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Petite peste (1939)
Character: Hélène Bertheron
Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
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Le Mariage de Véréna (1938)
Character: N/A
Verena, a farm servant, gives birth to a little girl and for the happiness of her child, tries for nearly twenty years to bend the selfishness of the seducer who did not marry her. When she returns to the village, she has worn herself out at work, but she has the consolation of seeing her daughter's future assured.
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Ceux De Demain (1938)
Character: Denise Vernot
Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
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Romarin (1937)
Character: N/A
Romarin and his friend Tonin are two brave Provençal poachers who are not afraid. Romarin spends most of his time in his shed or on his boat, protected from customs controls. Tonin, a handsome guy with a tanned complexion, has many romantic adventures. For the moment, he is interested in the daughter of Larquus, a grocer from Cassis, the pretty Nine, who also covets the shady customs brigadier, the Corsican Napoléon Orsini.
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Trois pour cent (1934)
Character: N/A
Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.
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Le grillon du foyer (1933)
Character: N/A
Old Caleb has a blind daughter who he lies to about disasters happening to keep her happy. By chance he finds his son who disappeared at sea, that the marriage of his ex-fiancée with the villainous Tackleton does not take place and that everything ends for the best in the world...
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Si tu veux (1932)
Character: Maryse
A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.
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Ah ! Quelle gare ! (1933)
Character: Hélène
A traveler without a ticket gets off the train he has stopped, becomes an occasional station master, fraternizes with the inspector who is chasing him, protects the loves of the wife of the real station master who has abandoned his post to make sure of his wife's fidelity, and takes the train back when everything is settled.
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L'Affaire de la rue Mouffetard (1932)
Character: N/A
A lawyer defends his client so brilliantly that this one is released at once. But if the attorney expected thanks, he can only be disappointed as his client not only does not show him his gratitude but he reprimands him bluntly as well. The thing would be surprising if one did not specify that the accused, in order to escape all the small domestic worries, WANTED to be sent to prison. As compensations, the client finally settles down at the lawyer's!
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Bonjour jeunesse (1957)
Character: Liselette's mother
After her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins, brutal farmers, obtain guardianship of the young girl. Unhappy, she flees and finds refuge with a young shepherd living on alms.
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Maurin des Maures (1932)
Character: N/A
Poacher, bon vivant and womanizer, Maurin falls in love with the fiancée of a policeman. And despite all the principles, he easily triumphs over his rival.
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Une main a frappé (1939)
Character: Simone
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
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Les hommes de proie (1937)
Character: Michelle Korany
A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed.
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L'aiglon (1931)
Character: La comtesse Camerata
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
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Chotard et Cie (1933)
Character: Reine
François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father- in-law. Until the day when Julien receives the Prix Goncourt, prestigious literary award. Chotard has a sudden change of heart.
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Conduisez-moi, Madame (1932)
Character: Antoinette
Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.
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Famille nombreuse (1934)
Character: Irène de Grange
Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the commander who is shy and thanks to this resemblance, Follenfant who is also a ventriloquist, makes his superior and his own happy by marrying the widowed seamstress and mother, too, of a large family.
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L'Amoureuse aventure (1932)
Character: Ève
When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she plays the role of a chambermaid to a less prominent man.
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Son autre amour (1934)
Character: Hélène
A widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of disaffection but because of routine. The little boy is helpless: he feels he has been completely forsaken - Fortunately, things improve: Dédé ends up finding a new mummy.
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Casanova (1934)
Character: N/A
Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.
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Un coup de téléphone (1932)
Character: Germaine
A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
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Remous (1935)
Character: Jeanne Saint-Clair
The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.
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Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Character: Mme Geoffrin / Sarah Bernhardt
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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Napoléon (1955)
Character: Madame de Dino
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Maigret tend un piège (1958)
Character: Louise Maigret
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
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Si Versailles m'était conté (1953)
Character: Mrs. de Sévigné
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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Marie-Antoinette, reine de France (1956)
Character: Mme. Campan
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
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Remontons les Champs-Elysées (1938)
Character: Madame de Pompadour
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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