Valentine Tessier

Valentine Tessier (5 August 1892 – 11 August 1981) was a French actress, born to Russian parents. She appeared in around thirty films. She played the title role in Jean Renoir's 1934 film version of Madame Bovary. She also had a career on stage.

Selected filmography

• The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
• Madame Bovary (1934)
• Women's Club (1936)
• Ménilmontant (1936)
• Abused Confidence (1938)
• The Phantom Carriage (1939)
• Le Lit à colonnes (1942)
• Distress (1946)
• Justice Is Done (1950)
• The Temptress (1952)
• Leathernose (1952)
• Trial at the Vatican (1952)
• Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
• Children of Love (1953)
• Quintuplets in the Boarding School (1953)
• Stain in the Snow (1954)
• Maddalena (1954)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
• Élisa (1957)
• Maigret and the Saint-Fiacre Case (1959)

References

Bibliography

• Donaldson-Evans, Mary. Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context. Rodopi, 2009.

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