Françoise Rosay
Age: 82 | From: Paris, France
Person Details
Birthday: 1891-04-19 14:07:51
Death: 1974-03-28 14:07:51
Aliases: Francoise Rosay , Françoise Bandy de Nalèche , Frances Rosay
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Paris, France
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Movie Involvements: 71
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
Françoise Rosay (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, 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. 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 3.0.
Most Famous Work
The Halfway House
(1944) Alice Meadows
The 25th Hour
(1967) Mme Nagy
September Affair
(1950) Maria Salvatini
Midi Trente
(1972) Self
Saraband for Dead Lovers
(1948) The Electress Sophia
The Stream
(1938) Régina Berry
The Seven Deadly Sins
(1952) Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
That Lady
(1955) BernardineActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Frau Dechamps | |
| 1972 | Mme Morelli-Johnson | |
| Self | ||
| 1969 | Louise de Kerfuntel | |
| 1968 | Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse' | |
| 1967 | Mme Nagy | |
| 1966 | Mme Aubry | |
| 1965 | Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu | |
| Lili's Grandmother | ||
| 1964 | Borgia | |
| 1962 | Mrs. Webley | |
| 1961 | Madame Pauline | |
| 1960 | Mme Parisot | |
| Madame Prade | ||
| Leonora Guala | ||
| 1959 | La grand-mère de Marguerite | |
| Mme Montcatel mère | ||
| Berthe | ||
| Caroline Compson | ||
| 1958 | La tante Antonia | |
| Madame Bouffier | ||
| Vincenzino's mother | ||
| 1957 | Comtesse Reinhart | |
| Mother Superior | ||
| 1955 | padrona della pensione | |
| Bernardine | ||
| 1954 | Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici | |
| Self | ||
| 1953 | Lady of Sant'Agata | |
| 1952 | La contessa Lamieri | |
| Anna Steiner | ||
| Gabrielle Demeuse | ||
| Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride") | ||
| 1951 | La contessa Canali | |
| Marie Martin | ||
| Noemi, die Amme | ||
| Mrs. Gauthier | ||
| 1950 | Laura Chapdelaine | |
| Maria Salvatini | ||
| Mme Monnier | ||
| The Countess | ||
| 1949 | Élisabeth | |
| Mireille Dombreval | ||
| 1948 | Lea Makart | |
| The Electress Sophia | ||
| 1947 | Countess Brévannes | |
| 1946 | Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel | |
| 1945 | Lanec Florrie | |
| 1944 | Alice Meadows | |
| Fanny Helder | ||
| 1940 | La duchesse de Vimeuse | |
| 1939 | Madame Devarenne | |
| 1938 | Madame Flora | |
| Catherine II | ||
| Francoise Scheffer | ||
| Régina Berry | ||
| Flora | ||
| Dolorès Detcharry | ||
| 1937 | Margaret Molyneux | |
| Marguerite Audié | ||
| Sylvie - seine Mutter | ||
| The fortune teller | ||
| Gilberte Boulanger | ||
| 1936 | Jenny Gauthier | |
| Mrs. Jouvenel | ||
| Cornelia | ||
| 1935 | Madame Burgomaster | |
| Mme de Quersac | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Duchemin | ||
| Madame Gardane | ||
| Louise Noblet | ||
| The Russian Countess | ||
| Clara | ||
| 1934 | Silvia | |
| Sylvia | ||
| N/A | ||
| Blanche | ||
| The Princess Mother | ||
| 1933 | La comtesse de Laverdens | |
| Mrs. Bossu | ||
| Mrs. Delannoy | ||
| 1932 | Princess Marie | |
| Madame Jacquet | ||
| Rosatti | ||
| Madame Husson | ||
| 1931 | Mme Mougeot | |
| The widow | ||
| Blanche Brissac | ||
| Rosa Duchêne | ||
| Mademoiselle Edwige | ||
| 1930 | Madame Boucijon | |
| 1929 | Zuleide, Alizar's Mother | |
| 1928 | The aunt | |
| Madame de Staël | ||
| 1927 | Madame d'Arcy, his wife | |
| 1926 | Edith Maranet | |
| 1922 | Shoe Store Customer | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Assistant Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |