Marcelle Romée (7 February 1903 – 3 December 1932) was a French

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and

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. Having emerged as a

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, and played the female

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in four films, she committed suicide by drowning in the

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. Conway p.210

Filmography

* '' La lettre'' (1931) * '' Le cap perdu'' (1931) * ''

The Night at the Hotel ''The Night at the Hotel'' (French: ''Une nuit à l'hôtel'') is a 1932 French drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Marcelle Romée, Jean Périer and Betty Stockfeld.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.113 It was made at the Joinville Studios in P ...

'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1932)

References

Bibliography

* Capua, Michelangelo. ''Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2015. * Conway, Kelley. ''Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film''. University of California Press, 2004. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1903 births 1932 deaths Actresses from Neuilly-sur-Seine French film actresses French stage actresses Suicides by drowning in France {{France-film-bio-stub