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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. 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 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1891-04-17
- event Death Date 1974-03-28
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.8
- info Birth Place Paris, France
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Marie des angoisses
1935-07-24
7.4
Carnival in Flanders
1935-12-03
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Ramuntcho
1938-02-24
6.8
The Red Inn
1951-10-19
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Tambour battant
1934-03-02
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Jenny Lind
1931-09-28
5.9
Whirlpool
1935-03-14
5.5
The 13th Letter
1951-02-21
6
Two Timid Souls
1928-12-04
7.8
The 25th Hour
1967-04-26
5.9
He
1932-02-15
5.9
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
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The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932-05-11
6
Johnny Frenchman
1945-10-29
6.1
My Son the Minister
1937-07-06
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La Pouponnière
1933-02-03
5.3
The Seventh Sin
1957-06-28
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931-11-06
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All for Nothing
1933-10-15
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Vers l'abîme
1934-07-13
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Coralie and Company
1934-06-07
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Le Billet de mille
1935-01-11
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Maternité
1935-04-19
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Gangster malgré lui
1935-05-03
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Marchand d'amour
1935-01-01
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The Secret of Polichinelle
1936-02-07
6.4
Cloportes
1965-10-01
6
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968-09-06
6.1
September Affair
1950-10-18
7
Life Dances On
1937-09-09
5.9
Jenny
1936-09-18
7.3
Nobody's Children
1951-11-22
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La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947-03-05
7
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961-09-27
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Les vagabonds du rêve
1949-08-05
6.9
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937-10-20
6.1
Back Streets of Paris
1946-11-27
6.3
The Full Treatment
1960-10-01
6.2
Me and the Colonel
1958-10-01
7.5
The Stream
1938-10-29
6
That Lady
1955-03-05
1
The One Woman Idea
1929-06-02
5.5
Interlude
1957-10-30
5.8
Riff Raff Girls
1959-05-20
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The Naked Heart
1950-11-16
5.8
The Robber Symphony
1937-05-21
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The Magnificent Lie
1931-07-25
4.7
The Chess Player
1938-11-25
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Carnival in Flanders
1936-01-15
4
Fahrendes Volk
1938-12-15
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Frau Cheneys Ende
1962-09-27
6.5
Girls of Today
1955-12-27
6.9
Pension Mimosas
1935-01-16
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Madame Récamier
1928-06-28
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The Little Cafe
1931-01-20
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K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951-03-27
5
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964-02-27
6.1
Armchair 47
1937-01-01
4.6
Lovers Woods
1960-08-13
7.1
The Great Game
1934-05-02
7
L'Âge heureux
1966-02-11
6.4
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952-12-18
5.3
They Were Twelve Women
1940-04-16
4.9
Eyes of Love
1959-11-25
6
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952-03-27
5
Die Insel
1934-08-29
7
Peace on the Rhine
1938-11-10
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Portrait of a Woman
1944-01-17
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Without Trumpet or Drum
1959-12-22
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Stefanie in Rio
1960-09-19
0
One Only Loves Once
1950-06-09
6.8
Queen Margot
1954-11-25
6.5
The Halfway House
1944-04-02
6
Not Dumb, the Bird
1972-11-15
5
Abbot Constantine
1933-10-19
5
Wanda the Sinner
1952-08-16
6.3
Women Without Names
1950-03-23
7
People Who Travel
1938-03-04
4.8
Smuggler's Ball
1952-06-08
6
Quartet
1948-10-26
6.5
Gribiche
1926-04-02
7.2
Crainquebille
1922-11-15
5
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953-08-21
6.6
The Sound and the Fury
1959-03-27
3
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969-08-14
6.4
The Pedestrian
1973-09-05
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Non sono più guaglione
1957-12-23
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A Father Without Knowing It
1932-04-10
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Les éloquents
1954-01-01
0
Le bateau de verre
1927-01-01
6
Serge Panine
1939-01-20
0
The Barton Mystery
1949-08-19
6.3
The Gambler
1958-10-26
0
Casanova wider Willen
1931-10-19
0
Let Us Be Gay
1931-04-17
8
Up from the Beach
1965-05-25
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Luck
1931-12-24
5.1
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972-08-18
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Échec au roi
1930-12-27
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Si l'empereur savait ça
1930-10-31
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Marius à Paris
1930-10-26
6
Midi trente
1972-03-06
