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Deux fois vingt ans (1931)
Character: N/A
Men including younger ones flock around a seductive older woman of mixed race, so that she forgets her age.Will she choose the one rightly destined for her?
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La complice (1933)
Character: N/A
A young woman loves a thief and follows him in all his bad tricks. Tired of this life, she leaves him the day she meets a young man with whom she falls in love. But she learns that he is a policeman and desperate, tries to commit suicide.
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Le secret du docteur (1930)
Character: Jean Colman
A young woman is married to a cad. She writes him a break-up letter and decides to run away with her lover to Egypt. But her lover is run over by a car and a doctor friend advises her to go back home.
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Das letzte souper (1928)
Character: Maxim Sad
The impressive cast is headed by the great Heinrich George as Boris Stroganoff, an opera composer and conductor who’s also a notorious lothario. Albani is ballet dancer Viola Suroff, who’s put her career aside to look after her partner Maxim Sadi, a baritone with unspecified health issues that have kept him off stage. Stroganoff sets his sights on Viola and offers her a job in the corps de ballet for his new opera The Boyar, which she accepts provided Maxim is also hired. However, dancer Margot (called Myrra in the French version) maintains a seething passion for Stroganoff, as does Countess Geschow (called Countess Ziska on this print), both of whom are resentful when watching his interactions with Viola. Jealousies run high on opening night between all the characters and Stroganoff is shot mid-performance, but who is the killer: Maxim, Margot, or Geschow?I
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The Island of Despair (1926)
Character: Colin Vereker
A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.
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Veille d'armes (1925)
Character: Lieutenant d'Artelles
When the commander of a cruiser ,which sank in a confrontation,is tried for negligence, will the wife speak up in his defense? Unknown to him, she was trapped in the cabin below with her former lover, a subordinate officer.
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Champagne (1928)
Character: The Boy
A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
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Anschluß um Mitternacht (1929)
Character: Henri
German silent film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Marcella Albani, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Curt Bois.
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Moulin Rouge (1928)
Character: Andre
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.
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Prix de beauté (1930)
Character: Prince de Grabovsky
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
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Am Rande der Welt (1927)
Character: Der feindliche Leutnant
A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.
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Remontons les Champs-Elysées (1938)
Character: Albert de Luynes
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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David Golder (1931)
Character: Prinz Alec
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
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