Madeleine Renaud
Acting
Biography
Lucie Madeleine Renaud (French: [ʁəno]; 21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941) and Lumière d'été (Summer Light, 1943).
Born: February 21, 1900
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Le Grand Échiquier
Le Grand Échiquier
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Le Plaisir
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
The Woman Who Dared
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
Summer Light
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
The Strange Monsieur Victor
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
Entire Days in the Trees
An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing him back with her. But this project fails.
Stormy Waters
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Filmography
as La grand-mère
as La mère
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Benoît's mother
as Mme Boulard, dite « Mémé Boule »
as Self
as Self - Main Guest
as Aunt Léonie
as Aunt Léonie
as Tante Léonie
as La marquise
as Araminte
as Mother Superior
as First prioress
as Self
as La comtesse
as Julia Tellier
as Reciter (voice)
as Thérèse Gauthier
as Émilienne Périer
as Cri-Cri
as Yvonne Laurent
as Madeleine Agardanne
as Jeanne de Chantel
as Hélène Wilfur
as Maria Chapdelaine
as Mary
as Adèle
as Rose
as Marinette
as Marceline