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Mathilde Comont is a Actor French born on 8 september 1886 at Bordeaux (France)

Mathilde Comont

Mathilde Comont
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Nationality France
Birth 8 september 1886 at Bordeaux (France)
Death 21 june 1938 (at 51 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Mathilde Comont (9 September 1886 – 21 June 1938) was a French actress of the silent era. She appeared in 71 films between 1908 and 1937. She was born in Bordeaux, France and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

Biography

Mathilde Comont apparaît d'abord au cinéma dans sept courts métrages français, sortis en 1908 et 1909 (dont Ordre du roy de Michel Carré, 1909).

Puis, installée définitivement aux États-Unis, elle y débute dans trois courts-métrages sortis en 1917, deux de Max Linder, le troisième de William Beaudine. Comme second rôle de caractère (parfois non créditée), elle contribue à une soixantaine de films américains (dont une trentaine muets), où son physique imposant se remarque. Son dernier film est SOS vertu ! de Leigh Jason (avec Miriam Hopkins et Ray Milland), sorti en décembre 1937, quelques mois avant sa mort prématurée, d'une crise cardiaque.

Parmi ses films notables, citons Rosita d'Ernst Lubitsch et Raoul Walsh (1923, avec Mary Pickford dans le rôle-titre), La Bohème de King Vidor (1926, avec Lillian Gish et John Gilbert), La Monstrueuse Parade de Tod Browning (1932, avec Wallace Ford et Leila Hyams), ou encore Anthony Adverse de Mervyn LeRoy (1936, avec Fredric March dans le rôle-titre et Olivia de Havilland).

Usually with

Leo White
Leo White
(6 films)
Max Linder
Max Linder
(2 films)
Brandon Hurst
Brandon Hurst
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mathilde Comont (52 films)

