Viviane Romance
Acting
Biography
Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Romance caused a small scandal winning Miss Paris because she had a child. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). From this time to the late 1950s she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974.
Born: July 4, 1912
Place of Birth: Roubaix, Nord, France
Known For
Dark Eyes
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
Carmen
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera. It was filmed in two versions, French and Italian, with the same screen cast but some different crew, and with Italian voices dubbed in on the Italian version, which have been munged together at IMDb. A third version, with English dubbed under the direction of British actor Noel Howlett, was made subsequently using one of the two (French or Italian) originals for the visual source.
Le Grand Échiquier
Cinépanorama
La Belle Équipe
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Panic
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
Any Number Can Win
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Heart of the Casbah
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Sacred Fire
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she succeeded in gaining a place in the world of entertainment and becomes a great movie star.
Filmography
as Madame Gabrielle
as Self
as Ginette, Charles's wife
as Flora Davis
as Muriel Vincent
as Self
as Catherine Deshayes, dite La Voisin
as Loïna Gauthier
as Lucienne Courtois
as Mylène Valdès
as Cherie
as Assunta Perella
as Edmée Clotier
as Mrs. Blanc (segment "La Luxure")
as Maria Pilar
as Marie Charbonnier
as Bella dite Maya
as Self
as Irène Dumesnil
as Flore
as Rita / Maria
as Alice
as Countess Jeanne de la Motte-Valois
as Manon
as Nicole Payen-Laurel
as Carmen
as Denise Lorin
as Paulette Vernier
as Cartacalha
as Clarisse
as Clara Véry
as Mireille, the French wife
as Angélica
as Régine
as Safia
as Blanche du Placet
as Adrienne Robineau
as Mercedes Garcia
as Molly
as Lolita
as Gloriane
as Gaby, la chanteuse de cabaret
as Chouquette
as Hilda
as Gina
as Suzanne
as Lucie's Friend
as Une girl
as la fille de Barcelone
as Countess
as Une pensionnaire de Madame Olympe
as La marchande de cigarettes - Cigarette Girl
as A mistress
as Uncredited
as (uncredited)
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