Renée Adorée
Date of birth: 1898-09-30
Place of birth: Lille, Nord, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jeanne de la Fonte, Renee Adoree, Renee La Fonte, Jeanne Renée de la Fonte
Biography
Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.
Movie Credits
The Big Parade
1925-11-05
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh
Day Dreams
1922-11-27
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of wo
Made in Heaven
1921-05-01
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are t
Mr. Wu
1927-03-26
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
The Mating Call
1928-07-21
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Pr
The Show
1927-01-22
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions.
The Blackbird
1926-02-13
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub
Tide of Empire
1929-03-23
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for ban
Redemption
1930-04-05
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and ma
The Pagan
1929-04-26
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he pre
The Cossacks
1928-06-23
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and ch
Call of the Flesh
1930-08-16
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
The Spieler
1928-12-20
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio
La Bohème
1926-03-13
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be p
The Exquisite Sinner
1926-03-28
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsake
Show People
1928-11-20
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s
1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv
The Michigan Kid
1928-10-20
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to h
Monte Cristo
1922-09-03
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those je
Mixed Faces
1922-10-21
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets
Tin Gods
1926-09-19
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chap
The Eternal Struggle
1923-10-08
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vanc
Twenty Years After
1944-01-01
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then
Women Who Give
1924-03-03
Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which ar
Forbidden Hours
1928-06-16
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advise
Heaven on Earth
1927-03-05
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marci
The Flaming Forest
1926-11-21
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict
Excuse Me
1925-01-19
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
The Movies March On
1939-07-03
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of sile
Parisian Nights
1925-09-27
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, u
Honor First
1922-08-27
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his bro
West of Chicago
1922-09-03
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck
Blarney
1926-09-26
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy
The Bandolero
1924-10-20
When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorio
A Self-Made Man
1922-06-25
Jack Spurlock, the lazy son of a railroad tycoon, is estranged from his fiancée, Anita Gray, because
A Certain Young Man
1928-05-19
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conq
Exchange of Wives
1925-10-04
A serious young man and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his seri
Defying the Law
1924-06-03
Discouraged with life, Michelo throws his daughter Lucia into the sea, but she falls into a fisherma
A Man's Mate
1924-03-16
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches
Man and Maid
1925-04-20
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Ado
On Ze Boulevard
1927-06-25
On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by E
Back to God's Country
1927-10-23
Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
£500 Reward
1918-11-18
Drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en rout
The Strongest
1920-02-01
Harle, a successful French businessman, is so absorbed with his factory that he neglects his wife Cl