
Jacqueline Maillan
Biography
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.
Filmography

Les 60 ans du one-man-show

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

Ville à vendre

Pièce montée

Both Sides of the Street

La Femme fardée

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale

To Our Late Husband

The Seasons of Pleasure

Lily et Lily

The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque

Croque-monsieur

J'ai deux mots à vous dire

Potiche

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Coup de soleil

Is There a Frenchman in the House?

Féfé de Broadway

Le pont japonais

La facture

Madame Sans-Gêne

Folle Amanda

Call Me Mathilde

Monsieur le Président Directeur Général

The Real Bargain

Que personne ne sorte

How Do You Like My Sister?

Squeak-squeak

People in Luck

Who Stole the Body?

Tartarin de Tarascon

How to Succeed in Love

On purge bébé

The Door Slams

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

The Heirs

You Have Nothing to Declare?

Julie la rousse

The Magnificent Tramp

The Motorcycle Cops

Vive les vacances

Honey, Scare Me

Burning Fuse

The Grand Manoeuvre

Villa Sans-Souci

Les deux font la paire

Peek-a-boo

The Sheep Has Five Legs

The Scheming Women
