Simone Simon
Date of birth: 1911-04-23
Place of birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon
Biography
French screen actress Simone Simon's film career spanned the years 1931-1973. She is best remembered, regarding her English language roles, for the Hollywood films The Devil and Daniel Webster [originally titled All That Money Can Buy] (1941), Cat People (1942), and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). Simon died in Paris in 2005.
Movie Credits
Cat People
1942-12-05
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with
The Curse of the Cat People
1944-04-01
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife
La Bête Humaine
1938-12-23
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by
All That Money Can Buy
1941-10-17
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat
Le Plaisir
1952-02-29
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep
Durand versus Durand
1931-11-27
Two different sales agents named Max Durand live at the same address. One of them pretends to be the
La Ronde
1950-09-27
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a
A Son from America
1932-05-30
An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping t
King of Hotels
1932-09-29
A hotel worker who is really an aristocrat falls for a lady customer but instead of getting married
Pour vivre heureux
1932-12-16
After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and
The Sad Sack
1933-03-29
His aunt hopes to make this young aristocrat an honored soldier. But the colonel has it out for him.
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931-10-09
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Flo
Mind the Paint
1933-05-02
The maid of a doctor, he had some canvases he didn't care for bestowed on him once by an unknown art
The Unknown Singer
1931-12-12
A legendary French singer, missing for years and presumed dead, returns with no memory, his face hid
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944-07-28
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with
Temptation Harbour
1947-02-27
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa
The Woman in Blue
1973-01-14
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful w
Ladies Lake
1934-05-18
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpi
L'Étoile de Valencia
1933-06-16
Because a sailor once told Pedro Savedra his wife, Marion, cheated on him, he left her. Learning lat
Pétrus
1946-10-02
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c
Girls' Dormitory
1936-08-08
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknow
Tahiti Honey
1943-04-06
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded
Ladies in Love
1936-10-09
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
Seventh Heaven
1937-03-25
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1944-07-07
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is
The Extra Day
1956-01-01
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf
Olivia
1951-04-27
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small fi
Josette
1938-06-03
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the
Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch
Double Destiny
1954-11-12
A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in
The Three Thieves
1954-09-27
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarill
Cavalcade of Love
1939-11-06
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the wall
Lewton's Muse: The Dark Eyes of Simone Simon
2018-06-26
A video essay by filmmaker Constantine Nasr.
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965-10-26
A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with
Dark Eyes
1935-09-05
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. S
Women Without Names
1950-03-23
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for disp
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
2005-12-12
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propag
Happy Days
1935-11-08
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find wo
The Chocolate Girl
1932-02-12
A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands
Lusitanian Illusion
2010-04-22
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur
Le Voleur
1933-12-01
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, repor