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
Filme 1935
Madame Burgomaster
Filme 1935
Dolorès Detcharry
Filme 1938
Marie Martin
Filme 1951
The Princess Mother
Filme 1934
Rosatti
Filme 1931
Madame Gardane
Filme 1935
The aunt
Filme 1928
Mrs. Gauthier
Filme 1951
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Filme 1967
Madame Husson
Filme 1932
Princess Marie
Filme 1932
Lanec Florrie
Filme 1945
Sylvie - seine Mutter
Filme 1937
Mrs. Delannoy
Filme 1933
Mother Superior
Filme 1957
The widow
Filme 1931
Mrs. Bossu
Filme 1933
Filme 1934
Sylvia
Filme 1934
The Russian Countess
Filme 1935
Mrs. Duchemin
Filme 1935
Filme 1935
Clara
Filme 1935
Mrs. Jouvenel
Filme 1936
Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu
Filme 1965
Maria Salvatini
Filme 1950
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Filme 1968
Marguerite Audié
Filme 1937
Jenny Gauthier
Filme 1936
La contessa Canali
Filme 1951
Countess Brévannes
Filme 1947
Madame Pauline
Filme 1961
Mireille Dombreval
Filme 1949
Margaret Molyneux
Filme 1937
Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
Filme 1946
Madame Prade
Filme 1960
Madame Bouffier
Filme 1958
Régina Berry
Filme 1938
Bernardine
Filme 1955
Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Filme 1929
Comtesse Reinhart
Filme 1957
Berthe
Filme 1959
Laura Chapdelaine
Filme 1950
The fortune teller
Filme 1937
Rosa Duchêne
Filme 1931
Catherine II
Filme 1938
Cornelia
Filme 1936
Madame Flora
Filme 1938
Mrs. Webley
Filme 1962
padrona della pensione
Filme 1955
Louise Noblet
Filme 1935
Madame de Staël
Filme 1928
Mademoiselle Edwige
Filme 1931
Noemi, die Amme
Filme 1951
Borgia
Filme 1964
Gilberte Boulanger
Filme 1937
Madame Parisot
Filme 1960
Blanche
Filme 1934
Mme Aubry
Filme 1966
La contessa Lamieri
Filme 1952
La duchesse de Vimeuse
Filme 1940
Mrs. Montcatel mother
Filme 1959
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
Filme 1952
Silvia
Filme 1934
Francoise Scheffer
Filme 1938
Fanny Helder
Filme 1944
La grand-mère de Marguerite
Filme 1959
Leonora Guala
Filme 1960
Mme Monnier
Filme 1950
Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Filme 1954
Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Filme 1972
La comtesse de Laverdens
Filme 1933
Anna Steiner
Filme 1952
The Countess
Filme 1950
Flora
Filme 1938
Gabrielle Demeuse
Filme 1952
Lea Makart
Filme 1948
Edith Maranet
Filme 1926
Shoe Store Customer
Filme 1922
Lady of Sant'Agata
Filme 1953
Louise de Kerfuntel
Filme 1969
Frau Dechamps
Filme 1973
Vincenzino's mother
Filme 1957
Madame Jacquet
Filme 1932
Self
Filme 1954
Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Filme 1927
Madame Devarenne
Filme 1939
Élisabeth
Filme 1949
Aunt Antonia
Filme 1958
Blanche Brissac
Filme 1931
Madame Boucijon
Filme 1931
Lili's Grandmother
Filme 1965
Mme Mougeot
Filme 1931
Madame Dubreuil
Filme 1972
The Queen
Filme 1930
Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Filme 1930
Filme 1930
Self
Tv 1972