René Dary

René Dary

René Dary (19 July 1905 – 6 October 1974) was a French film actor. Dary began his career as a child actor. Young Clément Mary, as was his original name, was born 18 July 1905 in Paris 6th arrondissement. He got his chance in the Spring of 1910 when he was only five. His father Abélard Mary had put in his head to go and promote himself and his two young kids as extras at the Gaumont studio. Mary, who had been an actor, had become a rundown clown in bars because of his gambling and kept things going with some furniture trade. He had set his hopes for his kids, and gambled well this time, as they were all hired for a peplum, Les Derniers Jours de Babylone. Young Clément's native playfulness, his histrionic acting making him older than he was, his borrowed street talk, and his ease on the set to charm everyone, from actors to technicians, soon began to attract the attention of producer-director Louis Feuillade. Feuillade tested him and designed a whole series around him, the Bébé series. All in all Mary would play in 74 Bébé comedies between 1910 and 1912, according to Braquet (76 between December 1910 and February 1913, according to Lacassin, while IMDb lists 73 titles), such as Bébé apache, Napoléon, Bébé et les cosaques, Bébé en Maroc etc. Feuillade permitted little Mary to do anything forbidden at home. Often his character would be a spoiled brat, have impossible tantrums and pester all adults around him, but he could also help children and old people in distress, showing his good heart after all. Often his mother would be played by Renée Carl, a leading Gaumont actress in her own. And often the child was placed in adult situations, as millionaire, marriage candidate or underworld 'apache'. For over two years Bébé was the best known child actor worldwide. The extremely good box office made papa Mary wealthy too, but his money hunger caused also the downfall of his son. Abélard bought a small cinema in Ménilmontant and called it Bébé-Cinéma, counting on a franchise by Gaumont to show his son's films. This was the limit for Feuillade, who was already fed up with the pretense of the father's self-promotion as his son's manager and his continuous demands for raises for his son. Besides, Clément was reaching an age where his cuteness as child actor was passing. Already mid-1912 another young kid had been picked up in Belleville, near the studios, and had started as supporting actor to Clément in the film Bébé adopte un petit frère, but replaced him completely in March 1913 (February 1913, according to Francis Lacassin) under the character name of Bout-de-Zan (a name he already wore as Bébé's co-actor). Abélard went to court against Gaumont. The court ruled that the breach of contract was just, but also that Mary was allowed to continue acting as Bébé at Pathé's subsidiary Eclectic Films, and he did so until 1916. Yet, it was no competition for Gaumont's Bout-de-Zan. As Abel mentions, Bout-de-Zan was more plebeian while Bébé was 'au fond' bourgeois as type. Still, in the end Poyen did some 50 films for Gaumont, less than Mary.

  • Title: René Dary
  • Popularity: 1.707
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-07-18
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • Also Known As: Anatole Clément Mary, Bébé Abelard, Dary, Clément Mary, Kid René
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René Dary Movies

  • 1967
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    Risky Business

    Risky Business

    7.4 1967 HD

    A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet...

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  • 1945
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    Bifur 3

    Bifur 3

    4.5 1945 HD

    Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.

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  • 1954
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    Touchez Pas au Grisbi

    Touchez Pas au Grisbi

    7.156 1954 HD

    Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the...

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  • 1965
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    Operation Diplomatic Passport

    Operation Diplomatic Passport

    1 1965 HD

    The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. One of them entrusts her with a harmless commission for Poland, as she has a...

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  • 1950
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    A Certain Mister

    A Certain Mister

    3.7 1950 HD

    Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned...

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  • 1947
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    1 1947 HD

    Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking...

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  • 1942
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    Eight Men in a Castle

    Eight Men in a Castle

    1 1942 HD

    The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis...

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  • 1934
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    Sidonie Panache

    Sidonie Panache

    10 1934 HD

    In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.

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  • 1936
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    Hélène

    Hélène

    1 1936 HD

    Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with...

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  • 1937
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    À nous deux, madame la vie

    À nous deux, madame la vie

    9 1937 HD

    Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five...

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  • 1938
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    S.O.S. Sahara

    S.O.S. Sahara

    1 1938 HD

    At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger...

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  • 1938
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    Un fichu métier

    Un fichu métier

    1 1938 HD

    Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron...

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  • 1940
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    Moulin Rouge

    Moulin Rouge

    5 1940 HD

    A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

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  • 1942
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    Forte tête

    Forte tête

    1 1942 HD

    René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit,...

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  • 1939
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    Nord-Atlantique

    Nord-Atlantique

    1 1939 HD

    Barnes, the mate of the 'Portland', is the object of the hate of the whole ship's crew. His mistress is murdered shortly before the departure and...

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  • 1942
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    Mélodie pour toi

    Mélodie pour toi

    1 1942 HD

    Famous singer, René Sartène, falls in love with a young bourgeois, Marie. Irène, her stage partner and the director of the show...

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  • 1939
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    L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim

    L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim

    1 1939 HD

    In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last minute, he is saved from the firing squad by a...

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  • 1941
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    After the Storm

    After the Storm

    5 1941 HD

    René Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris with friends. In the capital, he befriends...

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  • 1943
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    Homeport

    Homeport

    6 1943 HD

    A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay...

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  • 1940
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    Le café du port

    Le café du port

    1 1940 HD

    Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with...

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  • 1960
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    The Loves of Hercules

    The Loves of Hercules

    3.4 1960 HD

    Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious...

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  • 1943
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    À la Belle Frégate

    À la Belle Frégate

    1 1943 HD

    It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy...

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  • 1948
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    Cité de l'espérance

    Cité de l'espérance

    1 1948 HD

    The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real...

