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French actress
A.K.A.
Blanche Pauline Fumoleau
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Female
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Birth:
8 June 1893(Angers)
Death:
4 July 1964(Nice)
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Spouse(s):
Max Bonnafous
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a French film actress.
Career
Morley began acting in the era of silent films, and became known as co-star with Max Linder in his "Max" series. She starred in a series of "Gaby" films such Gaby en auto (1917) and more than twenty other silent films. She moved easily into talking films in the early 1930s. She played Queen Victoria in the 1939 historical film Entente cordiale. She had an affair with the government minister Max Bonnafous (1900–75) during World War II (1939–45), and as a result was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation of France. Later she married Bonnafous.
Morlay continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Selected filmography
- The Agony of the Eagles (1922)
- Les Nouveaux Messieurs (1929)
- Ariane, jeune fille russe (1930)
- Accused, Stand Up! (1930)
- Companion Wanted (1932)
- Le Scandale (1934)
- Jeanne (1934)
- Samson (1936)
- Nuits de feu (1937)
- The Messenger (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- Hercule (1938)
- Sacred Woods (1939)
- Entente cordiale (1939)
- Behind the Facade (1939)
- Paris-New York (1940)
- They Were Twelve Women (1940)
- The Blue Veil (1942)
- The Last Metro (1945)
- Her Final Role (1946)
- The Lost Village (1947)
- Three Boys, One Girl (1948)
- Gigi (1949)
- Millionnaires d'un jour (1949)
- Prima comunione (1950)
- Le Plaisir (1952)
- The Lovers of Marianne (1953)
- Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
- Papa, maman, la bonne et moi (1954)
- Papa, maman, ma femme et moi (1955)
- L'impossible Monsieur Pipelet (1955)
- Crime and Punishment (1956)
- Ramuntcho (1959)