Françoise Rosay
1891-04-17 ( 133 years old ) in Paris, France

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. 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.

Movies

The Pedestrian 1973-09-05
Not Dumb, the Bird 1972-11-15
3000 Million Without an Elevator 1972-08-18
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille 1969-08-14
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese 1968-09-06
The 25th Hour 1967-04-26
L'Âge heureux 1966-02-11
Cloportes 1965-10-01
Up from the Beach 1965-05-25
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets 1964-02-27
Frau Cheneys Ende 1962-09-27
The Counterfeiters of Paris 1961-09-27
The Full Treatment 1960-10-01
Stefanie in Rio 1960-09-19
Lovers Woods 1960-08-13
Without Trumpet or Drum 1959-12-22
Eyes of Love 1959-11-25
Riff Raff Girls 1959-05-20
The Sound and the Fury 1959-03-27
The Gambler 1958-10-26
Me and the Colonel 1958-10-01
Non sono più guaglione 1957-12-23
Interlude 1957-10-30
The Seventh Sin 1957-06-28
Girls of Today 1955-12-27
That Lady 1955-03-05
Queen Margot 1954-11-25
Les éloquents 1954-01-01
Sul ponte dei sospiri 1953-08-21
He Who Is Without Sin... 1952-12-18
Wanda the Sinner 1952-08-16
Smuggler's Ball 1952-06-08
The Seven Deadly Sins 1952-03-27
Nobody's Children 1951-11-22
The Red Inn 1951-10-19
K – Das Haus des Schweigens 1951-03-27
The 13th Letter 1951-02-21
The Naked Heart 1950-11-16
September Affair 1950-10-18
One Only Loves Once 1950-06-09
Women Without Names 1950-03-23
The Barton Mystery 1949-08-19
The Dream Vagabonds 1949-08-05
Quartet 1948-10-26
Saraband for Dead Lovers 1948-10-04
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois 1947-03-05
Back Streets of Paris 1946-11-27
Johnny Frenchman 1945-10-29
The Halfway House 1944-04-02
Portrait of a Woman 1944-01-17
They Were Twelve Women 1940-04-16
Serge Panine 1939-01-20
Fahrendes Volk 1938-12-15
The Chess Player 1938-11-25
Peace on the Rhine 1938-11-10
The Stream 1938-10-29
People Who Travel 1938-03-04
Ramuntcho 1938-02-24
Bizarre, Bizarre 1937-10-20
Life Dances On 1937-09-09
My Son the Minister 1937-07-06
The Robber Symphony 1937-05-21
Armchair 47 1937-01-01
Jenny 1936-09-18
The Secret of Polichinelle 1936-02-07
Carnival in Flanders 1936-01-15
Carnival in Flanders 1935-12-03
Marie des angoisses 1935-07-24
Gangster malgré lui 1935-05-03
Maternité 1935-04-19
Whirlpool 1935-03-14
Pension Mimosas 1935-01-16
Le Billet de mille 1935-01-11
Marchand d'amour 1935-01-01
Die Insel 1934-08-29
Vers l'abîme 1934-07-13
Coralie and Company 1934-06-07
The Great Game 1934-05-02
Tambour battant 1934-03-02
Abbot Constantine 1933-10-19
All for Nothing 1933-10-15
La Pouponnière 1933-02-03
The Woman Dressed As a Man 1932-05-11
A Father Without Knowing It 1932-04-10
He 1932-02-15
Luck 1931-12-24
The Trial of Mary Dugan 1931-11-06
Casanova wider Willen 1931-10-19
Jenny Lind 1931-09-28
The Magnificent Lie 1931-07-25
Let Us Be Gay 1931-04-17
The Little Cafe 1931-01-20
Échec au roi 1930-12-27
Si l'empereur savait ça 1930-10-31
Marius à Paris 1930-10-26
The One Woman Idea 1929-06-02
Two Timid Souls 1928-12-04
Madame Récamier 1928-06-28
Le bateau de verre 1927-01-01
Gribiche 1926-04-02
Crainquebille 1922-11-15

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