Milly Mathis
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 8, 1901
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Known For
Le Passage de Vénus
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and raped a strange woman in the Luxembourg Gardens, so he decides to give himself up. On that occasion he gets to know his victim, Hortense, as well as her husband, an astronomer. Lazare realizes he is innocent, which does not prevent from becoming... Hortense's lover!
The Wonderful Day
An assistant pharmacist in the South of France , Blaise works for Mrs. Pinède, a well-endowed hot-blooded woman who has developed a crush on him, and her husband ... who hasn't! One day, Blaise meets Felloux, a rich man who is convalescing in Cassis. Felloux takes a liking to Blaise and decides to offer him a perfect day in Juan-les-Pins. Gambling in the casino, Blaise wins an astronomical sum. A new life seems to open to him but not for long. Indeed he loses all, but not before he has given a beautiful necklace to a young woman.
César
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.
Fanny
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.
Marius
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.
The Well-Digger's Daughter
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
Tartarin of Tarascon
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip.
Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Harvest
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?
Topaze
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
Filmography
as Honorine
as Minouche
as Eugénie
as Léonida Chambourcy
as Victoire
as Amélie, la femme de Pamphile, le menuisier
as Amélie, la femme de Pamphile, le menuisier
as Ms. Paufilat
as Mrs. Fougasse
as Mrs. Rabusset
as Mrs. Rosano
as la baronne de Pitart-Vergniolles
as Madame Tartazan, La tante de Catherine
as Madeleine, owner of the café
as Mrs. Sammos
as Bourgeois
as Gertrude
as Hotelier
as Ernestine, maid
as Madame Grasalard
as The cook
as Artémise
as Madame Esprit, maid of the vicar of Les Baux
as Mathilde
as La bonne de l'hôtel
as La bonne de l'hôtel
as La paysanne
as Nathalie
as Pâquerette
as Rose - l'autre cuisinière
as Nanny
as Clémentine
as La patronne de l'hôtel
as Madame Puche, concierge
as La mère d'Alice
as Céleste
as Une paysanne
as Concierge
as Fishmonger
as Marinette
as Cook
as Belline
as Cécile Gachery
as Marianne
as Mrs. Jules, cook
as Concierge
as Louise
as La caissière
as Gervaise
as La concierge
as Tante Claudine Foulon
as Toinon
as Maid
as Giuliana
as Nathalie
as Mme Trompette
as Jeannette
as La patronne de café
as Poldi, la cuisinière
as Agrippine
as la femme de l'aubergiste
as La pharmacienne
as Claudine Foulon
as Tante Claudine Foulon (uncredited)