Personal Info
Birth date
1910-04-23 (115 Years)
Day of death
2005-02-22
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Also known as
Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon
Simone Simon
Biography
French screen actress Simone Simon's film career spanned the years 1931-1973. She is best remembered, regarding her English language roles, for the Hollywood films The Devil and Daniel Webster [originally titled All That Money Can Buy] (1941), Cat People (1942), and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). Simon died in Paris in 2005.
Filmography
Olivia
6.684
Overview:
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.La Bête Humaine
7.088
Overview:
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
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This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.Josette
6.5
Overview:
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.The Chocolate Girl
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A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands up marrying her.Le Voleur
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A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.Le Plaisir
7.56
Overview:
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.Jornal Português (1938-1951)
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Overview:
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of Jornal had approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts, national political news, major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs. Jornal Português is not only an indispensable document for the history of Estado Novo's propaganda, but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal.Seventh Heaven
6.6
Overview:
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.The Extra Day
6.6
Overview:
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.Girls' Dormitory
5.9
Overview:
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.Mam'zelle Nitouche
5.5
Overview:
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!Cat People
6.921
Overview:
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.L'Étoile de Valencia
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Because a sailor once told Pedro Savedra his wife, Marion, cheated on him, he left her. Learning later that it was nothing but a practical joke, Pedro decides to find her and win her back. He finally traces her in Palma de Mallorca, where she has become a cabaret singer. To set her free, he needs money and accepts a job. But Palesco, the nightclub owner, does not agree to let Marion go and will not shy about throwing a wrench in the gears.Ladies Lake
4.1
Overview:
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.La Ronde
7.312
Overview:
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
6
Overview:
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.Ladies in Love
5.8
Overview:
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.Durand versus Durand
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Two different sales agents named Max Durand live at the same address. One of them pretends to be the other so he make the money and get the girl that he wants.The Curse of the Cat People
6.187
Overview:
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.Love and Hisses
NYR
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As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.The Three Thieves
6.3
Overview:
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.Temptation Harbour
5.1
Overview:
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.The Woman in Blue
5.2
Overview:
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.Hollywood Goes to Town
7
Overview:
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.All That Money Can Buy
7.033
Overview:
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.The Unknown Singer
6.2
Overview:
A legendary French singer, missing for years and presumed dead, returns with no memory, his face hidden, his voice unmistakable. The woman who never stopped loving him clings to hope, while those who once betrayed him begin to fear he remembers everything.Lusitanian Illusion
6.4
Overview:
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.Acting
2018Lewton's Muse: The Dark Eyes of Simone Simon as Self (archival images)
2010Lusitanian Illusion as Self (archive footage)
2005Jornal Português (1938-1951) as Self (archive footage)
1973The Woman in Blue as la dame de Meudon
1971Cadet Rousselle (1 Episode) as Self
1965Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde as Self
1956The Extra Day as Michele Blanchard
1954Double Destiny as Françoise Dunoyer
1954The Three Thieves as Doris Ornano
1952Le Plaisir as Joséphine
1951Olivia as Mademoiselle Cara
1950La Ronde as Marie, la femme de chambre
1950Women Without Names as Yvonne Dubois
1947Temptation Harbour as Camelia
1946Pétrus as Migo
1944Mademoiselle Fifi as Elizabeth Bousset
1944Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Kathie Aumont
1944The Curse of the Cat People as Ghost of Irena
1943Tahiti Honey as Suzie Durand
1942Cat People as Irena Dubrovna Reed
1941All That Money Can Buy as Belle
1941Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
1939Cavalcade of Love as Juliette
1938La Bête Humaine as Séverine
1938Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
1938Josette as Renee LeBlanc
1937Love and Hisses as Yvett Guerin
1937Seventh Heaven as Diane
1936Ladies in Love as Marie Armand
1936Girls' Dormitory as Marie Claudel
1935Happy Days as Sylvie
1935Dark Eyes as Tania
1934Ladies Lake as Puck
1933Le Voleur as Unknown
1933L'Étoile de Valencia as Rita
1933Mind the Paint as Unknown
1933The Sad Sack as Unknown
1932Pour vivre heureux as Unknown
1932King of Hotels as Unknown
1932A Son from America as Unknown
1932The Chocolate Girl as julie
1931The Unknown Singer as Pierette
1931Durand versus Durand as Éliane
1931Mam'zelle Nitouche as (uncredited)