Musidora

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
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
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 Great Breath

The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre....

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The Story of Midinette
The Story of Midinette

During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts...

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Triple entente
Triple entente

Short romantic comedy starring Musidora as a capricious woman....

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The Other Victory
The Other Victory

This 1914 War patriotic melodrama tells the story of reconciliation between the remarried woman and ...

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Bout-de-Zan et le lion
Bout-de-Zan et le lion

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The Clutching Foot
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
Lagourdette, gentleman cambrioleur

With the help of Lévesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodyi...

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The Cavalry
The Cavalry

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade....

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La Peine du talion
La Peine du talion

A French short film...

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Vicenta
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
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
For Don Carlos

Pour Don Carlos was the biggest production by Société des Films Musidora (est. December 10, 1919). B...

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La flamme cachée
La flamme cachée

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Sun and Shadow
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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Les chacals
Les chacals

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Miseries of the Needle
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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Mademoiselle Chiffon
Mademoiselle Chiffon

The sad adventures of a young Parisian woman....

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Severo Torelli
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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Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui

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La vagabonda
La vagabonda

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La jeune fille la plus méritante de France
La jeune fille la plus méritante de France

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The Cradle of God
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
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
Musidora ou le mythe revisité

A documentary that takes a collage approach to depicting Musidora's career....

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Le furoncle
Le furoncle

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