Françoise Rosay
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 17, 1891
- Died
- March 28, 1974 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Pedestrian
Movie · as Frau Dechamps
Not Dumb, the Bird
Movie · as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Movie · as Madame Dubreuil
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 9 eps
Aujourd'hui Madame
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Movie · as Louise de Kerfuntel
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Movie · as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
The 25th Hour
Movie · as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
L'Âge heureux
Movie · as Mme Aubry
Cloportes
Movie · as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Up from the Beach
Movie · as Lili's Grandmother
Ruy Blas
Movie · as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Movie · as Borgia
Frau Cheneys Ende
Movie · as Mrs. Webley
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Movie · as Madame Pauline
The Full Treatment
Movie · as Madame Prade
Lovers Woods
Movie · as Madame Parisot
Stefanie in Rio
Movie · as Leonora Guala
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
Movie · as Madame Alexandra
Riff Raff Girls
Movie · as Berthe
Eyes of Love
Movie · as Mrs. Montcatel mother
Without Trumpet or Drum
Movie · as La grand-mère de Marguerite
The Sound and the Fury
Movie · as Caroline Compson
Me and the Colonel
Movie · as Madame Bouffier
The Gambler
Movie · as Aunt Antonia
The Seventh Sin
Movie · as Mother Superior
Interlude
Movie · as Comtesse Reinhart
Non sono più guaglione
Movie · as Vincenzino's mother
That Lady
Movie · as Bernardine
Girls of Today
Movie · as padrona della pensione
Queen Margot
Movie · as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Les éloquents
Movie · as Self
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Movie · as Lady of Sant'Agata
He Who Is Without Sin...
Movie · as La contessa Lamieri
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie · as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Wanda the Sinner
Movie · as Anna Steiner
Smuggler's Ball
Movie · as Gabrielle Demeuse
The Red Inn
Movie · as Marie Martin
The 13th Letter
Movie · as Mrs. Gauthier
Nobody's Children
Movie · as La contessa Canali
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
Movie · as Noemi, die Amme
September Affair
Movie · as Maria Salvatini
The Naked Heart
Movie · as Laura Chapdelaine
One Only Loves Once
Movie · as Mme Monnier
Women Without Names
Movie · as The Countess
The Dream Vagabonds
Movie · as Mireille Dombreval
The Barton Mystery
Movie · as Élisabeth
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Movie · as The Electress Sophia
Quartet
Movie · as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Movie · as Countess Brévannes
Back Streets of Paris
Movie · as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Johnny Frenchman
Movie · as Lanec Florrie
Portrait of a Woman
Movie · as Fanny Helder
The Halfway House
Movie · as Alice Meadows
They Were Twelve Women
Movie · as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Serge Panine
Movie · as Madame Devarenne
Ramuntcho
Movie · as Dolorès Detcharry
The Stream
Movie · as Régina Berry
The Chess Player
Movie · as Catherine II
Fahrendes Volk
Movie · as Madame Flora
Peace on the Rhine
Movie · as Francoise Scheffer
People Who Travel
Movie · as Flora
My Son the Minister
Movie · as Sylvie - seine Mutter
Life Dances On
Movie · as Marguerite Audié
Bizarre, Bizarre
Movie · as Margaret Molyneux
The Robber Symphony
Movie · as The fortune teller
Armchair 47
Movie · as Gilberte Boulanger
The Secret of Polichinelle
Movie · as Mrs. Jouvenel
Jenny
Movie · as Jenny Gauthier
Carnival in Flanders
Movie · as Cornelia
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
Movie · as Nadja Danouw
Marie des angoisses
Movie · as Mme de Quersac
Carnival in Flanders
Movie · as Madame Burgomaster
Whirlpool
Movie · as Madame Gardane
Le Billet de mille
Movie · as Russian Countess
Maternité
Movie · as Mrs. Duchemin
Gangster malgré lui
Movie
Marchand d'amour
Movie · as Clara
Pension Mimosas
Movie · as Louise Noblet
Tambour battant
Movie · as The Princess Mother
Coralie and Company
Movie
Vers l'abîme
Movie · as Sylvia
The Great Game
Movie · as Blanche
The Island
Movie · as Silvia
La Pouponnière
Movie · as Mrs. Delannoy
All for Nothing
Movie · as Mrs. Bossu
Abbot Constantine
Movie · as La comtesse de Laverdens
He
Movie · as Madame Husson
The Woman Dressed As a Man
Movie · as Princess Marie
A Father Without Knowing It
Movie · as Madame Jacquet
Jenny Lind
Movie · as Rosatti
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie · as La veuve
The Magnificent Lie
Movie · as Rosa Duchêne
The Little Cafe
Movie · as Mademoiselle Edwige
Casanova Against His Will
Movie · as Blanche Brissac
Let Us Be Gay
Movie · as Madame Boucijon
Luck
Movie · as Mme Mougeot
Buster se marie
Movie · as Polly Hathaway
Échec au roi
Movie · as The Queen
Si l'empereur savait ça
Movie · as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Marius à Paris
Movie
The One Woman Idea
Movie · as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Two Timid Souls
Movie · as The aunt
Madame Récamier
Movie · as Madame de Staël
Le bateau de verre
Movie · as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Gribiche
Movie · as Edith Maranet
Crainquebille
Movie · as Shoe Store Customer