Ginette Maddie
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ginette Maddie.
Born: February 25, 1898
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Au Bonheur des Dames
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
The Heart of a Nation
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
The Flood
In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the river rises and floods the village. One evening, Margot disapears… This peasant drama, adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone, was Delluc’s last. The human madness is an echo to nature’s fury, magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist.
The Desert of Pigalle
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Alone
A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.
Der Maler und sein Modell
The bewitchment of Seville
The Heirs of Uncle James
The relatives of wealthy, unmarried and slightly eccentric uncle James are all after his money -except his nice Ginette. She brings him to adopt two war orpahns and shows him, how his other relatives raely "love" him. But suddenly the orphans' father, a Lieutenat stands at the door of the house.
L'escale
An elegant young idler, vacationing in a port in the South of France where he is stopping over, sets the hearts of two young women aflame: a simple ironer and a wealthy bourgeois woman. The two rivals clash, until the day the handsome prince charming leaves, leaving two broken hearts behind.
Heart of a Vagabond
Filmography
as Mme Rita
as Aglaé (uncredited)
as Marianne
as Clara
as Claude Privat
as Margot Doucet
as Nora