Mireille Perrey
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Mireille Perrey (1904–1991) was a French stage and film actress. Perrey played some leading roles in the 1930s but gradually developed into a character actor, appearing in films such as the British comedy Hotel Sahara (1951). In 1964 she featured in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Between 1942 and 1947 she was a member of the Comédie-Française. She died on May 8, 1991 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France. She was 87.
Born: February 3, 1904
Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Known For
L'École des contribuables
A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before urging him to work...
L'Âne Culotte
Bargekeepers Daughter
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the country is rich in oil), wouldn't mind a little political stability. So why not restore the ancient royal family to the throne? But is Prince Sacha up to his role ? And will Marianne make a suitable princess?
Dédé
Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive more conveniently his mistress. Everything seems fine and Dédé seems to be enjoying all of this. But the man barely knew that he would fall in love with one of the many pretty vendors of his new "acquisition", favoring this new girl over the previous one.
The Earrings of Madame de...
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Dr. Knock
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.
Carnival
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
Three Sinners
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
Rooster Heart
A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescued by a Doctor who tries to cure him by implanting the heart of a rooster into him, something which suddenly makes him irresistible to women.
Filmography
as La femme de chambre
as Saturnine
as Madeleine Ponchon
as Tante Élise
as Boss of babilys
as Madame Aliberti
as Maman
as Mother Haudouin
as Self
as Mrs. Vertin, René's mother
as Mme Noblet
as Juliette Mithouard
as Mrs. Legardon
as Mme Corinne
as Isabelle
as La Nourrice
as Madame Célerier
as Yasmin's Mother
as Mme Rémy
as Hélène Marchand
as Blanche Annequin
as la comtesse de Blonville
as Madame veuve Hermine Grandier
as Françoise de Calas
as Jacquemine d'Argout-Laennec
as La comtesse Véra
as Catherine Jonas
as Conchita de Cantagril
as Nadia
as Marie Cerval
as Gisèle Beryl
as Hermine Chauchois
as Baroness de la Carbonnière
as Madame Rigaud
as Pauline Bretonneau
as Juanita
as Odette Chausson
as Juliette Valtier
as Gilberte Valandray
as Monique Argilliers