Jane Pierson

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Jane Pierson , alternatively Jeanne Pierson , (* 19th or 20th century, † after 1952) was a French film actress .

biography

Pierson had her first small appearance in the adventure film Mandrin by Henri Fescourt in 1924 , which was to be symptomatic of her career, as she was seen almost only in supporting roles in her almost 60 films. In the comedic fantasy film Le voyage imaginaire (1926) she worked for the first time with René Clair , in whose films she appeared eight times. In the Franco-German production Der Florentiner Hut von Clair from 1928 she was cast again in a small role. In the same year she played a minor part in the film Im Taumel von Paris by Julien Duvivier , in which the German actress Lil Dagover had the leading role. It was her second collaboration with Duvivier. She was cast in Jean Renoir's adventure film Le bled in 1929 and in Clair's film Under the Roofs of Paris in 1930 . Also in 1930 she took part in the French version of the mistaken comedy Kopfüber ins Glück directed by René Pujol , with which Jean Gabin started his film career.

In René Clair's musical comedy Die Million from 1931, which is about a missing lottery ticket, Pierson was cast as a dealer. This was followed by the role of caretaker Philomène in Renoir's tragic crime drama The Bitch (1931), which is about a woman, her pimp and a painter. In the comedy Boule de Gomme (1931) by Georges Lacombe , Pierson played one of her few leading roles as the mother of Boule de Gomme, a young child who must be made to cry and laugh for a film. In 1932 she was cast as Madame Michonnet in Jean Renoir's mystery crime drama La nuit du carrefour and in Renoir's Boudu - rescued from the waters as neighbor Rose. She worked with Clair again in 1933, this time in the film July 14th , in which she was cast as a caretaker, as she has done several times in her films. In the romantic comedy Le rayon des amours by Edmond T. Gréville from 1933, she was cast in a slightly larger role than Dudu. In 1934 another collaboration with Clair was on the program, for the political film satire The Last Billionaire .

With Gréville, Pierson worked again in 1940 in the drama Menaces… and with Lacombe in 1946 in Le pays sans étoiles , where she was the friend of one of the main characters. In Clair's nostalgic film drama Silence is Gold from 1947, she was seen as the maid of the main character played by Maurice Chevalier . Pierson's last listed film, the Italian-French comedy Die Schönen der Nacht (1952) with Gérard Philipe in the lead role, was again by René Clair.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jane Pierson sS aveleyman.com (with pictures of the actress)
  2. ↑ Boule de Gomme movie poster (on the left: Jane Pierson)
personal data
SURNAME Pierson, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pierson, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film actress
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH France
DATE OF DEATH after 1952