Sylvie
Date of birth: 1883-01-03
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Louise Sylvie, Сильви, Луиза Сильви, Louise Mainguené
Biography
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952), The Shameless Old Lady (1965), and Le Corbeau (1943). She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in The Shameless Old Lady. Source: Article "Sylvie (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie Credits
The Idiot
1946-06-07
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determi
Life Dances On
1937-09-09
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him
Le Corbeau
1943-09-28
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as lett
Ulysses
1954-10-06
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home a
Thérèse Raquin
1953-11-06
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakli
Under the Paris Sky
1951-03-28
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris.
Family Diary
1962-09-28
Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that h
Paris Romance
1941-10-03
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son
Montmartre on the Seine
1941-11-19
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisan
L'homme sans nom
1943-02-04
Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent Berteaux
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963-11-20
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, d
The End of the Day
1939-03-24
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or
Angels of Sin
1943-06-23
A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoner
The Island of Love
1944-05-23
A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a businessm
Land Without Stars
1946-04-02
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. Whil
La Route du bagne
1945-10-16
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advanta
Mensonges
1946-07-25
Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventfu
One Does Not Die That Way
1946-07-03
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the fi
Mirror
1947-05-02
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac;
Coïncidences
1947-10-15
A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a mil
Tous les deux
1949-02-25
Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of Jean's
White Paws
1949-04-13
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958-10-15
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly wo
Forbidden Fruit
1952-09-19
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young wom
The Shameless Old Lady
1965-03-24
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She deter
Marie-Martine
1943-05-11
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material fo
Father Goriot
1945-03-22
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Pari
The Little World of Don Camillo
1952-03-28
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist
Germinal
1913-10-03
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike i
The Traveler Without Luggage
1944-02-23
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychi
Le Coupable
1917-10-05
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitif
Black Dossier
1955-05-10
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no
The Curtain Rises
1938-10-06
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dr
Un cas intéressant
1963-01-15
Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in wh
God Needs Men
1950-10-03
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their
Black Humor
1965-04-12
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar
The Lafarge Case
1938-03-08
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is th
Comedy of Happiness
1940-12-23
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s
Michael Strogoff
1956-12-14
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern
Two Loves
1949-01-05
Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the g
Stolen Affections
1948-11-05
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in th
Les Truands
1956-04-27
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belong
Pasha's Wives
1939-02-18
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d
Roger la Honte
1922-09-22
Croesus
1960-09-21
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is
Passionnelle
1947-05-14
Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a nigh
We Are All Murderers
1952-05-21
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette
Crime and Punishment
1935-05-17
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. Whe