Marthe Mellot
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1876-02-16
Locus Natus: Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France
Et ut: Marthe Paula Geneviève Mellot, Mathe Meliot
Madame Bovary
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new...
release : 1934.01.04popularis : 4.981
That scoundrel Morin
Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been...
release : 1932.12.30popularis : 1.506
The Two Orphans
A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become...
release : 1933.03.03popularis : 2.844
L'Assommoir
Young Gervaise has been very unhappy since her friend abandoned her. The man named Coupeau, a sympathetic roofing worker, takes her under his...
release : 1933.06.23popularis : 0.878
La robe rouge
The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
release : 1933.11.24popularis : 0.952
Woman of Malacca
Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not...
release : 1937.10.06popularis : 2.071
The Last Waltz
Count Dimitri is sentenced to death for hitting Prince Paul who was trying to steal a kiss from Countess Vera. Prince Paul pardons him because of a...
release : 1936.01.01popularis : 0.949
The Citadel of Silence
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent...
release : 1937.06.03popularis : 2.341
Wicked Duchess
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais,...
release : 1942.03.27popularis : 1.196
Katia
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He...
release : 1938.11.07popularis : 1.949
Saint Theresa of Lisieux
The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the...
release : 1938.10.21popularis : 0.462
Hangman's Noose
In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police...
release : 1940.11.23popularis : 0.602
L'homme qui joue avec le feu
A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them...
release : 1942.08.05popularis : 1.446
The Marriage of Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A...
release : 1942.08.06popularis : 1.662
The Blue Veil
In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who...
release : 1942.11.18popularis : 1.243
Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the...
release : 1942.01.02popularis : 0.682
The Chain Breaker
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have...
release : 1941.12.23popularis : 1.646
Adémaï bandit d'honneur
Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives...
release : 1943.09.01popularis : 1.069
The Traveler Without Luggage
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability...
release : 1944.02.23popularis : 1.589
Raboliot
Happily married to Sandrine, Pierre Fouques also known as Raboliot is the father of two young children. He would live a steady life hadn't he a...
release : 1946.01.30popularis : 0.803
Land Without Stars
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the...
release : 1946.04.02popularis : 1.014
The Scarlet Bazaar
Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style...
release : 1947.04.23popularis : 1.937
Devil in the Flesh
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with...
release : 1947.09.22popularis : 6.049
Torrents
Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies...
release : 1947.12.10popularis : 1.627
Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
release : 1947.11.05popularis : 4.195
Vertiges
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
release : 1947.10.22popularis : 1.035
The Lost Village
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the...
release : 1947.11.26popularis : 1.112
Marthe Richard
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
release : 1937.04.20popularis : 3.084
The Last Billionaire
The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr....
release : 1934.10.16popularis : 1.765
The Late Mathias Pascal
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...
release : 1925.07.02popularis : 5.895
The Puritan
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His...
release : 1938.01.13popularis : 1.162
Justin de Marseille
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium...
release : 1935.04.05popularis : 2.414
Schubert's Serenade
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of...
release : 1940.02.28popularis : 0.97
Girls in Distress
Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied...
release : 1939.01.10popularis : 0.519
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him...
release : 1935.02.21popularis : 1.168
Miquette and Her Mother
The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with...
release : 1934.03.23popularis : 1.122
Hanged Man's Farm
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass....
release : 1945.12.05popularis : 1.301
Prison Without Bars
In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old...
release : 1938.01.07popularis : 3.079
La Grande Marnière
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and...
release : 1945.03.23popularis : 1.148
Antoine & Antoinette
She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.
release : 1947.09.27popularis : 3.989
A Cage of Nightingales
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his...
release : 1945.09.06popularis : 2.357