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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/09/2002
The Pedestrian
Character:Frau Dechamps
Release Date:05/09/1973
Not Dumb, the Bird
Character:Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
Release Date:15/11/1972
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Character:Madame Dubreuil
Release Date:18/08/1972
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Character:Louise de Kerfuntel
Release Date:14/08/1969
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Character:Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
Release Date:06/09/1968
The 25th Hour
Character:Mme Nagy (uncredited)
Release Date:26/04/1967
L'Âge heureux
Character:Mme Aubry
Release Date:11/02/1966
Cloportes
Character:Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Release Date:08/09/1965
Up from the Beach
Character:Lili's Grandmother
Release Date:25/05/1965
Ruy Blas
Character:La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Release Date:23/01/1965
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Character:Borgia
Release Date:27/02/1964
Frau Cheneys Ende
Character:Mrs. Webley
Release Date:27/09/1962
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Character:Madame Pauline
Release Date:27/09/1961
The Full Treatment
Character:Madame Prade
Release Date:01/10/1960
Stefanie in Rio
Character:Leonora Guala
Release Date:19/09/1960
Lovers Woods
Character:Madame Parisot
Release Date:13/08/1960
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
Character:Madame Alexandra
Release Date:17/01/1960
Without Trumpet or Drum
Character:La grand-mère de Marguerite
Release Date:22/12/1959
Eyes of Love
Character:Mrs. Montcatel mother
Release Date:25/11/1959
Riff Raff Girls
Character:Berthe
Release Date:20/05/1959
The Sound and the Fury
Character:Caroline Compson
Release Date:27/03/1959
The Gambler
Character:Aunt Antonia
Release Date:26/10/1958
Me and the Colonel
Character:Madame Bouffier
Release Date:01/10/1958
Non sono più guaglione
Character:Vincenzino's mother
Release Date:23/12/1957
Interlude
Character:Comtesse Reinhart
Release Date:30/10/1957
The Seventh Sin
Character:Mother Superior
Release Date:28/06/1957
Girls of Today
Character:padrona della pensione
Release Date:27/12/1955
That Lady
Character:Bernardine
Release Date:05/03/1955
Queen Margot
Character:Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Release Date:25/11/1954
Les éloquents
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1954
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Character:Lady of Sant'Agata
Release Date:21/08/1953
He Who Is Without Sin...
Character:La contessa Lamieri
Release Date:18/12/1952
Wanda the Sinner
Character:Anna Steiner
Release Date:16/08/1952
Smuggler's Ball
Character:Gabrielle Demeuse
Release Date:08/06/1952
The Seven Deadly Sins
Character:Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Release Date:27/03/1952
Nobody's Children
Character:La contessa Canali
Release Date:22/11/1951
The Red Inn
Character:Marie Martin
Release Date:19/10/1951
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
Character:Noemi, die Amme
Release Date:27/03/1951
The 13th Letter
Character:Mrs. Gauthier
Release Date:21/02/1951
The Naked Heart
Character:Laura Chapdelaine
Release Date:16/11/1950
September Affair
Character:Maria Salvatini
Release Date:18/10/1950
One Only Loves Once
Character:Mme Monnier
Release Date:09/06/1950
Women Without Names
Character:The Countess
Release Date:23/03/1950
The Barton Mystery
Character:Élisabeth
Release Date:19/08/1949
The Dream Vagabonds
Character:Mireille Dombreval
Release Date:05/08/1949
Quartet
Character:Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Release Date:26/10/1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character:The Electress Sophia
Release Date:04/10/1948
