Personal Info
Birth date
1904-11-16 (120 Years)
Day of death
2004-07-11
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also known as
Marie-Louise Vittore
Рене Сен-Сир
Renée Saint-Cyr
Biography
Renée Saint-Cyr (16 November 1904 – 11 July 2004) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1933 and 1994. She was the mother of Georges Lautner, who also achieved fame in the film business, albeit as a director. Source: Article "Renée Saint-Cyr" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Midi Première
10
Overview:
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.Palace
6.7
Overview:
The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...The Bottom Line
5.402
Overview:
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.If Paris Were Told to Us
5.7
Overview:
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.Is This Reasonable?
6.167
Overview:
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.The Pearls of the Crown
6.2
Overview:
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.No Problem!
5.4
Overview:
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...La Symphonie fantastique
6.25
Overview:
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.OK Patron
5
Overview:
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...My Other Husband
5.921
Overview:
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.Lafayette
5.2
Overview:
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
5.533
Overview:
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.Strange Boarders
NYR
Overview:
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.The Royal Waltz
NYR
Overview:
In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a public garden with an attractive young woman. The innocent incident is misinterpreted by a passer-by who, recognising the woman as the youngest daughter of Ludwig Tomasini, a highly respected caterer, persuades her father that she should marry the man who flirted with her to avoid a scandal (FilmsdeFrance).Sorrel Flower
5.3
Overview:
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...The Monocle's Sour Laugh
5.3
Overview:
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.Prisoner of Paradise
6.3
Overview:
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.27, rue de la Paix
5
Overview:
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.Incognito
NYR
Overview:
A restaurant waiter and the telephone operator at the Palace of Cap Martin sympathize without ever being able to go out together, because their day off is not the same. In the meantime, the disappearance of the Prince of Roumelia, whom no one knows, is announced. The boy, with the complicity of the young girl, pretends to be the Prince. They have a happy day. But the deception is quickly discovered, they are fired. Fortunately, the real prince arrives and asks for their forgiveness.Toto
5.2
Overview:
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (Renée Saint-Cyr). The two quickly fall in love, and after a brief incarceration, Toto returns to her and schemes to have her win a beauty contest.Une fois dans la vie
NYR
Overview:
One weekend an office worker is stuck with five million francs that he is temporarily unable to deposit, so he pretends to be a rich man.A woman takes that opportunity to seduce him, while a gang of crooks seeks to fleece him.Kurt Gerrons Karussell
NYR
Overview:
This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and sang "Mack the Knife" in the first performance of The Three-Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a propaganda film for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron was eventually executed at Auschwitz. Director Ilona Ziok combines archival footage of Gerron with interviews of peers and survivors who describe how Gerron tragically believed his gifts as an entertainer would save his life -- and how he enthusiastically kept performing right up to his death.The Last Billionaire
5.333
Overview:
The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke. Its French title is Le dernier milliardaire.The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
NYR
Overview:
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young people...First Time with Feeling
3.7
Overview:
It's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old DinaNight in December
5
Overview:
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...Acting
TBADonogoo as Josette
2003Prisoner of Paradise as Self
1999Kurt Gerrons Karussell as Self
1992Sup de fric as Madame de Valmy
1992Room Service as The Countess
1988Palace (6 Episodes) as Gardienne du bon goût
1987Matin Bonheur (1 Episode) as Self
1985The Cowboy as Marie-Louise, la mère de César
1983My Other Husband as Mrs. Le Boucau
1981Is This Reasonable? as Widow Bertillon
1978These Sorcerers Are Mad as Marie-Louise Precy-Lamont
1976The Bottom Line as Mme Ferroni
1975No Problem! as Doctor Laville
1975First Time with Feeling as La grand-mère
1975Midi Première (1 Episode) as Self
1974OK Patron as Yvette Hutin, Sophie's mother
1973Some Too Quiet Gentlemen as Countess
1969The Sexy Dozen as Frau Tissot
1967Sorrel Flower as La Directrice de la Maison Maternelle du Val-de-Marne
1965Déclic et des claques as La mère de Ferdinand
1964The Monocle's Sour Laugh as Madame Hui
1962Lafayette as Duchess of Ayen
1956If Paris Were Told to Us as l’Impératrice Eugénie, L'Impératrice Eugènie
1955An der schönen blauen Donau as Susanne
1953The Knight of the Night as Bella Fontanges
1953The Glorious Avenger as Marie-Antoinette
1951Captain Ardant as Maria del Fuego
1950Secret Document: Vienna as Florence Hennings
1949La Voix du rêve as Eve
1949Tous les deux as Claude Chaussaigne
1947The Beautiful Trip as Lena
1946The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic as Solange Delmont
1946Strange Fate as Patricia
1945Paméla as Paméla
1943Pierre and Jean as Alice
1943Retour de flamme as Unknown
1943Marie-Martine as Marie-Martine
1943Madame et le mort as Clarisse Coquet
1942The Lost Woman as Marie Vidal
1942La Symphonie fantastique as Marie Martin
1941Night in December as Anne Morris / Helen Morris
1940Red Roses as Maria Verani
1939The Path of Honor as Renée de Marvilliers
1938Marked Girls as Juliette Régent
1938Strange Boarders as Louise Blythe
1937Le cœur dispose as Hélène
1937The Pearls of the Crown as Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne
1937Trois... six... neuf as Unknown
1937Paris as Unknown
193627, rue de la Paix as Gloria Grand
1936Wolves Between Them as Unknown
1936Valse éternelle as Unknown
1936The Royal Waltz as Thérèse Tomasoni
1935School for Coquettes as Ginette
1935Le Billet de mille as Gisèle - la vendeuse
1934The Last Billionaire as Princess Isabelle
1934Arlette et ses papas as Unknown
1934Une fois dans la vie as Unknown
1934Incognito as Unknown
1933Love and Cool Water as Colette, la jeune femme
1933Toto as Ginette
1933The Two Orphans as Henriette
Production
1953The Knight of the Night ... Producer