Francine Mussey (6 October 1897 – 23 March 1933) was a

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film actress whose career began in the

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era of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by ingesting poison at age 35. Mussey was born in the

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as Marcelle Fromholt in 1897. She made her debut in the 1920 Lucien Lehmann-directed film ''L'épave'', opposite actors Marcel Bonneau and Jean-François Martial. She would go on to appear in a number of films throughout the 1920s and into the sound film era of the early 1930s directed by Louis Feuillade, Gaston Ravel, Alexandre Ryder and Jean Daumery, among others. She appeared in the 1927 epic '' Napoléon''"Francine Mussey"
Unifrance.org, Retrieved 12 April 2016 which ran for five and a half hours.

Selected filmography

*'' The House of Mystery'' (1923) *'' The Man in the Saddle'' (1925) *'' Lady Harrington'' (1926) *'' Napoleon'' (1927) *'' The Woman Who Couldn't Say No'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1932)

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* 1897 births 1933 deaths French film actresses French silent film actresses Actresses from Paris Drug-related suicides in France 20th-century French actresses 1933 suicides {{France-actor-stub