Colette Brosset
Also Known As: Колетт Броссе
Biography: Colette Marie Claudette Brosset (21 February 1922 – 1 March 2007) was a French actress, writer and choreographer. She was once married to actor Robert Dhéry, with whom she appeared onstage in La Plume de Ma Tante and Ah! Les belles bacchantes. She appeared on Broadway in 1959 in La Plume de Ma Tante, and was, along with the rest of the entire cast (Pamela Austin, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhéry, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec) awarded a Special Tony Award 1959 for contribution to the theatre. Source: Article "Colette Brosset" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 21, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 01, 2007
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Three Men on a Horse
Overview: A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Overview: During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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The Little Bather
Overview: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Overview: The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Peek-a-boo
Overview: A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-15
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Master Love
Overview: Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-24
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Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Overview: Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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I Love Only You
Overview: Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Star Without Light
Overview: An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-03
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Public School
Overview: A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Shut Up, Gulli
Overview: A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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Branquignol
Overview: In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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Love Is Not a Sin
Overview: A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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The Counterfeit Constable
Overview: An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-10
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Bernard and the Lion
Overview: The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Le Café liégeois
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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