Françoise Rosay
Acting
Biography
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 P…
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The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
Madame Pauline
The Red Inn
1951
Marie Martin
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
Margaret Molyneux
The 25th Hour
1967
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Carnival in Flanders
1935
Madame Burgomaster
Cloportes
1965
Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Life Dances On
1937
Marguerite Audié
The Halfway House
1944
Alice Meadows
September Affair
1950
Maria Salvatini
The Full Treatment
1960
Madame Prade
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
The Electress Sophia
Nobody's Children
1951
La contessa Canali
Me and the Colonel
1958
Madame Bouffier
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Caroline Compson
Quartet
1948
Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Jenny
1936
Jenny Gauthier
The Great Game
1934
Blanche
Whirlpool
1935
Madame Gardane