Simone Valère
Acting
Biography
Simone Valere was a French actress.
Born: August 2, 1921
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Graduation Year
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.
Le Grand Échiquier
The Loves of Colette
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colette.
Germinal
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
The Beauty of the Devil
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
The Revenge of Roger
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.
Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Simon is actually in love with her and came to see her. They have to get engaged and Simon breaks up with his lover. But Elisabeth is not prepared to accept it, and she becomes the head of a gang of "drivers" in order to kidnap her husband. Famous Vidocq intervenes.
Manon
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Filmography
as La mère
as Jessica Fauldgate
as Self
as Self
as Weber's Wife
as Marguerite Rosmer
as Self
as la femme de Bastien
as Suzanne Lenoir
as Madame Magnol
as Madame Sartet
as Madame Sernet (uncredited)
as Countess of Linières
as Marton
as Mrs. Terrenoire
as Madame Hennebeau
as L'impératrice
as la marquise de Pompadour
as Self
as Gisèle Bourjeon, la concubine du comte et maîtresse d'Henri
as Lucile
as Gisèle Monnet
as Eugénie de Montijo
as Laurence
as Marguerite Rival, la femme de Gaston
as Louise Louveau
as The Princess
as Angelina Cavazza
as Isé
as Antoinette
as Lucile
as Simone
as Suzanne Laroque
as Jacqueline
as Peggy
as Lison
as Dominique
as Jeanne Sassenay
as Alice Lepart
as Lucette
as Valentine (uncredited)
as Blanche de Mareilhac
as A resident of the orphanage