Ginette Leclerc

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Ginette Leclerc (born February 9, 1912 in Paris ; † January 2, 1992 there ; born Genevieve Lucie Menut ) was a French actress .

Life

The daughter of Louis Menut and Suzanne Fauth began as a model for postcard photography and had been a stage actress, conférencier in revues and first film roles as an extra since the early 1930s .

She was best known in 1938 as a dissolute baker's wife in The Other Woman and in 1943 as a vamp in Henri-Georges Clouzot's film The Raven . Since she worked continuously for the Nazi-controlled film company Continental during the occupation, she was boycotted for two years after the liberation of France in 1944.

After that, she continued her film career, but also increasingly turned back to the stage. There she played, among other things, in The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof and in the Sartre pieces The Honorable Whore and Closed Society .

A serious broken bone in 1984 meant that she had to give up her acting profession and was dependent on a wheelchair. She was married to the dancer Lucien Leclerc from 1930 until the divorce in 1939 and was later in a relationship with the actor Lucien Gallas for ten years.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1932: The Lady of Maxim (La dame de chez Maxim's)
  • 1933: The Strange Old One (Cette vieille canaille)
  • 1935: Sleeping car Paris - Toulon (Fanfare d'amour)
  • 1936: The Rush of a Night (La peur)
  • 1938: The other woman (La femme du boulanger)
  • 1939: That's life (Métropolitain)
  • 1940: Wisps of the border (L'empreinte du Dieu)
  • 1942: In the fever of love (Fièvres)
  • 1943: The Raven (Le corbeau)
  • 1948: Coach No. 13 (Il fiacre No. 13)
  • 1950: A lonely man in the city (Un homme marche dans la ville)
  • 1950: Gangsters of the Air (Les aventuriers de l'air)
  • 1952: Pläsier (Le plaisir)
  • 1952: Smugglers at work (La maison dans la dune)
  • 1955: Nights in Lisbon (Les amants du Tage)
  • 1955: Gas-Oil
  • 1956: The band of the honest (La banda degli onesti)
  • 1958–81: The Falls of Monsieur Cabrol (Les cinq dernières minutes , four episodes)
  • 1960: Fatal Encounter (Les magiciennes)
  • 1961: The Lord with the Millions (Le cave se rebiffe)
  • 1965: And the woods will be silent (Le chant du monde)
  • 1968: Birds, birds on the wall (Le grand cérémonial)
  • 1970: Tropic of Cancer
  • 1970: The Ball des Comte d'Orgel (Le bal du comte d'Orgel)
  • 1971: Popsy Pop
  • 1972: The five-leaf clover (Le trèfle à cinq feuilles)
  • 1973: Through Paris with noises (Elle court, elle court la banlieue)
  • 1973: Angels also eat lentils (La belle affaire)
  • 1978: The barricade of Point du Jour (La barricade du Point du Jour)

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personal data
SURNAME Leclerc, Ginette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menut, Genevieve Lucie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1992
Place of death Paris