Viviane Romance
Date of birth: 1912-07-04
Place of birth: Roubaix, Nord, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Romance caused a small scandal winning Miss Paris because she had a child. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). From this time to the late 1950s she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974.
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Pity for the Vamps
1956-10-19
Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their live
Any Number Can Win
1963-03-19
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He
Panic
1947-01-15
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns
Sirocco
1938-09-22
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic
La Belle Équipe
1936-09-01
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, th
Carmen
1944-08-08
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Roman
The Affair of the Poisons
1955-11-04
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set ey
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1931-10-09
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Flo
The Hawk
1933-11-17
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.
Ciboulette
1933-11-10
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulet
N'aimer que toi
1934-10-26
A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, d
Return to Paradise
1935-11-15
Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the ope
Second Bureau
1935-09-19
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-
Une gueule en or
1936-05-29
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fid
Le Club des Aristocrates
1937-09-02
Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then?
La Bandera
1935-09-25
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. S
A Man to Kill
1937-02-25
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes a
L'Ange du foyer
1937-02-26
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give u
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
1942-01-21
The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon,
Anger of the Gods
1947-04-09
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely di
Heart of the Casbah
1952-01-24
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a
Woman Are Angels
1952-09-03
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various d
Street of Shadows
1937-04-13
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece a
Passion
1951-09-21
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her h
The Strange Monsieur Victor
1938-05-04
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, h
Flesh and Desire
1954-06-18
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Man, Beast and Virtue
1953-05-09
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his frien
Le Plus Bel Homme du monde
1948-08-26
Documentary about the bodybuilding competition held in the south of France, in Cannes. Composed of 2
Blind Venus
1941-09-14
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the
The Puritan
1938-01-13
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with
Princess Tam Tam
1935-11-02
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
Flight Into Darkness
1935-10-22
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre A
Gibraltar
1938-04-01
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952-03-27
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, an
L'inspecteur connaît la musique
1956-02-15
Harry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet; the fa
A Woman in the Night
1943-01-13
A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired
Maya
1949-12-09
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance
Marked Girls
1938-10-12
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release,
Crossroads of Passion
1948-08-04
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for t
Justin de Marseille
1935-04-05
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposi
La Chienne
1931-11-01
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak
La Route du bagne
1945-10-16
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advanta
Le Joueur
1938-09-06
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambl
Sacred Fire
1942-11-12
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of diffi
The House Under the Sea
1947-08-20
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien
Queen's Necklace
1946-09-14
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henr
He Is Charming
1932-02-25
A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law
Liliom
1934-05-15
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a
Pasha's Wives
1939-02-18
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d
Box of Dreams
1945-07-11
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Dangerous Turning
1954-12-28
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and
Mam'zelle Spahi
1934-11-09
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort
La Tradition de minuit
1939-04-22
Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens
Pleasures and Vices
1955-09-02
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a
The Nada Gang
1974-02-06
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They
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
Blood Red Rose
1939-02-17
Trouble for the Legion
1953-08-27
Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion.
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
1937-12-07
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa,