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Adrienne D'Ambricourt is a Actor French born on 2 june 1878 at Paris (France)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I.
She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.
With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression — 1931).
She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.
Elle quitte la France pour les États-Unis après la Première Guerre mondiale. En 1922, elle joue dans la comédie musicale de George Gershwin et Gus Edwards à Broadway, The French Doll en interprétant un des rôles principaux, la "Baroness Mazulier". Elle débute dans le cinéma à Hollywood en 1924 avec le film muet Les Loups de Montmartre puis connait les débuts du cinéma parlant où elle apparait dans les versions françaises comme dans Quand on est belle avant que le doublage ne soit normalisé.[1]
Elle est inhumée au cimetière Holly Cross de Culver City, à Los Angeles, en Californie.
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Birth name Adrienne Dunontier
Nationality France
Birth 2 june 1878 at Paris (France)
Death 6 december 1957 (at 79 years)
Nationality France
Birth 2 june 1878 at Paris (France)
Death 6 december 1957 (at 79 years)
She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.
With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression — 1931).
She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.
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Adrienne Dunontier est née le 2 juin 1878 à Paris - France, et décédée le 6 décembre 1957 à Hollywood, États-Unis terrassée par une crise cardiaque à la suite d'un accident de voiture.Elle quitte la France pour les États-Unis après la Première Guerre mondiale. En 1922, elle joue dans la comédie musicale de George Gershwin et Gus Edwards à Broadway, The French Doll en interprétant un des rôles principaux, la "Baroness Mazulier". Elle débute dans le cinéma à Hollywood en 1924 avec le film muet Les Loups de Montmartre puis connait les débuts du cinéma parlant où elle apparait dans les versions françaises comme dans Quand on est belle avant que le doublage ne soit normalisé.[1]
Elle est inhumée au cimetière Holly Cross de Culver City, à Los Angeles, en Californie.
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The Purple Mask (1955)
, 1h22Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tony Curtis, Angela Lansbury, Gene Barry, Colleen Miller, Dan O'Herlihy, George Dolenz
Roles Madame Anais (uncredited)
Rating59%
France, 1803, is under Napoleon Bonaparte's rule, but royalist adversaries rally behind the mysterious Purple Mask, whose daring feats give them hope. A police captain, Rochet, goes after the Purple Mask only to be taken captive by him, whereupon Napoleon assigns the expert swordsman Basquet to go after him.
Beautiful Love (1951)
, 1h37Directed by François Campaux
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Gisèle Pascal, Antonio Vilar, Odile Versois, Antoine Balpêtré, Marie-France, Catherine Fonteney
Roles The deaf old lady
Rating48%
Calcutta (1946)
, 1h23Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore, Benson Fong
Roles Croupier's Assistant (uncredited)
Rating63%
Commercial pilot in India attempts to avenge friend's murder.
To Have and Have Not (1945)
, 1h40Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Noir, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Marcel Dalio
Roles Cashier (uncredited)
Rating77%
The film is set in Fort-de-France, in the French colony of Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France. The island is now controlled by pro-German Vichy France. World-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) has a small fishing-boat which he charters to tourists. Eddie (Walter Brennan) is his unofficial mate, though he's not much use due to heavy drinking. Harry is urged to help the French Resistance smuggle some people onto the island, but refuses.
Paris Underground (1945)
, 1h37Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, George Rigaud, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Kurt Kreuger, Andrew V. McLaglen
Roles Margot
Rating64%
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
, 2h15Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Florence Bates, Curt Bois, John Warburton
Roles Grandmother Dulaine (uncredited)
Rating63%
In 1875, Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman), the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole father and a light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines. Years ago, Clio's mother accidentally killed Dulaine when he tried to prevent her from committing suicide, and the scandalized Dulaines then exiled Clio and her mother to Paris. Clio is accompanied by her Haitian maid, Angelique (Flora Robson), and her dwarf manservant, Cupidon (Jerry Austin).
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
, 2h6Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Gladys Cooper
Roles Madam at Dieppe Hotel (uncredited)
Rating69%
At the height of World War II, Lady Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) is a nurse in a British hospital, awaiting the arrival of some wounded men. She thinks back to how she came to Britain many years before.
Experiment Perilous (1944)
, 1h31Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney
Roles French Instructor (uncredited)
Rating62%
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney). She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
Casablanca (1943)
, 1h42Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
Roles Concierge (uncredited)
Rating84%
Set in December, 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side against the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
, 1h13Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Kent Taylor, Richard Lane, Wallace Ford
Roles Miss Apricots (uncredited)
Rating60%
Molly Mahoney (Joan Blondell) forms a vaudeville act with her fiancé Eddie Kerns (George Murphy). Working at a local dance school, she longs to become a star performing on Broadway. Eddie persuades her to leave town for New York City, and after their arrival, Eddie debuts on the radio with his so-called singing canaries. Although the canaries are unable to sing, Eddie is not, and following an impressive debut he is offered a job at the station. He convinces co-worker Buddy Bartell (Richard Lanez) to grant Molly and her little sister Pat (Lana Turner) an audition.
Forty Little Mothers (1940)
, 1h30Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eddie Cantor, Veronica Lake, Judith Anderson, Ralph Morgan, Rita Johnson, Bonita Granville
Roles Miss Porter
Rating64%
Out of work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and helps her get a job so she can support herself. Then he finds an abandoned baby with a note asking someone to give him a good home. When he can't find anyone to claim the baby, Thompson "adopts" him so he won't end up in an orphanage.
, 1h33Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Victor Varconi
Roles French Landlady (uncredited)
Rating68%
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.
Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
, 56minutesDirected by James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Therese
Rating59%
In London a shape charge wielding master-criminal comes up with a foolproof plan for robbing a bank and outwitting Scotland Yard's pursuit, but during the getaway he hides his haul in a radio set in the apartment of a certain Capt. Bulldog Drummond, leading to a murder, punch-ups, an expedition to France, and a night in a French jail cell and a break-out, in a race to reach Bulldog's fiancee - who has taken the radio set with her on holiday unaware of its contents - before the villain does: ending in a roof-top fight and the Bulldog finally tying the matrimonial knot in an explosive finale to his bachelorhood.
City in Darkness (1939)
, 1h15Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba, Dorothy Tree, C. Henry Gordon
Roles Hotel Proprietress
Rating64%
Chan investigates a murder in Paris connected to the growing signs of impending war.
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
, 1h38Directed by Lloyd Richards, Herbert Wilcox, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts, H. B. Warner
Roles Undetermined Role
Rating64%
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