Odile Versois

Acting

Biography

Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. Their father, Vladimir, was a noted opera singer of Russian descent, and their mother, Militza Envald Voropanoff, was a dancer. Born in Paris, she began acting as a child and for a while pursued a ballet career. Versois married actor Jacques René Dacqmine (30 November 1923 – 29 March 2010; The Queen's Necklace) in 1951 but the couple divorced a year later. She had four children by her second husband, Comte François Reynier Ambroise Henri Pozzo di Borgo, whom she married in 1953 but also divorced. She died in 1980 in Paris of cancer shortly after her 50th birthday. Source: Article "Odile Versois" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Acting

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Passport to Shame

6.1(0.0K)

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

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Passport to Shame

Marie Louise 'Malou' Beaucaire

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Blonde in a White Car

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Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.

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Blonde in a White Car

Hélène

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Ombre chère

Fantomas Against Fantomas

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Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.

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Fantomas Against Fantomas

La jeune fille

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Summer Storm

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An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.

Beautiful Love

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Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.

Grand gala

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An officer brings to him in Morocco a dancer he loves.

The Young Lovers

6.1(0.0K)

A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.

Le mari ne compte pas

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Le mari ne compte pas

Mme Denise Grosjean, épouse de Léon

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The Last Vacation

6.8(0.0K)

A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.

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The Last Vacation

Juliette Lherminier

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Les Crimes de l'amour

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Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine, the daughter of his hosts, fell in love with her and, after paying her assiduous courtship, made her his mistress. But one night, she died in his arms. He tried in vain to get rid of the corpse and ended up run away. Second, "Mina de Vanghel" by Stendhal is about Mina, a young German, who came to settle in France with her mother in 1820. Her father, a deceased Prussian general, left her a immense fortune. Courted, she falls in love with Monsieur de Ruppert, a ruined man whose castle her mother bought. But Mina does not take long to unmask the dowry hunter.

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