Louis Vonelly
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blois, Loir et Cher - France
Birthday: July 03, 1883
Deathday: September 05, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Clochard
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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The Midnight Gentleman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-17
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Champignol malgré lui
Overview: A young man in love with a married woman takes the husband's place in the barracks and finds his rival there. But the fact that there are two Champignols in the ranks gives rise to many misunderstandings. But the husband preferring his painting, willingly abandons his pretty wife to the lover.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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La Robe rouge
Overview: The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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A Picnic on the Grass
Overview: A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-09
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Gosse de riche
Overview: The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Un fichu métier
Overview: Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the Prince by a double. The man chosen is Castin, a Parisian haberdasher, who looks like Alexis feature for feature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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Deux de la réserve
Overview: The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taking him for the famous Remy, inventor of a device of interest to national defence.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Nine Bachelors
Overview: Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Overview: With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no room for fun in her dull businesswoman's life. Then, a car accident drops Claude Dubois, a painter, into her lap. But the artist will have to deploy all his subtle wiles and clever tricks to rouse Hélène's feelings and get her to enjoy the cozy life of a cherished wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Life of Pleasure
Overview: An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-16
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Mademoiselle X
Overview: A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Quadrille
Overview: The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-29
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Carbon Copy
Overview: A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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Square of Knaves
Overview: Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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The Private Life of an Actor
Overview: Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Manon
Overview: Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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The Strollers
Overview: Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Monsignor
Overview: Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned). According to him he is none other than the monarch's great grandson. Louis's life is soon turned upside down as he becomes the center of attention of a group of ardent royalists. Even a duchess "gives" him her love to make sure that he accepts his role as pretender to the throne...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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Edward and Caroline
Overview: Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Death of the Sun
Overview: A young doctor is asked by her husband to choose between her profession and her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-02
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Napoleon
Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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Ultimatum
Overview: About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Mister Mustard's Millions
Overview: When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-07-02
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Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Overview: Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-11-12
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Bibi-la-Purée
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-02-12
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Karina the Dancer
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Good Luck
Overview: A girl, Marie, who got engaged to a boy who is leaving for military training (thirteen days) wins two million on the raffle, thanks to an older man, Claude, whom she calls her good luck …
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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