Yolande Laffon

Yolande Laffon

Nacimiento : 1895-08-24, Paris, France

Muerte : 1992-12-15

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Yolande Laffon

Películas

Blood to the Head
Isabelle Mandine
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
The Aristocrats
Tante Mathilde
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.
Papa, Maman, la Bonne et moi
Madeleine Sautaupain, l'amie de maman
Zoé
Mrs. Pounet
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.
The Respectful Prostitute
Marie
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
Matrimonial Agency
Mrs. Pailleret
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Mrs. Signac (segment "Pride")
A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.
Nariz de cuero
Madame de Brigade, an old lady
Tras ser herido en la cara en combate, el conde Roger de Tinchebraye se ve obligado a esconder su cara desfigurada tras una máscara de cuero y decide convertirse en un Casanova. Cuando encuentra el verdadero amor, el cínico Roger lo ignora y permite que la pura e inocente Judith se case con un viejo marqués; tras la muerte de su esposo, Judith se vuelve a encontrar con Roger, quien le muestra su cara desfigurada, lo cual no la desalienta en absoluto.
Young Love
Madame de Mareuil
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Mme Delgrange
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Lost Souvenirs
Mme Delagrange
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Minne
Blanche - la mère de Minne
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
Minne
La mère de Minne
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
Gigi
Madame Lachaille
Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
Impasse of Two Angels
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Sophie's Misfortune
Madame de Réan
Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's death, she is entrusted to Mme de Fleurville, her aunt, who at the same time hires Mademoiselle to further Sophie's education. A few years later, the little girl has blossomed into a lovely young lady. She is now in love with Paul, her cousin, who, unlike her, used to be a model child. Unfortunately Mademoiselle will not hear of a union between them. Instead she wants Sophie to marry Armand, the conceited son of Prefect Hugon. To make matters worse, Paul, the good boy, unexpectedly turns into a revolutionary, who defends the Republic on the barricades against Louis Napoléon's coup. Not being one of the victors, Paul is forced into exile. Will Sophie finally yield and accept the established order or will she react in her usual rebellious way and follow the one she loves ?
Life of Pleasure
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
El hampa de Paris
la comtesse Sarah MacGregor
Adaptación "Los misterios de París", novela del escritor francés Eugène Sue. Después de atropellar accidentalmente a un hombre con su carruaje, el Marqués Rodolphe de Sombreuil ayudará a su viuda a encontrar a su hija desaparecida. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Roquevillards
Valentine Roquevillard
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
Los ángeles del pecado
Madame Lamaury
Anne-Marie, una acaudalada joven, cree que ha encontrado su verdadera vocación al ingresar como novicia en un convento de monjas dominicas, que se dedica a la rehabilitación de mujeres delincuentes. La muchacha siente una extraña fascinación por Thérèse, acusada injustamente de homicidio, e intenta convencerla para que tome los hábitos y se arrepienta de sus pecados. Thérèse insiste en su inocencia, pero, cuando es puesta en libertad, asesina a balazos al autor del crimen por el que la encarcelaron y se refugia en el convento. Allí, no revela a nadie su secreto, mientras la investigación de la policía sigue su implacable curso.
La cité des lumières
The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
The Spanking
A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Countess Guicciardi
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Sueños de príncipe
L'archiduchesse Stéphanie
Film sobre la vida del archiduque Rodolfo, hijo de Francisco José de Austria, y del romance que vivió cuando tenía 17 años con la baronesa Maria Vetsera.
Le Voleur
Isabelle Lagardes
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
Une vie perdue
Françoise Dréhant
A jealous young woman murders her husband's mistress. A notorious scoundrel is accused of the crime. When, seized with remorse, the young woman goes to see the prosecutor to confess her crime, she is hit by a car and loses her memory. Her husband judges that she has earned the right to be forgotten and to happiness.
Suzanne
The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...
Love Songs
Madame Lherminois
To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.