Jacqueline Maillan

Born: 1923-01-11 in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France

Died: 1992-05-12

Known For: Acting

Biography

Jacqueline Jeanne Paule Maillan (11 January 1923 - 12 May 1992) was a French actress with a career spanning almost five decades, known primarily for her forty theatre productions, she also appeared in more than fifty films (1947 to 1992) and is remembered as one of the greatest comedic thespians of her generation and even nicknamed "The Louis de Funès in skirt". After working on the classics of French theatre, she excelled in playing exuberant, strong and powerful women in vaudeville and boulevard on stage or in such films as Jean-Marie Poiré's cult Gramps Is in the Resistance (French: Papy fait de la résistance,1983) before pioneering stand-up in France. Her husband Michel Emer, who was Edith Piaf's composer, helped her hide her bisexuality (if not her sole homosexuality) from the public as they lived as a 'free couple' when it was then deeply stigmatized during the 1950s and 1960s. She was made a Chevalier (French: Knight) of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Source: Article "Jacqueline Maillan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

2020

Les 60 ans du one-man-show as Self (archive footage)

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)

1992

Ville à vendre as Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne

1991

Pièce montée as Françoise Lumière
Both Sides of the Street as Mrs. Yvette

1990

Stars 90 as Self
La Femme fardée as Edma Bautet-Lebrêche

1988

Palace as Docteur Hélène Swift
The Seasons of Pleasure as Jacqueline Garibaldi
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale as Henriette Brulard
To Our Late Husband as Hermione

1987

Sacrée Soirée as Self
Nulle part ailleurs as Self
Matin Bonheur as Self
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque as Mammy
Lily et Lily as Lily et Déborah Dacosta

1984

Croque-monsieur as Coco Baisos
J'ai deux mots à vous dire as Self

1983

Gramps Is in the Resistance as Héléna Bourdelle dit « La Bourdelle »
Potiche as Suzanne Pujol

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self
Is There a Frenchman in the House? as Madame Fluck
Coup de soleil as Valentine

1979

Féfé de Broadway as Maria Brémont

1978

Le pont japonais as Sarah Jacoby

1976

30 millions d'amis as Self
La facture as Noëlle

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
Numéro un as Self
Midi Première as Self

1974

Folle Amanda as Amanda
Madame Sans-Gêne as Catherine Hubscher

1972

Midi trente as Self

1969

Call Me Mathilde as Mathilde de Blanzac

1966

Monsieur le Président Directeur Général as Thérèse

1965

The Real Bargain as Maria Ramirez

1964

How Do You Like My Sister? as Charlotte Varangeot
Que personne ne sorte as Adelia Plunkett

1963

Squeak-squeak as Cynthia Monestier, la femme de Léonard
People in Luck as Élisabeth Duchemin (segment "Le Yacht")
Who Stole the Body? as Gin, English

1962

How to Succeed in Love as Edmée Rondeau
Tartarin de Tarascon as Mrs. Bézuquet

1961

On purge bébé as Julie Follavoine

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine
The Door Slams as Jacqueline
The Heirs as Chantal

1959

Discorama as Self
The Magnificent Tramp as Mme Marjorie
The Motorcycle Cops as Dance teacher
You Have Nothing to Declare? as Gladys Dupont
Julie la rousse

1958

Vive les vacances as Babette Berkley
Honey, Scare Me as The spy Natacha Dubrovno

1957

Burning Fuse as Mrs. Catherine, innkeeper

1955

The Grand Manoeuvre as Jeanne Duverger, sister of Victor
Villa Sans-Souci as Adélaïde Legardon
Les deux font la paire as Olga

1954

Peek-a-boo as Mme Maillan, la directrice de la salle
The Sheep Has Five Legs as Figurante
The Scheming Women as une danseuse

1953

Royal Affairs in Versailles as Visitor (uncredited)