Gaston Mauger
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
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To have known
Overview: An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Overview: Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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Vers l'abîme
Overview: The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Iceland Fisherman
Overview: Gaud Mevel, a young Paimpolaise brought up in Paris, falls in love with the rough sailor, Yann Gaos. When he knows she is an orphan and poor, he marries her. A few days later, he leaves for Iceland from where he will never return. The sea will take him back, jealous of his feelings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Le Père Lampion
Overview: How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Passé à vendre
Overview: Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-14
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The Gateway Streak
Overview: A brave man accidentally gives some good tips to a client who immediately hires him as a secretary. But he is kidnapped by a rival bank and there is a queue to get his predictions. He finally understands that he makes everyone's fortune except his own. He opens a private pharmacy where he earns everything he wants and even love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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Le cœur dispose
Overview: An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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The Call of Life
Overview: A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Ça... c'est du sport
Overview: Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle sums of money in his cash box.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-18
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
Overview: During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-24
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Wicked Duchess
Overview: Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Les Rois de la flotte
Overview: Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd jobs, they come into contact with Betty Florent, the banker's wife. This one has just been contacted by a former accomplice who blackmails him by offering him an insurance scam. A big bonus on the head of a simpleton. Cruchadouze was passing by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-19
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Deux de la réserve
Overview: The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taking him for the famous Remy, inventor of a device of interest to national defence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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The Woman of Monte Carlo
Overview: An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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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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Mlle. Desiree
Overview: Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-07-03
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Overview: For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Dédé la musique
Overview: Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug trafficking and prostitution. He sets his sights on a young girl, fresh and naive, Odette, saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette. But he is touched by the charm of this midinette.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-11
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The Secret of Madame Clapain
Overview: Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Woman Who Dared
Overview: The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-03
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Loves of Casanova
Overview: On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
Genres: Adventure History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Caprice de princesse
Overview: Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Man with the Hispano
Overview: The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Accused, Stand Up!
Overview: Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Le Bonheur
Overview: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Un certain monsieur Grant
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-08-12
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The Queen's Necklace
Overview: Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-10-21
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The Fleeing Dead
Overview: Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Hanged Man's Farm
Overview: A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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Departure
Overview: An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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Halfway Up the Sky
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-12
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Not So Stupid
Overview: Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous industrialist. He encounters a number of people scheming to marry into the Ménard family for the sake of money. Ménard discovers and thwart the plots and manages to unite a young couple who truly are in love. The romantic comedy ends happily with a double marriage. Henri's daughter Nicole marries Didier, and Ménard marries his new-found love Rosine. It turns out that Léon is "not so stupid" after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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