Gabrielle Fontan
Popularity:0.044
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1873-04-16
Place of Birth:Bordeaux, France
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Also Known As:Fontan, Gabrielle Marie Joséphine Pène-Castel, Габриель Фонтан, Габриэль Фонтан

For One Cent's Worth of Love (1932)
A millionaire,in love with an innocent girl,does not want to be loved for his money.So he asks his secretary to take his place and together they go...

Les Misérables (1958)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Gates of the Night (1946)
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father...

A Day in the Country (1946)
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Strangers in the House (1942)
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the...

The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted...

Marie of the Port (1950)
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish...

The Gates of Paris (1957)
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive,...

My Friend Victor (1931)
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?

L'Or dans la rue (1934)
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket...

Black Dossier (1955)
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...

La Petite Sauvage (1936)
The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring dance hall, by running away for a short time,...

Pluie d'or (1936)
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. The children grow up, the man dies and leaves them...

The Ladies in the Green Hats (1937)
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and...

The Time of the Cherries (1938)
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting...

Titin from Martigues (1938)
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of...

Ramuntcho (1938)
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is...

Two Women (1940)
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

The Duel (1941)
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought...

Twisted Mistress (1942)
Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes...

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...

Sins of Youth (1941)
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four...

Eight Men in a Castle (1942)
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis...

The Musicians of the Sky (1940)
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

Picpus (1943)
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

The End of the Day (1939)
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he...

À la Belle Frégate (1943)
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy...

Carnival of Sinners (1943)
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact,...

Mademoiselle Béatrice (1943)
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his...

Madame et le mort (1943)
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?

The Roquevillards (1943)
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....

L'Escalier sans fin (1943)
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately,...

Le moussaillon (1942)
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent...

Ceux du rivage (1943)
In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark...

Secrets of a Ballerina (1943)
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love...

The Traveler Without Luggage (1944)
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability...

The Ménard Collection (1944)
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul...

The White Blackbird (1944)
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an...

Behind These Walls (1946)
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to...

Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945)
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen,...

Angel and Sinner (1945)
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal...

Strange Fate (1946)
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, who is killed in action during a battle of the...

The J3 (1946)
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at selling cigarettes and silk stockings than at...

Her Last Part (1946)
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish...

Pétrus (1946)
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless...

Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her...

Destiny (1946)
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.

Anger of the Gods (1947)
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.

Pluck the Hen (1947)
A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come to put an end to the beginning idyll, falls in...

Torrents (1947)
Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies...

Monsieur Vincent (1947)
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

Vertiges (1947)
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.

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...

Julie de Carneilhan (1950)
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

Rapide de nuit (1948)
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands...

The Strollers (1950)
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?

La Bataille du feu (1949)
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the...

Desperate Decision (1952)
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she...

Premier mai (1958)
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take...

Life in a Song (1951)
The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian...

Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris...

Dainah the Mixed (1932)
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer onboard...

Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951)
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up...

Flesh and the Woman (1954)
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village...

Bold Adventure (1956)
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo,...

Julie la rousse (1959)
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's...

Daybreak (1939)
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Be Beautiful and Shut Up (1958)
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she...

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

Love Is at Stake (1957)
Bob, a talented draftsman, and his young wife Marie-Blanche, a young antique dealer, adore their only son Gégé. But for the most...

Men Think Only of That (1954)
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he...

My Priest Among the Poor (1956)
Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he...

My Darned Father (1958)
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation....

Premier bal (1941)
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.

Misdeal (1928)
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a...

The Versailles Affair (1960)
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.

Manon (1949)
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of...

The Grand Manoeuvre (1955)
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...

Valley of Hell (1943)
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in...

Crime and Punishment (1956)
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders...

Toto (1933)
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist,...

The Last Penny (1946)
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the...

The House Under the Sea (1947)
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love,...

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...

Messieurs Ludovic (1946)
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will...

The Fleeing Dead (1936)
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to...

Douce (1943)
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in...

The Lovers of Tomorrow (1959)
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her...

The Fatted Calf (1939)
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing...

Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains...

After Love (1948)
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The...

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me (1955)
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to...

Night Shift (1944)
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

François Villon (1945)
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.

The Magic of the Kite (1958)
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has...

Life Is Ours (1936)
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...

Lunegarde (1946)
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that...

Love Is My Profession (1958)
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

A Certain Mr. Jo (1958)
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not...

Hi Doc (1957)
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till...

L'homme au parapluie (1956)
A heart stops beating and two others no longer dare to face each other. While an old lady is found poisoned, the two main suspects in the...

Lovers of Paris (1957)
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.

Vertigine d'amore (1948)
Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".