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Marcelle Pradot is a Actor French born on 27 july 1901 at Montmorency (France)
Marcelle Pradot (born Marcelle Marie Claire Pénicaud, or Pénicaut, 27 July 1901 – 24 June 1982) was a French actress who worked principally in silent films. She was born at Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, near Paris. At the age of 18 while she was taking classes in dancing and singing in Paris, she was asked by Marcel L'Herbier to appear in his film Le Bercail (1919). She went on to appear in a further eight of L'Herbier's silent films, and then in his first sound film L'Enfant de l'amour (1930) with which she ended her acting career. She was noted as an aristocratic beauty, and she was described by the critic Louis Delluc as "the Infanta of French cinema".
Marcelle Pradot and Marcel L'Herbier were married in late 1923, and their daughter Marie-Ange was born in the following year. Marcelle Pradot died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1982, two and a half years after L'Herbier.
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Marcelle Pradot
Birth name Marcelle Marie Claire Pénicaud
Nationality France
Birth 27 july 1901 at Montmorency (France)
Death 24 june 1982 (at 80 years) at Neuilly-sur-Seine (France)
Nationality France
Birth 27 july 1901 at Montmorency (France)
Death 24 june 1982 (at 80 years) at Neuilly-sur-Seine (France)
Marcelle Pradot and Marcel L'Herbier were married in late 1923, and their daughter Marie-Ange was born in the following year. Marcelle Pradot died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1982, two and a half years after L'Herbier.
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Illegitimate Child (1930)
, 1h38Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Emmy Lynn, Jaque-Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Marie Glory, Michel Simon, Odette Talazac
Roles Nellie Rantz
Rating46%
Le fils d'une vedette de music-hall cherche à se venger de son père, qui les a abandonnés.
L'Argent (1928)
, 3h15Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Roles Aline de Beauvilliers
Rating74%
Saccard and Gunderman are rival Paris bankers. Saccard sees an opportunity to rescue his failing bank, Banque Universelle, by financing the solo transatlantic flight of Jacques Hamelin, a pioneering aviator, and then capitalising on his popularity to set up a colonial business project in Guyane. He also hopes to seduce Hamelin's wife Line in his absence. When a rumour circulates that Hamelin has crashed, Saccard exploits the false reports to manipulate shares at the Bourse.
The Late Mathias Pascal (1925)
, 2h50Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Ivan Mosjoukine, Pierre Alcover, Marcelle Pradot, Michel Simon, Lois Moran, Jean Hervé
Roles Romilde Pascal
Rating69%
After the financial ruin of his family, Mathias works in the library of the village of Miragno. He marries Romilde, whom he had previously been courting on behalf of his timid friend Pomino, and they live with his shrewish mother-in-law. When his mother and baby daughter die on the same day, Mathias in despair runs away to Monte Carlo. In the casino he soon wins 500,000 francs. On his way home he reads in a newspaper that he is believed to have committed suicide and another body has been identified as his. He decides to seize this chance of freedom and to start a new life in Rome. There, under the name of Adrien, he falls in love with his landlord's daughter, Adrienne, who is engaged to an archaeologist, Térence Papiano. At a séance, Papiano and his brother Scipion steal Adrien's money. Unable to go to the police, Adrien/Mathias resigns himself to returning to Miragno. He discovers that Romilde has remarried, to Pomino, and they have a new child. He decides to leave them in peace, and sets off again for Rome and Adrienne.
The inhuman woman (1924)
, 2h15Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Actors Jaque-Catelain, Philippe Hériat, Marcelle Pradot
Roles The simpleton
Rating71%
Famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.
Don Juan et Faust (1922)
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jaque-Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Philippe Hériat, Michel Duran, Johanna Sutter, Noémie Scize
Roles Doña Ana
Rating54%
The Man of the Sea (1921)
, 1h25Directed by Claude Autant-Lara, Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jaque-Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Roger Karl, Charles Boyer, Claude Autant-Lara, Claire Prélia
Roles Djenna
Rating67%
Nolff, a devout Breton fisherman, has taken a vow of silence and lives as a hermit beside the sea. No-one comes near him except the white-clad novice who brings him food.
El Dorado (1921)
, 1h38Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Ève Francis, Jaque-Catelain, Philippe Hériat, Marcelle Pradot, Georges Paulais, Claire Prélia
Roles Iliana
Rating70%
In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estoria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estoria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra. When Hedwick learns the truth next day, he and Iliana decide to take refuge at his mother's remote house on the Sierra Nevada, and they propose to Sibilla that they should take her son (Iliana's half-brother) with them so that he can be properly cared for in a healthy climate. Sibilla reluctantly agrees, but she is distraught as she returns to her empty room at El Dorado where she even has to fight off Joao, the cabaret's clown, as he tries to rape her. Knowing that she will not see her son again, she performs a last dance on stage to rapturous applause before going backstage to stab herself.
Prometheus, Banker (1921)
, 16minutesDirected by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Gabriel Signoret, Ève Francis, Marcelle Pradot, Jaque-Catelain, Philippe Hériat, Louis Delluc
Rating61%
Transposition du mythe de Prométhée à l'époque contemporaine.
Le Carnaval des vérités (1920)
, 1h29Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Suzanne Desprès, Paul Capellani, Jaque-Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Eugénie Nau, Claude France
Roles Clarisse
Rating61%
Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.
Le Bercail (1919)
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marcelle Pradot, Jaque-Catelain, Paul Capellani, Claire Prélia, Armand Tallier
Roles Evelyne
Rating64%