Sylvie

Born: 1883-01-03

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. Source: Article "Sylvie (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Ulysses

as Euriclea
Released: 1954-10-06

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his...

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The Mirror Has Two Faces

as Mme Tardivet
Released: 1958-10-15

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an...

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Michael Strogoff

as Marfa Strogoff
Released: 1956-12-14

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of...

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The Little World of Don Camillo

as Signora Cristina
Released: 1952-03-28

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the...

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Le Corbeau

as La mère du cancéreux
Released: 1943-09-28

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as...

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Thérèse Raquin

as Madame Raquin
Released: 1953-11-06

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's...

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White Paws

as Maurice's mother
Released: 1949-04-13

An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.

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The Idiot

as Madame Ivolvine
Released: 1946-06-07

Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution,...

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Marie-Martine

as la mère de Maurice
Released: 1943-05-11

The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the...

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Un carnet de bal

as Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry
Released: 1937-09-09

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...

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Mensonges

as Agnès Leroux at 8
Released: 1946-07-25

Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an...

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Forbidden Fruit

as Madame Pellegrin mère
Released: 1952-09-19

A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young...

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Croesus

as Delphine
Released: 1960-09-21

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time,...

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Family Diary

as Grandmother
Released: 1962-09-28

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him...

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Les Truands

as Clarisse
Released: 1956-04-27

"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch...

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Angels of Sin

as La prieure
Released: 1943-06-23

A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female...

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Nutty, Naughty Chateau

as La grand-mère
Released: 1963-11-20

An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds...

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The Curtain Rises

as Clémence
Released: 1938-10-06

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur...

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Pasha's Wives

as Saféle, la mère
Released: 1939-02-18

Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live...

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Germinal

as Catherine
Released: 1913-10-03

Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers'...

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We Are All Murderers

as Laetitia Bollini
Released: 1952-05-21

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre...

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Mirror

as The nun
Released: 1947-05-02

Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer...

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Under the Paris Sky

as Mademoiselle Perrier
Released: 1951-03-28

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of...

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Paris Romance

as uncredited
Released: 1941-10-03

Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the...

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La Route du bagne

as uncredited
Released: 1945-10-16

Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual...

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Stolen Affections

as Mademoiselle Barge
Released: 1948-11-05

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events...

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The Traveler Without Luggage

as Madame Renaud
Released: 1944-02-23

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a...

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Father Goriot

as Mademoiselle Michonneau
Released: 1945-03-22

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in...

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One Does Not Die That Way

as Suzanne Bouvier
Released: 1946-07-03

In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of...

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The Shameless Old Lady

as Madame Bertini
Released: 1965-03-24

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She...

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Montmartre on the Seine

as Madame Courtin
Released: 1941-11-19

Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers,...

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The End of the Day

as Mme Tusini
Released: 1939-03-24

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...

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God Needs Men

as Coise Karbacen
Released: 1950-10-03

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow...

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The Island of Love

as 'La Strega', fortune-teller
Released: 1944-05-23

A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a...

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Passionnelle

as La baronne de Marsannes
Released: 1947-05-14

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a...

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Two Loves

as Mrs. Vincent
Released: 1949-01-05

Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all...

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The Lafarge Case

as Adélaîde Lafarge
Released: 1938-03-08

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this...

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Black Dossier

as Mme Bouju
Released: 1955-05-10

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an...

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Land Without Stars

as Madame Nogret
Released: 1946-04-02

Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago....

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Tous les deux

as Mrs. Gendron
Released: 1949-02-25

Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of...

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Black Humor

as La mère Belhomme - segment 1 'La Bestiole" (as Louise Sylvie)
Released: 1965-04-12

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus,...

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Le Coupable

as Louise Rameau
Released: 1917-10-05

At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose...

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L'homme sans nom

as Madame Ourdebey
Released: 1943-02-04

Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent...

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Coïncidences

as uncredited
Released: 1947-10-15

A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a...

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Comedy of Happiness

as Madame Marie
Released: 1940-12-23

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what...

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Un cas intéressant

as The mother
Released: 1963-01-15

Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Belphegor, or Phantom of the Louvre

as Lady Hodwin
First aired: 1965-03-06

Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at...

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