Personal Info
Birth date
1909-05-13 (116 Years)
Day of death
2005-10-26
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Bucharest, Romania
Also known as
Жани Ольт
Jany Holt
Biography
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Filmography
Target
5.9
Overview:
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.The Green Glove
6.2
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In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.The Lower Depths
7.2
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Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.Métisse
6.081
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Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.Gervaise
6.74
Overview:
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.Les Anges du Pêché
6.9
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A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime she was convicted for. After being released from prison, Thérèse murders the actual perpetrator of the crime and comes to seek sanctuary in the convent.The Left-Handed Woman
6.6
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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.Black for Remembrance
5.853
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This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.Alibi
6.5
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Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.A Time for Loving
4.667
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The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.Saxo
5
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A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, who he will launch successfully. But Puppet is to be murdered.Not Guilty
7.5
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An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.The Golem
4.8
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The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.Farandole
2.5
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A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.The Southern Trail
5
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As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.The Bride of Darkness
5.4
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Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.The Life and Loves of Beethoven
6.9
Overview:
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.Counter Investigation
NYR
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Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.Sirocco
6.1
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Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.Special Mission
5
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The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.The Ferret
5.6
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A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.Andorra or The Bronze Men
NYR
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A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.Land Without Stars
6.8
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Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.The Green Domino
6
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After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.The Phantom Baron
6.1
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Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...Hung Up
NYR
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A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She is kidnapped by the leader of the enemy gang, with whom she falls in love.Dr. Laennec
5.7
Overview:
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.Acting
2004Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film as Self (voice)
1995Black for Remembrance as Geneviève
1993Métisse as Felix's grandmother
1993Roulez jeunesse ! as Sarah
1988Saxo as Meicha
1985Target as Unknown
1983Où sont-elles donc ? as Self
1978The Left-Handed Woman as The Woman in the Meeting Room
1973Hung Up as Mother
1972A Time for Loving as The Mother
1971Adieu mes quinze ans (19 Episodes) as Mme Offlanges
1956Gervaise as Mme Lorilleux - la soeur revêche de Coupeau
1956Les insoumises as Sylvie
1952The Green Glove as The Countess
1950The Ferret as Cécile
1949Mademoiselle de la Ferté as Anne de la Ferté
1949Dr. Laennec as Madeleine Bayle
1949L'échafaud peut attendre as Hélène Bonnard
1947Not Guilty as Madeleine Bodin
1947Rumors as Aline
1947Counter Investigation as Unknown
1946Land Without Stars as Catherine Le Quellec / Aurélia Talacayud
1946Special Mission as Emmy de Welder
1945The Bride of Darkness as Sylvie
1945Farandole as Marianne
1943Les Anges du Pêché as Thérèse
1943The Phantom Baron as Anne
1943Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as The Nameless Girl
1942Andorra or The Bronze Men as Conchita Asnurri
1938Sirocco as Greta
1938The Southern Trail as (uncredited)
1938Satan's Paradise as Francesca
1938Rasputin as Groussina
1937Alibi as Hélène Ardouin
1937Troïka sur la piste blanche as Georgina Steinberg
1937Southern Carrier as Geneviève Herlin
1937The Life and Loves of Beethoven as Juliette Guicciardi
1936The Lower Depths as Nastia, la prostituée
1936The Golem as Rachel
1935The Green Domino as Lily Bruquier
1931Un homme en habit as Ninette