Suzet Maïs
Also Known As: Suzette Charlotte Marie Mathilde Roux
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 31, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 24, 1989
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Cocoanut
Overview: A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Jean of the Moon
Overview: Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-27
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White Smoke
Overview: Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Fat Man's Worries
Overview: A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth that guy's trouble to try to lose some weight, or is he kidding himself?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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The Terror with Women
Overview: Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-23
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Le roi des montagnes
Overview: A young botanist, an Englishwoman and her daughter are prisoners of a group of bandits operating in the mountains of Albania. A ransom is demanded. The capture of the gang leader's daughter, however, brings the situation to a happy conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Chéri-Bibi
Overview: An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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Let's Touch Wood
Overview: Auguste Chantilly leads a well-regulated life in the countryside, watching over his ward, the young Arlette. But in the city, he becomes Hubert, and leads a much happier life. Arlette is very keen to get to know this Hubert whom she thinks is her tutor's brother, and things get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Frédérica
Overview: Gilbert, poet and singer, is about to marry Lilette but deep inside himself he is not quite sure that she is the woman he needs. That is the reason why he has made up an imaginary woman, Frédérica" to whom he writes love letters, actual ones this time. When Lilette finds one of these, she sees red. Théodule, one of Gilbert's many friends, sets out the problem with the help of Claudine, his own girlfriend, posing as Frédérica. After Gilbert and "Frédérica" have played a phony breakup scene in front of Lilette, things seem to come right when... another Frédérica appears...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-18
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Utopia
Overview: Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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The Men Without Names
Overview: The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Angel and Sinner
Overview: During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-13
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Si jeunesse savait...
Overview: Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Overview: Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disputes, it borders on disaster but living together has obvious charms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Claudine at School
Overview: Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new teacher, Aimée Lanthenay, arrives at the school. Seemingly awkward, she is actually an arrivist who manages to get the departure of Miss Sergeant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-15
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Die... We'll Do the Rest
Overview: Unable to go to America where he dreamed of making his fortune, Ulysse Sylvain decided to apply the methods that had been successful across the Atlantic to his parents' village. He posed as a buisinessman, won the confidence of the notables and transformed the village in the American style, complete with pin-ups, cowboys and so on. Tourists flocked to the village, but Ulysse's greatest idea was to put the cemetery into operation in the American style, and to attract customers with a splash of advertising. Concessions sold out fast, and everyone wanted their place for eternity... However, administrative obstacles are about to cause a catastrophe that Ulysses will avoid at the last moment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-15
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
Overview: Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-16
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Domino
Overview: Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller galleries to try to sell his statuette. He gets Heller’s wife, who uses him to deflect the suspicions of her jealous husband: she had an affair before their marriage. Domino gets carried away and persuades the young woman to go away with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-28
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Le Joueur
Overview: Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-06
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Culprit
Overview: A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Paris by night
Overview: The young Countess Rita wishes to visit the slums of Paris. A matchmaker decides to arrange for her a little staging that allows the young dazed to believe that she has really spent an evening among the men in the middle. Things go wrong through the fault of a genuine apache.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-26
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American Love
Overview: A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a lover.She causes nothing but trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Shop Girls of Paris
Overview: The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu, sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-20
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