Marcelle Romée (7 February 1903 – 3 December 1932) was a French
stage and
film actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...
. Having emerged as a
film star, and played the female
lead role
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in four films, she committed suicide by drowning in the
River Seine
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in
Paris
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[Conway p.210]
Filmography
* ''
La lettre'' (1931)
* ''
Le cap perdu
''Le cap perdu'' (''The Lost Cape'') is a 1931 Cinema of the United Kingdom, British-made drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Harry Baur, Henri Bosc and Jean-Max. It was a French-language version of the film ''Cape Forlorn'' ...
'' (1931)
* ''
The Night at the Hotel
''The Night at the Hotel'' (French: ''Une nuit à l'hôtel'') is a 1932 French drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Marcelle Romée, Jean Périer and Betty Stockfeld.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.113 It was made at the Joinville Studios in P ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Lilac
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'' (1932)
References
Bibliography
* Capua, Michelangelo. ''Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2015.
* Conway, Kelley. ''Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film''. University of California Press, 2004.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1903 births
1932 deaths
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
French film actresses
French stage actresses
Suicides by drowning in France
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