Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Рождение : 1878-06-02, Paris, France
Смерть : 1957-12-06
История
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Adrienne D'Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I.
She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.
With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression — 1931).
She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.
Madame Anais (uncredited)
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
Madame Ramquet
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
The deaf old lady
Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.
Croupier's Assistant (uncredited)
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Margot
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
Cashier (uncredited)
Идет Вторая мировая война, Франция оккупирована нацистами. Гарри Морган живет на острове Мартиника, ему принадлежит катер, на котором он возит богатых клиентов ловить рыбу. К Моргану обращается Жерар, участник Сопротивления, с просьбой тайно перевезти на Мартинику одного из лидеров движения. Морган, которому нет дела до политики, отказывает. Но когда Мари просит его помочь выбраться с острова, он соглашается на смертельно опасное задание Жерара.
French Instructor (uncredited)
В 1903 году доктор Бэйли встречает в поезде очень странную женщину, а позже узнает, что она умерла при загадочных обстоятельствах. Через своего друга он знакомится с семьей Бедеро, все члены которой выглядят замкнутыми или неврастеничными. Вопреки своим намерениям, он все глубже увязает в кругу этой семьи, и причиной тому - необыкновенная красота Алиды Бедеро.
Madam at Dieppe Hotel (uncredited)
Леди Сьюзен Эшвуд работает медсестрой в лондонском госпитале и беспокоится о своем сыне Джоне, ушедшем на войну. В ожидании прибытия раненых солдат Сьюзен вспоминает белые скалы, которые она впервые увидела еще совсем юной девушкой после своего прибытия в Англию в 1914 году, вспоминает свою жизнь со всеми ее радостями и горестями...
Concierge (uncredited)
Оставивший родину американец Рик Блэйн, владелец игорного клуба в Касабланке, случайно встречается с покинувшей его несколько лет назад возлюбленной, Ильзой, которая приехала в город вместе со своим нынешним мужем, борцом антифашистского сопротивления Виктором Лазло. По их следу идут немцы, и Ильза пытается упросить Рика отдать принадлежащие ему важные документы, которые позволят Виктору бежать из Касабланки, чтобы продолжить свою борьбу.
Miss Porter
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Miss Apricots (uncredited)
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
Hotel Proprietress
Чен едет в Париж на встречу с друзьями времён Первой мировой войны. Там он расследует убийство производителя боеприпасов, поставлявшего оружие врагу. В конце Чарли проповедует нам об опасностях мирных конференций.
Mme. Marchand
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Undetermined Role
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Therese
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
French Landlady (uncredited)
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Madame Brissard
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Wife (uncredited)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Marie
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
The Dutchess (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Masseuse
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Maid
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Nurse
Действие разворачивается на улицах Парижа в 1914 году до наступления Первой Мировой войны. Канализационный работник Чико твердо убежден, что он стал атеистом потому, что его молитвы остались без ответа, когда он просил Бога исполнить два его сокровенных желания. Но герой оптимист по жизни и глубоко порядочный и сострадательный человек, хотя свое доброе сердце он скрывает за внешней грубостью. Он помогает Диане, когда ту избивает жестокосердная сестра — содержательница притона, за то, что девушка отказалась быть приветливой с клиентом.
French Woman (uncredited)
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Jeanne
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Madame Odette Dessolles
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Madame Albani (uncredited)
Блейк Нортон высокомерный щеголь - хозяин ночного клуба, пользующегося дурной славой. К нему в бар приходит девушка Мэри Блэйк, приехавшая из провинции, которая отчаялась найти работу. Он соглашается взять ее в качестве певицы, а услышав, как она поет, заключает с ней контракт. Но девушка мечтает о другой карьере, она хочет петь в опере Сан-Франциско и вдохновлять прихожан пением в хоре священника Тима Муллина. Нортон делает все, чтобы Мэри работала только у него. Он требует монопольного выполнения контракта от девушки. К негодованию Нортона закон на стороне Мэри, она в праве самостоятельно решать, как жить. Несмотря на вспыхнувшее взаимное чувство и приготовления к свадьбе, они ссорятся из-за желания Мери выступать в опере.
French Girl
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
Concierge
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Cafe Proprietress (uncredited)
Два Американца, драматург Томас Чамберс, чьи пьесы никто не ставит, и живописец-неудачник Джордж Куртис, снимающие одну квартиру в центре Парижа случайно в поезде знакомятся с художницей — карикатуристкой Гилдой Фаррелл, работающей в рекламном агентстве. Гилда производит на друзей неизгладимое впечатление. Эта белокурая особа сразу вскружила голову обоим крепким парням, и каждый из них готов отдать уже свою руку и сердце, но девушка решает для себя иначе. Из-за того, что она не может остановить своё предпочтение ни на одном из кандидатов, она предлагает ухажерам «Джентльменское соглашение», она будет им верным другом и критиком их работ и не более, — «о другом и не смейте мечтать». Неожиданно пьесу Тома покупает Лондонский театр, и он должен уехать на несколько дней. Гилда остаётся наедине с Джорджем…
Nanette - Deedy's Nurse (uncredited)
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
French Teacher
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.
Madame Maxime
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Fifi 'Fanny'
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Marie (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
French Cook (uncredited)
Официантка престижного ресторана, который часто посещают работники кино, Мэри Эванс мечтает стать актрисой. Однажды вечером, обслуживая подвыпившего знаменитого режиссера Макса Кэрри, она его очаровывает и он приглашает ее на премьеру своего фильма в китайский кинотеатр Граумон. Купив за 50 долларов «драндулет», он с эпатажем подъезжает к кинотеатру и отдает его в качестве «чаевых» парковщику стоянки, а Мэри представляет зрителям графиней.
Прокутив всю ночь, он ничего не помнит на следующее утро. Доставившая его домой Мэри напоминает ему, что он обещал ей пробные съемки. Первое экранное испытание показывает, что девушка имеет гораздо больше амбиций, чем таланта и ей готовы отказать, но Мэри кроме амбиций еще и упорна…
Countess's Maid (uncredited)
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
Maria
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".
The chambermaid
Marie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Julie
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Mme. Vinard (uncredited)
Преподаватель музыки Свенгали при помощи гипноза превращает прелестную, но лишенную музыкального слуха девушку Трильби О'Фиррэл, которая работает натурщицей для художников, в замечательную певицу. Свенгали увозит Трильби, и она начинает совсем другую жизнь, выступая в качестве знаменитой певицы мадам Свенгали. Однако маэстро вынужден постоянно держать свою жертву под гипнозом, поскольку, просыпаясь, она испытывает необъяснимый ужас перед хозяином, несмотря на его глубокую любовь к ней. Это подтачивает силы самого гипнотизера и приближает трагическую развязку...
Flint's French Maid
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Madame Rousseau, Innkeeper
A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
Paulette
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Madame Pompier
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Jo
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
Parisian Housekeeper Annette (uncredited)
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
Marie Ducrot
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
Ma Tapman
The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.
Madame Cantinière
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
The Owl
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
