Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet.Her first recorded film was Falstaff in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in several films under her husbands direction, including Le Grand Jeu (1933), Pension Mimosas (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935) and Les Gens du voyage (1937). Rosay spent the duration of World War II in England and Switzerland, where she taught acting classes at the Conservatoire de Genève. She still appeared in films during this time, notably the British Halfway House (1944) as the refugee French wife of a British sea captain.During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel and Jean-Louis Barrault. In Hollywood, she co-starred with Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton and worked with directors such as William Dieterle (September Affair, 1949), Martin Ritt (The Sound and the Fury, 1958), Ronald Neame (The Seventh Sin, 1956) and Peter Glenville (Me and the Colonel, 1957) with Danny Kaye. In England she appeared in The Alien Corn, a segment of the W. Somerset Maugham anthology film Quartet. A highly accomplished pianist herself in real life, she played the role of a famous piano virtuoso who gives aspiring pianist Dirk Bogarde a compassionate but honest and devastating critical appraisal of his likelihood of becoming a great musician – which results in his suicide. She performs in the film Schuberts Impromptu in E flat.In 1950 she appeared on stage at Londons Winter Garden Theatre, playing the title role in Madame Tic Tac but it had only a short run.It was not until 1938 that her biological father, Count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche, acknowledged her as his daughter.Her final appearance on film was in the Maximilian Schell-directed Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title The Pedestrian).She died in Montgeron, Île-de-France, near Paris. Her grave is located in Sorel-Moussel, Île-de-France, where she is buried with her husband, movie director Jacques Feyder.There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues.Source Article Françoise Rosay from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Mme de Quersac
Film 1935
Madame Burgomaster
Film 1935
Dolorès Detcharry
Film 1938
Marie Martin
Film 1951
The Princess Mother
Film 1934
Rosatti
Film 1931
Madame Gardane
Film 1935
The aunt
Film 1928
Mrs. Gauthier
Film 1951
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Film 1967
Madame Husson
Film 1932
Princess Marie
Film 1932
Lanec Florrie
Film 1945
Sylvie - seine Mutter
Film 1937
Mrs. Delannoy
Film 1933
Mother Superior
Film 1957
The widow
Film 1931
Mrs. Bossu
Film 1933
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Sylvia
Film 1934
The Russian Countess
Film 1935
Mrs. Duchemin
Film 1935
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Clara
Film 1935
Mrs. Jouvenel
Film 1936
Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu
Film 1965
Maria Salvatini
Film 1950
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Film 1968
Marguerite Audié
Film 1937
Jenny Gauthier
Film 1936
La contessa Canali
Film 1951
Countess Brévannes
Film 1947
Madame Pauline
Film 1961
Mireille Dombreval
Film 1949
Margaret Molyneux
Film 1937
Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
Film 1946
Madame Prade
Film 1960
Madame Bouffier
Film 1958
Régina Berry
Film 1938
Bernardine
Film 1955
Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Film 1929
Comtesse Reinhart
Film 1957
Berthe
Film 1959
Laura Chapdelaine
Film 1950
The fortune teller
Film 1937
Rosa Duchêne
Film 1931
Catherine II
Film 1938
Cornelia
Film 1936
Madame Flora
Film 1938
Mrs. Webley
Film 1962
padrona della pensione
Film 1955
Louise Noblet
Film 1935
Madame de Staël
Film 1928
Mademoiselle Edwige
Film 1931
Noemi, die Amme
Film 1951
Borgia
Film 1964
Gilberte Boulanger
Film 1937
Madame Parisot
Film 1960
Blanche
Film 1934
Mme Aubry
Film 1966
La contessa Lamieri
Film 1952
La duchesse de Vimeuse
Film 1940
Mrs. Montcatel mother
Film 1959
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
Film 1952
Silvia
Film 1934
Francoise Scheffer
Film 1938
Fanny Helder
Film 1944
La grand-mère de Marguerite
Film 1959
Leonora Guala
Film 1960
Mme Monnier
Film 1950
Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Film 1954
Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Film 1972
La comtesse de Laverdens
Film 1933
Anna Steiner
Film 1952
The Countess
Film 1950
Flora
Film 1938
Gabrielle Demeuse
Film 1952
Lea Makart
Film 1948
Edith Maranet
Film 1926
Shoe Store Customer
Film 1922
Lady of Sant'Agata
Film 1953
Louise de Kerfuntel
Film 1969
Frau Dechamps
Film 1973
Vincenzino's mother
Film 1957
Madame Jacquet
Film 1932
Self
Film 1954
Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Film 1927
Madame Devarenne
Film 1939
Élisabeth
Film 1949
Aunt Antonia
Film 1958
Blanche Brissac
Film 1931
Madame Boucijon
Film 1931
Lili's Grandmother
Film 1965
Mme Mougeot
Film 1931
Madame Dubreuil
Film 1972
The Queen
Film 1930
Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Film 1930
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Self
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