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Le cœur dispose (1937)
Character: Mrs. Miran-Charville
An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?
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Une de la cavalerie (1938)
Character: N/A
The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is missing. Fortunately his wife, who had arrived to spy on him, takes her place in the bedroom.
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Le cantinier de la coloniale (1937)
Character: N/A
Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his military superiors,he reigns ,so to speak ,over the grunts' grub. One fine day,opportunity knocks: his brother has just died;would you believe it,he made a fortune in America ,and our canteen man is the sole legatee: 100 million bucks. Overnight,his life (and his wife's ) change:not only his mates tell him stories to make his heart bleed to get some dough,but two aristocrats,a marquis and an earl,short of the readies,want the canteen man's daughter, a wise girl in love with a deserving young lawyer doing his military service,to become their daughter-in-law ,and to latch on to the girl's dowry.
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Pluie d'or (1936)
Character: N/A
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. The children grow up, the man dies and leaves them his fortune The heirs who only got the store, watch over them, which forces them to lead a double life.
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Le secret des Woronzeff (1935)
Character: N/A
Gravely ill, Prince Woronzeff asks a friend and look-alike, Franz von Naydeck, to replace him at the wedding of his daughter Nadia, whom he has just found, as the family covets the inheritance. Diane, who once loved the prince, doesn't betray the secret, because she now loves Franz and separates him from his pseudo-daughter, with whom he had begun to fall in love.
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Chourinette (1934)
Character: Mme Tourtier
When Vernonet learns that Chourinette is to marry another man, he is so upset that he decides to commit suicide on her wedding day. The young woman gets wind of his intention and is so moved by his act of love that she drops everything and runs away with Vernonet. But the groom's family and hers are on their trail to settle a few scores.
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La châtelaine du Liban (1934)
Character: La générale
The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
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Une femme sans importance (1937)
Character: N/A
A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary. He will try to fix his mistake.
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L'Épervier (1933)
Character: N/A
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.
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Madame ne veut pas d'enfant (1933)
Character: Madame Parizot
A young doctor suffers from his young wife's excessive love for sports. From the first day of their marriage, he must fight against this passion that he manages to overcome thanks to a former mistress who arouses the young woman's jealousy.
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Un mauvais garçon (1936)
Character: Mme Serval
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
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Son altesse impériale (1933)
Character: Chaperone
Prince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist Monique in Cannes.
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La Tragédie impériale (1938)
Character: The General
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
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Quadrille (1938)
Character: Madame de Germond
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
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Gangster malgré lui (1935)
Character: N/A
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
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Le Nouveau Testament (1936)
Character: Marguerite Worms
Husbands and wives, lovers and gigolos, all break a sweat when Dr. Marcelin’s newly-revised last will and testament is prematurely exposed.
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