23
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The Prom
Overview: Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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A Gentleman of Paris
Overview: A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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Ebb Tide
Overview: A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-16
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The Train of Suicides
Overview: Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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Star Impersonations
Overview: 'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from recent films; the audience is invited to compete for a prize of £100 for naming the best impersonation.' (BFI)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
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