Janine Darcey
Popularity:0.248
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1917-01-14
Place of Birth:Asnières, Seine [now Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine], France
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Also Known As:Janine Darcy, Janine Renée Casaubon, Jeanine Darcey

Rififi (1955)
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend...

The Shanghai Drama (1938)
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

The Curtain Rises (1938)
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams...

Assault (1936)
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has...

La Loupiote (1937)
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man...

Franco de port (1937)
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an...

Three Artillerymen on the Move (1938)
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.

I Sing (1938)
Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.

Cap au large (1942)
Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to...

Parade in 7 Nights (1941)
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.

Little Nothings (1942)
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...

Sixième étage (1940)
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.

L'Auberge de l'abîme (1943)
At the end of the last century, in the Cévennes, a valiant officer was taken for a brigand. Brought to defend himself, he kills one of his...

The Lucky Star (1943)
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler,...

Le Dessous des cartes (1948)
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young...

Return to Life (1949)
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

Witness in the City (1959)
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949)
A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in...

French Without Tears (1940)
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in...

Children of Chaos (1944)
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to...

Hothead (1979)
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge...

Moitié-moitié (1989)
A man and a woman quarrel over an old building, a heritage they share. Their opposing characters make the situation conflictual.

Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges...

Yoshiwara (1937)
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love...

Children of Love (1953)
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their...

Délit mineur (1994)
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.

Cavalcade of Love (1939)
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that...

A Man and Two Women (1991)
The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne /...

L'Apprentissage de la ville (1982)
Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

The Sword and the Balance (1963)
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their...

The Tender Enemy (1936)
Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships...

The Straight Line (1964)
Amputated of a hand during the war, traumatized and having given up on a career as a runner, Stéphane has become a newspaper salesman. Heckel,...

La 99ème Minute (1966)
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated...

To Kill a Priest (1988)
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

The Wonderful Night (1940)
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the...

Out of It (1978)
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot...

The Little Thing (1938)
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary...

American Dreamer (1984)
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the...

Old Bill and Son (1941)
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

Forty Little Mothers (1936)
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become...

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and...

Men Without Fear (1942)
1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation...

Six Little Girls in White (1942)
On his fiftieth birthday, Serge Charan, a large industrialist overloaded with activities, decides to leave everything to go on an adventure. In a...

Cordial Agreement (1939)
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and...

Tobie Is an Angel (1940)
Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie...

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1938)
An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.

Double Crime in the Maginot Line (1937)
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct...

Une époque formidable (1991)
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la...

Sisters-in-Arms (1937)
During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English

The Adolescent (1979)
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity...