Françoise Rosay

Acting

Born Apr 17, 1891

From Paris, France

Died Mar 28, 1974

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.

Françoise Rosay

Known For

The 25th Hour

Quartet

That Lady

The Sound and the Fury

Interlude

Saraband for Dead Lovers

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Pedestrian

The 13th Letter

September Affair

Filmography — Acting

The 25th Hour

Quartet

That Lady

The Sound and the Fury

Interlude

Saraband for Dead Lovers

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Pedestrian

The 13th Letter

September Affair

The Gambler

The Seven Deadly Sins

Queen Margot

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Cloportes

The Red Inn

Nobody's Children

Life Dances On

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

The Halfway House

Jenny

Me and the Colonel

Carnival in Flanders

Carnival in Flanders

Sul ponte dei sospiri

Eyes of Love

Johnny Frenchman

Up from the Beach

The Full Treatment

The Stream

Lovers Woods

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

L'Âge heureux

He Who Is Without Sin...

Back Streets of Paris

Riff Raff Girls

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

The Magnificent Lie

Not Dumb, the Bird

Bizarre, Bizarre

Smuggler's Ball

Casanova wider Willen

People Who Travel

The Little Cafe

The Seventh Sin

Whirlpool

The Naked Heart

Échec au roi

The One Woman Idea

Girls of Today

Tambour battant

Women Without Names

Wanda the Sinner

Vers l'abîme

The Great Game

Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe

Si l'empereur savait ça

Non sono più guaglione

3000 Million Without an Elevator

Buster se marie

One Only Loves Once

Without Trumpet or Drum

Madame Récamier

My Son the Minister

Fahrendes Volk

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Ramuntcho