Gabrielle Fontan
Birthday: 1873-04-16
Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Biography: Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959. Source: Article "Gabrielle Fontan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movies
For One Cent's Worth of Love
A millionaire,in love with an innocent girl,does not want to be loved for his money.So he asks his s...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Gates of the Night
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to di...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmoth...
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A Day in the Country
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a m...
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Strangers in the House
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abando...
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The Lighthouse Keepers
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid d...
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Marie of the Port
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate...
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The Gates of Paris
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The A...
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My Friend Victor
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set h...
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L'Or dans la rue
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is u...
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Black Dossier
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no...
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La Petite Sauvage
The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring...
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Pluie d'or
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. T...
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The Ladies in the Green Hats
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is ...
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The Time of the Cherries
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crook...
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Titin from Martigues
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pr...
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Ramuntcho
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their...
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Two Women
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow he...
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The Duel
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young wom...
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Cordial Agreement
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordi...
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Twisted Mistress
Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, ...
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Eight Men in a Castle
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequen...
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Sins of Youth
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his d...
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The Musicians of the Sky
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant....
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Picpus
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to...
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The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or ...
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À la Belle Frégate
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searchi...
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Carnival of Sinners
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed ...
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Madame et le mort
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the trai...
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not ...
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The Roquevillards
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that ...
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L'Escalier sans fin
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by ...
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Le moussaillon
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clo...
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Ceux du rivage
In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to t...
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Secrets of a Ballerina
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover...
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The Traveler Without Luggage
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychi...
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The Ménard Collection
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she ...
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The White Blackbird
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that...
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Behind These Walls
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by...
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, find...
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Angel and Sinner
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known a...
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Strange Fate
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, w...
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The J3
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at se...
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Her Last Part
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like tha...
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Pétrus
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night ...
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Destiny
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad...
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Deadlier Than the Male
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's da...
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Anger of the Gods
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely di...
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Pluck the Hen
A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come...
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Torrents
Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who ...
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Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders....
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Vertiges
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible ill...
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Le Dessous des cartes
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mou...
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Rapide de nuit
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft throug...
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The Strollers
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead t...
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La Bataille du feu
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the b...
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Desperate Decision
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household ...
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Premier mai
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so...
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Life in a Song
The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the succes...
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire ag...
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Dainah the Mixed
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its d...
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One ...
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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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Bold Adventure
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to ...
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Julie la rousse
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her pa...
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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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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smuggler...
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The Curtain Rises
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dr...
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Love Is at Stake
Bob, a talented draftsman, and his young wife Marie-Blanche, a young antique dealer, adore their onl...
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Men Think Only of That
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman o...
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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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My Darned Father
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major co...
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Premier bal
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is res...
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Misdeal
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls i...
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The Versailles Affair
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive...
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Manon
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a shi...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses path...
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Valley of Hell
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he ...
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Crime and Punishment
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an ol...
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Toto
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty cro...
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The Last Penny
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks t...
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The House Under the Sea
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien...
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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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Messieurs Ludovic
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different char...
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The Fleeing Dead
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story...
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Douce
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de...
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The w...
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The Fatted Calf
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in...
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pi...
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After Love
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two ...
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever ...
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François Villon
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vaus...
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The Magic of the Kite
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the ea...
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the r...
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Life Is Ours
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat ag...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
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Lunegarde
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and take...
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Love Is My Profession
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He fall...
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A Certain Mr. Jo
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dr...
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Hi Doc
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like eve...
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L'homme au parapluie
A heart stops beating and two others no longer dare to face each other. While an old lady is found p...
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Lovers of Paris
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the bell...
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Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him ...
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