20th-century French actresses

Jeanne Aubert (born Jeanne Perrinot, February 21, 1900 – March 6, 1988) was a French singer and actress.

Michèle Verly (real name Michèle Armande Houillon) (19 July 1909 – 3 March 1952) was a French stage and film actress. She was managing director of the Théâtre Gramont from August 1945 until her untimely death. She died in the 1952 Air France SNCASE Languedoc crash and is buried in the Batignolles Cemetery (31st division) in Paris.

Yvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was a French actress.

Odette Talazac (1883–1948) was a French film actress.Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing in music halls before turning to the theater and cinema. She was married in 1900 in Chatou to jeweler Georges Aucoc.

Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress.
The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952), The Shameless Old Lady (1965), and Le Corbeau (1943).
She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France.
She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in The Shameless Old Lady.

Germaine Reuver (1885–1953) was a French stage and film actress.

Gina Relly (1891–1985) was a French film actress of the silent era.

Marcelle Praince (9 June 1882 – 26 October 1969) was a French actress.
Praince was born Célestine Cardi in Vigeois, Corrèze, France and died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines.

Marcelle Pradot (born Marcelle Marie Claire Pénicaud, or Pénicaut; 27 July 1901 – 24 June 1982) was a French actress who worked principally in silent films. She was born at Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, near Paris. At the age of 18 while she was taking classes in dancing and singing in Paris, she was asked by Marcel L'Herbier to appear in his film Le Bercail (1919). She went on to appear in a further eight of L'Herbier's silent films, and then in his first sound film L'Enfant de l'amour (1930) with which she ended her acting career. She was noted as an aristocratic beauty, and she was described by the critic Louis Delluc as "the Infanta of French cinema".Marcelle Pradot and Marcel L'Herbier were married in late 1923, and their daughter Marie-Ange was born in the following year. Marcelle Pradot died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1982, two and a half years after L'Herbier.

Danièle Parola (March 28, 1905 – September 2, 1998) was a French film actress. She starred in the 1932 crime film Narcotics. She was married to the actor and producer André Daven.