Gaby Morlay
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-06-08
Day of Death
1964-07-04 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Gaby Morlay
Biography
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France.
Morlay began acting in the era of silent films, and became known as co-star with Max Linder in his "Max" series. She starred in a series of "Gaby" films such as Gaby en auto (1917) and more than 20 other silent films. She moved easily into talking films in the early 1930s. She played Queen Victoria in the 1939 historical film Entente cordiale.
She had an affair with the government minister Max Bonnafous (1900–75) during World War II, and as a result, she was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation of France. Later she married Bonnafous. Morlay continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
She was an art lover and was a friend and admirer of the Italian painter Beretta Dimario who lived in Nice.
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Known For
Acting
(1964)
Monsieur
as Mrs. Bernadac, Edmond's mother
(1963)
La bande à Bobo
as Countess del Mariano
(1963)
Le mari ne compte pas
as La mère de Denise
(1960)
Fortunate
as Mlle Emilienne Massillon
(1959)
(1958)
My Darned Father
as Roberte
(1958)
Le Tombeur !!!
as Agathe de Chamillac
(1958)
Sacred Youth
as Zabeth Longué
(1958)
Ramuntcho
as Dolores
(1957)
The Twilight Girls
as Mme Ancelin
(1956)
Crime and Punishment
as madame Brunel
(1956)
When the Child Appears
as Annie Fouquet
(1956)
Les Lumières du soir
as Rose Hessler
(1955)
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
as Gabrielle Langlois, la mère
(1955)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as Germaine Martin
(1955)
(1955)
The Ragpickers of Emmaus
as Mademoiselle
(1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Countess de la Motte
(1954)
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
as Gabrielle Langlois, mother
(1953)
Les amoureux de Marianne
as Germaine Duboutois
(1953)
The Love of a Woman
as Germaine Leblanc
(1952)
Le Plaisir
as Denise - la femme d'Ambroise
(1952)
Foyer perdu
as Alice Barbentin
(1952)
The Girl with the Whip
as Lamberta
(1951)
Anna
as Mother superior
(1951)
Mammy
as Mrs. Pierre aka 'Mammy'
(1951)
Good Enough to Eat
as Mathilde de Mergrand / Mathilde Chaperon
(1950)
First Communion
as Maria Carloni (Mme Dupont)
(1950)
Born of Unknown Father
as Mrs. Nogent
(1950)
(1949)
Gigi
as Tante Alicia
(1949)
Millionaires for One Day
as Hélène Berger
(1949)
Summer Storm
as Mrs. Arbelot
(1949)
Ève et le serpent
as Laurence Barrois
(1948)
Three Boys, One Girl
as Hélène Dourville
(1947)
The Lost Village
as Angélique Barrodet
(1947)
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as Victorine Rousset, aka 'Maryse'
(1947)
Hyménée
as Agnès d'Aubarède
(1946)
Un revenant
as Geneviève Gonin
(1946)
Lunegarde
as La comtesse Armance de Lunegarde
(1946)
Mensonges
as Marie Leroux
(1946)
Her Last Part
as Hermine Wood
(1945)
Farandole
as Actress
(1945)
The Last Metro
as Mathilde Bourgeot
(1944)
L'Enfant de l'amour
as Liane Orland
(1944)
Night Shift
as Suzanne
(1943)
White Wings
as Sister Claire
(1943)
Love Around the Clock
as Pierrot's mother
(1943)
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
as Madame de Saint-André
(1943)
Mademoiselle Béatrice
as Béatrice
(1942)
The Blue Veil
as Louise Jarraud
(1942)
L'Arlésienne
as Rose Mamaï
(1941)
Mlle. Desiree
as Désirée Clary épouse Bernadotte / la Reine Desideria de Suède
(1941)
The Black Diamond
as Mademoiselle Marthe Dubard
(1940)
Paris - New-York
as Gaby
(1940)
They Were Twelve Women
as Madame Marion
(1940)
(1939)
Cordial Agreement
as Queen Victoria
(1939)
Behind the Facade
as Gaby Valrose, minister's lover
(1939)
Sacred Woods
as Adrienne Champmorel
(1938)
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
as Giuseppina Strepponi
(1938)
Hercule
as Juliette Leclerc
(1938)
Quadrille
as Paulette Nanteuil
(1938)
White Nights in Saint Petersburg
as Hélène Voronine
(1937)
The Messenger
as Marie
(1937)
Nights of Fire
as Lisa Andreieva
(1937)
A Picnic on the Grass
as Manon Watteau
(1936)
Samson
as Anne-Marie d'Andeline
(1936)
The Fear
as Irène Sylvain
(1936)
The Terrible Lovers
as Annette Fournier
(1936)
The Seniors
as Hélène Lormier
(1936)
The King
as Marthe Bourdier
(1935)
Le Billet de mille
as The desperate
(1935)
Aux portes de Paris
as 'La Madone'
(1934)
Le Bonheur
as Clara Stuart
(1934)
Jeanne
as Madeleine Préolier
(1934)
Le Scandale
as Charlotte Férioul
(1934)
We Are Not Children
as Roberte
(1933)
The Ironmaster
as Claire de Beaulieu
(1933)
Once Upon a Time
as Ellen / Mary
(1932)
Companion Wanted
as (uncredited)
(1932)
The Dreamy Mouth
as Gaby
(1932)
Ariane, Russian Maid
as Ariane
(1931)
Dance House
as Estrella
(1931)
When Love Is Over
as Germaine
(1931)
Faubourg Montmartre
as Ginette Gentilhomme
(1930)
Accused, Stand Up!
as Gaby Delange
(1929)
The New Gentlemen
as Susanne Verrier
(1926)
Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
as Pauline Bretonneau
(1922)
The Death Agony of the Eagles
as Lise Charmoy
(1920)
Le chevalier de Gaby
as Gaby
(1914)