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Françoise Rosay
Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Born April 17, 1891Died March 28, 1974 (82 years)
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. They had three sons.
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.
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. They had three sons.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1973 | The Pedestrian · as Frau Dechamps |
| 1972 | 3000 Million Without an Elevator · as Madame Dubreuil |
| 1969 | Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille · as Louise De Kerfuntel |
| 1968 | Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese · as Léontine Palpicart Aka 'la Gâteuse' |
| 1967 | The 25th Hour · as Mme Nagy (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Cloportes · as Gertrude, Supplies Specialist In The Mafia |
| 1965 | Up from the Beach · as Lili's Grandmother |
| 1964 | Full Hearts and Empty Pockets · as Borgia |
| 1962 | The Longest Day · as Undetermined Role (french Version) |
| 1961 | Frau Cheneys Ende · as Mrs. Webley |
| 1961 | The Counterfeiters of Paris · as Madame Pauline |
| 1960 | The Youth Theater (TV Series) · as Catherine |
| 1960 | Stop Me Before I Kill! · as Madame Prade |
| 1960 | Le bois des amants · as Madame Parisot |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Madame Alexandra |
| 1959 | Without Trumpet or Drum · as La Grand-Mère De Marguerite |
| 1959 | Eyes of Love · as Mrs. Montcatel Mother |
| 1959 | Riff Raff Girls · as Berthe |
| 1959 | The Sound and the Fury · as Caroline Compson |
| 1958 | Le joueur · as Aunt Antonia |
| 1958 | Me and the Colonel · as Madame Bouffier |
| 1957 | Interlude · as Comtesse Reinhart |
| 1957 | The Seventh Sin · as Mother Superior |
| 1956 | Diary of a Bad Girl · as Madame Delahaye |
| 1955 | Girls of Today · as Padrona Della Pensione |
| 1955 | Navy Log (TV Series) · as Mama Germaine |
| 1955 | That Lady · as Bernardine |
| 1954 | Queen Margot · as Catherine De Médicis / Catharine Of Medici |
| 1952 | Chi è senza peccato.... · as La Contessa Lamieri |
| 1952 | Wanda the Sinner · as Anna Steiner |
| 1952 | Le banquet des fraudeurs · as Gabrielle Demeuse |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins · as Elisabeth De Pallières, The Mother (segment "pride") |
| 1951 | Nobody's Children · as La Contessa Canali |
| 1951 | The Red Inn · as Marie Martin |
| 1951 | The 13th Letter · as Mrs. Gauthier |
| 1950 | The Naked Heart · as Laura Chapdelaine |
| 1950 | September Affair · as Maria Salvatini |
| 1950 | One Only Loves Once · as Mme Monnier |
| 1950 | Women Without Names · as The Countess |
| 1948 | Saraband · as The Electress Sophia |
| 1948 | Quartet · as Lea Makart (segment "the Alien Corn") |
| 1946 | Back Streets of Paris · as Mrs. Rose, Hotel Landlady |
| 1945 | Johnny Frenchman · as Lanec Florrie |
| 1944 | The Halfway House · as Alice Meadows |
| 1942 | Portrait of a Woman · as Fanny Helder |
| 1940 | They Were Twelve Women · as La Duchesse De Vimeuse |
| 1939 | Serge Panine · as Madame Devarenne |
| 1938 | The Devil Is an Empress · as Catherine Ii |
| 1938 | Paix sur le Rhin · as Francoise Scheffer |
| 1938 | The Stream · as Régina Berry |
| 1938 | People Who Travel · as Flora |
| 1937 | Bizarre, Bizarre · as Margaret Molyneux |
| 1937 | Le fauteuil 47 · as Gilberte Boulanger |
| 1937 | Un Carnet de bal · as Marguerite Audié |
| 1936 | The Robber Symphony · as The Fortune Teller |
| 1936 | Jenny · as Jenny Gauthier |
| 1935 | Carnival in Flanders · as Madame Burgomaster |
| 1935 | Whirlpool · as Madame Gardane |
| 1935 | Pension Mimosas · as Louise Noblet |
| 1934 | Le grand jeu · as Blanche |
| 1933 | L'abbé Constantin · as La Comtesse De Laverdens |
| 1932 | He · as Madame Husson |
| 1931 | Buster se marie · as Angélique |
| 1931 | Casanova wider Willen · as Blanche Brissac |
| 1931 | The Magnificent Lie · as Rosa Duchêne |
| 1928 | Two Timid Souls · as The Aunt |
| 1926 | Mother of Mine · as Edith Maranet |
| 1922 | Crainquebille · as Shoe Store Customer |
| 1915 | Les Vampires · as Une Invitée Chez Mortesaigues |