Odile Versois
Birthday: Born in 1930-06-14 in Paris, France
Deathday: 1980-06-23
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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L' Italien ou Le confessionnal des péntients noirs
Character: La marquise Vivaldi
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La Juive du Château Trompette
Character: La Marquise Hélène de Beauséjour
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Plaisir du théâtre
Character: Mme Denise Grosjean, épouse de Léon
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Reflets de Cannes
Character: Self
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Passport to Shame
Character: Marie Louise 'Malou' Beaucaire
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade....
Blonde in a White Car
Character: Hélène
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....
Ombre chère
Character: Irène
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Fantomas Against Fantomas
Character: La jeune fille
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....
Summer Storm
Character: Marie-Lou
An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family....
Beautiful Love
Character: Helga Jorgensen
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
Character: Anna
An officer brings to him in Morocco a dancer he loves....
The Young Lovers
Character: Anna Szobek
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
Character: Mme Denise Grosjean, épouse de Léon
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The Last Vacation
Character: Juliette Lherminier
A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold....
Herrscher ohne Krone
Character: Queen Mathilde
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Checkpoint
Character: Francesca
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-roa...
A Day to Remember
Character: Martine Berthier
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures....
The Secret of the Blue Men
Character: Suzanne
An adventurer intends to seize the fabulous treasure of the Tuaregs. But when he falls in love with a beautiful Indian woman, he ends up defending the booty from other adventurers with less scruples....
Drummer-Crab
Character: The wife at the bistro of the former gendarme
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic....
Les Crimes de l'amour
Character: Mina de Vanghel (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
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" b...
Paolo e Francesca
Character: Francesca da Rimini
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues....
To Paris with Love
Character: Lizette Marconne
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love....
Les insoumises
Character: Hélène
Four noble ladies, four widows, live in isolation in a Berry ch teau. There's the Mme de Bussange, her two sisters Sylvie and Hélène, her sister-in-law Elisabeth and her little boy, who alone will pass on the family name. Two men come along: Gilbert and René, bringing trouble and confusion. Gilbert courts Hélène, while René becomes attached to Elisabeth. Relations between the widows become strained and heated, until an attempt is made on Elisabeth's life. The culprit, Sylvie, kills herself. In d...
Dernier tiercé
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A beautician inherits a racing stable and a fortune of 160 million, which she can only collect in 5 years, if she has maintained and cared for the horses, including Prince III, preferred by her uncle who made her his heir. The thoroughbred wins a race during which the rival jockey is killed. The police suspect murder....
Églantine
Character: Marguerite
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his family. He is delighted to see his grandmother Eglantine again. The good times spent with all those close to him make him forget the stress of school. But with the start of the new school year fast approaching, Léopold learns of Eglantine's death....
Un monsieur bien rangé
Character: Viviane
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La sposa non può attendere
Character: Maria
On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her....
Cartouche
Character: Isabelle de Ferrussac
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved b...
La dragée haute
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Taking the place of the police, whom he finds neither fast nor efficient enough, a journalist named Hugo sets out to find the perpetrator of a murder. Suffocating in the small town where he plies his trade, he is eager to seize the opportunity that will make him a great reporter. The discovery of a murdered young woman - a high-fashion model - puts him on the trail of diamond smugglers. Despite the cautious advice of the newspaper editor and the pleas of his wife, who senses the dangers threaten...
Incident in Saigon
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In transit to Saigon, Jean Dartigues wants to see Nicole, whom he once knew and secretly loved. The young woman, now a widow, is a high school teacher. However, the police have just uncovered a story of arms and drug trafficking and are forbidding passengers to leave the airport. With the help of a bartender, Jean manages to get into town. At school, no Nicole, but he meets a young Vietnamese girl who offers to help him with his research. One thing leading to another, one adventure leading to an...
Because, Because of a Woman
Character: Nathalie
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before....
His First Affair
Character: Domenica Léandri
The beautiful Domenica makes a student believe that her husband is a Corsican bandit, while he is a teacher....
Stationschef Fallmerayer
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Based on Joseph Roth's novella....
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Character: La conseillère
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first"....
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Character: Catherine Jacquelin
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered....
Girl on the Third Floor
Character: (uncredited)
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife....
Mina de Vanghel
Character: Mina de Vanghel
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide....
Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Character: Josette
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead....