Biography
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 P...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Dechamps
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find caus...
Not Dumb, the Bird
1972
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Madame Dubreuil
Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969
as Louise de Kerfuntel
Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance...
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
The 25th Hour
1967
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's gove...
L'Âge heureux
1966
as Mme Aubry
The young heroines are the "Petits Rats de l'Opéra" =pupil of the opera of Paris ballet class .One of them,Delphine,wants to be a ballerina.It's her w...
Cloportes
1965
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding tor...
Up from the Beach
1965
as Lili's Grandmother
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.
Ruy Blas
1965
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964
as Borgia
A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young ma...
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962
as Mrs. Webley
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
as Madame Pauline
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money...
The Full Treatment
1960
as Madame Prade
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous ...
Stefanie in Rio
1960
as Leonora Guala
Lovers Woods
1960
as Madame Parisot
1943, Christmas Eve in occupied Brittany. Charles, a member of the Resistance, is parachuted into the house of his mother, Madame Parisot, where he me...
Without Trumpet or Drum
1959
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When h...
Eyes of Love
1959
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she...
Riff Raff Girls
1959
as Berthe
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge o...
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Caroline Compson
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...
The Gambler
1958
as Aunt Antonia
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagori...
Me and the Colonel
1958
as Madame Bouffier
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel ...
Non sono più guaglione
1957
as Vincenzino's mother
A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Interlude
1957
as Comtesse Reinhart
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
The Seventh Sin
1957
as Mother Superior
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: tra...
Girls of Today
1955
as padrona della pensione
Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a weal...
That Lady
1955
as Bernardine
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his sec...
Queen Margot
1954
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the Lea...
Les éloquents
1954
as Self
French documentary short
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953
as Lady of Sant'Agata
Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an...
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952
as La contessa Lamieri
Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent t...
Wanda the Sinner
1952
as Anna Steiner
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
Smuggler's Ball
1952
as Gabrielle Demeuse
Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Hollan...
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Nobody's Children
1951
as La contessa Canali
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth ...
The Red Inn
1951
as Marie Martin
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the g...
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951
as Noemi, die Amme
The 13th Letter
1951
as Mrs. Gauthier
A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.
The Naked Heart
1950
as Laura Chapdelaine
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes bac...
September Affair
1950
as Maria Salvatini
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the ...
One Only Loves Once
1950
as Mme Monnier
Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.
Women Without Names
1950
as The Countess
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among t...
The Barton Mystery
1949
as Élisabeth
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
The Dream Vagabonds
1949
as Mireille Dombreval
The Dombreval troupe is the last vestige of an outdated form of entertainment: the traveling theatre. Mireille is the director, strong, courageous, bu...
Quartet
1948
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as The Electress Sophia
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of E...
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947
as Countess Brévannes
The son of the Comtesse de Brévannes dies. She, who has never wanted to meet her daughter-in-law and who wants to take care of her grandson, goes to t...
Back Streets of Paris
1946
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was ...
Johnny Frenchman
1945
as Lanec Florrie
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they...
The Halfway House
1944
as Alice Meadows
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness i...
Portrait of a Woman
1944
as Fanny Helder
A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her in-laws. Some time later, a body is found in a nearby l...
They Were Twelve Women
1940
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
Serge Panine
1939
as Madame Devarenne
A mother kills a very vile character, Prince Panin, with whom her adopted daughter has fallen in love and who has married, for her money, the natural ...
Fahrendes Volk
1938
as Madame Flora
Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, ...
The Chess Player
1938
as Catherine II
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who...
Peace on the Rhine
1938
as Francoise Scheffer
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border fa...
The Stream
1938
as Régina Berry
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing he...
People Who Travel
1938
as Flora
Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay.
Ramuntcho
1938
as Dolorès Detcharry
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is in...
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as Margaret Molyneux
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanc...
Life Dances On
1937
as Marguerite Audié
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she...
My Son the Minister
1937
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic...
The Robber Symphony
1937
as The fortune teller
A bag of loot is stashed in a piano that belongs to a family of traveling entertainers. A gang of robbers tries to get the loot back, and though they ...
Armchair 47
1937
as Gilberte Boulanger
A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconne...
Jenny
1936
as Jenny Gauthier
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenn...
The Secret of Polichinelle
1936
as Mrs. Jouvenel
Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri ...
Carnival in Flanders
1936
as Cornelia
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the ...
Carnival in Flanders
1935
as Madame Burgomaster
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the ...
Marie des angoisses
1935
as Mme de Quersac
A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.
Gangster malgré lui
1935
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist a...
Maternité
1935
as Mrs. Duchemin
Marthe, a robust peasant, is a single mother. For her child to be happy, she abandons him to the Duchemin household, eager for an impossible motherhoo...
Whirlpool
1935
as Madame Gardane
The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. T...
Pension Mimosas
1935
as Louise Noblet
Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is...
Le Billet de mille
1935
as la comtesse russe
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
Marchand d'amour
1935
as Clara
A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and di...
Die Insel
1934
as Silvia
A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
Vers l'abîme
1934
as Sylvia
The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have b...
Coralie and Company
1934
A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.
The Great Game
1934
as Blanche
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family fir...
Tambour battant
1934
as The Princess Mother
Abbot Constantine
1933
as La comtesse de Laverdens
A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the o...
All for Nothing
1933
as Mrs. Bossu
An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their misdeeds. His honesty will be rewarded though and...
La Pouponnière
1933
as Mrs. Delannoy
Christianne Delannoy is the daughter of Mr. Brown, who subsidizes a nursery in memory of his affair with Mrs. Delannoy. She loves Doctor Moreau, but h...
The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932
as Princess Marie
Told that he is to take charge of his grandson, a misogynistic old nobleman is taken aback when he discovers that "he" is actually a "she." At first r...
A Father Without Knowing It
1932
as Madame Jacquet
On the eve of getting married by order of his mother to a wealthy American heiress, Leon learns that his former friend just had a child. She cannot ke...
He
1932
as Madame Husson
In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who ...
Luck
1931
as Mme Mougeot
A beautiful widow gambles away her fortune at baccarat and is forced her to sell her jewels and ask Victor for hospitality. Victor tries to seduce her...
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
as The widow
Casanova wider Willen
1931
as Blanche Brissac
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
Jenny Lind
1931
as Rosatti
The Magnificent Lie
1931
as Rosa Duchêne
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
Let Us Be Gay
1931
as Madame Boucijon
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
The Little Cafe
1931
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philib...
Échec au roi
1930
as The Queen
Princess Anne, daughter of the King of Bellonia, loves the secretary Granton, but the proud Queen opposes the marriage. One day the good King wants to...
Si l'empereur savait ça
1930
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain.
Marius à Paris
1930
The One Woman Idea
1929
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman- a woman from another country-wife of another man.
Two Timid Souls
1928
as The aunt
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to ...
Madame Récamier
1928
as Madame de Staël
The film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of the Empress's ladies. In revenge for her refusal N...
Le bateau de verre
1927
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Gribiche
1926
as Edith Maranet
Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unh...
Faces of Children
1925
Assistant Director, Writer
A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step...
Crainquebille
1922
as Shoe Store Customer
Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a p...