Jacqueline Maillan
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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Acting
Movie
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Héléna Bourdelle dit « La Bourdelle »
1983
Movie
Squeak-squeak
as Cynthia Monestier, la femme de Léonard
1963
Movie
Peek-a-boo
as Mme Maillan, la directrice de la salle
1954
Movie
The Magnificent Tramp
as Mme Marjorie
1959
Movie
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Jeanne Duverger, sister of Victor
1955
Movie
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Figurante
1954
Movie
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Visitor (uncredited)
1953
Movie
People in Luck
as Élisabeth Duchemin (segment "Le Yacht")
1963
Movie
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
as Mammy
1987
Movie
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Jacqueline Garibaldi
1988
Movie
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Madame Fluck
1982
Movie
The Scheming Women
as une danseuse
1954
Movie
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine
1960
Movie
Burning Fuse
as Mrs. Catherine, innkeeper
1957
TV
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
TV
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
Movie
Tartarin de Tarascon
as Mrs. Bézuquet
1962
Movie
La Femme fardée
as Edma Bautet-Lebrêche
1990
Movie
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
as Henriette Brulard
1988
TV
Palace
as Docteur Hélène Swift
1988
Movie
La facture
as Noëlle
1976
Movie
Ville à vendre
as Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne
1992
Movie
Call Me Mathilde
as Mathilde de Blanzac
1969
Movie
You Have Nothing to Declare?
as Gladys Dupont
1959