Movies: Marie-Anne Malleville

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her....

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil....

In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a variety of effects and multiply the expressive means which translate the characters' visions and mental states. She also reversed class and ge...

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up....

The film’s visual structure is principally composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman’s smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair. It uses na...

A destitute, drunk woman appears to yearn for the life of a streetwalker....

Carmencita Garcia, a Spanish flamenco dancer, performs two dances....

Popular songs accompany two scenes of happiness: a jovial railway worker and a group of children dancing....

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