Gaby Morlay
Born: 1893-06-08 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Died: 1964-07-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France. Morlay began acting in the era of silent films, and became known as co-star with Max Linder in his "Max" series. She starred in a series of "Gaby" films such as Gaby en auto (1917) and more than 20 other silent films. She moved easily into talking films in the early 1930s. She played Queen Victoria in the 1939 historical film Entente cordiale. She had an affair with the government minister Max Bonnafous (1900–75) during World War II, and as a result, she was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation of France. Later she married Bonnafous. Morlay continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s. She was an art lover and was a friend and admirer of the Italian painter Beretta Dimario who lived in Nice. Source: Article "Gaby Morlay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
1964
- Monsieur as Mrs. Bernadac, Edmond's Mother
1963
- Le mari ne compte pas as La mère de Denise
- La bande à Bobo as Countess del Mariano
1960
- Fortunate as Mlle Emilienne Massillon
1959
- Quai des illusions as Madame Vincent
1958
- Sacred Youth as Zabeth Longué
- Ramuntcho as Dolores
- My Darned Father as Roberte
- Le Tombeur !!! as Agathe de Chamillac
1957
- The Twilight Girls as Mme Ancelin
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Crime and Punishment as madame Brunel
- Les Lumières du soir as Rose Hessler
- Plaisir du théâtre as La mère de Denise
- When the Child Appears as Olympe Fouquet
1955
- Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me as Gabrielle Langlois, la mère
- Fantaisie d'un jour as Marcelle Bénard
- The Ragpickers of Emmaus as Mademoiselle
- The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as Germaine Martin
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Papa, Mama, the Maid and I as Gabrielle Langlois, mother
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Countess de la Motte
1953
- The Love of a Woman as Germaine Leblanc
- Les amoureux de Marianne as Germaine Duboutois
1952
- Le Plaisir as Denise - la femme d'Ambroise
- The Girl with the Whip as Lamberta
- Foyer perdu as Alice Barbentin
1951
- Anna as Mother superior
- Mammy as Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'
- Good Enough to Eat as Mathilde de Mergrand / Mathilde Chaperon
1950
- First Communion as Maria Carloni (Mme Dupont)
- Born of Unknown Father as Mrs. Nogent
- Without Trumpet or Drum
1949
- Gigi as Tante Alicia
- Ève et le serpent as Laurence Barrois
- Millionaires for One Day as Hélène Berger
- Summer Storm as Mrs. Arbelot
1948
- Three Boys, One Girl as Hélène Dourville
1947
- The Lost Village as Angélique Barrodet
- The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Victorine Rousset, aka 'Maryse'
- Hyménée as Agnès d'Aubarède
1946
- Lunegarde as La comtesse Armance de Lunegarde
- Her Last Part as Hermine Wood
- Un revenant as Geneviève Gonin
- Mensonges as Marie Leroux
1945
- Farandole as Actress
- The Last Metro as Mathilde Bourgeot
1944
- L'Enfant de l'amour as Liane Orland
- Night Shift as Suzanne
1943
- Des jeunes filles dans la nuit as Madame de Saint-André
- White Wings as Sister Claire
- Mademoiselle Béatrice as Béatrice
- Love Around the Clock as Pierrot's mother
1942
- L'Arlésienne as Rose Mamaï
- The Blue Veil as Louise Jarraud
1941
- Mlle. Desiree as Désirée Clary épouse Bernadotte / la Reine Desideria de Suède
- The Black Diamond as Mademoiselle Marthe Dubard
1940
- Paris - New-York as Gaby
- They Were Twelve Women as Madame Marion
- La Mode rêvée
1939
- Cordial Agreement as Queen Victoria
- Behind the Facade as Gaby Valrose, minister's lover
- Sacred Woods as Adrienne Champmorel
1938
- White Nights in Saint Petersburg as Hélène Voronine
- Hercule as Juliette Leclerc
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Giuseppina Strepponi
- Quadrille as Paulette Nanteuil
1937
- The Messenger as Marie
- Nights of Fire as Lisa Andreieva
- A Picnic on the Grass as Manon Watteau
1936
- The Fear as Irène Sylvain
- The Terrible Lovers as Annette Fournier
- Samson as Anne-Marie d'Andeline
- The King as Marthe Bourdier
- The Seniors as Hélène Lormier
1935
- Le Billet de mille as The desperate one
- Aux portes de Paris as 'La Madone'
1934
- Le Scandale as Charlotte Férioul
- Le Bonheur as Clara Stuart
- We Are Not Children as Roberte
- Jeanne as Madeleine Préolier
1933
- The Ironmaster as Claire de Beaulieu
- Once Upon a Time as Ellen / Mary
1932
- Companion Wanted as (uncredited)
- Ariane, Russian Maid as Ariane
- The Dreamy Mouth as Gaby
1931
- When Love Is Over as Germaine
- Dance House as Estrella
- Faubourg Montmartre as Ginette Gentilhomme
1930
- Accused, Stand Up! as Gaby Delange
1929
- The New Gentlemen as Susanne Verrier
1926
- Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves as Pauline Bretonneau
1922
- The Death Agony of the Eagles as Lise Charmoy
1920
- Le chevalier de Gaby as Gaby