HOME
NEW
MOVIES REVIEW
WATCHLIST
Gaby Sylvia

Gaby Sylvia

Acting
1920-03-24
Cesena, Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

Gaby Sylvia (March 24, 1920 – July 26, 1980) was an Italian actress who appeared in many French films and television series. Source: Article "Gaby Sylvia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles

#1Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Jessica Shilarov

6.9 / 10
CrimeMystery

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Un curé de choc

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Geneviève

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Signé illisible

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Monique Lavergne

7.0 / 10

Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4The Stream

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Denise

6.8 / 10
Drama

When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5Mauregard

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Anne-Marie de Mettray

7.5 / 10
DramaFamily

Upon his return from Louisiana in 1865, Maxence de Mettray decides to use the profits from his last commercial trip to buy the castle of Mauregard in Touraine, the castle of his ancestors. From there, his story and that of his descendants is told over six different periods. A French mini-series in six 60-minute episodes.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6We Will All Meet in Paradise

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Marie-Christine Bosquet, Daniel's director

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Face au destin

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Madeleine Clairvoix

9.0 / 10

Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8Avalanche

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Wanda Bouchard

9.0 / 10

Desiring to smuggle into Switzerland with her husband, a woman seduces a guide.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Captain Blomet

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Micheline de Mandane

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10The Straw Lover

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Gisèle Sarrazin de Fontenoy

4.7 / 10
Comedy

The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11No Exit

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Estelle Rigaud

5.9 / 10
DramaFantasy

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Micheline Tessier

6.0 / 10
Comedy

To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13Bad Liaisons

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Hélène Ducouret

6.4 / 10
Drama

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14Love and Companionship

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Danielle Lecourtoy

8.0 / 10
Comedy

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15The Marriage of Ramuntcho

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Maritchu

5.4 / 10
ComedyRomance

A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Beast at Bay

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Gilberte

4.8 / 10
DramaThriller

Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17La Toile d'araignée

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Patricia Brown-Gibson

8.3 / 10

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18The Three Musketeers

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Milady de Winter

5.8 / 10
AdventureTV Movie

The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19La Femme fatale

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Claire Coussol

7.0 / 10

Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20Handsome Face

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Emilie

7.0 / 10

Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#21Premier bal

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Danielle Noblet

6.9 / 10
RomanceComedy

Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#22In Six Easy Lessons

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Hélène de Bergen

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#23Mission in Tangier

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Lili

6.0 / 10
AdventureDrama

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#24Behind the Facade

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Madeleine Martin, in love with André

7.7 / 10
CrimeComedy

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#25Be Careful Ladies

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Florence Moulin

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as he is released from prison he places a personal ad in a newspaper. This is how the newly self-appointed "cynical Don Juan" will meet three creatures: Florence, Gisèle and Henriette. Who will eat who?

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#26Métier de fous

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Sylvia Dormont

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A very Parisian author cannot finish a comedy. It is ruin for the director of the theater, who has the idea of ​​taking his foal to the coast. There, recruited actors will perform a series of variations on the theme of heartaches to inspire him. After a number of misunderstandings, the operation succeeds.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#27Fantasmi del mare

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Elena

8.0 / 10
War

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south. In time of danger, the man is forced to sacrifice the lives of seven sailors and the son of the Captain, his good friend, in order to save the rest of the crew.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#28Les femmes sont folles

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Marguerite

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they will.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details