Janie Marèse
Biography
Janie Marèse, born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot, was a French stage and screen actress. Her professional career on stage began at the Théâtre Marigny and Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique . She appeared in four shorts and three feature-length films, most notably Jean Renoir's second sound film "La Chienne" (1931).
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Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Lucienne Pelletier (archive footage)
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Lucienne 'Lulu' Pelletier
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Gretel
Pierre and Georges both love Gretel who, in turn, is in love with Georges. Georges falls in love with another, Dolly, but the lover of the latter threatens to stop supporting him. Georges ends up finding Gretel, who forgives him, while Pierre steps aside to ensure their happiness.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Denise de Flavigny
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!