Gaby Morlay

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1893-06-08 (71 years old)

Deathday

1964-07-04

Place of Birth

Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

Gaby Morlay

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. Late...

Acting

1947

The Lost Village

as Angélique Barrodet

1935

Aux portes de Paris

as 'La Madone'

1964

Monsieur

as Mrs. Bernadac, Edmond's mother

1956

When the Child Appears

as Annie Fouquet

1952

Le Plaisir

as Denise - la femme d'Ambroise

1953

The Love of a Woman

as Germaine Leblanc

1946

Un revenant

as Geneviève Gonin

1949

Millionaires for One Day

as Hélène Berger

1960

Fortunate

as Mlle Emilienne Massillon

1931

Faubourg Montmartre

as Ginette Gentilhomme

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Countess de la Motte

1936

Samson

as Anne-Marie d'Andeline

1932

Companion Wanted

as (uncredited)

1954

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

as Gabrielle Langlois, mother

1933

Once Upon a Time

as Ellen / Mary

1934

1934

Jeanne

as Madeleine Préolier

1935

Le Billet de mille

as La désespérée

1936

The Seniors

as Hélène Lormier

1941

The Black Diamond

as Mademoiselle Marthe Dubard

1943

White Wings

as Sister Claire

1943

Des jeunes filles dans la nuit

as Madame de Saint-André

1943

1944

L'Enfant de l'amour

as Liane Orland

1946

Her Last Part

as Hermine Wood

1946

Mensonges

as Marie Leroux

1938

Quadrille

as Paulette Nanteuil

1947

Hyménée

as Agnès d'Aubarède

1950

1951

Mammy

as Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'

1949

Ève et le serpent

as Laurence Barrois

1949

Summer Storm

as Mrs. Arbelot

1952

Foyer perdu

as Alice Barbentin

1951

Good Enough to Eat

as Mathilde de Mergrand / Mathilde Chaperon

1943

Love Around the Clock

as Pierrot's mother

1949

Gigi

as Tante Alicia

1955

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

as Germaine Martin

1941

Mlle. Desiree

as Désirée Clary épouse Bernadotte / la Reine Desideria de Suède

1937

1939

Behind the Facade

as Gaby Valrose, minister's lover

1930

Accused, Stand Up!

as Gaby Delange

1963

Le mari ne compte pas

as La mère de Denise

1955

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

as Gabrielle Langlois, la mère

1951

Anna

as Mother superior

1950

First Communion

as Maria Carloni (Mme Dupont)

1942

L'Arlésienne

as Rose Mamaï

1929

The New Gentlemen

as Susanne Verrier

1958

Ramuntcho

as Dolores

1955

1956

Les Lumières du soir

as Rose Hessler

1958

Le Tombeur !!!

as Agathe de Chamillac

1934

Le Bonheur

as Clara Stuart

1942

The Blue Veil

as Louise Jarraud

1938

1940

1931

Dance House

as Estrella

1957

The Twilight Girls

as Mme Ancelin

1953

Les amoureux de Marianne

as Germaine Duboutois

1958

1959

Quai des illusions

as Madame Vincent

1963

La bande à Bobo

as Countess del Mariano

1939

Sacred Woods

as Adrienne Champmorel

1938

Hercule

as Juliette Leclerc

1940

They Were Twelve Women

as Madame Marion

1936

The King

as Marthe Bourdier

1937

A Picnic on the Grass

as Manon Watteau

1936

The Terrible Lovers

as Annette Fournier

1956

Crime and Punishment

as madame Brunel

1937

Nights of Fire

as Lisa Andreieva

1939

Cordial Agreement

as Queen Victoria

1952

1947

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean

as Victorine Rousset, aka 'Maryse'

1944

Night Shift

as Suzanne

1933

The Ironmaster

as Claire de Beaulieu

1958

Sacred Youth

as Zabeth Longué

1946

Lunegarde

as La comtesse Armance de Lunegarde

1938

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

as Giuseppina Strepponi

1945

The Last Metro

as Mathilde Bourgeot

1934

Le Scandale

as Charlotte Férioul

1948

Three Boys, One Girl

as Hélène Dourville

1932

1936

The Fear

as Irène Sylvain

1945

Farandole

as Actress

1931

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