Made Siamé
Also Known As: Мад Сиаме, Madeleine Marguerite Herth
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: April 28, 1885
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 16, 1974
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Mannequins of Paris
Overview: Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promising artist career to design the styles which make their firm a success. The trouble is that Véronique lives only for her job and does not allow herself -and her husband for that matter - a moment's respite. In Cannes, Pierre meets Wanda, a young singer with strange, fascinating eyes. The frustrated husband falls for her but gradually realizes that the light mercurial creature cannot possibly fulfill him. Véronique, feeling miserable, understands she is on the wrong track. She promises Pierre that she will make efforts to reconcile work and married life. Véronique and Pierre will live and work together again, each one forgiving the other for their faults.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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Le Fakir du Grand Hôtel
Overview: Démonio the fakir has impressed a rich but weak-willed young man who hires him as an energy teacher. Demonio drags out the businesses of the shy lover, but his partner arranges everything and the finally satisfied lover endows the two accomplices who renounce fakirism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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Flofloche
Overview: The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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The House on the Dune
Overview: In a village on the French-Belgian border, a smuggler named Sylvain falls in love with the pretty Pascaline, which infuriates Germaine, his mistress. The jealous woman reports Sylvain to the police. As a result, the young man gets hurt during a night chase. Fortunately Pascaline offers him hospitality and looks after him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-03
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The Queen and the Cardinal
Overview: A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Jeunesse d'abord
Overview: Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Secret of Polichinelle
Overview: Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri (Bernard Lacret). The baby is adopted by its grandparents, Monsieur and Madame Jouvenol (Raimu and Francoise Rosay). At first taking charge of the child because it is their duty, the Jouvenols come to love the little nipper as if he were their own son. At this point, the film threatens to drown in a morass of sentiment, but the actors and the director manage to stem the bathos with some first-rate comedy vignettes revolving around the care and feeding of the bouncing baby boy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-07
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L'Argent
Overview: Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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Alibi
Overview: Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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I Sing
Overview: Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Signé illisible
Overview: Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-17
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Midnight in Paris
Overview: On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-14
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The Benefactor
Overview: A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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The Musicians of the Sky
Overview: A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-10
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White Wings
Overview: A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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The Eternal Husband
Overview: An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-19
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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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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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Box of Dreams
Overview: Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Once Is Enough
Overview: Christine Jourdan is a highly rated sculptor who, to oust her impresario Ancelin, invented a lover named Nicolas. Soon she marries Jacques, but he proves to be jealous of the supposed lover. The newspapers publishing the death of a Nicolas, Christine takes the opportunity to announce the death of her lover. But the man in question was murdered by a woman. Jacques and Ancelin suspect Christine and indulge in the worst eccentricities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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The London Man
Overview: Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to drama. While the first falls and drowns, the second flees. Maloin, instead of warning the police, decides to dive in and recover the suitcase...which contains more than 3 million in small denominations! That's when the trouble begins...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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Captain Blomet
Overview: Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Overview: Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Chéri
Overview: Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all high-class prostitutes past their best. He has an affair with Léa, a waning beauty, who loves him both as a mistress and a mother. But the age difference takes its toll on their union. To please his mother, Chéri accepts to marry young Edmée without actually caring for her. After a while, the young man tries to return to Léa...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-06-28
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Fantomas Against Fantomas
Overview: Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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Véronique
Overview: The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Fort De La Solitude
Overview: On the borders of the desert, Péhu, a rather blunt creature on the verge of death, confesses to Charles Sigouane that some time before he stole and killed for the sake of a woman named Marie. Péhu recovers against all odds and returns to France with a view to finding Marie and to retrieve a loot he has hidden somewhere.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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The Beautiful Image
Overview: One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-30
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Clara de Montargis
Overview: Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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Bluebeard
Overview: Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Overview: A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Double or Quits
Overview: In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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Not So Stupid
Overview: Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous industrialist. He encounters a number of people scheming to marry into the Ménard family for the sake of money. Ménard discovers and thwart the plots and manages to unite a young couple who truly are in love. The romantic comedy ends happily with a double marriage. Henri's daughter Nicole marries Didier, and Ménard marries his new-found love Rosine. It turns out that Léon is "not so stupid" after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Opération Magali
Overview: Mario is a former gangster turned garage owner. His former accomplices ask him to murder Magali, their leader 's mistress,who intends to turn her lover in.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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So Much Love Lost
Overview: Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-12
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This Pretty World
Overview: Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Min vän Oscar
Overview: Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-01-20
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Farewell Mister Grock
Overview: The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Overview: Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-21
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Overview: Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Overview: A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-19
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Mister Taxi
Overview: An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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The Love of a Woman
Overview: Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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My Seal and Them
Overview: A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his everyday life becomes complicated, to say nothing of his sentimental life. Gabrielle, his all too serious girlfriend, can't stand the heat and calls it quits. But English girls like charming Diana don't mind seals...!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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The Twilight Girls
Overview: A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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