Thérèse Dorny

Born: 1891-09-18

Thérèse Dorny (born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni; 18 September 1891 - 14 March 1976) was a French film and stage actress. Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni was born on 18 September 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, the only child to Gaudence Jean Baptiste Marie Longo-Dorni (born 1859) and Marie Antonia Longo-Dorni (née Junghaans, born 1865). She began her career as a stage actress in 1913, and made her debut as a film actress in the 1930 film The Sweetness of Loving. She was best known for her roles in Cognasse (1932) and Les Diaboliques (1955). Dorny married the French painter and graphic artist André Dunoyer de Segonzac on 19 December 1964 in Viroflay, Île-de-France, France, who she remained with until his death in 1974. Dorny died on 14 March 1976 in Saint-Tropez, Var, France. Source: Article "Thérèse Dorny" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Diabolique

as Mrs. Herboux
Released: 1955-01-29

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an...

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Caught in the Foreign Legion

as Solange Duroc, la tante d'André
Released: 1950-11-08

André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery...

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La belle de Cadix

as Blanche
Released: 1953-12-24

A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It...

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Divine

as La Poison
Released: 1935-11-21

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad...

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Abused Confidence

as La logeuse
Released: 1937-11-29

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a...

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Box of Dreams

as Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1945-07-11

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.

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Whirlwind of Paris

as (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-15

A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of...

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Devil's Daughter

as Aunt Hortense
Released: 1946-04-17

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after...

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Return at Dawn

as The fashion house director
Released: 1938-11-18

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty...

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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine

as La dame en violet
Released: 1933-11-03

"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a...

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Passé à vendre

as Marthe Dupont
Released: 1936-09-14

Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a...

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Little Nothings

as L'habilleuse
Released: 1942-12-16

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the...

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Colonial Canteen

as uncredited
Released: 1937-07-09

Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his...

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Faust and the Devil

as uncredited
Released: 1949-09-07

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual...

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Prince de mon cœur

as Isabelle Gatemouille
Released: 1938-11-17

One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to...

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Le Passage de Vénus

as Zoé Chantoiseau
Released: 1951-08-30

Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very...

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Visages de femmes

as uncredited
Released: 1939-03-08

Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before...

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Monsieur Sans-Gêne

as La féministe
Released: 1935-03-14

A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened...

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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops

as Madame Noblet
Released: 1943-07-14

A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed...

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Oh! What a Mambo

as La belle-mère
Released: 1959-05-13

Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that...

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Adam Is... Eve

as Mme Beaumont
Released: 1954-07-30

In this comedy, a man gets a sex change to fulfil his wish to become a cabaret artiste.

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The Acrobat

as Pauline
Released: 1941-05-06

After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has...

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Katia

as La baronne
Released: 1938-11-07

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young...

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A Dog's Life

as Léocadie
Released: 1943-06-25

Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is...

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Les Sœurs Hortensia

as uncredited
Released: 1935-12-26

Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian....

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The Sad Sack

as Mme Blandin d'Ombelles
Released: 1950-11-10

Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has...

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Ciboulette

as Zénobie
Released: 1933-11-10

Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl...

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To have known

as uncredited
Released: 1932-09-01

An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than...

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Portrait of a Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1944-01-17

A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her...

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Mystery Tour

as Mademoiselle Roberta
Released: 1947-05-21

The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended...

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La Mascotte

as Dame Turlurette
Released: 1935-06-26

The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot...

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Le mort ne reçoit plus

as uncredited
Released: 1944-07-07

In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of...

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The Italian Straw Hat

as la baronne
Released: 1941-06-01

Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his...

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One of the Legion

as Antoinette Espitalion
Released: 1936-10-02

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths-...

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Ménilmontant

as Toinon
Released: 1936-11-20

Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request...

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3rd chimney on the right

as Concierge
Released: 1948-04-21

The difficulty in finding accommodation in Paris, will cause many stories, between some colorful...

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À nous deux, madame la vie

as Wife of 'Toto la Vache'
Released: 1937-03-26

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to...

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