Françoise Rosay
Birthday
1891/04/17
Day of death
1974/03/28 (83 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know 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 P...Read more
Acting
(1935) Marie des angoisses
as Mme de Quersac
(1935) Carnival in Flanders
as Madame Burgomaster
(1938) Ramuntcho
as Dolorès Detcharry
(1951) The Red Inn
as Marie Martin
(1934) Tambour battant
as The Princess Mother
(1931) Jenny Lind
as Rosatti
(1935) Whirlpool
as Madame Gardane
(1951) The 13th Letter
as Mrs. Gauthier
(1928) Two Timid Souls
as The aunt
(1967) The 25th Hour
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
(1932) He
as Madame Husson
(1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers
as The Electress Sophia
(1932) The Woman Dressed As a Man
as Princess Marie
(1945) Johnny Frenchman
as Lanec Florrie
(1937) My Son the Minister
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
(1933) La Pouponnière
as Mrs. Delannoy
(1957) The Seventh Sin
as Mother Superior
(1931) The Trial of Mary Dugan
as The widow
(1933) All for Nothing
as Mrs. Bossu
(1934) Vers l'abîme
as Sylvia
(1934) Coralie and Company
as ---
(1935) Le Billet de mille
as The Russian Countess
(1935) Maternité
as Mrs. Duchemin
(1935) Gangster malgré lui
as ---
(1935) Marchand d'amour
as Clara
(1936) The Secret of Polichinelle
as Mrs. Jouvenel
(1965) Cloportes
as Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu
(1968) Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
(1950) September Affair
as Maria Salvatini
(1937) Life Dances On
as Marguerite Audié
(1936) Jenny
as Jenny Gauthier
(1951) Nobody's Children
as La contessa Canali
(1947) La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
as Countess Brévannes
(1961) The Counterfeiters of Paris
as Madame Pauline
(1949) Les vagabonds du rêve
as Mireille Dombreval
(1937) Bizarre, Bizarre
as Margaret Molyneux
(1946) Back Streets of Paris
as Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
(1960) The Full Treatment
as Madame Prade
(1958) Me and the Colonel
as Madame Bouffier
(1938) The Stream
as Régina Berry
(1955) That Lady
as Bernardine
(1929) The One Woman Idea
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
(1957) Interlude
as Comtesse Reinhart
(1959) Riff Raff Girls
as Berthe
(1950) The Naked Heart
as Laura Chapdelaine
(1937) The Robber Symphony
as The fortune teller
(1931) The Magnificent Lie
as Rosa Duchêne
(1938) The Chess Player
as Catherine II
(1936) Carnival in Flanders
as Cornelia
(1938) Fahrendes Volk
as Madame Flora
(1962) Frau Cheneys Ende
as Mrs. Webley
(1955) Girls of Today
as padrona della pensione
(1935) Pension Mimosas
as Louise Noblet
(1928) Madame Récamier
as Madame de Staël
(1931) The Little Cafe
as Mademoiselle Edwige
(1951) K – Das Haus des Schweigens
as Noemi, die Amme
(1964) Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
as Borgia
(1937) Armchair 47
as Gilberte Boulanger
(1960) Lovers Woods
as Madame Parisot
(1934) The Great Game
as Blanche
(1966) L'Âge heureux
as Mme Aubry
(1952) He Who Is Without Sin...
as La contessa Lamieri
(1940) They Were Twelve Women
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
(1959) Eyes of Love
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
(1952) The Seven Deadly Sins
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
(1934) Die Insel
as Silvia
(1938) Peace on the Rhine
as Francoise Scheffer
(1944) Portrait of a Woman
as Fanny Helder
(1959) Without Trumpet or Drum
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
(1960) Stefanie in Rio
as Leonora Guala
(1950) One Only Loves Once
as Mme Monnier
(1954) Queen Margot
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
(1944) The Halfway House
as Alice Meadows
(1972) Not Dumb, the Bird
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
(1933) Abbot Constantine
as La comtesse de Laverdens
(1952) Wanda the Sinner
as Anna Steiner
(1950) Women Without Names
as The Countess
(1938) People Who Travel
as Flora
(1952) Smuggler's Ball
as Gabrielle Demeuse
(1948) Quartet
as Lea Makart
(1926) Gribiche
as Edith Maranet
(1922) Crainquebille
as Shoe Store Customer
(1953) Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Lady of Sant'Agata
(1959) The Sound and the Fury
as Caroline Compson
(1969) Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Louise de Kerfuntel
(1973) The Pedestrian
as Frau Dechamps
(1957) Non sono più guaglione
as Vincenzino's mother
(1932) A Father Without Knowing It
as Madame Jacquet
(1954) Les éloquents
as Self
(1927) Le bateau de verre
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
(1939) Serge Panine
as Madame Devarenne
(1949) The Barton Mystery
as Élisabeth
(1958) The Gambler
as Aunt Antonia
(1931) Casanova wider Willen
as Blanche Brissac
(1931) Let Us Be Gay
as Madame Boucijon
(1965) Up from the Beach
as Lili's Grandmother
(1931) Luck
as Mme Mougeot
(1972) 3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Madame Dubreuil
(1930) Échec au roi
as The Queen
(1930) Si l'empereur savait ça
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
(1930) Marius à Paris
as ---
(1972) Midi trente
as Self