Micheline Presle

Micheline Presle (born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne on 22 August 1922) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in Hollywood and in France. Born in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of La Fessée. In 1938, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema. Her rise to European stardom, in films such as Devil in the Flesh, led to offers from Hollywood and in 1950, she was signed by 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox executives changed Presle's last name to Prell. It was later changed to Prelle after a soap company brought out Prell shampoo. Her first Hollywood production was a starring role opposite John Garfield in the film Under My Skin directed by Jean Negulesco. That same year director Fritz Lang cast her opposite Tyrone Power in the war drama American Guerrilla in the Philippines. In 1950, she became the second wife of American actor William Marshall with whom she had a daughter, Tonie. William Marshall had teamed up with actor Errol Flynn and his production company and in 1951 he directed Flynn and her in the film Adventures of Captain Fabian. Presle's marriage did not last and she returned to France, divorcing Marshall in 1954. Her career flourished in French films and in 1957 she was a guest on the American Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she performed in the United Kingdom English-language production of Blind Date directed by Joseph Losey. She returned to Hollywood in 1962 for the role of Sandra Dee's mother in the Universal Studios film If a Man Answers which also featured Dee's husband, singer Bobby Darin. The following year, Presle acted again in English in The Prize starring Paul Newman. She did not make another English film, but after performing in more than 50 films in French, in 1989 she appeared in the French-made bilingual production I Want to Go Home, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1971, Presle signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had an illegal abortion. Presle died in Nogent-sur-Marne on 21 February 2024, at the age of 101, at the Maison des Artistes, a retirement home for artists, which receives partial government support. Her death was confirmed by Olivier Bomsel, her son-in-law, without specifying the cause. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cast

Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard

Isabelle Lartois

The Blood of Others

Baroness Lena Eggersdorf

Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon

Venus Beauty Institute

Après après-demain

la "mère" de Bernard

Les Disparus de Saint-Agil

Queen Hortense de Beauharnais

Jacqueline Cousteau

Angel and Sinner

Élisabeth Rousset, aka "Boule de suif"

Devil in the Flesh

Marthe Grangier

Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon

The Love of a Woman

The Legend of Frenchie King

France Boutique

Secrets of a Ballerina

If a Man Answers

Time Out for Love

Four Flights to Love

Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblan

La mère de Stanislas

Fantastic Night

Alouette, je te plumerai

Lady with jewels

Mother Superior

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

S'il vous plaît... la mer?

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Micheline Allan

The Seven Deadly Sins

Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard (segment "La luxure")

Parade in 7 Nights

Irène Morillon

Vous seule que j'aime

The Beautiful Adventure

Françoise Pimbrache

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Jeanne Martinez

The Baron of the Locks

Perle Germain-Joubert

Charming Fellow

Les pieds nickelés

Paméla Van Der Mèche

Thelma, Louise et Chantal

Micheline Lafaurie

A Slightly Pregnant Man

Monique Bouvier

Just Like Brothers

Castle of the Banned Lovers

Comedy of Happiness

Adventures of Captain Fabian

Thieves After Dark

Madame Raymonde

The Red and the Black

Madame de Rénal

Hélène Vanaux

Mistress of the World - Part I

Félicie Nanteuil

Foolish Husbands

Adélaïde Barbier

Adalgisa De Matteis

Two Big Girls in Pyjamas

Vous êtes de la police ?

Jane Latour-Jackson

Your Turn, My Turn

Valentine Vatrin

Anna in Corsica

A Man and His Dog

Mignon Has Left

The Heart at Work

Vertiges de l'amour

La mère de Vincent

Certaines nouvelles

Diary of a Seducer

It All Depends on Girls

Seduction Of The South

Don't Bite, We Love You

At the Top of the Stairs

La Dame aux camélias

Marguerite Gauthier

Something Fishy

Les Fausses Confidences

Her Bridal Night

Judith Aurigault

We Forget Everything!

Madame Courdevey

The Devil in the Box

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel

Madame de Séryeuse

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

Star Belladonna

Girls in Distress

Jacqueline Presle

Mistress of the World - Part II

I Will Show My Breasts

They Were Twelve Women

Women Are Talkative

In inniger Feindschaft

A Mistress for the Summer

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Mrs. de Pompadour

My Name is Victor

Un enfant, un secret

Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine

The Bamboo Stroke

Angèle Brissac

All Roads Lead to Rome

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Voyage of Penelope

Epiphany Sunday

Germaine et Marie-Louise

Hitler in Hollywood

Micheline Presle

Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film

The Journey to Paris

Démons de midi

The Chips Are Down

Danielle Darrieux : Il est poli d'être gai !

Self (archive footage)

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

Le voyageur sans bagage

La Gueule de l’emploi

Micheline Presle

I Want to Go Home

Isabelle Gauthier

Devil in the Brain

Countess Claudia Osio De Blanc

Violette Ancelin

It Happened in the Park

Valeria Valenzano (segment: Gli amanti)

The Broken Mirror

Le soleil a toujours raison

Archipelago of Love

The mother (segment "Remue-ménage")

Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic

House of Ricordi

Virginia Marchi

Thirteen at the Table

Madeleine Villardier

Régine / Simone

La vie au grand air

Qui trop embrasse...

La mère de Christian

A Day at the Museum

Seul face au crime