Renée Adorée
Acting
Biography
Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.
Born: September 30, 1898
Place of Birth: Lille, Nord, France
Known For
The Spieler
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
The Big Parade
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
The Cossacks
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
Day Dreams
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
The Blackbird
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
The Pagan
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring her up as a 'proper' Christian, but who also lusts after her himself, plots to keep them apart.
La Bohème
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
Monte Cristo
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Filmography
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Lola
as Masha
as Madge
as Josephita
as Cleo d'Alzelle
as Renée Adorée (uncredited)
as Rose Morris
as Catharine
as Maryana
as Marie de Floriet
as Henriette
as Renee DeBois
as Nang Ping
as Marcelle
as Salome
as Jeanne-Marie
as Carita
as Silda
as Musette
as Fifi Lorraine
as Melisande
as Marie
as Self
as Francine
as Petra
as Lucia Brescia
as Wildcat
as Becky Keeler
as Andree Grange
as Hester Taylor
as The Girl
as Mary Allen Sayre
as Eugénie Danglars
as Della Moore
as Moira Serern
as Anita Gray
as Miss Lowry
as Claudia