Françoise Rosay

Françoise Rosay

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1891-04-19
Deathday: 1974-03-28 (82 years old)

Biography

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.


Source: Article "Françoise Rosay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

all 109

Movies 108

self 2

TV Shows 1

Director 1

Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Not Dumb, the Bird

Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)

Movie
Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)

Movie
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour (1967)

Movie
Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Cloportes

Cloportes (1965)

Movie
La grand-mère de Marguerite
Without Trumpet or Drum

Without Trumpet or Drum (1959)

Movie
Mrs. Montcatel mother
Eyes of Love

Eyes of Love (1959)

Movie
Comtesse Reinhart
Interlude

Interlude (1957)

Movie
padrona della pensione
Girls of Today

Girls of Today (1955)

Movie
Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Queen Margot

Queen Margot (1954)

Movie
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment 'Pride')
The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)

Movie
Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
Back Streets of Paris

Back Streets of Paris (1946)

Movie
Madame Devarenne
Serge Panine

Serge Panine (1939)

Movie
Dolorès Detcharry
Ramuntcho

Ramuntcho (1938)

Movie
Sylvie - seine Mutter
My Son the Minister

My Son the Minister (1937)

Movie
Gilberte Boulanger
Armchair 47

Armchair 47 (1937)

Movie
Jenny Gauthier
Jenny

Jenny (1936)

Movie
Madame Gardane
Whirlpool

Whirlpool (1935)

Movie
The Russian Countess
Le Billet de mille

Le Billet de mille (1935)

Movie
The Princess Mother
Tambour battant

Tambour battant (1934)

Movie
La comtesse de Laverdens
Abbot Constantine

Abbot Constantine (1933)

Movie
Madame Husson
He

He (1932)

Movie
Mme Mougeot
Luck

Luck (1931)

Movie
Mademoiselle Edwige
The Little Cafe

The Little Cafe (1931)

Movie
Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Si l'empereur savait ça

Si l'empereur savait ça (1930)

Movie
Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
The One Woman Idea

The One Woman Idea (1929)

Movie
Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Le bateau de verre

Le bateau de verre (1927)

Movie
Assistant Director / Writer
Faces of Children

Faces of Children (1925)

Movie
Shoe Store Customer
Crainquebille

Crainquebille (1922)

Movie
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Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1891-04-19

Deathday
1974-03-28 (82 years old)

Birth Name
Françoise Gilberte Bandy de Nalèche

Birth Place
9th arrondissement of Paris, France

Relationships
Jacques Feyder (1917 - 1948)

Children
Paul Feyder, Bernard Farrel

Relatives
Louis Bandy de Nalèche, Étienne Bandy de Nalèche

Citizenships
France

Also Known As
Francoise Rosay, Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, Frances Rosay

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