Portrait Of The Actress Françoise Rosay Around 1925.

Celebrated in her time as "the great lady of French cinema", Françoise Rosay owes her success to a talent and a natural authority which very early on found their fulfillment in the films of her husband Jacques Feyder. Already put to the test in some of her silent films, she figures at the forefront of her greatest talkative successes: If the Emperor Knew That (1930), The Big Game (1934), Pension Mimosas (1935) , The heroic fair (1935), A woman disappears (1942). His command of foreign languages led him to England and Germany, Italy and the United States. She shoots a lot and goes from drama to comedy with ease. Françoise Rosay thus composes a gallery of colorful characters such as the Englishwoman on the return of Drôle de drama (Marcel Carné, 1937), the one-eyed hotel owner of Macadam (Marcel Blistène, 1946), the ruined aristocrat of the Seven deadly sins (Claude Autant-Lara, 1951), Catherine de Médicis in La Reine Margot (Jean Dréville, 1954), the trafficker in Le cave se rebiffe (Gilles Grangier, 1961) or the gun-granny of Should not take the children of the good God for wild ducks (Michel Audiard, 1968) and again Gertrude in La métamorphose des cloportes by Pierre Granier-Deferre in 1965. His energy and his profession always allow him to give the illusion of reality, even in the most popular productions. less successful. Françoise Rosay also performs on stage and on television. She is the author of a reference book on cinema, co-signed by her husband, Jacques Feyder: Le cinéma, notre profession, published in 1944. Françoise Rosay's memoirs, La traversée d'une vie, appear in 1974. In 1940, Françoise Rosay took part in the resistance effort by broadcasting radio messages from London.
Oil on canvas, painted around 1925.
Signed lower right (signature to be identified)
Dimensions of the work: 55 cm x 46 cm
Gray rechampi Art-Deco style frame (frame dimensions: 64 cm x 55 cm)
Good condition - varnish with chancis.
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