Sylvie
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.101 |
Birthday | 1883-01-03 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | Louise Sylvie, Сильви, Луиза Сильви, Louise Mainguené, |
1946
The Idiot
6.9/12
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh an...
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The Idiot
1943
Le Corbeau
7.493/268
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performin...
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Le Corbeau
1954
Ulysses
6.436/157
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
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Ulysses
1953
Thérèse Raquin
6.6/50
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when...
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Thérèse Raquin
1951
Under the Paris Sky
7/6
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
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Under the Paris Sky
1962
Family Diary
7/50
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Family Diary
1943
Angels of Sin
6.949/39
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Angels of Sin
1963
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
5/6
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1939
The End of the Day
6.833/30
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he ha...
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The End of the Day
1958
The Mirror Has Two Faces
6.429/21
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who o...
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The Mirror Has Two Faces
1965
The Shameless Old Lady
6.658/19
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as...
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The Shameless Old Lady
1943
Marie-Martine
7.1/7
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying t...
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Marie-Martine
1945
Father Goriot
7/1
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
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Father Goriot
1952
The Little World of Don Camillo
7.638/272
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the c...
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1965
Black Humor
2/1
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a...
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Black Humor
1944
The Traveler Without Luggage
7/2
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pensio...
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The Traveler Without Luggage
1913
Germinal
5.2/8
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
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Germinal
1950
God Needs Men
6.2/5
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as stra...
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God Needs Men
1917
Le Coupable
5.5/2
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the y...
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Le Coupable
1938
The Lafarge Case
5.75/2
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The Lafarge Case
1940
Comedy of Happiness
6.4/5
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him co...
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Comedy of Happiness
1956
Michael Strogoff
6.396/24
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Michael Strogoff
1949
Two Loves
5/1
Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabl...
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Two Loves
1948
Stolen Affections
6/1
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she...
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Stolen Affections
1956
Les Truands
4.5/2
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a h...
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Les Truands
1939
Pasha's Wives
6.9/4
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows hi...
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Pasha's Wives
1922
Roger la Honte
0/0
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Roger la Honte
1960
Croesus
6.2/17
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Croesus
1947
Passionnelle
6.5/7
Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury t...
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Passionnelle
1952
We Are All Murderers
6.711/19
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We Are All Murderers
1941
Paris Romance
5/4
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Paris Romance
1941
Montmartre on the Seine
6/4
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Montmartre on the Seine
1943
L'homme sans nom
0/0
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L'homme sans nom
1944
The Island of Love
6/1
A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a businessman proposing to create a seaside resort, much to t...
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The Island of Love
1945
La Route du bagne
0/0
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of har...
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La Route du bagne
1946
Land Without Stars
6.8/3
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscap...
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Land Without Stars
1946
One Does Not Die That Way
0/0
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehear...
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One Does Not Die That Way
1946
Mensonges
0/0
Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind ma...
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Mensonges
1947
Mirror
5.875/4
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1947
Coïncidences
0/0
A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man but she's not prepared to accept it. She...
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Coïncidences
1949
Tous les deux
0/0
Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of Jean's despotic affections. Claude has retired with her...
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Tous les deux
1949
White Paws
5.1/10
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
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White Paws
1952
Forbidden Fruit
5.7/11
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes viol...
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Forbidden Fruit
1937
Life Dances On
6.9/28
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she...
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Life Dances On
1955
Black Dossier
6.1/11
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious de...
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Black Dossier
1938
The Curtain Rises
7.9/19
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in f...
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The Curtain Rises
1963
Un cas intéressant
0/0
Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a pe...
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