Micheline Presle
Acting
🎂 1922-08-22
Micheline Presle (born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne on 22 August 1922) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in Hollywood and in France. Born in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of La Fessée. In 1938, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema. Her rise to European stardom, in films such as Devil in the Flesh, led to offers from Hollywood and in 1950, she was signed by 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox executives changed Presle's last name to Prell. It was later changed to Prelle after a soap company brought out Prell shampoo. Her first Hollywood production was a starring role opposite John Garfield in the film Under My Skin directed by Jean Negulesco. That same year director Fritz Lang cast her opposite Tyrone Power in the war drama American Guerrilla in the Philippines. In 1950, she became the second wife of American actor William Marshall with whom she had a daughter, Tonie. William Marshall had teamed up with actor Errol Flynn and his production company and in 1951 he directed Flynn and her in the film Adventures of Captain Fabian. Presle's marriage did not last and she returned to France, divorcing Marshall in 1954. Her career flourished in French films and in 1957 she was a guest on the American Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she performed in the United Kingdom English-language production of Blind Date directed by Joseph Losey. She returned to Hollywood in 1962 for the role of Sandra Dee's mother in the Universal Studios film If a Man Answers which also featured Dee's husband, singer Bobby Darin. The following year, Presle acted again in English in The Prize starring Paul Newman. She did not make another English film, but after performing in more than 50 films in French, in 1989 she appeared in the French-made bilingual production I Want to Go Home, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1971, Presle signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had an illegal abortion. Presle died in Nogent-sur-Marne on 21 February 2024, at the age of 101, at the Maison des Artistes, a retirement home for artists, which receives partial government support. Her death was confirmed by Olivier Bomsel, her son-in-law, without specifying the cause. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cast credits(162)
Self
1975
Self
1982
Self
1948
Self
1998
Grandma
1985
Self
1987
Self
1975
Annette
1962
Self
1975
Madame Lagrue
1979
Rachelle
1958
Self
1971
Ève Lagarde
1965
Madame de Saint-Méran
1998
Elle-même (l'actrice)
1998
The Red Queen
1970
Self
1987
Mme. de Miran
1976
Denise Marceau
1963
La mère supérieure / Mother Superior
1995
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
1955
Denise
1984
Tante Maryse
1999
Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
1962
Aunt Amelie
1971
Baroness Lena Eggersdorf
1958
Maude
1993
Mrs. de Pompadour
1954
Mme de Moni
1967
Hélène Vanaux
1957
La mère de Stanislas
2003
Jacqueline Cousteau
1959
Isabelle Gauthier
1989
Helen Ashby
1976
Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine
1966
la tante
2013
Jeanne Martinez
1950
Madame Latour
1960
Micheline Allan
1962
Grandmother
2012
Hermine
1996
Dr Delavigne
1973
Virginia Marchi
1954
(uncredited)
1937
Nicole
2003
Mlle Chagrin
1979
Violette Ancelin
2001
Isabelle Lartois
1964
La grand-mère
2009
Femme
2009
Marthe Grangier
1947
Marcelle Ichak
1996
Élisabeth Rousset, aka "Boule de suif"
1945
Madeleine
1961
Judith Aurigault
1956
Mamie
1999
Self
2018
Régine / Simone
1959
Eve Charlier
1947
Mrs. Latour
1960
Madeleine
2000
la "mère" de Bernard
1996
Josephine
1962
Prof. Girelli
1988
Micheline Lafaurie
1945
Gisèle Lenoir
2005
Madame Courdevey
1979
Hélène
1950
Genevieve
1984
Diane
1996
Germaine Stacy
1962
Perle Germain-Joubert
1960
Adalgisa De Matteis
1961
Madeleine Villardier
1955
Lea Mariotte
1951
Gisèle
1994
Michèle
1954
Bélise
2001
1976
Self
1999
Luce
1993
Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard
1962
Lydia
1940
La marchesa
1961
Madame Raymonde
1998
Françoise Pimbrache
1942
Valeria Valenzano (segment: Gli amanti)
1953
Félicie Nanteuil
1944
Germaine et Marie-Louise
1991
Self
1969
Self (archive footage)
2019
Rose
1979
Angèle Brissac
1963
Micheline
1943
L'Antiquaire
1970
Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblan
1939
Madame Aubert
1977
Carmen
1979
Micheline Presle
2011
Mme Donnadieu
1991
1963
Clara Biondi
1943
Liliane
2008
Paule
1960
Lucrezia Cenci
1956
Mrs. Loussine
1994
Claire Ancelot
1940
Paule Manet
1950
Valentine Vatrin
1978
La mère de Christian
1986
1984
Jacqueline
1986
Monique Bouvier
1964
Laura Lee
1949
Mrs. Saltim
2003
Countess Claudia Osio De Blanc
1972
Granny
2012
Betty
1980
Gloria Maieul
1989
Sophie Givier
1962
1939
Lucie
1940
Irène
1942
Huguette
2010
Adélaïde Barbier
1941
Lady with jewels
1988
(uncredited)
1938
Star Belladonna
1975
Juliette
2001
Mathilde
1983
Daisy
1965
La voisine
1990
Marie Prieur
1953
Marguerite Gauthier
1953
Mme Renaud
2004
Mother
1975
Madame de Séryeuse
1970
Irène Morillon
1941
La mère de Vincent
2001
Michele
1961
Micheline Presle
1974
Nicole
1958
Hélène
1980
Marie
2003
Jane Latour-Jackson
2007
Claire Lacombe
2002
1979
Mme Argente
1984
Self (voice)
2004
Jacqueline Presle
1939
Laurence
1974
Jeanne
2013
Maria
1991
Paméla Van Der Mèche
1964
Mireille Miran
1990
Madame Dubosc
1999
Marthe
2000
The mother (segment "Remue-ménage")
1983
Avril Espart
1993
Madame de Rénal
1961
1939
Self
1991