Simone Simon

Simone Simon

Birthday: 1911-04-23

Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Biography: French screen actress Simone Simon's film career spanned the years 1931-1973. She is best remembered, regarding her English language roles, for the Hollywood films The Devil and Daniel Webster [originally titled All That Money Can Buy] (1941), Cat People (1942), and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). Simon died in Paris in 2005.

Movies

Cat People
Cat People

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with...

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The Curse of the Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife...

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La Bête Humaine
La Bête Humaine

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by...

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All That Money Can Buy
All That Money Can Buy

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat...

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Le Plaisir
Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep ...

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Durand versus Durand
Durand versus Durand

Two different sales agents named Max Durand live at the same address. One of them pretends to be the...

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La Ronde
La Ronde

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a...

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A Son from America
A Son from America

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping t...

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King of Hotels
King of Hotels

A hotel worker who is really an aristocrat falls for a lady customer but instead of getting married ...

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Pour vivre heureux
Pour vivre heureux

After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and ...

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The Sad Sack
The Sad Sack

His aunt hopes to make this young aristocrat an honored soldier. But the colonel has it out for him....

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Mam'zelle Nitouche
Mam'zelle Nitouche

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Flo...

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Mind the Paint
Mind the Paint

The maid of a doctor, he had some canvases he didn't care for bestowed on him once by an unknown art...

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The Unknown Singer
The Unknown Singer

A legendary French singer, missing for years and presumed dead, returns with no memory, his face hid...

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Mademoiselle Fifi
Mademoiselle Fifi

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with...

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Temptation Harbour
Temptation Harbour

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa...

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The Woman in Blue
The Woman in Blue

Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful w...

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Ladies Lake
Ladies Lake

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpi...

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L'Étoile de Valencia
L'Étoile de Valencia

Because a sailor once told Pedro Savedra his wife, Marion, cheated on him, he left her. Learning lat...

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Pétrus
Pétrus

Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night ...

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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c...

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Girls' Dormitory
Girls' Dormitory

When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknow...

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Tahiti Honey
Tahiti Honey

The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded ...

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Ladies in Love
Ladies in Love

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance....

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Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...

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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is ...

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The Extra Day
The Extra Day

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf...

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Olivia
Olivia

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small fi...

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Josette
Josette

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the ...

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Love and Hisses
Love and Hisses

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch...

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Double Destiny
Double Destiny

A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in ...

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The Three Thieves
The Three Thieves

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarill...

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Cavalcade of Love
Cavalcade of Love

Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the wall...

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Lewton's Muse: The Dark Eyes of Simone Simon
Lewton's Muse: The Dark Eyes of Simone Simon

A video essay by filmmaker Constantine Nasr....

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Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with ...

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Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. S...

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Women Without Names
Women Without Names

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for disp...

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Hollywood Goes to Town
Hollywood Goes to Town

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...

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Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Jornal Português (1938-1951)

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propag...

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Happy Days
Happy Days

Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find wo...

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The Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl

A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands...

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Lusitanian Illusion
Lusitanian Illusion

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur...

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Le Voleur
Le Voleur

A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, repor...

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