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
- Le Tombeur !!! as Agathe de Chamillac
- Sacred Youth as Zabeth Longué
- My Darned Father as Roberte
- Ramuntcho as Dolores
1957
- The Twilight Girls as Mme Ancelin
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Plaisir du théâtre as La mère de Denise
- Crime and Punishment as madame Brunel
- When the Child Appears as Olympe Fouquet
- Les Lumières du soir as Rose Hessler
1955
- Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me as Gabrielle Langlois, la mère
- The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as Germaine Martin
- The Ragpickers of Emmaus as Mademoiselle
- Fantaisie d'un jour as Marcelle Bénard
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Papa, Mama, the Maid and I as Gabrielle Langlois, mother
1953
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Countess de la Motte
- The Love of a Woman as Germaine Leblanc
- Les Amoureux de Marianne as Germaine Duboutois
1952
- Le Plaisir as Denise - la femme d'Ambroise
- Foyer perdu as Alice Barbentin
- The Girl with the Whip as Lamberta
1951
- Anna as Mother superior
- Good Enough to Eat as Mathilde de Mergrand / Mathilde Chaperon
- Mammy as Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'
1950
- First Communion as Maria Carloni (Mme Dupont)
- Born of Unknown Father as Mrs. Nogent
- Without Trumpet or Drum
1949
- Gigi as Tante Alicia
- Millionaires for One Day as Hélène Berger
- Ève et le serpent as Laurence Barrois
- Summer Storm as Mrs. Arbelot
1948
- Three Boys, One Girl as Hélène Dourville
1947
- The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Victorine Rousset, aka 'Maryse'
- The Lost Village as Angélique Barrodet
- Hyménée as Agnès d'Aubarède
1946
- Lunegarde as La comtesse Armance de Lunegarde
- Un revenant as Geneviève Gonin
- Her Last Part as Hermine Wood
- Mensonges as Marie Leroux
1945
- The Last Metro as Mathilde Bourgeot
- Farandole as Actress
1944
- Night Shift as Suzanne
- L'Enfant de l'amour as Liane Orland
1943
- Des jeunes filles dans la nuit as Madame de Saint-André
- Love Around the Clock as Pierrot's mother
- Mademoiselle Béatrice as Béatrice
- White Wings as Sister Claire
1942
- L'Arlésienne as Rose Mamaï
- The Blue Veil as Louise Jarraud
- Mlle. Desiree as Désirée Clary épouse Bernadotte / la Reine Desideria de Suède
1941
- The Black Diamond as Mademoiselle Marthe Dubard
1940
- Paris - New-York as Gaby
- La Mode rêvée
- They Were Twelve Women as Madame Marion
1939
- Cordial Agreement as Queen Victoria
- Sacred Woods as Adrienne Champmorel
- Behind the Facade as Gaby Valrose, minister's lover
1938
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Giuseppina Strepponi
- Quadrille as Paulette Nanteuil, comédienne
- White Nights in Saint Petersburg as Hélène Voronine
- Hercule as Juliette Leclerc
1937
- The Messenger as Marie
- Nights of Fire as Lisa Andreieva
- A Picnic on the Grass as Manon Watteau
1936
- Samson as Anne-Marie d'Andeline
- The King as Marthe Bourdier
- The Fear as Irène Sylvain
- The Terrible Lovers as Annette Fournier
- 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
- The Dreamy Mouth as Gaby
- Companion Wanted as (uncredited)
- Ariane, Russian Maid as Ariane
1931
- Faubourg Montmartre as Ginette Gentilhomme
- Dance House as Estrella
- When Love Is Over as Germaine
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