Monette Dinay
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 20, 1906
Place of Birth: Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France
Known For
La Traversée de Paris
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
We Are All Murderers
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Return to Life
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
The House on the Dune
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by another, more innocent girl.
Black Dossier
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.
The Marriage of Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Black and White
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.
Madame Bovary
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?
The Smart People of the 11th
A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister.
Filmography
as Léontine, la domestique de Dubenoit
as Mrs. Jambier, grocer
as Mme Jeanne
as Thérèse
as La femme de Charles
as Juliette (segment "Le retour de Jean")
as Toinette
as Madame de Liron
as Rosette
as Amélie, the maid
as Mien-Li
as Félicité
as Chiquette
as Flora
as Joséphine, femme de chambre