Junie Astor
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 21, 1911
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known For
The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
Culprit
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
Cocoanut
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
The Eternal Return
A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.
Club de femmes
Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.
The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Beating Heart
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Tovaritch
Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), two members of the Russian nobility who'd been forced to relocate to France after the Revolution. Though the regal couple has been entrusted with the Imperial crown jewels, they'd sooner starve to death than betray the late Czar by selling the gems. As a result, they're reduced to taking jobs as servants in the home of a wealthy but somewhat zany family. Robert E. Sherwood's Americanized version of Deval's Tovaritch was filmed by Warner Bros. in 1937, with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
Cordial Agreement
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Filmography
as Gangster's wife
as Wanda
as Madame Lever
as Magda
as Lawyer
as Irène Raalten
as Béatrice, mère d'Isabelle
as Mrs. Terrasse
as Ginette
as Evelyne
as Suzanne
as La Sarrazine
as Edmée Lamour / Augustine
as Simone Lesourd
as Tiphaine Raguenel
as Maître Fontanie, lawyer
as Madame Robert
as Hélène Tassin, nurse
as Mme Mendoza
as Queen Caroline
as Isabelle Bourgoin
as Nathalie la brune
as Elsa Ducrò
as Countess Florence d'Argay
as Flossie
as Madame Lecoeur
as Actress
as Georgette Rousson
as Colette Ventadour
as Francine
as Elisabeth Nelissen
as Lucienne Réville
as Louise Donadieu
as Natacha, la sœur de Vassilissa
as Lucie Leroy
as Olly
as Hélène
as Florist
as Viviane
as Marguerite
as Henriette