Viviane Romance
Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Romance caused a small scandal winning Miss Paris because she had a child. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). From this time to the late 1950s she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974.
Any Number Can Win
as GinetteCharles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois...
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La Chienne
as uncreditedCashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and...
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They Were Five
as GinaFive unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the...
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Panic
as Alice, maîtresse d'AlfredProud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman...
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Liliom
as La marchande de cigarettes - Cigarette GirlTwo women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public...
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The House Under the Sea
as FloreA stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband...
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The Nada Gang
as Madame GabrielleNada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists....
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La Bandera
as la fille de BarcelonePierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
as Adrienne RobineauOutwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon...
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A Woman in the Night
as uncreditedA theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic....
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Sirocco
as SafiaTown trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and...
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Man, Beast and Virtue
as Assunta PerellaPaolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his...
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Le Joueur
as Blanche du PlacetDrama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money,...
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Flight Into Darkness
as Une girlDuring the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Blanc (segment "Lust")A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust,...
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Princess Tam Tam
as Lucie's FriendA French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
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Marked Girls
as RégineJuliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her...
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Carmen
as CarmenCarmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane...
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Maya
as Bella dite MayaBased on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella...
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Queen's Necklace
as Countess Jeanne de la Motte-ValoisThe adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...
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Justin de Marseille
as Une pensionnaire de Madame OlympeA respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous...
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Box of Dreams
as Nicole Payen-LaurelNicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
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La Tradition de minuit
as Clara VéryFive people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot...
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He Is Charming
as UncreditedA French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the...
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La Route du bagne
as ManonParis, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual...
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Ciboulette
as A mistressDuparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl...
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Blind Venus
as ClarisseVénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of...
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A Man to Kill
as uncreditedCaptain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he...
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Trouble for the Legion
as CherieAlberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign...
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Street of Shadows
as Gaby, la chanteuse de cabaretA slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in...
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The Case of Poisons
as Catherine Deshayes, dite La VoisinMadame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King...
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
as (uncredited)Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of...
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Pasha's Wives
as Mireille, the French wifeMireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live...
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Le Club des Aristocrates
as GlorianeSerge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do...
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as LolitaMario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of...
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Pleasures and Vices
as Loïna GauthierHe was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to...
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Anger of the Gods
as uncreditedSylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been...
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Une gueule en or
as uncreditedThe Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the...
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Gibraltar
as Mercedes GarciaA British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are...
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Dangerous Turning
as Lucienne CourtoisThe adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder...
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Woman Are Angels
as Edmée ClotierIn order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in...
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The Puritan
as MollyA religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love...
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Pity for the Vamps
as uncreditedParis, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their...
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Second Bureau
as uncreditedCaptain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German...
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Crossroads of Passion
as Irène DumesnilLisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working...
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Dark Eyes
as CountessIn 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting...
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
as uncreditedThe gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the...
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Passion
as Marie CharbonnierAn unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of...
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Return to Paradise
as SuzanneTrying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the...
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Mam'zelle Spahi
as uncreditedTwo mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then...
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Heart of the Casbah
as uncreditedMaria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son...
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Flesh and Desire
as Mylène ValdèsGiuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
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Sacred Fire
as Paulette VernierA young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of...
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L'inspecteur connaît la musique
as uncreditedHarry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet;...
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The Hawk
as uncreditedThe wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a...
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L'Ange du foyer
as ChouquetteJacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not...
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