Cast & creator
Jacqueline Maillan
Best known for Sacrée soirée, Sacrée soirée, Champs-Elysées
Jacqueline Jeanne Paule Maillan (11 January 1923 - 12 May 1992) was a French actress with a career spanning almost five decades, known primarily for her forty theatre productions, she also appeared in more than fifty films (1947 to 1992) and is remembered as one of the greatest comedic thespians of her generation and even nicknamed "The Louis de Funès in skirt". After working on the classics of French theatre, she excelled in playing exuberant, strong and powerful women in vaudeville and boulevard on stage or in such films as Jean-Marie Poiré's cult Gramps Is in the Resistance (French: Papy fait de la résistance,1983) before pioneering stand-up in France. Her husband Michel Emer, who was Edith Piaf's composer, helped her hide her bisexuality (if not her sole homosexuality) from the public as they lived as a 'free couple' when it was then deeply stigmatized during the 1950s and 1960s. She was made a Chevalier (French: Knight) of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Source: Article "Jacqueline Maillan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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film credits
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television credits
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1953–2020 · acting roles
6.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (66)
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Sacrée soirée
Self
1987Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage)
1987
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Midi Première
Self
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Midi trente
Self
1972
Numéro un
Self
1975Numéro un
Self - Host
1975
Discorama
Self
1959
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
1987
30 millions d'amis
Self
1976
Stars 90
Self
1990
Matin Bonheur
Self
1987
Palace
Docteur Hélène Swift
1988
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Figurante
1954
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Héléna Bourdelle dit « La Bourdelle »
1983
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Visitor (uncredited)
1953
Squeak-squeak
Cynthia Monestier, la femme de Léonard
1963
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
Thérèse
1966
Peek-a-boo
Mme Maillan, la directrice de la salle
1954
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
Mammy
1987
The Grand Manoeuvre
Jeanne Duverger, sister of Victor
1955
The Seasons of Pleasure
Jacqueline Garibaldi
1988
Honey, Scare Me
The spy Natacha Dubrovno
1958
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Madame Fluck
1982
The Magnificent Tramp
Mme Marjorie
1959
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Gladys Dupont
1959
How Do You Like My Sister?
Charlotte Varangeot
1964
Pièce montée
Françoise Lumière
1991
Who Stole the Body?
Gin, English
1963
How to Succeed in Love
Edmée Rondeau
1962
Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Self (archive footage)
2020
People in Luck
Élisabeth Duchemin (segment "Le Yacht")
1963
Ville à vendre
Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne
1992
Que personne ne sorte
Adelia Plunkett
1964
J'ai deux mots à vous dire
Self
1984
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine
1960
Le pont japonais
Sarah Jacoby
1978
Potiche
Suzanne Pujol
1983
La facture
Noëlle
1976
Julie la rousse
1959
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Henriette Brulard
1988
Les deux font la paire
Olga
1955
Féfé de Broadway
Maria Brémont
1979
Lily et Lily
Lily et Déborah Dacosta
1987
The Real Bargain
Maria Ramirez
1965
To Our Late Husband
Hermione
1988
L'échelle
Elise
1964
Tartarin de Tarascon
Mrs. Bézuquet
1962
Burning Fuse
Mrs. Catherine, innkeeper
1957
The Door Slams
Jacqueline
1960
La Femme fardée
Edma Bautet-Lebrêche
1990
Vive les vacances
Babette Berkley
1958
Coup de soleil
Valentine
1982
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Scheming Women
une danseuse
1954
Call Me Mathilde
Mathilde de Blanzac
1969
Madame Sans-Gêne
Catherine Hubscher
1974
P.L.M
Madame de La Pimprenelle
1959
The Motorcycle Cops
Dance teacher
1959
On purge bébé
Julie Follavoine
1961
Villa Sans-Souci
Adélaïde Legardon
1955
Folle Amanda
Amanda
1974
The Heirs
Chantal
1960
Croque-monsieur
Coco Baisos
1984
Both Sides of the Street
Mrs. Yvette
1991