Jean Mercanton
Also Known As: Jean Louis Georges Mercanton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: May 17, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 04, 1947
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Le Passager
Overview: At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-10-17
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Princess, At Your Orders!
Overview: Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-02
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With Assurance
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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Mister Albert
Overview: Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-07-02
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To have known
Overview: An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Passionately
Overview: A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceval.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-20
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Let's Get Married
Overview: Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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The Seniors
Overview: A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-29
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Captain Benoit
Overview: An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Soyez les bienvenus
Overview: Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobilization, the manager becomes flight captain, Boisleroi a simple waykeeper and Jacques wants to enlist. Refugees arrive: an actress, a player, an old marquis, former owner of the castle and who will die there. All this life together culminates in the marriage of Jacques and Geneviève.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-08
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Départ à zéro
Overview: Two young people, cousins to each other, inherit a domain where three comrades come to camp. The castle serves as a reserve for a black market band whose leader will do his best to clear out the new occupants. An inventor, an archaeologist, an inspector and a goatherd enter the circle...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-23
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Little Nothings
Overview: Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Overview: Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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The Ménard Collection
Overview: Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-12
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Destitute Mary
Overview: Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-03
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Son of France
Overview: The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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The Heart of a Nation
Overview: The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-07
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Distress
Overview: Martine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead, leads an adventurous life. Pierre, her fiancé, unable to overcome his family's opposition to the revelation of this news, decides to kidnap Martine. The adventurer, who is not recognized by her daughter, agrees to leave France. The family of the young man will no longer put obstacles in the way of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-16
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Three from St. Cyr
Overview: Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-08-13
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Children of Chaos
Overview: An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-26
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Stupéfiants
Overview: When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The Phantom Wagon
Overview: French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Lucrèce
Overview: Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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The Little Thing
Overview: Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-31
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He Is Charming
Overview: A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine musical time.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-25
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L'Arlésienne
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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Halfway Up the Sky
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-12
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The mystery of the pink villa
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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Illegitimate Child
Overview: The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-02-03
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Toute sa vie
Overview: A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it with rich Englishmen. Having become a great singer, she finds her son with the help of a lawyer who loves her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-06-16
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Les deux gosses
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-12-26
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