Blanche Montel

Acting

Blanche Montel

Born — Died

1902-08-14 — 1998-03-31

Place of birth

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Known for

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9.0

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978

Barrabas poster
5.4

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was unjustly guillotined for the murder of Laure d'Hérigny, the mistress of an American millionaire. Later, the sister of Claude Varèse, Françoise, is kidnapped by Dr Lucius, one of the henchmen of Barrabas. Serialised over 12 chapters.

Barrabas

1919

Séraphin ou les jambes nues poster
9.0

Following a series of unfortunate accidents, the eminently respectable Séraphin, the meticulous and correct manager in an insurance company, finds himself trouserless in the middle of the street.

Séraphin ou les jambes nues

1921

Miquette and Her Mother poster
7.5

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.

Miquette and Her Mother

1933

The Adventurer poster
6.2

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.

The Adventurer

1934

Radio Surprises poster
6.5

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.

Radio Surprises

1940

Film credits

1940s · 2 titles

1930s · 12 titles

Miquette and Her Mother poster
7.5

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.

Miquette and Her Mother

1933

The Adventurer poster
6.2

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.

The Adventurer

1934

Moonlight poster
10.0

While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.

Moonlight

1932

The Blue Ones of the Sky poster
7.0

An obscure mechanic falls in love with a an champion pilot.

The Blue Ones of the Sky

1933

La maison du mystère poster
10.0

Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny, who grants her hand to Villandrit. Mad with jealousy, Corradin will use all means to break up the couple: he does not hesitate to compromise Régine, to send Julien to prison for a crime he did not commit, to spread misfortune. But despite a long and painful separation, Julien and Régine will find each other, still bound by the same love.

La maison du mystère

1934

L'Arlésienne poster
10.0

Frédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.

L'Arlésienne

1930

Durand bijoutier poster
7.0

Mr. Durand is bored in his relationship. He takes a mistress but does not take long to return to his wife, a little because he is sad, a little also because he has affection for her, but above all out of selfish habit.

Durand bijoutier

1938

The Three Musketeers poster
6.3

Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in their adventures, notably on a secret mission to uncover a plot contrived against the Queen by Cardinal Richelieu.

The Three Musketeers

1932

The Miracle Child poster
10.0

A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.

The Miracle Child

1932

The Nice Adventure poster
8.0

Hoping to scare wealthy young Bernard into getting married to his longtime fiancee Georgette, a phony fortune-teller is hired to inform Bernard that he is to die very soon. But thanks to a case of mistaken identity, the fortune-teller delivers this message to middle-aged gym instructor Étienne. Instead of heading towards the altar, however, Étienne decides to live his last few months on earth to the fullest -- and as a result becomes a millionaire at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo. Upon learning that he isn't going to kick the bucket after all, our hero pretends to be at death's door anyway, all for the purpose of patching up the rocky romance between Bernard and Georgette.

The Nice Adventure

1932

The Blaireau Case poster
5.8

Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released, this major philosopher destroys in just a few hours the prestige painstakingly built by his liberator.

The Blaireau Case

1932

In the act poster
9.0

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with.

In the act

1931

1920s · 11 titles

Séraphin ou les jambes nues poster
9.0

Following a series of unfortunate accidents, the eminently respectable Séraphin, the meticulous and correct manager in an insurance company, finds himself trouserless in the middle of the street.

Séraphin ou les jambes nues

1921

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Une vieille marquise très riche

1924

No artwork available
7.0

"Be bold, young man, be bold!" repeats Judge Barbachon to his clerk Belhomme. Putting the precepts of his boss into practice, Belhomme first tries to seduce Madame Barbachon, and is thrown out of the house. Moving on to the capital of the region to look for another job, Belhomme meets a charming young lady on the tramway. He continues to follow the advice of Judge Barbachon...

Gaëtan ou le commis audacieux

1922

The Race for Love poster
7.0

In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.

The Race for Love

1925

The Vocation of André Carel poster
5.6

At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he falls in love with Reine, the beautiful daughter of a simple boatsman. In order to impress her solely through his personality and character, he conceals his wealthy origins and, disguising himself as a migrant laborer, takes up work on board her father's ship.

The Vocation of André Carel

1925

La Belle Nivernaise poster
6.4

A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.

La Belle Nivernaise

1924

No artwork available
7.0

Bamboche threw his wife in the water. She's not dead and re-married with Dartès under an alias. Dartès himself goes under the name of one of Bamboche's friend's. The bigamist wife then falls in love with another man : Dr Verdier, who loves Mariette, a sweet girl who turns out to be the child Dartès abandoned long ago.

The Girl of the Dust Bin

1922

Gustave est médium poster
6.6

Gustave (Biscot) realizes he has acquired a telekinetic power.

Gustave est médium

1921

No artwork available
8.0

Chichinette (Blanche Montel) is in love with a playboy named Philippe (Jean Devalde). She follows him to Paris, believing his promise of marriage, only to come to her senses.

Chichinette et Cie

1921

No artwork available
9.0

While engaged in the six-day Vel d'Hiv event, a cyclist is concerned about the behaviour of his wife, whom he believes to be unfaithful.

La ronde infernale

1928

Son altesse poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Son altesse

1922

1910s · 2 titles

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