Françoise Rosay
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 husband's 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 Schubert's Impromptu in E flat.
In 1950 she appeared on stage at London's 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. They had three sons.
There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues.
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Fotos
Filme (107)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002 · Self (archive footage)
The Pedestrian
1973 · Frau Dechamps
Not Dumb, the Bird
1972 · Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972 · Madame Dubreuil
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969 · Louise de Kerfuntel
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968 · Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
The 25th Hour
1967 · Mme Nagy (uncredited)
L'Âge heureux
1966 · Mme Aubry
Cloportes
1965 · Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Up from the Beach
1965 · Lili's Grandmother
Ruy Blas
1965 · La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964 · Borgia
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962 · Mrs. Webley
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961 · Madame Pauline
The Full Treatment
1960 · Madame Prade
Stefanie in Rio
1960 · Leonora Guala
Lovers Woods
1960 · Madame Parisot
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
1960 · Madame Alexandra
Without Trumpet or Drum
1959 · La grand-mère de Marguerite
Eyes of Love
1959 · Mrs. Montcatel mother
Riff Raff Girls
1959 · Berthe
The Sound and the Fury
1959 · Caroline Compson
The Gambler
1958 · Aunt Antonia
Me and the Colonel
1958 · Madame Bouffier
Non sono più guaglione
1957 · Vincenzino's mother
Interlude
1957 · Comtesse Reinhart
The Seventh Sin
1957 · Mother Superior
Girls of Today
1955 · padrona della pensione
That Lady
1955 · Bernardine
Queen Margot
1954 · Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Les éloquents
1954 · Self
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953 · Lady of Sant'Agata
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952 · La contessa Lamieri
Wanda the Sinner
1952 · Anna Steiner
Smuggler's Ball
1952 · Gabrielle Demeuse
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Nobody's Children
1951 · La contessa Canali
The Red Inn
1951 · Marie Martin
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951 · Noemi, die Amme
The 13th Letter
1951 · Mrs. Gauthier
The Naked Heart
1950 · Laura Chapdelaine
September Affair
1950 · Maria Salvatini
One Only Loves Once
1950 · Mme Monnier
Women Without Names
1950 · The Countess
The Barton Mystery
1949 · Élisabeth
The Dream Vagabonds
1949 · Mireille Dombreval
Quartet
1948 · Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948 · The Electress Sophia
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947 · Countess Brévannes
Back Streets of Paris
1946 · Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Johnny Frenchman
1945 · Lanec Florrie
The Halfway House
1944 · Alice Meadows
Portrait of a Woman
1944 · Fanny Helder
They Were Twelve Women
1940 · La duchesse de Vimeuse
Serge Panine
1939 · Madame Devarenne
Fahrendes Volk
1938 · Madame Flora
The Chess Player
1938 · Catherine II
Peace on the Rhine
1938 · Francoise Scheffer
The Stream
1938 · Régina Berry
People Who Travel
1938 · Flora
Ramuntcho
1938 · Dolorès Detcharry
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937 · Margaret Molyneux
Life Dances On
1937 · Marguerite Audié
My Son the Minister
1937 · Sylvie - seine Mutter
The Robber Symphony
1937 · The fortune teller
Armchair 47
1937 · Gilberte Boulanger
Jenny
1936 · Jenny Gauthier
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
1936 · Nadja Danouw
The Secret of Polichinelle
1936 · Mrs. Jouvenel
Carnival in Flanders
1936 · Cornelia
Carnival in Flanders
1935 · Madame Burgomaster
Marie des angoisses
1935 · Mme de Quersac
Gangster malgré lui
1935
Maternité
1935 · Mrs. Duchemin
Whirlpool
1935 · Madame Gardane
Pension Mimosas
1935 · Louise Noblet
Le Billet de mille
1935 · Russian Countess
Marchand d'amour
1935 · Clara
The Island
1934 · Silvia
Vers l'abîme
1934 · Sylvia
Coralie and Company
1934
The Great Game
1934 · Blanche
Tambour battant
1934 · The Princess Mother
Abbot Constantine
1933 · La comtesse de Laverdens
All for Nothing
1933 · Mrs. Bossu
La Pouponnière
1933 · Mrs. Delannoy
The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932 · Princess Marie
A Father Without Knowing It
1932 · Madame Jacquet
He
1932 · Madame Husson
Luck
1931 · Mme Mougeot
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931 · La veuve
Casanova Against His Will
1931 · Blanche Brissac
Jenny Lind
1931 · Rosatti
The Magnificent Lie
1931 · Rosa Duchêne
Buster se marie
1931 · Polly Hathaway
Let Us Be Gay
1931 · Madame Boucijon
The Little Cafe
1931 · Mademoiselle Edwige
Échec au roi
1930 · The Queen
Si l'empereur savait ça
1930 · Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Marius à Paris
1930
The One Woman Idea
1929 · Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Two Timid Souls
1928 · The aunt
Madame Récamier
1928 · Madame de Staël
Le bateau de verre
1927 · Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Gribiche
1926 · Edith Maranet
Faces of Children
1925 · Assistant Director, Writer
Crainquebille
1922 · Shoe Store Customer
