Marcelle Arnold
Also Known As: Mireille Arnold
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France
Birthday: May 04, 1917
Deathday: March 31, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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This Pretty World
Overview: Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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A Monkey in Winter
Overview: During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Poison
Overview: Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Sins of Youth
Overview: In a small provincial town, the boarding-house is run by Mathilde Belin, the overindulging and over-demanding mother of Paul. When she is told by her envious sister Charlotte that her son is having a secret affair with Catherine, a salesgirl, she becomes furious and starts doing everything in her power to separate the lovebirds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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No Pity for Women
Overview: The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Overview: While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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Poison
Overview: Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Without Leaving an Address
Overview: A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Trois vieilles filles en folie
Overview: A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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The Night Is My Kingdom
Overview: After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Overview: A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Matrimonial Agency
Overview: Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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The Forest of Farewell
Overview: A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-07-30
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Farewell, Paris
Overview: A young man from Marseille starts a jazz orchestra in Paris.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Miracles Only Happen Once
Overview: 1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-10
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Piédalu fait des miracles
Overview: The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Piedalu, whom this conflict desolates, discovers by chance, as part of a found bicycle, a fortune in gold coins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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Piédalu à Paris
Overview: Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find someone to listen to him. He meets an actress in Paris, whom he takes for a girl from his country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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The Drunkard
Overview: Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Dedee
Overview: Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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People of No Importance
Overview: During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-15
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La Gourmandise
Overview: Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows the funeral.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Marriage of Figaro
Overview: Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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Three Women
Overview: The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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The Suspects
Overview: Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
Overview: A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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Children of Love
Overview: In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Lovers on a Tightrope
Overview: Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights on Cora's fortune. Daniel becomes suspicious and hires a detective to investigate, but the detective is unsuccessful in pinpointing Cora's extramarital activities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-06
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Na !
Overview: A group of pensioners, exasperated by the Social Security strike, meet Chalupot, a former paratrooper and ex-priest who has just been released from prison. He encouraged them to form the M.L.V. (Mouvement de Libération des Vieillards) and organize demonstrations. But as Chalupot is arrested and locked up, the pensioners plan to hold up the Social Security.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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Croquemitoufle
Overview: Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Killer Spy
Overview: The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Her Bridal Night
Overview: A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-25
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My Brother from Senegal
Overview: Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Overview: Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Overview: A young geometrician goes to Rome with his sister. During the trip, they meet Laura, an actress who offers them many surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Overview: A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-26
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The Things of Life
Overview: The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Overview: A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-19
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Overview: Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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A Midsummer Night's Steam
Overview: A silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Pas moral pour deux sous
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-04
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