
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet. Her first recorded film was Falstaff in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in several films under her husband's direction, including Le Grand Jeu (1933), Pension Mimosas (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935) and Les Gens du voyage (1937). Rosay spent the duration of World War II in England and Switzerland, where she taught acting classes at the Conservatoire de Genève. She still appeared in films during this time, notably the British Halfway House (1944) as the refugee French wife of a British sea captain. During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel and Jean-Louis Barrault. In Hollywood, she co-starred with Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton and worked with directors such as William Dieterle (September Affair, 1949), Martin Ritt (The Sound and the Fury, 1958), Ronald Neame (The Seventh Sin, 1956) and Peter Glenville (Me and the Colonel, 1957) with Danny Kaye. In England she appeared in The Alien Corn, a segment of the W. Somerset Maugham anthology film Quartet. A highly accomplished pianist herself in real life, she played the role of a famous piano virtuoso who gives aspiring pianist Dirk Bogarde a compassionate but honest and devastating critical appraisal of his likelihood of becoming a great musician – which results in his suicide. She performs in the film Schubert's Impromptu in E flat. In 1950 she appeared on stage at London's Winter Garden Theatre, playing the title role in 'Madame Tic Tac' but it had only a short run. It was not until 1938 that her biological father, Count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche, acknowledged her as his daughter. Her final appearance on film was in the Maximilian Schell-directed Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian). She died in Montgeron, Île-de-France, near Paris. Her grave is located in Sorel-Moussel, Île-de-France, where she is buried with her husband, movie director Jacques Feyder. They had three sons. There are streets named after Françoise Rosay in Limoges, Montpellier, Chevry-Cossigny, Launaguet and Martigues. Source: Article "Françoise Rosay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
- Known ForActing
- Born17 April 1891 (age 134)
- Place of BirthParis, France
Françoise Rosay

- Known ForActing
- Born17 April 1891 (age 134)
- Place of BirthParis, France

The Pedestrian
1973

Not Dumb, the Bird
1972

3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968

The 25th Hour
1967

L'Âge heureux
1966

Cloportes
1965

Up from the Beach
1965

Ruy Blas
1965

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962

The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961

The Full Treatment
1960

Lovers Woods
1960

Stefanie in Rio
1960

Riff Raff Girls
1959

Eyes of Love
1959

Without Trumpet or Drum
1959

The Sound and the Fury
1959

Me and the Colonel
1958

The Gambler
1958

The Seventh Sin
1957

Interlude
1957

Non sono più guaglione
1957

That Lady
1955

Girls of Today
1955

Queen Margot
1954
Les éloquents
1954

Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953

He Who Is Without Sin...
1952

The Seven Deadly Sins
1952

Wanda the Sinner
1952

Smuggler's Ball
1952

The Red Inn
1951

The 13th Letter
1951

Nobody's Children
1951

K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951

September Affair
1950

The Naked Heart
1950

One Only Loves Once
1950

Women Without Names
1950

The Dream Vagabonds
1949

The Barton Mystery
1949

Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948

Quartet
1948

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947

Back Streets of Paris
1946

Johnny Frenchman
1945

Portrait of a Woman
1944

The Halfway House
1944

They Were Twelve Women
1940

Serge Panine
1939

Ramuntcho
1938

The Stream
1938

The Chess Player
1938

Fahrendes Volk
1938

Peace on the Rhine
1938

People Who Travel
1938
My Son the Minister
1937

Life Dances On
1937

Bizarre, Bizarre
1937

The Robber Symphony
1937

Armchair 47
1937

The Secret of Polichinelle
1936

Jenny
1936

Carnival in Flanders
1936

Marie des angoisses
1935

Carnival in Flanders
1935

Whirlpool
1935

Le Billet de mille
1935
Maternité
1935

Gangster malgré lui
1935

Marchand d'amour
1935

Pension Mimosas
1935
Tambour battant
1934

Vers l'abîme
1934
Coralie and Company
1934

The Great Game
1934

Die Insel
1934

La Pouponnière
1933

All for Nothing
1933

Abbot Constantine
1933

He
1932

The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932
A Father Without Knowing It
1932

Jenny Lind
1931

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931

The Magnificent Lie
1931

The Little Cafe
1931

Casanova wider Willen
1931
Let Us Be Gay
1931
Luck
1931
Échec au roi
1930

Si l'empereur savait ça
1930

Marius à Paris
1930

The One Woman Idea
1929

Two Timid Souls
1928

Madame Récamier
1928

Le bateau de verre
1927

Gribiche
1926
