Françoise Rosay
Known for Acting · 108 credits
- Born
- 1891-04-17
- Died
- 1974-03-28
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Francoise Rosay · Françoise Bandy de Nalèche · Frances Rosay
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.
Known For
TV Shows (2)
Movies (106)
Non sono più guaglione
1957
as Vincenzino's mother
Cloportes
1965
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
That Lady
1955
as Bernardine
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Caroline Compson
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as The Electress Sophia
The 25th Hour
1967
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
as Madame Pauline
The Gambler
1958
as Aunt Antonia
L'Âge heureux
1966
as Mme Aubry
Quartet
1948
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Jenny
1936
as Jenny Gauthier
Le Billet de mille
1935
as Russian Countess
September Affair
1950
as Maria Salvatini
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Madame Dubreuil
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964
as Borgia
Queen Margot
1954
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Interlude
1957
as Comtesse Reinhart
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Up from the Beach
1965
as Lili's Grandmother
The Seventh Sin
1957
as Mother Superior
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Girls of Today
1955
as padrona della pensione
The Halfway House
1944
as Alice Meadows
Without Trumpet or Drum
1959
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
Life Dances On
1937
as Marguerite Audié
Riff Raff Girls
1959
as Berthe
The Full Treatment
1960
as Madame Prade
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952
as La contessa Lamieri
The Robber Symphony
1937
as The fortune teller
Me and the Colonel
1958
as Madame Bouffier
The 13th Letter
1951
as Mrs. Gauthier
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969
as Louise de Kerfuntel
Nobody's Children
1951
as La contessa Canali
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Dechamps
Si l'empereur savait ça
1930
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as Margaret Molyneux
Eyes of Love
1959
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
The Great Game
1934
as Blanche
Women Without Names
1950
as The Countess
The Stream
1938
as Régina Berry
One Only Loves Once
1950
as Mme Monnier
Johnny Frenchman
1945
as Lanec Florrie
Whirlpool
1935
as Madame Gardane
Back Streets of Paris
1946
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
The Island
1934
as Silvia
Pension Mimosas
1935
as Louise Noblet
Smuggler's Ball
1952
as Gabrielle Demeuse
Wanda the Sinner
1952
as Anna Steiner
My Son the Minister
1937
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
1960
as Madame Alexandra
Not Dumb, the Bird
1972
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Two Timid Souls
1928
as The aunt
Buster se marie
1931
as Polly Hathaway
Carnival in Flanders
1936
as Cornelia
All for Nothing
1933
as Mrs. Bossu
The Red Inn
1951
as Marie Martin
Échec au roi
1930
as The Queen
The Magnificent Lie
1931
as Rosa Duchêne
He
1932
as Madame Husson
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Lovers Woods
1960
as Madame Parisot
Crainquebille
1922
as Shoe Store Customer
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962
as Mrs. Webley
Carnival in Flanders
1935
as Madame Burgomaster
Serge Panine
1939
as Madame Devarenne
Portrait of a Woman
1944
as Fanny Helder
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
as La veuve
The Naked Heart
1950
as Laura Chapdelaine
They Were Twelve Women
1940
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Madame Récamier
1928
as Madame de Staël
Luck
1931
as Mme Mougeot
Armchair 47
1937
as Gilberte Boulanger
Fahrendes Volk
1938
as Madame Flora
A Father Without Knowing It
1932
as Madame Jacquet
The Dream Vagabonds
1949
as Mireille Dombreval
Casanova Against His Will
1931
as Blanche Brissac
Gangster malgré lui
1935
Maternité
1935
as Mrs. Duchemin
Abbot Constantine
1933
as La comtesse de Laverdens
The Chess Player
1938
as Catherine II
Let Us Be Gay
1931
as Madame Boucijon
Peace on the Rhine
1938
as Francoise Scheffer
The Little Cafe
1931
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Jenny Lind
1931
as Rosatti
Gribiche
1926
as Edith Maranet
The One Woman Idea
1929
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932
as Princess Marie
Stefanie in Rio
1960
as Leonora Guala
Marchand d'amour
1935
as Clara
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
1936
as Nadja Danouw
The Barton Mystery
1949
as Élisabeth
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947
as Countess Brévannes
La Pouponnière
1933
as Mrs. Delannoy
People Who Travel
1938
as Flora
Coralie and Company
1934
Marie des angoisses
1935
as Mme de Quersac
The Secret of Polichinelle
1936
as Mrs. Jouvenel
Vers l'abîme
1934
as Sylvia
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951
as Noemi, die Amme
Tambour battant
1934
as The Princess Mother
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953
as Lady of Sant'Agata
Le bateau de verre
1927
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Ramuntcho
1938
as Dolorès Detcharry
Ruy Blas
1965
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Les éloquents
1954
as Self
Marius à Paris
1930
About Françoise Rosay
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 Palai… With 108 credits spanning from 1922 to 2002, Françoise Rosay has appeared in 106 films and 2 TV shows.
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Most Popular Françoise Rosay Movies
- Non sono più guaglione (1957) — as Vincenzino's mother
- Cloportes (1965) — as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
- That Lady (1955) — as Bernardine
- The Sound and the Fury (1959) — as Caroline Compson
- Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) — as The Electress Sophia
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