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person_profile-Françoise Rosay

Françoise Rosay Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Apr 18, 1891

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Mar 28, 1974

Biography of

Françoise Rosay

    Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.

    Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet.

    Her first recorded film was Falstaff in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in several films under her husband's direction, including Le Grand Jeu (1933), Pension Mimosas (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935) and Les Gens du voyage (1937). Rosay spent the duration of World War II in England and Switzerland, where she taught acting classes at the Conservatoire de Genève. She still appeared in films during this time, notably the British Halfway House (1944) as the refugee French wife of a British sea captain.

    During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel and Jean-Louis Barrault. In Hollywood, she co-starred with Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton and worked with directors such as William Dieterle (September Affair, 1949), Martin Ritt (The Sound and the Fury, 1958), Ronald Neame (The Seventh Sin, 1956) and Peter Glenville (Me and the Colonel, 1957) with Danny Kaye. In England she appeared in The Alien Corn, a segment of the W. Somerset Maugham anthology film Quartet. A highly accomplished pianist herself in real life, she played the role of a famous piano virtuoso who gives aspiring pianist Dirk Bogarde a compassionate but honest and devastating critical appraisal of his likelihood of becoming a great musician – which results in his suicide. She performs in the film Schubert's Impromptu in E flat.

    In 1950 she appeared on stage at London's Winter Garden Theatre, playing the title role in 'Madame Tic Tac' but it had only a short run.

    It was not until 1938 that her biological father, Count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche, acknowledged her as his daughter.

    Her final appearance on film was in the Maximilian Schell-directed Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian).

    She died in Montgeron, Île-de-France, near Paris. Her grave is located in Sorel-Moussel, Île-de-France, where she is buried with her husband, movie director Jacques Feyder.

    There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues.

    Source: Article "Françoise Rosay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Françoise Rosay

Found 82 Movies in total

The Pedestrian

Frau Dechamps ( Actor )

... 1973

Not Dumb, the Bird

Mme Morelli-Johnson ( Actor )

... 1972

3000 Million Without an Elevator

Madame Dubreuil ( Actor )

... 1972

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

Louise de Kerfuntel ( Actor )

... 1969

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse' ( Actor )

... 1968

The 25th Hour

Mme Nagy ( Actor )

... 1967

L'Âge heureux

Mme Aubry ( Actor )

... 1966

Cloportes

Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu ( Actor )

... 1965

Up from the Beach

Lili's Grandmother ( Actor )

... 1965

... 1964

The Counterfeiters of Paris

Madame Pauline ( Actor )

... 1961

The Full Treatment

Madame Prade ( Actor )

... 1960

Without Trumpet or Drum

La grand-mère de Marguerite ( Actor )

... 1959

Eyes of Love

Mme Montcatel mère ( Actor )

... 1959

Riff Raff Girls

Berthe ( Actor )

... 1959

The Sound and the Fury

Caroline Compson ( Actor )

... 1959

The Gambler

La tante Antonia ( Actor )

... 1958

Me and the Colonel

Madame Bouffier ( Actor )

... 1958

Non sono più guaglione

Vincenzino's mother ( Actor )

... 1957

Interlude

Comtesse Reinhart ( Actor )

... 1957

The Seventh Sin

Mother Superior ( Actor )

... 1957

Girls of Today

padrona della pensione ( Actor )

... 1955

That Lady

Bernardine ( Actor )

... 1955

Queen Margot

Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici ( Actor )

... 1954

Sul ponte dei sospiri

Lady of Sant'Agata ( Actor )

... 1953

He Who Is Without Sin...

La contessa Lamieri ( Actor )

... 1952

Wanda the Sinner

Anna Steiner ( Actor )

... 1952

Smuggler's Ball

Gabrielle Demeuse ( Actor )

... 1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride") ( Actor )

... 1952

Nobody's Children

La contessa Canali ( Actor )

... 1951

The Red Inn

Marie Martin ( Actor )

... 1951

K – Das Haus des Schweigens

Noemi, die Amme ( Actor )

... 1951

The 13th Letter

Mrs. Gauthier ( Actor )

... 1951

The Naked Heart

Laura Chapdelaine ( Actor )

... 1950

September Affair

Maria Salvatini ( Actor )

... 1950

One Only Loves Once

Mme Monnier ( Actor )

... 1950

Women Without Names

The Countess ( Actor )

... 1950

The Barton Mystery

Élisabeth ( Actor )

... 1949

The Dream Vagabonds

Mireille Dombreval ( Actor )

... 1949

Quartet

Lea Makart ( Actor )

... 1948

Saraband for Dead Lovers

The Electress Sophia ( Actor )

... 1948

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois

Countess Brévannes ( Actor )

... 1947

Back Streets of Paris

Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel ( Actor )

... 1946

Johnny Frenchman

Lanec Florrie ( Actor )

... 1945

The Halfway House

Alice Meadows ( Actor )

... 1944

Portrait of a Woman

Fanny Helder ( Actor )

... 1944

They Were Twelve Women

La duchesse de Vimeuse ( Actor )

... 1940

Serge Panine

Madame Devarenne ( Actor )

... 1939

Fahrendes Volk

Madame Flora ( Actor )

... 1938

The Chess Player

Catherine II ( Actor )

... 1938

Peace on the Rhine

Francoise Scheffer ( Actor )

... 1938

The Stream

Régina Berry ( Actor )

... 1938

People Who Travel

Flora ( Actor )

... 1938

Ramuntcho

Dolorès Detcharry ( Actor )

... 1938

Bizarre, Bizarre

Margaret Molyneux ( Actor )

... 1937

Life Dances On

Marguerite Audié ( Actor )

... 1937

The Robber Symphony

The fortune teller ( Actor )

... 1937

Armchair 47

Gilberte Boulanger ( Actor )

... 1937

Jenny

Jenny Gauthier ( Actor )

... 1936

The Secret of Polichinelle

Mrs. Jouvenel ( Actor )

... 1936

Carnival in Flanders

Cornelia ( Actor )

... 1936

Carnival in Flanders

Madame Burgomaster ( Actor )

... 1935

Marie des angoisses

Mme de Quersac ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

Whirlpool

Madame Gardane ( Actor )

... 1935

Pension Mimosas

Louise Noblet ( Actor )

... 1935

Marchand d'amour

Clara ( Actor )

... 1935

Die Insel

Silvia ( Actor )

... 1934

Vers l'abîme

Sylvia ( Actor )

... 1934

The Great Game

Blanche ( Actor )

... 1934

La Pouponnière

Mrs. Delannoy ( Actor )

... 1933

The Woman Dressed As a Man

Princess Marie ( Actor )

... 1932

The Trial of Mary Dugan

The widow ( Actor )

... 1931

Casanova wider Willen

Blanche Brissac ( Actor )

... 1931

Jenny Lind

Rosatti ( Actor )

... 1931

The Magnificent Lie

Rosa Duchêne ( Actor )

... 1931

The Little Cafe

Mademoiselle Edwige ( Actor )

... 1931

Si l'empereur savait ça

Princess Plata d'Ettingen ( Actor )

... 1930

The One Woman Idea

Zuleide, Alizar's Mother ( Actor )

... 1929

Two Timid Souls

The aunt ( Actor )

... 1928

Gribiche

Edith Maranet ( Actor )

... 1926

Crainquebille

Shoe Store Customer ( Actor )

... 1922