Viviane Romance
Birthday: 1912-07-04
Place of Birth: Roubaix, Nord, France
Biography: Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Romance caused a small scandal winning Miss Paris because she had a child. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). From this time to the late 1950s she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974.
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Pity for the Vamps
Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their live...
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Any Number Can Win
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He...
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Panic
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns ...
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Sirocco
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic...
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La Belle Équipe
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, th...
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Carmen
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Roman...
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The Affair of the Poisons
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set ey...
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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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The Hawk
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat....
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Ciboulette
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulet...
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N'aimer que toi
A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, d...
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Second Bureau
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-...
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Return to Paradise
Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the ope...
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Une gueule en or
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fid...
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Le Club des Aristocrates
Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then?...
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La Bandera
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. S...
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A Man to Kill
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes a...
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L'Ange du foyer
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give u...
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon,...
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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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Heart of the Casbah
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a...
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Woman Are Angels
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various d...
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Street of Shadows
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece a...
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Passion
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her h...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, h...
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Flesh and Desire
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia....
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his frien...
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Le Plus Bel Homme du monde
Documentary about the bodybuilding competition held in the south of France, in Cannes. Composed of 2...
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Blind Venus
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the ...
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The Puritan
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with...
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Flight Into Darkness
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre A...
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Gibraltar
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, an...
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L'inspecteur connaît la musique
Harry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet; the fa...
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A Woman in the Night
A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired...
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Maya
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance...
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Marked Girls
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release,...
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Crossroads of Passion
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for t...
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Justin de Marseille
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposi...
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La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak...
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La Route du bagne
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advanta...
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Le Joueur
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambl...
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Sacred Fire
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of diffi...
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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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Queen's Necklace
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henr...
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He Is Charming
A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law...
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Liliom
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a...
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Pasha's Wives
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d...
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Box of Dreams
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals....
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Dangerous Turning
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and...
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort...
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La Tradition de minuit
Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens...
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Pleasures and Vices
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a...
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The Nada Gang
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They...
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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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Trouble for the Legion
Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion....
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, ...
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