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Françoise Rosay

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82 Years Old

Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet. Her first recorded film was Falstaff in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in several films under her husband's direction, including Le Grand Jeu (1933), Pension Mimosas (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935) and Les Gens du voyage (1937). Rosay spent the duration of World War II in England and Switzerland, where she taught acting classes at the Conservatoire de Genève. She still appeared in films during this time, notably the British Halfway House (1944) as the refugee French wife of a British sea captain. During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel and Jean-Louis Barrault. In Hollywood, she co-starred with Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton and worked with directors such as William Dieterle (September Affair, 1949), Martin Ritt (The Sound and the Fury, 1958), Ronald Neame (The Seventh Sin, 1956) and Peter Glenville (Me and the Colonel, 1957) with Danny Kaye. In England she appeared in The Alien Corn, a segment of the W. Somerset Maugham anthology film Quartet. A highly accomplished pianist herself in real life, she played the role of a famous piano virtuoso who gives aspiring pianist Dirk Bogarde a compassionate but honest and devastating critical appraisal of his likelihood of becoming a great musician – which results in his suicide. She performs in the film Schubert's Impromptu in E flat. In 1950 she appeared on stage at London's Winter Garden Theatre, playing the title role in 'Madame Tic Tac' but it had only a short run. It was not until 1938 that her biological father, Count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche, acknowledged her as his daughter. Her final appearance on film was in the Maximilian Schell-directed Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian). She died in Montgeron, Île-de-France, near Paris. Her grave is located in Sorel-Moussel, Île-de-France, where she is buried with her husband, movie director Jacques Feyder. They had three sons. There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues. Source: Article "Françoise Rosay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Born

Paris, France on 17th April 1891

Died

28th March 1974

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Saraband for Dead Lovers Image
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Electress Sophia
The 25th Hour Image
The 25th Hour
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
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The Sound and the Fury
Caroline Compson
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Armchair 47
Gilberte Boulanger
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese Image
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
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Queen Margot
Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
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The Counterfeiters of Paris
Madame Pauline
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Nobody's Children
La contessa Canali
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The Naked Heart
Laura Chapdelaine
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Women Without Names
The Countess
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Quartet
Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
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September Affair
Maria Salvatini
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The Red Inn
Marie Martin
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The Halfway House
Alice Meadows
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He Who Is Without Sin...
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Interlude
Comtesse Reinhart
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The Stream
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Life Dances On
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Pension Mimosas
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The Little Cafe
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The 13th Letter
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Carnival in Flanders
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Me and the Colonel
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The Full Treatment
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Non sono più guaglione
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The Seventh Sin
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They Were Twelve Women
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Bizarre, Bizarre
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Up from the Beach
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That Lady
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Two Timid Souls
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The Pedestrian
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Lovers Woods
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Le Billet de mille
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Not Dumb, the Bird
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Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
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The Great Game
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The Magnificent Lie
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
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One Only Loves Once
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L'Âge heureux
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The Dream Vagabonds
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Smuggler's Ball
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3000 Million Without an Elevator
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The One Woman Idea
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Peace on the Rhine
Francoise Scheffer
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Stefanie in Rio
Leonora Guala
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Whirlpool
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Marchand d'amour
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Marie des angoisses
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Si l'empereur savait ça
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Die Insel
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Carnival in Flanders
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Eyes of Love
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Serge Panine
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Abbot Constantine
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Casanova wider Willen
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
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People Who Travel
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The Woman Dressed As a Man
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Ramuntcho
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The Secret of Polichinelle
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Back Streets of Paris
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Gribiche
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La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
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Gangster malgré lui
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The Robber Symphony
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Ruy Blas
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La Pouponnière
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K – Das Haus des Schweigens
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Marius à Paris
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