Martine Carol
Acting
Biography
Martine Carol (16 May 1920 – 6 February 1967) was a French film actress.
Born: May 16, 1920
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Known For
Love and Desire
A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Cinépanorama
The Counterfeiters of Paris
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Strangers in the House
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Lola Montès
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Mirror
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
The Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Ten Seconds to Hell
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
Nana
In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and star of the Théâtre des Variétés. This all-consuming passion will lead nowhere and, like Nana's other lovers, will lead him to ruin and crime... An adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Martine Grant
as Nadine Leblanc
as Kathy
as Contessa Vitelleschi
as Solange Mideau
as Georgina
as Eliane Girard (segment "La Femme seule")
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
as Nathalie Princesse
as Margot Hofer
as Isabelle dos Santos
as Lotte
as Nathalie Princesse
as Tracy Malvoisie
as Tourist
as Elisa Leonardi
as Self
as Lola Montes
as Martine Thompson
as Nana
as Jeanne Ranson-Bécu, Madame du Barry
as Agnès de Rungis (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
as Self
as Anna Maria Mentorsi
as elle-même
as Lysistrata (segment "Lysistrata")
as Lucrèce Borgia
as Caroline de Bièvre
as Edmee
as Minouche
as Martine, la estrella
as Caroline de Bièvre
as Olga Schneider
as Martine Carol
as Sidonie de Valpurgis
as Irène
as Bettina Verdi
as Sonia
as Isabelle Grosbois
as Lulu
as Madeleine Bitterlin
as Stella Star
as Germaine
as Micky
as Une spectatrice aux Assises (uncredited)
as Une femme