Janette Bertrand
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Biography: Janette Bertrand (born March 25, 1925) is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer. She was born in Montreal, grew up there, and studied journalism at the Université de Montréal. She began work at the Petit Journal, working there for 16 years. She next moved to radio, becoming the host of the Radio-Canada program Déjeuner en musique in the early 1950s. Bertrand married the actor Jean Lajeunesse. The couple hosted the program Jean et Janette, and then Mon mari et nous at radio station CKAC. Later, she began appearing on television for Radio-Canada, Télé-Métropole and Radio-Québec. She developed the television series Grand-Papa, L'Amour avec un Grand A, and Parler pour parler.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Birthday: March 25, 1925
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Gender: Female
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Janette et filles
Overview: Janette Bertrand, 96, is at the time of the balance sheets. Where are the women, where is the fight for gender equality? An hour of History with a capital H and Love with a capital A, to not forget anything and, above all, never stop moving forward.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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The Last Closet: Aging Gay
Overview: After losing friends, Dany Turcotte began to wonder about the aging of members of the LGBTQ+ community in our society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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Little Aurore's Tragedy
Overview: A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Big Red
Overview: Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house on the estate. To start a line of top show dogs, Haggin purchases the winner of the Montreal Kennel Club show, an Irish setter named Red.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Janette Bertrand : à l'aube d'être centenaire
Overview: Janette Bertrand will soon celebrate her 100th birthday. This intimate documentary, dotted with archives, pays tribute to this great lady, who devoted her life to providing popular education and breaking taboos. Through her daily life as a nearly century-old woman, Janette takes stock of her career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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L'érotisme et le vieil âge
Overview: The director deals with the subject of the sexuality of older people, an often taboo subject. The actress Louise Portal and her partner Jacques Hébert participated in this documentary. They share their experience with us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Montreal by Night
Overview: This short film showcases the city of Montreal on a summer's night. What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds. It is North America's second largest port and, after Paris, the world's largest French-speaking city. With its warehouses, offices, homes, clubs and amusement parks, the city serves as a bright backdrop for a happy couple out on the town.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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The Handyman
Overview: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Dubois et fils
Overview: A health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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75e, elles se souviennent
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-27
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Jukebox
Overview: In the mid-1950s, Denis Pantis, the son of Greek immigrants, became obsessed with rock ’n’ roll. His dream was to be the next Elvis, but instead he became Quebec’s most important record producer of the 1960s. Jukebox looks back on the career of “the king of the 45.” A new generation of stars, producers, musicians and lyricists emerged alongside him, establishing an independent recording industry unparalleled anywhere in the world.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale du Québec 2021
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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