Gaby Morlay
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France. Morlay began acting in the era of silent films, and became known as co-star with Max Linder in his "Max" series. She starred in a series of "Gaby" films such as Gaby en auto (1917) and more than 20 other silent films. She moved easily into talking films in the early 1930s. She played Queen Victoria in the 1939 historical film Entente cordiale. She had an affair with the government minister Max Bonnafous (1900–75) during World War II, and as a result, she was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation of France. Later she married Bonnafous. Morlay continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s. She was an art lover and was a friend and admirer of the Italian painter Beretta Dimario who lived in Nice. Source: Article "Gaby Morlay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Le Plaisir
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
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The Blue Veil
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Anna
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Gigi
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The Twilight Girls
as Mme AncelinA beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school...
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Cordial Agreement
as Queen VictoriaThe film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente...
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Farandole
as ActressA ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute...
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Mlle. Desiree
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The Love of a Woman
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Behind the Facade
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Crime and Punishment
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
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Quadrille
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The New Gentlemen
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They Were Twelve Women
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First Communion
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
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Good Enough to Eat
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The Girl with the Whip
as LambertaThe daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
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Le Bonheur
as Clara StuartPhilippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress,...
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Fortunate
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When Love Is Over
as GermaineAn art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him...
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The Fear
as Irène SylvainA lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
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Le Tombeur !!!
as Agathe de ChamillacYes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its...
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Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
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Mensonges
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Hercule
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Un revenant
as Geneviève GoninA ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who...
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Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
as Madame de Saint-AndréSix young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by...
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Foyer perdu
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Millionaires for One Day
as Hélène BergerA typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as MaryseOn the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and...
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Quai des illusions
as uncreditedLise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who...
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Night Shift
as SuzanneA devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Sacred Youth
as Zabeth LonguéMr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He...
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When the Child Appears
as Annie FouquetCharles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe,...
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Once Upon a Time
as Ellen / MaryA poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic...
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The Lost Village
as Angélique BarrodetIn the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave...
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Max's Vacation
as uncreditedMax is invited to join his uncle for a holiday, but he hasn't invited his wife, so he sneaks her...
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Ramuntcho
as DoloresLove and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France.
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Dance House
as EstrellaThree men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who...
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Born of Unknown Father
as Mrs. NogentBy taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she...
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Samson
as Anne-Marie d'AndelineAn aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
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The Messenger
as MarieNick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie,...
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Love Around the Clock
as Pierrot's motherSymbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty...
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Les amoureux de Marianne
as uncreditedGaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in...
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Paris - New-York
as GabyThe forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude...
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Les Lumières du soir
as Rose HesslerA young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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White Wings
as Sister ClaireA great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot...
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The Last Metro
as Mathilde BourgeotLeaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a...
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Accused, Stand Up!
as Gaby DelangeParis, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby...
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Mammy
as Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears...
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Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
as Pauline BretonneauPhilibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary,...
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Aux portes de Paris
as 'La Madone'A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to...
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We Are Not Children
as RoberteIn the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little...
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Ève et le serpent
as Laurence BarroisGeorges, a medical student, falls in love with Louisette, his pretty neighbor, and gets engaged...
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Faubourg Montmartre
as Ginette GentilhommeTwo sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
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The Ironmaster
as Claire de BeaulieuA young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial...
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Companion Wanted
as (uncredited)Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
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The King
as Marthe BourdierKing John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role...
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L'Enfant de l'amour
as Liane OrlandThis woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom...
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Three Boys, One Girl
as Hélène DourvilleA seemingly united family is suddenly shaken by the turmoil caused by the discovery of a letter...
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Sacred Woods
as Adrienne ChampmorelDespite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for...
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Lunegarde
as La comtesse Armance de LunegardeA drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and...
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Fantaisie d'un jour
as uncreditedThérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand...
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The Dreamy Mouth
as GabyThe story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and...
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The Death Agony of the Eagles
as Lise CharmoyAfter the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love...
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Summer Storm
as Mrs. ArbelotAn attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.
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The Seniors
as Hélène LormierA high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays....
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L'Arlésienne
as Rose MamaïIn the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles....
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
as BéatriceA law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is...
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A Picnic on the Grass
as Manon WatteauA rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up...
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Without Trumpet or Drum
as uncreditedFor the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her,...
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Le Scandale
as Charlotte FérioulA woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives...
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The Black Diamond
as Mademoiselle Marthe DubardA wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father...
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La Mode rêvée
as uncreditedAn American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's...
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Her Last Part
as Hermine WoodAn actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like...
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My Darned Father
as uncreditedRoger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a...
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Ariane, Russian Maid
as ArianeArianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
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Hyménée
as Agnès d'AubarèdeAlthough Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by...
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