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Actress

Anthony Adverse, 2h21
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains
Roles Cook Guisseppi
Rating62% 3.145823.145823.145823.145823.14582
In 1773, Maria Bonnyfeather (Anita Louise) is the new bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis (Claude Rains). However, she is pregnant by Denis Moore (Louis Hayward), the man she loved before being forced to marry Don Luis. After the marquis learns of his wife's affair, Don Luis takes her away but Denis tracks them down at an inn, where Don Luis treacherously kills him in a sword fight.
Ceiling Zero, 1h35
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, Barton MacLane, Isabel Jewell
Roles Mama Gini
Rating66% 3.337683.337683.337683.337683.33768
Old pals Jake Lee (Pat O'Brien), Tex Clarke (Stuart Erwin) and Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) flew together in the Army during World War I. Almost 20 years later, Jake is the manager of the Newark, New Jersey branch of Federal Airlines, a New York-based airline company. Tex works as an airmail pilot and Dizzy, also still flying aircraft, is seeking employment with his friends. Prior to his hot-shot arrival (Dizzy does a few tricks in the air before landing), a New York associate warns Jake about Dizzy, calling him unreliable and troublesome. Insulted, Jake replies that Dizzy is one of the best pilots in the country, telling a few stories about his fearlessness and bravery.
Robin Hood of El Dorado, 1h25
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Warner Baxter, Bruce Cabot, Margo, J. Carrol Naish, Soledad Jiménez, Eric Linden
Roles Señora Matinez
Rating59% 2.95162.95162.95162.95162.9516
In 1848 in California, a Mexican farmer, Joaquin Murietta (Warner Baxter), has turned criminal to avenge the death of his wife, Juanita de la Cuesta (Ann Loring) and brother Jose (Carlos de Valdez) at the hands of the Americans.
Poor Little Rich Girl, 1h19
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Roles Tony's Wife
Rating69% 3.4940453.4940453.4940453.4940453.494045
Barbara Barry (Shirley Temple) is the young daughter of wealthy Richard Barry (Michael Whalen), a recently widowed soap manufacturer. Worried that his daughter is spending too much time alone and not with other children her age, her father decides to send Barbara to boarding school. At the train station, Barbara and her accompanying nanny are separated when the nanny Collins (Sara Haden), looking for her stolen handbag, is hit and killed by a car.
Waterfront Lady, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald, Barbara Pepper, Grant Withers, Purnell Pratt
Roles Mrs. Spadaloni
Rating60% 3.001653.001653.001653.001653.00165
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Escapade
Escapade (1935)
, 1h32
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce, Mady Christians, Reginald Owen
Roles Carmen
Rating70% 3.541073.541073.541073.541073.54107
Set somewhere in Vienna in the 1900s (decade), the film opens with a successful surgeon (Morgan), feeing for the affection of his wife (Bruce). As does his brother, a concert conductor (Owen), for his flirtatious gal (Christians). Both women have something in common: they are in love with a philandering painter (Powell). The surgeon's wife contacts the artist and allows herself to be painted while only dressed in furs, with her face covered by a mask. The painting headlines the newspapers, and the entire city wonders who the mysterious masked lady is. The surgeon recognizes his fiancee's wife's furs in the painting, and is troubled. He is unaware that his own wife has borrowed the fur, though, and feels terribly sorry for his brother.
Caravan
Caravan (1934)
, 1h41
Directed by Erik Charell
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Jean Parker, Phillips Holmes, Louise Fazenda, Eugene Pallette
Roles Gypsy (Uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0482153.0482153.0482153.0482153.048215
The young Countess Wilma (Young) is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. Wilma impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi (Boyer), offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent.
Caravane
Caravane (1934)
, 1h49
Directed by Erik Charell
Origin France
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Annabella, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Parker, Conchita Montenegro
Rating55% 2.785242.785242.785242.785242.78524
La princesse Wilma rentre à Budapest après la mort de son père pour l'ouverture du testament. Elle découvre alors que le testament stipule qu'elle ne peut percevoir son héritage que si elle est mariée avant sa majorité. Or il y a urgence car elle atteindra sa majorité le soir même. Il apparaît alors que son oncle le baron de Tokay a comploté de lui faire épouser son fils, le lieutenant de Tokay, un fêtard invétéré. Pour y échapper, la princesse Wilma épouse sur le champ Latzi, un jeune bohémien. Alors qu'elle fête ses noces déguisée en bohémienne, la princesse Wilma rencontre le lieutenant Tokay qui s'éprend d'elle .
A Wicked Woman, 1h12
Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, William Henry, Marilyn Harris, Robert Taylor
Roles Proprietess (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2360653.2360653.2360653.2360653.236065
Design for Living, 1h31
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Ben Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Noel Coward
Actors Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Wyndham Standing
Roles Heavy Woman (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.6961753.6961753.6961753.6961753.696175
While en route to Paris via train, commercial artist Gilda Farrell meets artist George Curtis and playwright Thomas Chambers, fellow Americans who share an apartment in the French capital. Gilda works for advertising executive Max Plunkett, who has had no success in his efforts to engage her in a romantic relationship. Tom and George each realizes the other is in love with Gilda, and although they agree to forget her, they cannot resist her when she comes to visit. Unable to choose between the two, she proposes she live with them as a friend, muse, and critic—with the understanding they will not have sex.
Laughing at Life, 1h11
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, Lois Wilson, Henry B. Walthall, Regis Toomey, Ruth Hall
Roles Mamacita
Rating53% 2.6830852.6830852.6830852.6830852.683085
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Freaks
Freaks (1932)
, 1h4
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Circus films, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Wallace Ford, Edgar Allan Woolf, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles
Roles Madame Bartet (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.899683.899683.899683.899683.89968
The film opens with a sideshow barker drawing customers to visit the sideshow. A woman looks into a box to view a hidden occupant and screams. The barker explains that the horror in the box was once a beautiful and talented trapeze artist. The central story is of this conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra, who seduces and marries sideshow midget Hans after learning of his large inheritance. Cleopatra conspires with circus strongman Hercules to kill Hans and inherit his wealth. At their wedding reception, Cleopatra begins poisoning Hans' wine. Oblivious, the other "freaks" announce that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a "normal" outsider: they hold an initiation ceremony in which they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, "We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us. Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble". The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who accidentally reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules. She mocks the freaks, tosses the wine in their faces and drives them away. The humiliated Hans realizes that he's been played for a fool and rejects Cleopatra's attempts to apologize, but then he falls ill from the poison.
Lady with a Past, 1h20
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners, Albert Conti, Don Alvarado, Nella Walker
Roles Waitress (Uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0481253.0481253.0481253.0481253.048125
Bien qu'elle soit une héritière et plutôt charmante, Venice Muir est très timide. Elle est flattée quand le flirt Donnie Wainwright la presse de s'enfuir à Paris avec lui, puis irrité quand il l'abandonne avant le départ de leur navire. Venise a une idée, engageant un type sans le sou, Guy Bryson, pour faire semblant d'être un gigolo et faire connaître l'effet de Venise sur les hommes. Bientôt, elle est le toast de Paris, des prétendants faisant la queue pour la courtiser, dont René, un homme de lignée noble. À son insu, René est très endetté. Lorsqu'elle rejette sa proposition, René se suicide, renforçant la réputation de Venise en tant que renarde déchirante. De retour à la maison, Venise est suivie de plus de commérages, dont certains sur Guy. Un Donnie ébloui recommence à la poursuivre, gagnant finalement Venise sans jamais connaître sa ruse.