Marie Glory
Marie Glory (born Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully ; born March 3, 1905 in Mortagne-au-Perche , Orne department , † January 24, 2009 in Cannes ) was a French film actress.
Life
She made her film debut in 1924 as a small actor in Raymond Bernard's monumental historical epic Le miracle des loups under the stage name Arlette Genny , which she used until 1927. Since then she has performed under the name Marie Glory .
In the more than three-hour German-French co-production Das Geld (1928) by Marcel L'Herbier , she played the leading female role with Brigitte Helm and Pierre Alcover . With Henri Fescourt's film adaptation of the Dumas novel The Count of Monte Christo , she starred in another Franco-German joint production alongside Jean Angelo , Lil Dagover and Gaston Modot . Under Géza von Bolváry , she stood in front of the camera for father and son in Germany in 1929 .
Leo Mittler's Le Roi de Paris (1930) was her first sound film. She performed with the Serbian actor Iván Petrovich . In the 1930s she played mostly leading roles, including German productions by the directors Ewald André Dupont (Le deux mondes) , Hans Steinhoff ( Madame ne veut pas d'enfants ) and Wilhelm Thiele . In 1938 she played the Pepita in Jacques Feyder's Les gens du voyage . In 1939 she had her last leading role.
During and after World War II (1939-1951) she appeared in just one film. In the early 1950s she was involved in Italian film productions, but only got supporting roles. Her last appearance in a movie was in 1960, after which she only worked briefly for television.
In the mid-1990s she was interviewed for Kevin Brownlow's documentary on the history of silent films in central European countries Kino Europa (Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood) .
Filmography
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Web links
- Biography, filmography, 3 photos (in French)
- obituary
- Marie Glory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Glory, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toully, Raymonde Louise Marcelle (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mortagne-au-Perche , Orne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2009 |
| Place of death | Cannes |