Acting
Sylvie
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress.
The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952), The Shameless Old Lady (1965), and Le Corbeau (1943).
She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France.
She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in The Shameless Old Lady.
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Filmography
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Ulysses
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the en...
Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre
Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither guar...
Le Corbeau
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusin...
Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband...
Michael Strogoff
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, C...
The Little World of Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are...
The Idiot
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spre...
Family Diary
Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger...
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, a...
The Curtain Rises
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique")....
We Are All Murderers
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former...
Marie-Martine
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel f...
Coïncidences
A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man b...
Angels of Sin
A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through...
Under the Paris Sky
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all...
Black Dossier
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable durin...
The Mirror Has Two Faces
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After...
Germinal
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern...
Mirror
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, h...
Forbidden Fruit
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As thei...
Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of...
Paris Romance
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a woman...
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murde...
Croesus
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by...
La Route du bagne
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her....
Les Truands
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the...
The Shameless Old Lady
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to ve...
One Does Not Die That Way
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the...
Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fel...
Two Loves
Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the...
The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. O...
Tous les deux
Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of Jean's despotic a...
The Lafarge Case
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of...
Black Humor
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma...
Pasha's Wives
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life i...