
Barbara Laage
Barbara Laage (30 July 1920 – 21 May 1988) was a French film actress who flourished in the 1950s.
After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II , Laage returned to the city after the war and began her acting career in the Paris theater district of Montparnasse.
Her first move to Hollywood was arranged by theatrical agent William Morris , founder of the William Morris Agency. She is one of several Hollywood stars of the era who would frequent the Chateau Marmont.
She was the first choice for the lead role in the Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai , though the part was eventually awarded to Rita Hayworth.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.008 |
Birthday | 1920-07-30 |
Place of Birth | Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute Savoie, France |
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1970

Bed and Board
7.2/280
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers an...
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Bed and Board

1973

Défense de savoir
5.6/9
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does...
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Défense de savoir

1961

Paris Blues
6.5/63
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and...
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Paris Blues

1957

To Catch a Spy
5/4
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that th...
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To Catch a Spy

1953

Traviata 53
6.7/9
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover...
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Traviata 53

1942

Signé illisible
0/0
Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, incl...
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Signé illisible

1948

B.F.'s Daughter
6.3/8
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
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B.F.'s Daughter

1972

Le Père Goriot
6/1
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. H...
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Le Père Goriot

1957

The Happy Road
5.6/7
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
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The Happy Road

1966

The Burning Body
6.1/6
Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human contact. There...
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The Burning Body

1956

Les Assassins du dimanche
5/2
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every tur...
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Les Assassins du dimanche

1964

The Crime of Aldeia Velha
6.8/2
Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slow...
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The Crime of Aldeia Velha

1952

The Respectful Prostitute
5.3/15
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a...
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The Respectful Prostitute

1960

Bombs on Monte Carlo
5.5/1
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
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Bombs on Monte Carlo

1953

Act of Love
6.7/7
An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
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Act of Love

1960

The Boss
5.5/12
Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, h...
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The Boss

1955

Nagana
0/0
A group of crooks takes advantage of a rich old lady's naivete: they pretend they are to sail to Africa to fight... the sleeping sickness. They are on...
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Nagana

1959

Tonight We Kill
1/1
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influentia...
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Tonight We Kill

1956

The Adventures of Gil Blas
0/0
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The Adventures of Gil Blas

1956

Guilty?
6/1
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching f...
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Guilty?

1965

The Heat of a Thousand Suns
5.8/4
A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet h...
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The Heat of a Thousand Suns

1954

Una parigina a Roma
8.5/3
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
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Una parigina a Roma

1960

Orientalische Nächte
0/0
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Orientalische Nächte

1951

The Red Rose
5.1/7
The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dors...
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The Red Rose

1968

Therese and Isabelle
4.2/10
Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school.
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Therese and Isabelle

1959

Soft Skin on Black Silk
4.6/5
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and...
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Soft Skin on Black Silk

1973

Private Screening
4.6/7
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions...
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Private Screening

1954

Zoé
0/0
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair...
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Zoé

1958

Miss Pigalle
0/0
A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides t...
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Miss Pigalle

1960

There's Going to Be a Party
7/1
FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble wi...
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There's Going to Be a Party

1953

The Slave
5.5/2
A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with...
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The Slave

1962

The Captive
0/0
Two gun runners, Le Doc and Rougier, save and tend the only survivor of a plane crash into the Vietnamese jungle. When they realize the man named Hame...
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The Captive

1957

Whereabouts Unknown
0/0
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As...
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Whereabouts Unknown

1954

Quai des blondes
5.3/3
The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky E...
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Quai des blondes

1963

Portuguese Vacation
5.6/12
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a ro...
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Portuguese Vacation

1968

Strange Game
5.5/4
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
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