Simone Max
Biography
Simone Max (vers 1903 -Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 23 août 1983) est une humoriste, chansonnière et comédienne bruxelloise célèbre pour sa zwanze. Artiste de cabaret haute en couleur, Simone Max s'illustre dans des sketchs qui font la part belle aux quiproquos et aux sous-entendus coquins. La Queue de Billard et La Télévision couleur sont révélateurs de cet humour ravageur teinté d'expressions brusseleer. Simone Max interpréta des rôles au Vaudeville aux Galeries et à la Gaité. Elle commence sa carrière en 1926 à l'Alhambra où elle est entrée dans les grâces de Marcel Roels en 1933. Polyvalente, elle crée et tient le cabaret « Mon Village » dans une cave de la rue des Poissonniers à Bruxelles. Elle interprète un rôle dans le film Far west, réalisé par Jacques Brel en 1973 et présenté au Festival de Cannes. Elle fit ses adieux au public en 1971 après 48 ans de métier. Elle décède le 23 août 1983 à la clinique Saint Étienne à Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. Ses funérailles sont célébrées en l'Église royale Sainte-Marie à Schaerbeek, commune où elle résidait.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Honorine Fluch
Don't spend without counting the cost.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Madame Bonnichon
The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she forbids the marriage of her daughter-in-law to the mayor's nephew, especially as an inheritance is in doubt. The ladies kidnap, the men kidnap, the election campaign turns sour and the Baroness must capitulate. She takes revenge by falling into the mayor's arms.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Léon's mother
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?