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Hot Pants Holiday (1971)
Character: Odette
Voodoo witchcraft is employed against an American housewife whose Caribbean vacation leads to a forbidden love affair.
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The Pied Piper (1942)
Character: Madame Rougeron
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
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Reunion in France (1942)
Character: Madame Montanot
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Character: Singer
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Character: Madame De Marchand
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Character: Madame Darville (uncredited)
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
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Dark Waters (1944)
Character: Mama Boudreaux
Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
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Dodsworth (1936)
Character: Renée de Penable
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Two-Faced Woman (1941)
Character: Dress Shop Saleswoman (uncredited)
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Out of the Fog (1941)
Character: Caroline Pomponette
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Character: Madame Bartholdi
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Suez (1938)
Character: Duchess
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Uncertain Glory (1944)
Character: Mme. Bonet
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Madame Gaby
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Kitty Foyle (1940)
Character: Delphine Detaille
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
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Devotion (1946)
Character: Mademoiselle Heger (uncredited)
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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Lady Possessed (1952)
Character: Mrs. Burrows
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
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