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Viviane Romance
Born: 4th Jul 1912 Roubaix, Nord, France - Died 25th Sep 1991
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 62
Film: 59 (95%)
Television: 3 (5%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Horror, Mystery, War, Fantasy
Filmography
Original title: Nada
1974
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 ... view
Character:
Madame Gabrielle
Jan 1972 (first aired)
Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the O ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Mélodie en sous-sol
1963
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 ... view
Character:
Ginette, Charles's Wife
Original title: Pitié pour les vamps
1956
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 ... view
Character:
Flora Davis
1956
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 ... view
Character:
Muriel Vincent
Original title: L'Affaire des poisons
1955
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 Scoraill ... view
Character:
Catherine Deshayes, dite La Voisin
Original title: Gueule d'ange
1955
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 ... view
Character:
Loïna Gauthier
Original title: Le Tournant dangereux
1954
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling. ... view
Character:
Lucienne Courtois
Original title: La Chair et le Diable
1954
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia. ... view
Character:
Mylène Valdès
Original title: Legione straniera
1953
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 ... view
Character:
Cherie
Original title: L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù
1953
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 ... view
Character:
Assunta Perella
Original title: Les femmes sont des anges
1952
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers. ... view
Character:
Edmée Clotier
Original title: Les Sept Péchés capitaux
1952
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Blanc (segment "La Luxure")
Original title: Au cœur de la Casbah
1952
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 ... view
Character:
Maria Pilar
1951
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. ... view
Character:
Marie Charbonnier
1949
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 ... view
Character:
Bella dite Maya
1948
Documentary about the bodybuilding competition held in the south of France, in Cannes. Composed of 2 parts filmed on August 15, 1948 (11 minutes - sel ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Gli uomini sono nemici
1948
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 ... view
Character:
Irène Dumesnil
Original title: La maison sous la mer
1947
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, ... view
Character:
Flore
Original title: La Colère des dieux
1947
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations. ... view
Character:
Rita / Maria
Original title: Panique
1947
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 ... view
Character:
Alice
Original title: L'Affaire du collier de la reine
1946
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" ... view
Character:
Countess Jeanne de la Motte-Valois
1945
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 ... view
Character:
Manon
Original title: La Boîte aux rêves
1945
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals. ... view
Character:
Nicole Payen-Laurel
1944
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a versi ... view
Character:
Carmen
Original title: Une femme dans la nuit
1943
A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired of his violent outbursts, and wanting to rebuild ... view
Character:
Denise Lorin
Original title: Feu sacré
1942
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she su ... view
Character:
Paulette Vernier
1942
The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she ... view
Character:
Cartacalha
Original title: Vénus aveugle
1941
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the ... view
Character:
Clarisse
1939
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 ... view
Character:
Clara Véry
Original title: L'Esclave blanche
1939
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows hi ... view
Character:
Mireille, the French wife
Original title: Prisons de femmes
1938
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not ... view
Character:
Régine
Original title: La Maison du Maltais
1938
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 ... view
Character:
Safia
1938
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love. ... view
Character:
Blanche du Placet
Original title: L'Étrange Monsieur Victor
1938
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and consider ... view
Character:
Adrienne Robineau
1938
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 ... view
Character:
Mercedes Garcia
Original title: Le Puritain
1938
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 ... view
Character:
Molly
Original title: Naples au baiser de feu
1937
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 ... view
Character:
Lolita
1937
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 ... view
Character:
Gloriane
Original title: Mademoiselle Docteur
1937
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, ... view
Character:
Gaby, la chanteuse de cabaret
1937
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 ... view
Character:
Chouquette
Original title: L'Homme à abattre
1937
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents. ... view
Character:
Hilda
1936
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 ... view
Character:
Gina
1936
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed ... view
Character:
Original title: Retour au paradis
1935
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 ... view
Character:
Suzanne
Original title: Princesse Tam-Tam
1935
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess. ... view
Character:
Lucie's Friend
Original title: L'Équipage
1935
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 ... view
Character:
Une girl
1935
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 ... view
Character:
la fille de Barcelone
Original title: Deuxième Bureau
1935
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful ... view
Character:
Original title: Les Yeux Noirs
1935
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 ... view
Character:
Countess
1935
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 ... view
Character:
Une pensionnaire de Madame Olympe
1934
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back. ... view
Character:
1934
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 ... view
Character:
1934
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 ... view
Character:
La marchande de cigarettes - Cigarette Girl
Original title: L'Épervier
1933
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 ... view
Character:
1933
Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat. ... view
Character:
A mistress
Original title: Il est charmant
1932
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 ... view
Character:
Uncredited
1931
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally f ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
1931
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 c ... view
Character:
(uncredited)