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The actress Josseline Gael was born as Jeannine Augustine Jeanne Blanleuil
in Paris.
She already made her first appearance in a silent movie as an infant
in "Un million dans une main d'enfant" (21), it followed the movies "Le
stigmate" (24) - a film serial directed by Louis Feuillade - and "Simone"
(27).
She also asserted hersef as a teenager in the rising sound film of
the 30s. After an education in ballet dancing and acting she also travelled
to Berlin where she shot German-speaking movies of her French productions.
She appeared among others in the movies "Une femme a menti" (30), "Les
amours de minuit" (31), "Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour" (31) with
a young Jean Gabin, "Le monsieur de minuit" (31), "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac"
(32), "Les misérables" (34), "Monsieur Sans-Gêne" (35) and
"Le bossu" (35).
The transition from youth to adult was no problem and she was able to
continue her cinematical career till to the end of World War II.
Under the direction of many well-known directors she played at the side
of many French movie stars. To her productions of those years belong "Monsieur
Personne" (36), "Un déjeuner de soleil" (37), "Barnabé" (38),
"Son oncle de Mormandie" (39), "Chambre 13" (42), the impressive horror
picture "La main du diable" (43), "Le soleil de minuit" (43) and "Coup
de tête" (44).
In her private life she met the actor Jules Berry who was 34 years older
than herself. They got married and had a daughter.
During her marriage she started seeing the notorious criminal and collaborator
Antonin Saunier who belonged to the Bande Rouge which also committed murders
for the French Gestapo.
They lived in luxury during the misery of World War II.
But when France became free again in 1944 the reality came back to their
lifes. Saunier was executed in 1946 and Josseline Gael was sentenced to
prison.
Her future ex-husband Jules Berry testfied for her during the trial
which perhaps protected her from the death penalty.
But she was banned from working and she also lost her civil rights
of a French citizen. Finally she fell into oblivion in public.
Shen she died in 1995 at the age of 88 in the old-age home "Saint-Michel
d'Entraygues" no one there knew something about her former glorious past.
Other movies with Josseline Gael:
L'amour chante (30) Mitternachtsliebe (31) Baleydier
(32) Pour un sou d'amour (32) Coeurs joyeux (32) Tambour battant (33) L'abbé
Constantin (33) Un homme en or (34) Pluie d'or (35) Le monde où
l'on s'ennuie (35) Jeunes filles à marier (35) La madone de l'atlantique
(36) L'enfant du Danube (36) Un scandale aux galeries (37) Puits en flammes
(37) Ma petite marquise (37) Les deux combinards (38) Le monsieur de 5
heures (38) Les femmes collantes (38) Le plus beau gosse de France (38)
Remontons les Champs-Elysées (38) Grand-père (39) Face au
destin (40) L'an 40 (41) La neige sur les pas (42) Une vie de chien (43)
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (44) L'île d'amour (44) |
