Jane Marken

French film actress

Jane Marken

Born	13 January 1895 Paris, France
Died	1 December 1976 (1977-01) (aged 81) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress

Jane Marken (born Jeanne Berthe Adolphine Crabbe, sometimes credited as Jeanne Marken; 13 January 1895 in Paris – 1 December 1976 in Paris) was a French actress. She was the first wife of the actor Jules Berry.

Marken began her film career under the aegis of Abel Gance in 1915. She made several films with Marcel Carné including Hotel du Nord (1938), and as Madame Hermine, the hotelier (a comic role) in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945). She also appeared in films of Julien Duvivier, Jacques Becker, Sacha Guitry, Renoir's Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country 1936), Yves Allégret's Une si jolie petite plage (1949) and Manèges (1950), Dr. Knock (1951), The Turkey (1951), and in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman (1956). Her last appearance was in L'Humeur vagabonde (1971), directed by Édouard Luntz.

Selected filmography

Fioritures (1916) - Anny Dorleville
Géo, le mystérieux (1917) - Ginette Dorville
Madame et son filleul (1919)
Chouquette et son as (1920) - Chouquette
That Scoundrel Morin (1932)
The Ironmaster (1933)
Court Waltzes (La guerre des valses, 1933)
The Lady of the Camellias (1934) - Prudence
Ferdinand the Roisterer (1935) - Mme Bertimey
Napoléon Bonaparte (1935) - Marie-Anne
Le chemineau (1935) - Catherine
La marmaille (1935)
La Garçonne (1936)
Beethoven's Great Love (1936) - Esther Frechet - la cuisinière
L'homme à abattre (1937)
L'ange du foyer (1937) - Augustine
Lady Killer (Gueule d'amour, 1937) - Madame Cailloux
Remontons les Champs-Élysées (1938) - La mère de Louisette
Three Waltzes (Les trois valses, 1938) - Céleste
Hôtel du Nord (1938) - Louise Lecouvreur
There's No Tomorrow (1939) - Mme Béchu (uncredited)
Paradise Lost (1940) - Madame Bonneron - la concierge
The Marvelous Night (La nuit merveilleuse, 1940) - Mathilde, l'hôtelière
La prière aux étoiles (1941)
A Woman in the Night (1943) - Madame Béghin
Two Timid Souls (1943) - Tante Valérie
Summer Light (1943) - Louise Martinet
Love Eternal (L'Éternel retour, 1943) - Anne
Adrien (1943) - Madame Hortense
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944) - Madame Chaussin (uncredited)
Children of Paradise (1945) - Mme Hermine
Paris Frills (1945) - Mme Lesurque, la tante de Micheline (uncredited)
Land Without Stars (1946) - La secrétaire
The Idiot (L'idiot, 1946) - Naria
The Eternal Husband (1946) - Amélie Zakhlebinine
Night Warning (Nuits d'alerte, 1946) - Madame Morizot
Pétrus (1946) - Mme Portal, la charcutière
Gates of the Night (1946) - Mme Germaine
The Beautiful Trip (1947) - La femme d'Albert
Copie conforme (1947) - La concierge
Love Around the House (1947) - Madame Jobic
L'arche de Noé (1947) - Christine Pelpail
Route sans issue (1948) - Tante Agathe
Parade du rire (1948) - Mme de Saint-Jules
Clochemerle (1948) - La baronne de Courtebiche
Dédée d'Anvers (1948) - Germaine
Night Express (1948) - Mme Louis
The Woman I Murdered (1948) - Maria Le Querrec
Une si jolie petite plage (1949) - Madame Mahieu
The Ladies in the Green Hats (Ces dames aux chapeaux verts, 1949) - Rosalie Davernis
The Secret of Mayerling (1949) - La baronne Hélène Vetsera
Return to Life (1949) - Tante Berthe (segment 1 : "Le retour de tante Emma")
Manèges (1950) - La mère de Dora
La Marie du port (1950) - Madame Josselin - la patronne du bar
Lady Paname (1950) - Madame Gambier
Chéri (1950) - Charlotte Peloux
Just Me (1950) - Mme Deply
Darling Caroline (1951) - Cathy, la nourrice
Dr. Knock (Knock, 1951) - Mme Parpalaid
The Passerby (La Passante, 1951) - Mme. Pomont
Nightclub (1951) - Irma
Sins of Madeleine (1951) - Mme Antonine
Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951) - Madame Dubreck
Chacun son tour (1951) - Mme Lepage
The Turkey (1951) - Madame Pinchard
Et ta soeur (1951) - Amélie
The Man in My Life (L'Homme de ma vie, 1952) - Emma
Monsieur Leguignon, Signalman (1952) - Mme. Leguignon
Mister Taxi (Monsieur Taxi, 1952) - Tante Louise
A Mother's Secret (1952) - Rosa
Crazy for Love (Le Trou normand, 1952) - Augustine Lemoine, la tante
Companions of the Night (Les Compagnes de la nuit, 1953) - Madame Anita
Captain Pantoufle (Capitaine Pantoufle, 1953) - Madame Cauchard
Maternité clandestine (1953) - La tante de Jacques
Leguignon the Healer (1954) - Mme Leguignon
The Little Rebels (1955) - La déléguée
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (1955)
Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Mme Victoire
Pity for the Vamps (1956) - Mme Edith
And God Created Woman (1956) - Madame Morin
Les 3 font la paire (1957) - Georgette Bornier
L'auberge en folie (1957) - Mme. Portafaux
The Inspector Likes a Fight (1957) - Nène Thierry
Lovers of Paris (1957) - Eléonore Josserand
Women's Prison (1958) - Mme Rémon, la belle-mère d'Alice
Life Together (1958) - Madame Fourneau
Le Miroir à deux faces (1958) - Madame Vauzange
Maxime (1958) - Coco Naval
Ce corps tant désiré (1959) - Mme Féraud
The Road to Shame (1959) - Mme. Cassini
Il fiore e la violenza (1962) - Juliette Dufur (segment "La scapagnata")
La Bonne Soupe (1964) - Mme Alphonse
Patate (1964) - Berthe