Hélène Perdrière
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Biography: Hélène Perdrière (born 17 April 1912 in Asnieres-sur-Seine, died 27 August 1992 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French stage and film actress. After earning a first prize for comedy at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1928, she became the first resident of Comédie-French. She resigned to become the partner of Pierre Fresnay in the boulevard theaters of the time, before returning to the Comédie-French circuit in April 1952, and remaining until its end in December 1973. She then went on to play with the Renaud-Barrault Company until her retirement a year later. At the Comédie-French, she staged several plays of Marivaux. She was also an election interpreter. Source: Article "Hélène Perdrière" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asnières, Seine [now Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: April 17, 1910
Deathday: August 27, 1992
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Gender: Female
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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A Certain Mister
Overview: Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned police commissioner and his clumsy assistant, young inspector César, join forces with a colorful trio of thieves nicknamed Le Pouce (Thumb), L'Index (Index Finger) and Le Majeur (Middle Finger)...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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The Ironmaster
Overview: A young noblewoman regrets having to marry the village ironmaster for money reasons, but later comes to appreciate her new husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-17
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Topaze
Overview: Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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Criminal
Overview: A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Jeanne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Le médecin malgré lui
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-07
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
Overview: A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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The Kiddos
Overview: Mr. Bouton, a modest carpenter from Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, widower and father of Pinpin, a little boy, marries Mrs. Colombe, mother of Ninette, a little girl. Soon deceived and abandoned, he raises the two children alone. As an adult, Pinpin falls in love with Ninette, but she is in love with Gérard Garnier, whom she soon marries. The children gone, Bouton finds himself alone and one Christmas evening meets Mrs. Marie, a mother who raises her two children alone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Gangster malgré lui
Overview: The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Overview: Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Women's Games
Overview: The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with a fiancée provided by the agency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Overview: Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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Road Blocked
Overview: Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first wife. Evelyne learns what has happened and, revolted by what she thinks is her husband's plot, commits suicide. Jacques confesses his crime.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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The Crowd Roars
Overview: French-language version of Howard Hawks' The Crowd Roars (1932): A race car driver vies with his younger brother, who he'd hoped to keep away from the track, both in competition and for a girl who hangs out with the men. Tragedy results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-11
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Overview: Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Overview: A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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Mystère à Shanghai
Overview: In Shangai, the "Green Dragon" threatens to kill Herbert Aboody, a rich exporter, unless he pays him 50,000 dollars. One of Aboody's secretaries calls inspector Wens for help. An amazing fact occurs, Wens kills Aboody and then disappears. What is the key to this mystery?
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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If All the Guys in the World...
Overview: A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-24
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The Ideal Couple
Overview: Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Man to Men
Overview: The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Le père Lebonnard
Overview: Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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The King of the Gate Crashers
Overview: The film is the first of a series of films containing the character of "Bouboule", created by the singer Milton and comprising La Bande à Bouboule (1931), directed by Léon Mathot, Le Roi du cirage (1931), directed by Pierre Colombier, Bouboule Ier, roi des Nègres (1933), directed by Léon Mathot, and Prince Bouboule, directed by Jacques Houssin (1939).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Rome Express
Overview: A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Paris and Rome, Zutra, a mysterious and sinister character, tries to find the stolen painting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-18
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Alert Nights
Overview: Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-25
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My Heart Hesitates
Overview: Geneviève, ruined and destitute, visits a former servant working for a count who is absent for the moment. He offers Geneviève the bed of the count, who returns unexpectedly. After some adventures, the count passes Geneviève off as his sister, then marries this young girl he so curiously met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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Une visite de noces
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-04
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