Jacqueline Jeanne Paule Maillan (11 January 1923 – 12 May 1992) was a French actress with a career spanning almost five decades, known primarily for her forty theatre productions, she also appeared in more than fifty films (1947 to 1992) and is remembered as one of the greatest comedic thespians of her generation and even nicknamed “The Louis de Funès in skirt”. After working on the classics of French theatre, she excelled in playing exuberant, strong and powerful women in vaudeville and boulevard on stage or in such films as Jean-Marie Poiré’s cult Gramps Is in the Resistance (French: Papy fait de la résistance,1983) before pioneering stand-up in France. Her husband Michel Emer, who was Edith Piaf’s composer, helped her hide her bisexuality (if not her sole homosexuality) from the public as they lived as a ‘free couple’ when it was then deeply stigmatized during the 1950s and 1960s. She was made a Chevalier (French: Knight) of the Légion d’honneur and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Jacqueline Maillan Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jacqueline Maillan |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France |
| Date of Birth | 1923-01-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 1992-05-12 |
Jacqueline Maillan Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| La facture | Noëlle | 1976-02-27 | Noëlle is a woman who succeeds in everything. In addition, she is blessed with incredible luck. But one day, she questions herself, convinced one day… |
| Lily et Lily | Lily et Déborah Dacosta | 1987-12-25 | … |
| Pièce montée | Françoise Lumière | 1991-12-01 | … |
| Madame Sans-Gêne | Catherine Hubscher | 1974-12-24 | Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, the day when royalty coll… |
| Folle Amanda | Amanda | 1974-12-04 | A former music hall singer, Amanda lives day by day while remaining optimistic. Short of money, she wants to publish her memoirs. But her ex-husband P… |
| Potiche | Suzanne Pujol | 1983-12-21 | Suzanne Pujol is the submissive wife of a rich industrialist who is as unpleasant with his family as with his workers. Following a strike in the compa… |
| À notre regrettable époux | Hermione | 1988-02-24 | When her husband Alexander dies, Hermione, a squire, discovers that he was a bigamist on the one hand and a swindler on the other. In the company of A… |
| Coup de soleil | Valentine | 1982-05-02 | Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, “nose”. She has had a relationship for 15 years with Gérard, and is about to break up because she is bored… |
| Le pont japonais | Sarah Jacoby | 1978-09-25 | … |
| Féfé de Broadway | Maria Brémont | 1979-01-13 | Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obs… |
| J’ai deux mots à vous dire | 1984-03-30 | After a depression that cost her a hospital stay, a music hall singer recounts her career and her problems as a woman. Between 2 phone calls and 14 s… | |
| Croque-monsieur | Coco Baisos | 1984-09-10 | … |
| Appelez-moi Mathilde | Mathilde de Blanzac | 1969-12-10 | … |
| Tartarin de Tarascon | Mme Bézuquet | 1962-11-22 | … |
| Que personne ne sorte | Adelia Plunkett | 1964-07-29 | Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador’s daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur … |
| La Femme fardée | Edma Bautet-Lebrêche | 1990-11-07 | Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the “Narcissus” for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria…. |
| How Do You Like My Sister? | Charlotte Varangeot | 1964-03-04 | The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds…. |
| Monsieur le Président Directeur Général | Thérèse | 1966-12-16 | In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates…. |
| On purge bébé | Julie Follavoine | 1961-03-04 | … |
| Both Sides of the Street | Mrs. Yvette | 1991-01-30 | Marie has always been somewhat independent and is considered by some to be a bit of a tomboy. Though she is not quite a teenager, her photographer fat… |
| Is There a Frenchman in the House? | Madame Fluck | 1982-04-28 | Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official … |
| Who Stole the Body? | Gin, the English | 1963-02-01 | … |
| Comment réussir en amour | Edmée Rondeau | 1962-11-16 | … |
| Une nuit à l’Assemblée Nationale | Henriette Brulard | 1988-06-08 | The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor…. |
| Les 60 ans du one-man-show | Self | 2020-01-31 | … |
| Pouic-Pouic | Cynthia Monestier, la femme de Léonard | 1963-11-20 | Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down… |
| Vous n’avez rien à déclarer ? | Gladys Dupont | 1959-08-29 | … |
| The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque | Mammy | 1987-01-14 | On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs traffickin… |
| Les Motards | The dance teacher | 1959-03-18 | … |
| The Door Slams | Jacqueline | 1960-12-21 | Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich … |
| Peek-a-boo | Elle-même en directrice de la salle | 1954-10-15 | A small-town policeman is informed that “naked women” are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he i… |
| Honey, Scare Me | The spy Natacha Dubrovno | 1958-03-06 | A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams… |
| Royal Affairs in Versailles | une visiteuse | 1954-02-10 | Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, … |
| Gramps Is in the Resistance | Héléna Bourdelle | 1983-10-26 | It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family’s home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do … |
| Les deux font la paire | Olga | 1955-02-11 | … |
| The Scheming Women | une danseuse | 1954-04-07 | The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, P… |
| The Magnificent Tramp | Mme Marjorie | 1959-04-08 | Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy…. |
| Les saisons du plaisir | Jacqueline | 1988-02-10 | Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and… |
| Ville à vendre | Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne | 1992-02-26 | A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim’s vulgar assistant to try to … |
| Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine | 1960-12-16 | The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire’s 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme…. |
| Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 Ã 4 | Self | 2009-10-13 | … |
| People in Luck | Élisabeth Duchemin (« Le Yacht ») | 1963-04-26 | A light French comedy of 5 segments…. |
| The Sheep Has Five Legs | Figurante | 1954-09-24 | A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel…. |
Credit: TMDB
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