Sylvie
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
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The Little World of Don Camillo
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Michael Strogoff
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Thérèse Raquin
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Angels of Sin
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Family Diary
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The Mirror Has Two Faces
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The Curtain Rises
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
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Black Dossier
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Marie-Martine
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Forbidden Fruit
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White Paws
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Croesus
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The End of the Day
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Black Humor
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The Shameless Old Lady
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Under the Paris Sky
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Mensonges
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Montmartre on the Seine
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Land Without Stars
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Pasha's Wives
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The Traveler Without Luggage
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Passionnelle
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Two Loves
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Stolen Affections
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The Lafarge Case
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Tous les deux
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God Needs Men
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La Route du bagne
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Coïncidences
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The Idiot
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Mirror
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Comedy of Happiness
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Le Coupable
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Germinal
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Les Truands
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Paris Romance
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The Island of Love
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L'homme sans nom
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Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre
as Lady HodwinFour episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at...
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