Gina Manès
Acting
Biography
Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein, including Cœur fidèle.
Born: April 7, 1893
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Daughter of the Sands
This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman she thought would love her is killed by a madwoman.
Retour au bonheur
Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Hatred
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Cœur fidèle
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Law of the Streets
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
Looping the Loop
Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
Divine
A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
Coral Reefs
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
Filmography
as Joséphine de Beauharnais (archive footage)
as La mère Toussaint
as Thérèse
as Old lady
as Lolo
as Gossip
as La Marie, une prostituée
as (uncredited)
as Elderly actress (uncredited)
as Tramp
as Une paysanne
as L'habilleuse
as Mathilde Grigou
as Concierge
as La patronne
as Ginette, la femme de service
as Maria
as Lola
as Olga
as Irma
as Olga
as Marina
as Realistic singer
as The drug addict
as Lady Leroy
as Marinka
as Dora
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
as Rubby
as Une femme au bal (Non crédité)
as Edna Reichberg
as Marina
as Rosetta
as Violette
as Helene Vronsky
as Thérèse Raquin
as Fürstin von Brauneck
as Henriette Mauclerc
as Hanna
as Henriette
as Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais
as Huberte de Pontault
as Actress
as Marie
as Innkeeper's Daughter
as Madame de Saint-Luc