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Character:Countess Brévannes
Release Date:05/03/1947
Back Streets of Paris
Character:Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Release Date:27/11/1946
Johnny Frenchman
Character:Lanec Florrie
Release Date:29/10/1945
The Halfway House
Character:Alice Meadows
Release Date:02/04/1944
Portrait of a Woman
Character:Fanny Helder
Release Date:17/01/1944
They Were Twelve Women
Character:La duchesse de Vimeuse
Release Date:16/04/1940
Serge Panine
Character:Madame Devarenne
Release Date:20/01/1939
Fahrendes Volk
Character:Madame Flora
Release Date:15/12/1938
The Chess Player
Character:Catherine II
Release Date:25/11/1938
Peace on the Rhine
Character:Francoise Scheffer
Release Date:10/11/1938
The Stream
Character:Régina Berry
Release Date:29/10/1938
People Who Travel
Character:Flora
Release Date:04/03/1938
Ramuntcho
Character:Dolorès Detcharry
Release Date:24/02/1938
Bizarre, Bizarre
Character:Margaret Molyneux
Release Date:20/10/1937
Life Dances On
Character:Marguerite Audié
Release Date:09/09/1937
My Son the Minister
Character:Sylvie - seine Mutter
Release Date:06/07/1937
The Robber Symphony
Character:The fortune teller
Release Date:21/05/1937
Armchair 47
Character:Gilberte Boulanger
Release Date:01/01/1937
Jenny
Character:Jenny Gauthier
Release Date:18/09/1936
The Secret of Polichinelle
Character:Mrs. Jouvenel
Release Date:07/02/1936
Carnival in Flanders
Character:Cornelia
Release Date:15/01/1936
Carnival in Flanders
Character:Madame Burgomaster
Release Date:03/12/1935
Marie des angoisses
Character:Mme de Quersac
Release Date:24/07/1935
Gangster malgré lui
Character:
Release Date:03/05/1935
Maternité
Character:Mrs. Duchemin
Release Date:19/04/1935
Whirlpool
Character:Madame Gardane
Release Date:14/03/1935
Pension Mimosas
Character:Louise Noblet
Release Date:16/01/1935
Le Billet de mille
Character:Russian Countess
Release Date:11/01/1935
Marchand d'amour
Character:Clara
Release Date:01/01/1935
Die Insel
Character:Silvia
Release Date:29/08/1934
Vers l'abîme
Character:Sylvia
Release Date:13/07/1934
Coralie and Company
Character:
Release Date:07/06/1934
The Great Game
Character:Blanche
Release Date:02/05/1934
Tambour battant
Character:The Princess Mother
Release Date:02/03/1934
Abbot Constantine
Character:La comtesse de Laverdens
Release Date:19/10/1933
All for Nothing
Character:Mrs. Bossu
Release Date:15/10/1933
La Pouponnière
Character:Mrs. Delannoy
Release Date:03/02/1933
The Woman Dressed As a Man
Character:Princess Marie
Release Date:11/05/1932
A Father Without Knowing It
Character:Madame Jacquet
Release Date:10/04/1932
He
Character:Madame Husson
Release Date:15/02/1932
Luck
Character:Mme Mougeot
Release Date:24/12/1931
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character:The widow
Release Date:06/11/1931
Casanova wider Willen
Character:Blanche Brissac
Release Date:19/10/1931
Jenny Lind
Character:Rosatti
Release Date:28/09/1931
The Magnificent Lie
Character:Rosa Duchêne
Release Date:25/07/1931
Let Us Be Gay
Character:Madame Boucijon
Release Date:17/04/1931
The Little Cafe
Character:Mademoiselle Edwige
Release Date:20/01/1931
Échec au roi
Character:The Queen
Release Date:27/12/1930
Si l'empereur savait ça
Character:Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Release Date:31/10/1930
Marius à Paris
Character:
Release Date:26/10/1930
The One Woman Idea
Character:Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Release Date:02/06/1929
Two Timid Souls
Character:The aunt
Release Date:04/12/1928
Madame Récamier
Character:Madame de Staël
Release Date:28/06/1928
Le bateau de verre
Character:Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Release Date:01/01/1927
Gribiche
Character:Edith Maranet
Release Date:02/04/1926
Crainquebille
Character:Shoe Store Customer
Release Date:15/11/1922
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