The best Gabrielle Fontan’s comedy movies

Gabrielle Fontan

Gabrielle Fontan

16/04/1873- 08/09/1959
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gabrielle Fontan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gabrielle Fontan.

A Day in the Country

A Day in the Country
7.5/10
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Be Beautiful But Shut Up

Be Beautiful But Shut Up
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/05/1958
  • Character: La grand-mère de Jean
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up wth a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.

Hi Doc

Hi Doc
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/03/1957
  • Character: Madeleine Blaise
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till dusk (and even later). He sees patients in his consulting room or visits them either on house calls or at the hospital. But is today just another day? Not quite since on this very day, Junior, Dr. Forget's son, will know if he has passed or not his exam at the faculty of medicine.

Toto

Toto
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1933
  • Character: La logeuse
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (Renée Saint-Cyr). The two quickly fall in love, and after a brief incarceration, Toto returns to her and schemes to have her win a beauty contest.

The Gates of Paris

The Gates of Paris
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/09/1957
  • Character: Mme Sabatier, Juju and Nénette's mother
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...

Bold Adventure

Bold Adventure
5.5/10
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.

Le dernier sou

Le dernier sou
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1946
  • Character: Mme Durban

Sylvia and the Ghost

Sylvia and the Ghost
6.9/10
A teenager becomes fixated on the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her uncle oversees three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her - but little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls......

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1955
  • Character: La directrice de l'institut Saint-Beuve
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...

Le mort en fuite

Le mort en fuite
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/01/1936
  • Character: La concierge
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.

Le veau gras

Le veau gras
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Vachon
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.

La Belle au bois dormant

La Belle au bois dormant
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/01/1954
  • Character: La fée Carabosse

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