Christiane Martel

Christiane Martel

Nascimento : 1932-01-18, Piennes, France

História

Christiane Martel (born Christiane Magnani on 18 January 1932) is a French actress and beauty queen who became the second woman to win Miss Universe in 1953. Martel was crowned Miss France by outgoing titleholder Claude Godart and represented France at Miss Universe 1953 where she became the second Miss Universe. She was crowned by actress, Julie Adams as Miss Universe 1952, Armi Kuusela of Finland gave up her crown. Martel's runners-up in the 1953 pageant was Myrna Hansen of the USA, followed by delegates of Japan, Mexico, and Australia. Shortly after her reign, Martel embarked on a successful career in international films, appearing in movies such as Yankee Pasha, So This Is Paris, Abajo el Telón, the 1956 version of Corazón salvaje (playing the villain Aimée), Viva el Amor!, Rosa Blanca and her last film to date, 1961's Leoni al Sole.

Perfil

Christiane Martel

Filmes

The White Rose
Georgette
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Juana Gallo
Ninón
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
El Padre Pistolas
Feature on the adventures that develop the most perfect of false priest.
Impaciencia del corazón
Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
Póker de reinas
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Infierno de almas
Yvonne
Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.
Tipi da spiaggia
Barbara Patton
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Yo pecador
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Estampida
María Santos
The Little Savage
Nanoa Ribaud
The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to save a child from the dangers and wild beasts.
Señoritas
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
¡Viva el amor!
Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.
Adam and Eve
Eva / Eve
Version of the story of Adam and Eve.
Una lección de amor
An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...
Bataclán mexicano
International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Wild Heart
Aimée de Molnar
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
Drop the Curtain
Lulu Duval
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Três Marujos em Paris
Christiane
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
Escravas do Harem
Harem girl (as Miss Universe France)
Salem, Massachusetts, 1800. Jason Starbuck (Jeff Chandlerna) chega a cidade para negociar peles e realizar sonhos, mas acaba se apaixonando por Roxana (Rhonda Fleming), que acaba rompendo seu noivado e parte para França para aguardar Jason. O navio que transporta Roxana é atacado por piratas e ela é vendida como escrava no Marrocos. Jason segue para o Marrocos e deve ganhar o apoio do sultão, a fim de localizar e salvar Roxana.