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  • 1948
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    Le diamant de cent sous

    Le diamant de cent sous

    1 1948 HD

    For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the...

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  • 1958
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    Sins of Youth

    Sins of Youth

    1 1958 HD

    In a small provincial town, the boarding-house is run by Mathilde Belin, the overindulging and over-demanding mother of Paul. When she is told by her...

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  • 1949
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    Suzanne and Her Brigands

    Suzanne and Her Brigands

    1 1949 HD

    Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.

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  • 1949
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    The Unknown N° 13

    The Unknown N° 13

    1 1949 HD

    While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of...

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  • 1946
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    120, rue de la Gare

    120, rue de la Gare

    5 1946 HD

    On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which...

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  • 1910
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    Bébé apache

    Bébé apache

    1 1910 HD

    Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the...

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  • 1961
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    Daniella by Night

    Daniella by Night

    3.2 1961 HD

    Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll...

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  • 1960
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    The Delinquents

    The Delinquents

    1 1960 HD

    Jean-Pierre, who has escaped from prison, tries to reintegrate into society with the help of workers at a construction site.

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  • 1911
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    Bébé veut imiter Saint-Martin

    Bébé veut imiter Saint-Martin

    1 1911 HD

    Bébé's nanny reads to him the exploits of Saint Martin, who gave half of his coat to a poor man at the gates of the city of Amiens, so...

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  • 1944
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    Children of Chaos

    Children of Chaos

    5 1944 HD

    An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to...

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  • 1949
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    Five Red Tulips

    Five Red Tulips

    4.8 1949 HD

    During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the...

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  • 1965
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    A Trap for Cinderella

    A Trap for Cinderella

    6.1 1965 HD

    Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.

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  • 1910
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    La trouvaille de Bébé

    La trouvaille de Bébé

    1 1910 HD

    Directed by Louis Feuillade.

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  • 1912
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    Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks

    Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks

    1 1912 HD

    At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.

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  • 1912
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    Bébé fait du spiritisme

    Bébé fait du spiritisme

    1 1912 HD

    Bébé's mother and her friends conduct a spiritualist session. They feel the presence of evil and get panic attacks, before they find...

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  • 1911
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    Bébé Runs After His Watch

    Bébé Runs After His Watch

    1 1911 HD

    On the street, Bébé has his pocket watch stolen. He sets off to find the thief himself.

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  • 1911
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    Bébé Runs After His Watch

    Bébé Runs After His Watch

    1 1911 HD

    On the street, Bébé has his pocket watch stolen. He sets off to find the thief himself.

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  • 1959
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    Tonight We Kill

    Tonight We Kill

    1 1959 HD

    In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the...

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  • 1969
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    Goto, Island of Love

    Goto, Island of Love

    6.4 1969 HD

    A petty thief works his way up the absurd hierarchy of Goto, an archipelago cut off from civilisation by a tumultuous earthquake. His dream is to...

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  • 1912
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    Tom Thumb

    Tom Thumb

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1910
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    Bébé's Masterpieces

    Bébé's Masterpieces

    4.5 1910 HD

    A child painter sells one of his paintings to an adult who appears to be surprised.

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  • 1912
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    Bébé soigné son père

    Bébé soigné son père

    1 1912 HD

    A mischievous child feeds his father a laxative, leading to disruptive bouts of intestinal disorder—and an unexpected reward. (MoMA)

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  • 1962
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    Jusqu'à plus soif

    Jusqu'à plus soif

    2 1962 HD

    A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption.

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  • 1961
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    Napoléon II, the Eagle

    Napoléon II, the Eagle

    6.5 1961 HD

    The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken...

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  • 1961
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    Skin and Bones

    Skin and Bones

    1 1961 HD

    Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his...

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  • 1963
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    Règlements de compte

    Règlements de compte

    2 1963 HD

    Bryant, an American, arrives at the Gare de Lyon after serving a sentence of hard labor at the Baumettes prison for stealing gems (which,...

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  • 1961
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    L'Exécution

    L'Exécution

    1 1961 HD

    Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.

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  • 1967
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    Horizon

    Horizon

    4.9 1967 HD

    Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin...

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  • 1912
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    Jimmy Pulls The Trigger

    Jimmy Pulls The Trigger

    4.7 1912 HD

    A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

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  • 1938
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    The Postmaster's Daughter

    The Postmaster's Daughter

    1 1938 HD

    A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing...

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  • 1967
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    Fire of Love

    Fire of Love

    1 1967 HD

    Maroîs, the fairground bon vivant, spends most of his time around a bottle of wine, in the company of his friend Michaux, with whom he was once...

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  • 1911
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    Bébé a le béguin

    Bébé a le béguin

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1911
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    Bébé Corrects His Father

    Bébé Corrects His Father

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1911
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    Bébé sur la Canebière

    Bébé sur la Canebière

    10 1911 HD

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  • 1910
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    Baby Fisherman

    Baby Fisherman

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1911
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    Bébé nègre

    Bébé nègre

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1912
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    Bébé, victime d'une erreur judiciaire

    Bébé, victime d'une erreur judiciaire

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Bébé veut payer ses dettes

    Bébé veut payer ses dettes

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    1 1938 HD

    Pimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a young girl leads him to prove that he is worthy...

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  • 1950
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    Fugitive from Montreal

    Fugitive from Montreal

    6 1950 HD

    Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after...

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  • 1912
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    Bébé juge

    Bébé juge

    1 1912 HD

    Short comedy for the Gaumont film company

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  • 1965
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    Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre

    Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre

    6.9 1965 HD

    Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither guards nor police are able to make...

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

    Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...

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  • 1963
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    La Route

    La Route

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1959
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    Discorama

    Discorama

    1 1959 HD

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