Héléna Manson
Elena Eugenia Manson (18 August 1898 – 15 September 1994) was a French film actress. She appeared in 95 films between 1925 and 1989. Description above from the Wikipedia article Héléna Manson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Tenant
as Head NurseA quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a...
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Le Plaisir
as Marie RivetThree stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to...
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Le Corbeau
as Marie Corbin, l'infirmièreRemy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as...
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Lola Montès
as Lieutenant James' SisterLola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus...
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Les Misérables
as The landlady of the house CorbeauIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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My American Uncle
as La logeuse de René à CholetProf. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist...
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The President
as Mme TaupinAt 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing...
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Comradeship
as Rose, la femme du mineur blesséThe picture tells of a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an undergound...
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Manon
as Gossipy WomanPort of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a...
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Paris in August
as Mrs. Pampine, conciergeA man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation....
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Madame Bovary
as Héloïse BovarySoon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country...
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Marie CoquillotA village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred...
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Women Are Weak
as Mother SuperiorA playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Mme Desforges, la mère maladeThérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to...
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Strangers in the House
as Madame ManuLoursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence....
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Picpus
as Marie, la bonne (uncredited)Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret...
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Mermoz
as Madame MermozBiography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the...
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Adventures of Captain Fabian
as JosephineIt all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss,...
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Pension Mimosas
as La petite rentièreMr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by...
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A Trap for Cinderella
as L'infirmière (uncredited)Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from...
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Return to Life
as Simone (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...
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The Vintage
as Eugénie (uncredited)A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a...
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Famous Love Affairs
as la duchesseAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Black Dossier
as La femme du procureurIn the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an...
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La louve
as AlphonsineA chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he...
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People of No Importance
as Germaine ConstantinDuring a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman...
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Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
as Goubbiah's AuntGoubbiah is a Yugoslav sponge fisherman. He loves Trinida, but she is promised to Peppo, the...
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The Benefactor
as Gertrude, la bonneA kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence...
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The Farm of Seven Sins
as Michèle FrémontIn 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the...
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The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
as Mère dentisteIn the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children...
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Les Truands
as Nana Benoît aîné"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch...
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An Eye for an Eye
as Mme LaurierIn North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is...
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The Sword and the Balance
as Une dame du juryThree young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them...
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The Burning Court
as Augusta HendersonA group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an...
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Hélène
as ValérieHelene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays...
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Second Childhood
as MarieMiddle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his...
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The London Man
as Julie MalouinMaloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he...
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Stranger on the Prowl
as Grocery Store Clerk (victim)A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At...
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Bonjour jeunesse
as The cousinAfter her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins,...
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Le Secret d'une mère
as uncreditedAfter his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
as Marie Le GoardThe everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through...
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Le cas du docteur Brenner
as The nurseOut of love for his adoptive mother, Carl Brenner allows himself to be accused and imprisoned...
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Blonde in a White Car
as AméliePicked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced...
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The Ferret
as Elise BonvalletA mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping...
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The Vocation of André Carel
as CardanAt the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels...
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Peace in the Fields
as JohannaThis is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it...
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Rail Pirates
as Madame TeysseireHenri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the...
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Marie-Martine
as Mme LimousinThe novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the...
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Un amour de jeunesse
as 'La Pieuvre'Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the...
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The Eternal Husband
as La mère de Mathias le hussardAn adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity,...
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Her Last Part
as uncreditedAn actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like...
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Farewell Mister Grock
as Aunt PaulineThe life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world...
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Endless Night
as The Leleuf girlFleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with...
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
as Anne-Marie MahéIn a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a...
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Children of Love
as Miss LefortIn a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert,...
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L'Escalier sans fin
as Mademoiselle MichaudAn untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded...
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Fedora
as The room maidFedora swears to avenge the death of her fiancé, Prince Yarischkine, killed by Ipanoff who fled...
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Mr. Duke
as La secrétaireThe Duc de Latour-Maubert falls in love with an intriguer when he had better think about the...
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Les Lumières du soir
as Une demandeuse d'emploiA young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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In Venice, One Night
as JulieMortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he...
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Born of Unknown Father
as Mrs. DenisBy taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she...
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Two Women
as La soeur de KarelinaConsidering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not...
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Southern Bar
as uncreditedBaron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce...
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Un homme se penche sur son passé
as Madame Le FlochIn 50s Canada, trapper Jacques Monge is a freedom-loving adventurer. But when he falls in love...
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Last Desire
as MariaCaesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl,...
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La fille perdue
as uncreditedMarguerite Le Goff has a sad destiny. Daughter-mother to a holidaymaker at the age of sixteen,...
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