Francoise Rosay

Francoise Rosay , of her true name Francoise Bandy de Nalèche , (April 19th 1891 with Paris - March 28th 1974 with Montgeron) is a French actress whose cinematographic career extended on more than sixty years, making of it a legendary character in the French cinema.

It was the natural girl of Marie-Therese Chauvin, an actress known under the name of Sylviac. His/her father, the count François Louis Bandy de Nalèche did not recognize it before 1938. When she announces that she wants to be an actress, his/her mother pleasantly points out to him that she ugly, is dégingandée and predicts to him that she will be unable to be held on a scene. Nothing like it to forge the will of Francoise Rosay who does not project any less to become professional singer and, after the Academy, works with the theater and even will play in Russia the day before the war. It begins with the cinema in Falstaff , in 1913, and becomes famous by playing the “skins of cow”. In 1917 it gains a price with the Academy of Paris. It then makes its beginnings at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô of Ernest Reyer. She also sings in Castor and Pollux of Thai Branch and of Massenet

Her husband is the scenario writer Jacques Feyder. They meet in 1917, it will make it turn in its principal films: the heroic Village fair , the Big game …

At the beginning of the German occupation, it enters a resistance network while turning in some films. At the end of 1942, when German invades the free zone, it misses being stopped and manages to flee in Tunisia. In 1943, it joined her husband in Switzerland and gives courses of theater to the Academy of Geneva. She exploits as a virtuoso all the registers, from the emotion to the drama, the light comedy to the joke, she draws from the tears as she starts the laughter. She connects films, passes from one masterpiece to the other, Drôle of drama of Marcel Carné with a dance card of Jean Duvivier, of Macadam of Marcel Blistène with the red Inn of Claude Autant-Lara.

The death of Feyder, in 1948, leaves it disabled. For their three sons, Marc, Paul and Bernard, it finds courage to overcome this mourning and takes again its international career (it speaks perfectly English and German). She dies the March 28th 1974 with Montgeron, at the 82 years age after a career of almost sixty years. “ I do not want at all to live centenary , said it. It would not be polished .”

Catalog of films

Television

External bonds

  • Cards devoted to Francoise Rosay on Internet Movie Database

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