Acting
Rosy Varte
Rosy Varte (22 November 1923 – 14 January 2012) was a French actress of Armenian descent. She made almost 100 film and television appearances since 1949.
She starred in the 1972 film The Bar at the Crossing, which was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. She was a voice actress in the cartoon Western movies, Daisy Town (1971, as "Lulu Carabine") and La Ballade des Dalton (1978, as "Miss Worthlesspenny").
Born Nevarte Manouelian in Istanbul, Turkey, she emigrated to France at an early age. She appeared in comedies. From 1985 to 1993, she had the title role (Maguy Boissier) in 333 episodes of the hit TV series Maguy. In 2007, she won the 7 d'Or award for Best Actress for playing Maguy Boissier.
She died 14 January 2012 at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 88, following a battle with bronchitis, which degenerated into a lung infection, according to her widower, director Pierre Badel.
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Filmography
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Sacrée soirée
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Midi trente
Samedi soir
Système 2
Maguy
Matin Bonheur
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-r...
Love on the Run
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now...
The Night Caller
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos...
Daisy Town
When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop...
Manon
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a...
Happy Easter
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for East...
Waiter!
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusemen...
Male Companion
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the pr...
Antoine and Colette
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own...
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
The Busybody
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartmen...
The Annuity
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of h...
The Sultans
Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces the...
Love at Twenty
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on w...
Three Women
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Ma...
The Hussars
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous...
Pleasures and Vices
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain am...
My Uncle Benjamin
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to...
Fortunate
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded ye...
Le Braconnier de Dieu
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the f...
Salut Berthe !
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory...
A Legitimate Defense
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a not...
Would-Be Gentleman
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both a...
Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a...
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forc...
The Gigolo
Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shores of Lac d...
Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, pro...
La Honte de la famille
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the...