Maximilienne

{{Short description|French actress (1884–1978)}} {{Infobox person | name = Maximilienne | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 28 November 1884 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = 28 August 1978 | death_place = Nice, France | other_names = Henriette Adeline Genty | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1925-1959 (film) }} '''Maximilienne''' (1884-1978) was a French stage and film actress.<ref>Goble p.42 & p.81</ref><ref>Crisp p.221</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/132441/maximilienne | title=Maximilienne - Unifrance }}</ref> She appeared frequently in films, generally in supporting roles. Later in her career she played the domineering comic foil to the comedian Fernand Raynaud.

==Selected filmography== * ''The Adventures of Robert Macaire'' (1925) * ''To the Polls, Citizens'' (1932) * ''Our Lord's Vineyard'' (1932) * ''Étienne'' (1933) * ''Bastille Day'' (1933) * ''The Surprises of Divorce'' (1933) * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * ''600,000 Francs a Month'' (1933) * ''The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * ''Liliom'' (1934) * ''Chourinette'' (1934) * ''Tartarin of Tarascon'' (1934) * ''Maria Chapdelaine'' (1934) * ''Lovers and Thieves'' (1935) * ''Disk 413'' (1936) * ''The Secrets of the Red Sea'' (1937) * ''My Aunts and I'' (1937) * ''The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''Prison sans barreaux'' (1938) * ''My Priest Among the Rich'' (1938) * ''Clodoche'' (1938) * ''The Baker's Wife'' (1938) * ''Shop Girls of Paris'' (1943) * ''Picpus'' (1943) * ''The Ménard Collection'' (1944) * ''Rooster Heart'' (1946) * ''Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947) * ''Clochemerle'' (1948) * ''The Cupboard Was Bare'' (1948) * ''Blonde'' (1950) * ''The Treasure of Cantenac'' (1950) * ''Monsieur Octave'' (1951) * ''Music in the Head'' (1951) * ''Adhémar'' (1951) * ''Pardon My French'' (1951) * ''Dans la vie tout s'arrange'' (1952) * ''The Congress of Mother-in-Laws'' (1954) * ''The Enigma of the Folies-Bergere'' (1959)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939''. Indiana University Press, 2015. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0561589}}

Category:1884 births Category:1978 deaths Category:French stage actresses Category:French film actresses Category:Actresses from Paris