Margo Lion
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 28, 1899
Place of Birth: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
Known For
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
No More Love
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
Lola
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Liberty Bar
Superintendent Maigret is sent to Antibes to elucidate the murder of William Brown, a rich Australian who regularly disappeared to indulge in formidable drinking binges. In his footsteps, Maigret makes the rounds of bars until discovering the Liberty Bar, its welcoming patroness La Grosse Jaja and its equivocal clientele. It is without a doubt here that the key to the murder is to be found.
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is.
The Song of Night
He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight
The Man from Nowhere
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion.
Woman of Evil
Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
Filmography
as 'Mammy', Françoise's mother
as Mother Tuarelli
as Governess
as Mrs. Chantereille
as Hotel boss
as La Teuse
as Mme Humbert
as Mrs. Ballanchon, Eugène's mother
as Marie-Jeanne
as Mrs. Slasinska
as Mlle Dozier
as Jeanne, la mère de Michel
as Sister Saint-Louis
as Institut Supervisor
as Germaine Lavigne, la mère de Jean
as Madame Soames
as Camille
as Madame Gimelet
as Sister Leontine - tourist sister
as La Reine
as Mrs. Platz, the patroness of the cafe
as Fanni Langkofler
as Fanny
as Mrs. Michaut
as Mrs. Chotard
as Olympe de Stadler
as Landlady
as Miss Marcelle, head nurse of the psychiatric clinic
as Mathilde - la servante
as Marie Girard
as Pépita
as Jeanne Roumagnac
as Marie-Louise
as The nurse
as La mère de Thérèse
as Mathilde
as Aména Lafarge
as Dany
as Mademoiselle Sergent
as Dédée, inmate
as Mlle Caporale
as Madame Vrack
as Planche-à-Pain
as Amie d'Alcmène
as Liliane Binder
as Die lange Lotte
as Der Star des Lustspielhauses
as Olga
as Manager of Ferraro
as Viola Volant
as Frau Köhler
as Eine Stimmungssängerin
as Jenny
as Juana
as Maria
as Buffet lady