Viviane Romance
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.815 |
| Birthday | 1912-07-04 |
| Place of Birth | Roubaix, Nord, France |
| Also Known As |
1963
Any Number Can Win
7.184/154
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist hi...
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Any Number Can Win
1938
The Puritan
5.857/7
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His searc...
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The Puritan
1947
Panic
7.428/76
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he fee...
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Panic
1938
Sirocco
6.143/7
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to Fr...
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Sirocco
1936
They Were Five
7.205/61
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But diff...
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They Were Five
1944
Carmen
8/1
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Carmen
1955
The Case of Poisons
6.7/3
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles...
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The Case of Poisons
1935
La Bandera
5.763/19
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets th...
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La Bandera
1931
La Chienne
7.33/115
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love,...
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La Chienne
1937
Street of Shadows
7/5
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...
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Street of Shadows
1938
The Strange Monsieur Victor
6.9/16
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and consider...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
1953
Man, Beast and Virtue
6.7/11
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunt...
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Man, Beast and Virtue
1941
Blind Venus
6.1/7
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Blind Venus
1938
Gibraltar
6.2/4
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working...
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Gibraltar
1935
Princess Tam Tam
5/13
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
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Princess Tam Tam
1935
Flight Into Darkness
6.2/6
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a ma...
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Flight Into Darkness
1952
The Seven Deadly Sins
6/13
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1949
Maya
5.6/10
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sor...
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Maya
1938
Marked Girls
5/4
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not...
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Marked Girls
1935
Justin de Marseille
6.2/12
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bou...
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Justin de Marseille
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
1938
Le joueur
0/0
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
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Le joueur
1947
The House Under the Sea
6/1
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love,...
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The House Under the Sea
1942
Sacred Fire
0/0
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she su...
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Sacred Fire
1946
Queen's Necklace
1/1
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte",...
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Queen's Necklace
1932
He Is Charming
5/2
A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivol...
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He Is Charming
1934
Liliom
6.262/21
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the expe...
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Liliom
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
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
1954
Dangerous Turning
0/0
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
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Dangerous Turning
1934
Mam'zelle Spahi
0/0
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
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Mam'zelle Spahi
1939
La Tradition de minuit
4/1
Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upsta...
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La Tradition de minuit
1955
Pleasures and Vices
4/2
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Havi...
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Pleasures and Vices
1974
The Nada Gang
6.1/18
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his r...
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The Nada Gang
1935
Dark Eyes
10/1
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and...
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Dark Eyes
1940
Blood Red Rose
0/0
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Blood Red Rose
1953
Trouble for the Legion
5/2
Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion. His unfaithful fiancee Irene goes to look for him...
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Trouble for the Legion
1937
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
2.5/2
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment wi...
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
1931
Mam'zelle Nitouche
5.5/2
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to ch...
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
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
1933
The Hawk
0/0
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled...
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The Hawk
1934
N'aimer que toi
0/0
A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, disguises himself as a worker. He meets the girl of...
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N'aimer que toi
1935
Second Bureau
0/0
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful E...
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Second Bureau
1935
Return to Paradise
0/0
Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the open air and work in the fields, such is the unusual...
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Return to Paradise
1936
Une gueule en or
0/0
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed...
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Une gueule en or
1937
A Man to Kill
0/0
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
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A Man to Kill
1937
L'Ange du foyer
0/0
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with C...
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L'Ange du foyer
1937
Le Club des Aristocrates
0/0
Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has th...
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Le Club des Aristocrates
1942
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
0/0
The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she...
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
1947
Anger of the Gods
0/0
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
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Anger of the Gods
1951
Passion
0/0
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
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Passion
1952
Heart of the Casbah
7/2
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he h...
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Heart of the Casbah
1952
Woman Are Angels
1/1
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
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Woman Are Angels
1954
Flesh and Desire
0/0
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
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Flesh and Desire
1948
Crossroads of Passion
0/0
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Itali...
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Crossroads of Passion
1956
Pity for the Vamps
0/0
Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of t...
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Pity for the Vamps
1948
Le Plus Bel Homme Du Monde
5.5/2
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Le Plus Bel Homme Du Monde
1956
L'inspecteur connaît la musique
0/0
Harry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet; the famous musician tries to give a piece of advice to h...
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L'inspecteur connaît la musique
1943
A Woman in the Night
0/0
A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired of his violent outbursts, and wanting to rebuild...
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