
August 22, 1922 · 104 years old
Micheline Presle (born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne; August 22, 1922 – February 21, 2024) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in Hollywood and in France. Born in P…

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious ab...

A hang-up man tries to love in a different way from normal, and finally manages the psychological shadow for love.

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his...

A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.

Antoine is about to get married to Gisèle. His friend Julien, a confirmed bachelor, tries desperately to talk him out of it, citing his own painful experiences.

A sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. She sees him as a way to gain access into wealthy households.

Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus, whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of a mysterious woman in white. His girlfriend Nina is annoyed at him for his...

As the lover of Madeleine, Antoine meets her best friend Claire. Antoine pretends to be rich, while Claire tells him that she is married to a diplomat. Both lovers enjoy these lies until one day Madeleine discovers the betrayal.

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model.

Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war break...

The kidnappers of a variety presenter, Patrice Rengain, demand a ransom of a billion cents. To collect the sum, the director of the chain decides to organize a huge quest, as for a great humanitarian cause.

Bruno Markham, director of pornographic films, tries to convince his producer Françoise to invest in an author's film, but she refuses on the pretext that the X is more profitable. His scenario obtains a significant subsidy.

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what ha...

A lot of quarrels ,the day French people eat the Galette Des Rois.

The French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara Biondi (Micheline Presle), whose peak years are shown in flashback. Clara finds herself victimized by blackma...

They are both over thirty and live in Montmartre. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker and Mathieu a sculptor. But these are more social reasons than real jobs because they both live more for drinking and running after girls.