Marfa d'Hervilly

Acting

Marfa d'Hervilly

Born — Died

1876-11-09 — 1963-11-18

Place of birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 15 titles

Vie privée poster
7.0

Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in the countryside. Dorcier, the director, would like to marry Florence and wonders about her private life and her past existence. A jealous rival unleashes slander.

Vie privée

1942

The Chips Are Down poster
6.8

A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.

The Chips Are Down

1947

The Passenger poster
7.0

When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.

The Passenger

1949

Monsieur chasse poster
5.0

A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to take advantage of the situation and makes an appointment with the outraged wife in a bachelor flat where the situation is resolved, not without morality being undermined.

Monsieur chasse

1947

The Mondesir Heir poster
5.5

Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.

The Mondesir Heir

1940

In the Eyes of Memory poster
7.0

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.

In the Eyes of Memory

1948

My Crimes After Mein Kampf poster
5.3

The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

1940

Hopes ... poster
4.7

Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.

Hopes ...

1941

Monsieur Hector poster
5.8

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.

Monsieur Hector

1940

The Lost Woman poster
9.0

Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.

The Lost Woman

1942

Last Chance Castle poster
5.0

Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.

Last Chance Castle

1947

Fantomas Against Fantomas poster
7.1

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.

Fantomas Against Fantomas

1949

The Duel poster
9.0

A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought back on the straight and narrow by a missionary, the priest blesses his brother's marriage.

The Duel

1941

The Honorable Catherine poster
6.0

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.

The Honorable Catherine

1943

Check on the King poster
10.0

Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.

Check on the King

1945

1930s · 25 titles

The Pearls of the Crown poster
6.5

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

The Pearls of the Crown

1937

Fort Dolorès poster
7.0

Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.

Fort Dolorès

1939

Moune et son notaire poster
8.0

The brave notary Valentin Parpevielle has many problems with his young wife Moune, who has fallen in love with a crook count.

Moune et son notaire

1933

Romance to the unknown poster
8.0

An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.

Romance to the unknown

1931

Pluie d'or poster
5.0

Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. The children grow up, the man dies and leaves them his fortune The heirs who only got the store, watch over them, which forces them to lead a double life.

Pluie d'or

1936

Une petite femme en or poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Une petite femme en or

1933

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées poster
5.4

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

1938

Orange Blossom poster
10.0

Not content to be an austere judge, M. de Méricourt is also a domestic tyrant. He terrorizes his son René to such an extent that the young man has dared not confess to him that he has married. As can be guessed, a lot of confusion ensues.

Orange Blossom

1932

Turandot, princesse de Chine poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Turandot, princesse de Chine

1935

Sapho poster
9.0

During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.

Sapho

1934

The Midnight Airplane poster
10.0

During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.

The Midnight Airplane

1938

Je te confie ma femme poster
8.0

A young man, having seduced his friend's mistress, undertakes to leave his wife to the latter for one night, when he is married. A few years later, the friend claims his due and the young man introduces him to his so-called wife.

Je te confie ma femme

1933

Three from St. Cyr poster
5.9

Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.

Three from St. Cyr

1939

Bric a Brac and Company poster
5.5

If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them)which would not have been restored.But Fernandel is here ,playing a street pedlar selling luxury (sic) clothes on the flea market with a gorgeous girl as a model.This is a rather desultory script but Fernandel's presence makes the short worthwhile.He sings one song: "le Père Lapuce". A wealthy antique dealer, having started in the flea market in the past, settles his son there, an unrepentant nuke, to teach him how to work. There he meets a treasure: his future wife.

Bric a Brac and Company

1931

Le Soir des rois poster
8.0

Georges de Frileuse is a partier who inherits a castle and a ruby ​​necklace when his aunt dies. On Twelfth Night, he invites a few friends over, but a series of mysterious figures arrive instead of them.

Le Soir des rois

1933

No artwork available
9.0

A philatelist absorbed in his collection abandons his wife. He had her followed by a detective and learned that two young people were courting her. He gives them two rare stamps and gets his wife back.

Colette et son mari

1934

Café de Paris poster
7.9

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?

Café de Paris

1938

Beauty Spot poster
8.0

The ladykiller friend of a busy diplomatic attaché follows a masked blonde home after an elaborate ball without knowing she is that man's wife.

Beauty Spot

1932

Rien que la vérité poster
8.0

Bob bets 250,000 francs that he can tell the truth and nothing but the truth for twenty-four hours.

Rien que la vérité

1931

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet poster
7.0

Firmin, who returned mute from the war of 14-18, has never displeased anyone for twenty years in terms of political life where low blows, jealousy and betrayal are rife in his Provençal village. But an explosion gives him the floor.

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet

1938

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Princesse Czardas

1934

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

With Assurance

1932

Neuf de trèfle poster
9.0

Miche Doulin is a wife who like to spend. Her husband Henri, who is a diplomat and worried about several large bills, wins an unexpected gain at play. He hides his luck and invents an incredible burglary. His wife to repay the imaginary theft will commit a big imprudence, when she learns the truth.

Neuf de trèfle

1938

Un jour viendra poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un jour viendra

1934

Paris poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paris

1937