Françoise Rosay

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

135

Movies

106

Born: April 17, 1891 – March 28, 1974
From: Paris, France

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 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. They had three sons. 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.

Works

106 films

The Counterfeiters of Paris

19617.0

Maternité

193510.0

Marchand d'amour

19358.0

Ruy Blas

1965

The Robber Symphony

19376.4

They Were Twelve Women

19405.9

Luck

19317.0

Crainquebille

19227.4

The Red Inn

19516.8

Cloportes

19656.3

Queen Margot

19547.1

The Stream

19386.8

Madame Récamier

19287.0

La Pouponnière

19339.0

That Lady

19556.6

The Seven Deadly Sins

19526.0

He Who Is Without Sin...

19526.6

3000 Million Without an Elevator

19725.6

Saraband for Dead Lovers

19486.6

Up from the Beach

19658.0

The 25th Hour

19677.7

The Gambler

19586.7

The Sound and the Fury

19596.8

A Father Without Knowing It

19327.0

Let Us Be Gay

19319.0

Not Dumb, the Bird

19725.8

Me and the Colonel

19586.5

Gribiche

19266.2

Bizarre, Bizarre

19376.9

Nobody's Children

19517.4

Serge Panine

19398.0

Wanda the Sinner

19527.0

Ramuntcho

19389.0

Carnival in Flanders

19357.4

Interlude

19576.3

The Woman Dressed As a Man

19329.0

Whirlpool

19355.8

Armchair 47

19375.9

The Chess Player

19385.3

Quartet

19486.3

September Affair

19506.0

Échec au roi

19307.0

The Halfway House

19446.5

The Full Treatment

19606.2

Buster se marie

19318.0

Riff Raff Girls

19595.3

The Seventh Sin

19575.4

Two Timid Souls

19286.3

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois

19479.0

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

19685.9

All for Nothing

19339.0

Smuggler's Ball

19525.8

Portrait of a Woman

19449.0

Les éloquents

1954

Carnival in Flanders

19369.0

Women Without Names

19507.0

Without Trumpet or Drum

195910.0

Lovers Woods

19605.0

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

19696.0

Casanova Against His Will

19316.7

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

20027.7

Life Dances On

19377.0

Vers l'abîme

193410.0

Back Streets of Paris

19466.2

The Pedestrian

19737.0

The Secret of Polichinelle

193610.0

The Little Cafe

19317.5

Eyes of Love

19595.5

The Dream Vagabonds

19497.0

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

19646.0

The 13th Letter

19515.7

The Great Game

19347.1

Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe

19607.0

Johnny Frenchman

19456.8

Non sono più guaglione

19578.0

Le bateau de verre

1927

Pension Mimosas

19356.8

Peace on the Rhine

19388.5

The Island

19346.7

The Trial of Mary Dugan

19318.0

The Naked Heart

19507.0

19326.1

The Last Four on Santa Cruz

19368.0

Le Billet de mille

19359.0

Jenny

19366.1

Abbot Constantine

19336.5

Si l'empereur savait ça

193010.0

Fahrendes Volk

19385.0

The Magnificent Lie

19317.0

One Only Loves Once

19509.0

Gangster malgré lui

19357.0

Marie des angoisses

19357.0

L'Âge heureux

19667.0

Girls of Today

19556.8

The One Woman Idea

19293.0

The Barton Mystery

194910.0

My Son the Minister

19376.5

Frau Cheneys Ende

19629.0

Sul ponte dei sospiri

19537.0

Jenny Lind

1931

K – Das Haus des Schweigens

19517.0

People Who Travel

19387.3

Stefanie in Rio

196010.0

Tambour battant

19347.0

Marius à Paris

19307.0

Coralie and Company

19348.0