Musidora
Birthday: 1889-02-23
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.
Movies
The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organizatio...
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Judex
When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adop...
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The Great Breath
The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre....
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The Story of Midinette
During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts...
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The Other Victory
This 1914 War patriotic melodrama tells the story of reconciliation between the remarried woman and ...
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The Clutching Foot
The famous scientific detective Justin Crécelle and his faithful assistant Walter Jymson seek to hal...
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Lagourdette, gentleman cambrioleur
With the help of Lévesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodyi...
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Vicenta
Prince Romano seduces Vicenta, a waitress in a shabby inn. She escapes to join him in Paris....
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The Land of the Bulls
Musidora wants the hero of her next film to be a young toreador who is reluctant to play for the cam...
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For Don Carlos
Pour Don Carlos was the biggest production by Société des Films Musidora (est. December 10, 1919). B...
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Sun and Shadow
An innkeeper, Juana, is courted by Jarana, a bullfighter who is then seduced by a stranger. Juana th...
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Miseries of the Needle
The central story of a young woman driven to suicide by the cares of earning piecework money to supp...
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Severo Torelli
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own fa...
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The Cradle of God
A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He dev...
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For the Children
The artist awakens. His maid brings him a letter from the Gaumont Studio. After a quick glance to it...
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Musidora ou le mythe revisité
A documentary that takes a collage approach to depicting Musidora's career....
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