Arletty
Birthday: 1898-05-13
Place of Birth: Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Biography: Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat (15 May 1898 – 23 July 1992), known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arletty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...
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The Dance
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Casse...
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Le vertige
General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequent...
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Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexu...
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led h...
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Air of Paris
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion...
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The Devil's Envoys
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the De...
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Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store....
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Extenuating Circumstances
Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leav...
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A Dog That Pays Off
Josyane Plaisir, a rather idle singer, who is waiting for the man of her heart,handsome and rich if ...
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Portrait of a Murderer
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially d...
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Hôtel du Nord
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w...
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The Pearls of the Crown
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away...
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Je te confie ma femme
A young man, having seduced his friend's mistress, undertakes to leave his wife to the latter for on...
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The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon
Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughte...
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Lovers and Thieves
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the...
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La Fille de Madame Angot
Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pom...
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Aloha, the Song of the Islands
During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced...
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Le Mari rêvé
A shy young composer gets a job as musical director, under a false name, at a music publisher. The e...
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Sunday Encounter
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five ye...
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Désiré
Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled...
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Madame and Her Redskins
After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a si...
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Hitch-Hike
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to...
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Law of Men
After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female jour...
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Maxime
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young mil...
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Thunder Over Paris
An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of...
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Mother Love
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to c...
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Gigolo
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h...
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No Exit
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the gr...
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Adventure in Paris
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a...
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Flesh and the Woman
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless lo...
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Explosive Vacation!
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François M...
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Paris la belle
A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 195...
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The Stowaway
A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to b...
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The Lover of Borneo
Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capi...
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The Bureaucrats
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because o...
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Love, Madame
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François...
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The Trip to Biarritz
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre...
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Boléro
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a musi...
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Pension Mimosas
Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstanc...
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The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the p...
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Let's Make a Dream
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds ther...
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing...
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the ...
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The Little Thing
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fe...
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My Priest Among the Poor
Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Pr...
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The Father of the Girl
Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She lef...
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Mirages
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer....
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Et ta sœur…
Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he...
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Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife in...
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Abduct Me
René Dargelle is asked by a friend to receive a young woman in his place. She is soon to marry a Hin...
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Destination Rome
After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discover...
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The Tomboy
The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to...
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Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking
Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. ...
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t...
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The Sweetness of Loving
A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims t...
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