
Acting
Jacques Maury
Born 1897-04-20 · Paris, France
Acting credits
No synopsis available yet.
Scrupule
1935
10.0An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career. He soon becomes extremely wealthy and thinks he can win her back.
A Man and His Woman
1934
8.0A painter lives with his patron (soon to be lover) in her fairytale-like Château. But it's 1914, and duty calls. Jacques becomes a hero, and gets married with another girl ,Louise Liègeois; his former mistress is not prepared to accept it and interferes in the couple's life, demanding a portrait of her as a Valkyrie.
The Carillon of Freedom
1931
10.0Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to visit a pretty and particularly welcoming concierge in his dressing room, and the other spends his evenings in the dressing room of a little music-hall actress.
Nothing But Lies
1933
Désiré Chopin, hunter on foot and friend of François de Crecy, uses a thousand tricks to encourage the love between François and Gaby. Little Margoton is in love with Désire who disdains her. She becomes the darling of the battalion.
La Margoton du bataillon
1933
5.7Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
Miss Bonaparte
1942
8.0Georges 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
8.0A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth that guy's trouble to try to lose some weight, or is he kidding himself?
Fat Man's Worries
1933
7.0Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a wealthy lord gets involved in the life of a pretty Jane Doe. Charmed by Ginette, Jim invites her to a cruise on the Mediterranean. It does not take long before Cupid sends his arrows at the two young people but things are not so simple for all that. Jim indeed fears Ginette might want to marry him for money, which is totally wrong. Fortunately, Lord Ashbury manages to persuade his stubborn son of his error.
Vogue, mon coeur
1935
10.0An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.
La Bête aux sept manteaux
1937
Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly followed by two young men, Armand Desroches et Daniel Savary, who both have fallen in love with Henriette after meeting her at a ball. The Perrichons's vacation will be eventful with, among other misadventures, two accidents (one real, the other fake) and the threat of a duel.
The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon
1934
9.0During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
About an investigation
1931
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Odette
1935
Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.
Trois pour cent
1934
A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.
Si tu veux
1932
9.0When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
Rio's yellow house
1931
8.0Kid Marc is an upcoming boxer about to become the European Lightweight Champion, only he discovers his surprising victories had been handled by his manager, César Cannebois. This time, he vows to win on his own merits, to show his girlfriend how good he really is - and chiqué is stronger, and he loses in the ring. All glamour gone, everybody abandons him, save for his loyal and loving girlfriend. Régina is going to be his queen.
Direct au coeur
1933