Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions. Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible (1957) which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven, and as Milady de Winter in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1961). A "veteran of cinema" who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers, westerns, comedies, swashbucklers, period films and even pepla, such as Romulus and the Sabines (1961) opposite Roger Moore or Gold for the Caesars (1963). Demongeot also has a cult following based on the Fantomas trilogy, as Hélène Gurn opposite Louis de Funès and Jean Marais: Fantômas (1964), Fantômas Unleashed (1965) and Fantômas Against Scotland Yard (1967). Thirty years later, she starred again in another one of France's most successful comedy trilogies as Madame Pic in Fabien Onteniente's Camping (2006), Camping 2 (2010) and Camping 3 (2016). She was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the César Awards for 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) and French California (2006). In 2007, she was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et de Lettres of the French Republic. In 2017, she was inducted into the Légion d'Honneur by ethologist and neurologist Boris Cyrulnik, with the rank of Chevalier. She remained popular until her passing from peritoneal cancer. At the time of her death, she was starring in Thomas Gilou's film Maison de retraite (2022) alongside Gérard Depardieu, one of the biggest box office hits of 2022 in France. Through an Élysée Palace official tribune, President Emmanuel Macron paid a long tribute to her which included : "we salute the career of a great figure in the French Seventh Art, who knew how to shine in all its genres to move all French people". Demongeot was born in September 1935 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, the daughter and only child of Alfred Jean Demongeot, born Nice, 30 January 1897 (himself the son of Marie Joseph Marcel Demongeot, career soldier, and Clotilde Faussonne di Clavesana, an Italian contessa) and Claudia Troubnikova, born 17 May 1904 in Kharkiv (Ukraine, Russian Empire). Her parents, both actors themselves, had met in Shanghai, China, where her half-brother, Léonid Ivantov, from the first marriage of her mother, was born, in Harbin on 17 December 1923. Like hundreds of other major European figures of stage and screen, she trained at the 'Cours Simon' in Paris where her classmates included Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Berri and Guy Bedos. She was a classically trained pianist and her first ambition was of becoming a professional. ... Source: Article "Mylène Demongeot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Cast

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

(Self (archive footage))

Twelve Plus One

(Judy)

Camping : histoire d'un succès

(Self - Actor)

Fantomas Unleashed

(Hélène)

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

(Hélène)

Fantomas

(Hélène)

Bonjour Tristesse

(Elsa)

Ménage

(la femme du couple au lit)

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

(Milady de Winter)

The Witches of Salem

(Abigail Williams)

36th Precinct

(Manou Berliner)

Camping

(Laurette Pic)

So Woman!

(Mme Vallardin)

Camping 2

(Laurette Pic)

Doctor in Distress

(Sonia)

The Giant of Marathon

(Andromeda)

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

(Self)

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

(Virginie Dumayet)

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

(Lily, la mère de Rose)

Love in Rome

(Anna Padoan)

La Californie

(Katia)

Victoire

(la mère)

The Singer Not the Song

(Locha de Cortinez)

The Fighting Musketeers

(Milady de Winter)

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

(Gabby)

Because, Because of a Woman

(Lisette)

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma

(Self)

Girl's Apartment

(Mélanie)

A Kiss for a Killer

(Eva Dollan)

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

(Self - Actrice)

We Are All Winners

Under Ten Flags

(Zizi)

On My Way

(Fanfan)

Romulus and the Sabines

(Rea)

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

(Anne Calder)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

(Harriet)

Upstairs and Downstairs

(Ingrid)

I've Had It

(Mrs. de Chatiez)

Urok Francuzskogo

(Herself)

Gold for the Caesars

(Penelope)

Time Bomb

(Catherine Mougin)

A Few Acres of Snow

(Laura)

Women Are Weak

(Sabine)

Signé Furax

(Malvina)

Les mauvaises têtes

(Virginie)

Flics de Choc

(La Maîtresse)

Tender Scoundrel

(Muriel)

One Must Live Dangerously

(Laurence)

That Night

(Sylvie Mallet)

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

(Self - Actrice)

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

(Madame Rochaise)

Europe Express

It's a Wonderful World

(Georgie)

Le fantôme du lac

(Louise Perreau)

Mon Ami Washington

La Balade de Lucie

(La mère de Lucie)

Des roses en hiver

(Madeleine)

Surprise Party

(Geneviève Lambert)

Children of Love

(Nicole)

Quand vient l'amour

The Bastard

(Brigitte)

Montréal blues

Copacabana Palace

(Zina von Raunacher)

Camping 3

(Laurette Pic)

The Defective Detective

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

(Thérèse)

If You Die, I'll Kill You

(Geneviève)

The Porcelain Anniversary

(Julia)

Par le sang des autres

(La prostituée)

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

(Anna-Maria Sulza)

The Midwife

(Rolande)

Cherchez l'idole

(Mylène Demongeot)

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

(Mamita)

The Hideout

(Katia)

Retirement Home

(Simone Tournier)

Frou-Frou

(La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited))

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

(La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited))

The Telegraph Route

(Muriel)

School for Love

(The future star who vocalizes)

The Big Night

(Laura)

Les Scandaleuses

(Self)

Marion

(Marion)

Le Grand Échiquier

(Self)

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

(Myle Holga)

Amanda

(Self)

Graf Luckner

(Daphne)

Minder

(Madeleine)

Big Man

(Fernande)

Samedi soir

(Self)

Midi trente

(Self)

Cinépanorama

(Self)

Capitaine Marleau

(Louise Lemaire)

Fan School

(Self)

Big Man

(Fernando)

Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres

(Martine n°2)

30 millions d'amis

(Self)

Jack Clementi

(Fernando)