Yvonne Monlaur
Also Known As: イヴォンヌ・モンロー, Yvonne-Thérèse-Marie-Camille Bédat de Monlaur
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films. Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer. She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee. Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yvonne Monlaur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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Birthday: December 15, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 18, 2017
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Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
Overview: An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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The Brides of Dracula
Overview: A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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Circus of Horrors
Overview: A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The Terror of the Tongs
Overview: In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Night of Lust
Overview: A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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Mannequins of Paris
Overview: Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promising artist career to design the styles which make their firm a success. The trouble is that Véronique lives only for her job and does not allow herself -and her husband for that matter - a moment's respite. In Cannes, Pierre meets Wanda, a young singer with strange, fascinating eyes. The frustrated husband falls for her but gradually realizes that the light mercurial creature cannot possibly fulfill him. Véronique, feeling miserable, understands she is on the wrong track. She promises Pierre that she will make efforts to reconcile work and married life. Véronique and Pierre will live and work together again, each one forgiving the other for their faults.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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Legend of Hammer: Vampires
Overview: A journey through all Hammer Horror vampire films. From "Horror Of Dracula" to "Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-01
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Dying as Hierarchs
Overview: Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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The Hawk of the Caribbean
Overview: In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere?
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Inn for Trouble
Overview: Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-31
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Skies Above
Overview: The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Time to Remember
Overview: A gang of jewel thieves rob a house which has just become empty following the recent death of it's rich lady owner. The robbery is not a complete success and one of the gang hides the jewels in the house as he's about to be captured. Later the house is put up for sale and events lead the estate agent to conclude that the jewels may still be there.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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3 Strangers in Rome
Overview: Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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Les Lavandières du Portugal
Overview: Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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Honoré de Marseille
Overview: As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Adventure in Capri
Overview: A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-14
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License to Kill
Overview: Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the higher bidder of lawless nations. Menaced, the scientist, who was friends with Nick Carter's father, calls Nick for help. At Nice airport, Nick Carter escapes death, but that night he is unable to stop Formenter's murder. He suspects Bruno, Formenter's adoptive son, and Tonio, the owner of a bar near Formentier's home. Bruno is actually after Formenter's heritage, and for that he tries to kill Catherine, Formentier's granddaughter. Therefore, Nick Carter finds himself against more than a gang, but he will uncover the plots, in time to break every gangster apart.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-16
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Ladies' Man
Overview: A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Mission to Caracas
Overview: Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-06
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It Started in Naples
Overview: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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Spavaldi e innamorati
Overview: This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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Destinazione Sanremo
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Quel tesoro di papà
Overview: A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-29
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Non sono più guaglione
Overview: A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Love at First Sight
Overview: Love at First Sight is an Italian movie directed by Franco Rossi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-17
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Le temps des copains
Overview: Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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La cento chilometri
Overview: During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Anche l'inferno trema
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-23
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The Twilight Girls
Overview: A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Thirteen at the Table
Overview: Madeleine Villardier is terribly superstitious, and she's in a lot of trouble for the New Year's Eve party she's planning. Inexorably, the number of guests is down to thirteen. To add to her dismay, the presence under her roof of a certain Consuelo is proving cumbersome, especially as this lady has revelations to make about Antoine Villardier's stormy past. The mistress of the house's trances alternate with marital explanations. But why not consider the fateful number as a lucky charm?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Because, Because of a Woman
Overview: A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-17
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