Thérèse Dorny
Thérèse Dorny (born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni; 18 September 1891 - 14 March 1976) was a French film and stage actress.
Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni was born on 18 September 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, the only child to Gaudence Jean Baptiste Marie Longo-Dorni (born 1859) and Marie Antonia Longo-Dorni (née Junghaans, born 1865).
She began her career as a stage actress in 1913, and made her debut as a film actress in the 1930 film The Sweetness of Loving. She was best known for her roles in Cognasse (1932) and Les Diaboliques (1955).
Dorny married the French painter and graphic artist André Dunoyer de Segonzac on 19 December 1964 in Viroflay, Île-de-France, France, who she remained with until his death in 1974.
Dorny died on 14 March 1976 in Saint-Tropez, Var, France.
Source: Article "Thérèse Dorny" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.739 |
| Birthday | 1891-09-18 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Therèse Dorny, Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni , |
1955
Diabolique
7.9/924
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly...
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Diabolique
1946
Devil's Daughter
6.692/13
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this...
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Devil's Daughter
1941
The Italian Straw Hat
5.5/3
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having...
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The Italian Straw Hat
1950
Caught in the Foreign Legion
1/1
André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is discovered, he must flee and, thanks to a uniform, t...
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Caught in the Foreign Legion
1941
The Acrobat
4.5/2
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too...
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The Acrobat
1953
La belle de Cadix
5.1/11
A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown g...
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La belle de Cadix
1954
Adam Is... Eve
4/2
In this comedy, a man gets a sex change to fulfil his wish to become a cabaret artiste.
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Adam Is... Eve
1938
Katia
9/1
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He fa...
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Katia
1935
Divine
6.5/4
A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milk...
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Divine
1937
Abused Confidence
6.2/11
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
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Abused Confidence
1939
Whirlwind of Paris
6.5/1
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as pro...
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Whirlwind of Paris
1936
Ménilmontant
0/0
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a...
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Ménilmontant
1944
Behold Beatrice
6/1
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marria...
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Behold Beatrice
1949
Faust and the Devil
6/1
Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man wh...
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Faust and the Devil
1938
Return at Dawn
7/7
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of a...
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Return at Dawn
1950
The Sad Sack
0/0
Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has blue blood in his veins, hopes to go through a nice an...
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The Sad Sack
1933
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
7.5/2
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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1935
Monsieur Sans-Gêne
0/0
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American come...
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Monsieur Sans-Gêne
1943
A Dog's Life
6.5/2
Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of Mr....
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A Dog's Life
1933
Knock
8/1
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Knock
1930
The Sweetness of Loving
0/0
A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims them as his own work.The writer comes to the city a...
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The Sweetness of Loving
1959
Oh! What a Mambo
5.5/2
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instru...
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Oh! What a Mambo
1935
La Mascotte
0/0
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in ba...
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La Mascotte
1932
To have known
0/0
An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chanc...
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To have known
1933
Ciboulette
0/0
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
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Ciboulette
1935
Les Sœurs Hortensia
0/0
Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian. Aline's husband meets a little dancer, Marie, who looks li...
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Les Sœurs Hortensia
1936
Passé à vendre
0/0
Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him...
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Passé à vendre
1936
One of the Legion
5/4
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outs...
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One of the Legion
1937
À nous deux, madame la vie
9/1
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years...
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À nous deux, madame la vie
1937
Colonial Canteen
0/0
Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his military superiors,he reigns ,so to speak ,over the grunts' g...
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Colonial Canteen
1938
Prince de mon cœur
0/0
One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his...
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Prince de mon cœur
1939
Visages de femmes
0/0
Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player. So...
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Visages de femmes
1942
Little Nothings
7/2
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...
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Little Nothings
1943
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
5/2
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant...
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1944
Le mort ne reçoit plus
0/0
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Pro...
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Le mort ne reçoit plus
1945
Box of Dreams
6/2
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
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Box of Dreams
1947
Mystery Tour
4.5/4
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery To...
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Mystery Tour
1948
3rd chimney on the right
0/0
The difficulty in finding accommodation in Paris, will cause many stories, between some colorful characters.
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3rd chimney on the right
1951
Le Passage de Vénus
10/1
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and...
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Le Passage de Vénus
1944
Portrait of a Woman
0/0
A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her in-laws. Some time later, a body is found in a nearby l...
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