Hélène Dassonville
Also Known As: Hélène Ricardou, Adrienne Viala-Ricardou
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nice, France
Adult: No
Deathday: May 23, 2003
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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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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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La vie est magnifique
Overview: Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Bearer Check
Overview: Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister, who is as cantankerous as she is uncompromising on principles, awaits him. He asks a “porter” from the station who looks like him to replace him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-21
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The Emigrant
Overview: Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-29
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Pastoral Symphony
Overview: A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-26
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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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Rapide de nuit
Overview: Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everything and replaces the suitcase with a similar one. The police do not understand anything, but the pretty girl promises to become honest like the one who almost was her pigeon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-19
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Jamaican Man
Overview: Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to start a new life with Vicky, a pretty young nurse. In Paris, a doctor lets him know that he is affected by leprosy. In desperation, Jacques runs away from Vicky to spare her. When she realizes the reason why Jacques has disappeared from her life, she joins him with a view to helping him fight the disease.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Jeunes filles de France
Overview: In 1939, the "Union des Jeunes Filles de France", a French communist movement, sponsored this documentary short constituting a tour de France of farms, factories and workshop where young women work, thus taking charge of their own destiny.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-30
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