Foun-Sen Explained

Foun-Sen
Birthname:	Cécile Nguyen Ngoc Tue
Birth Date:	28 February 1915
Birth Place:	Tonkin, French Indochina
Death Date:	5 February 1989
Death Place:	Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupation:	Actress
Yearsactive:	1936–1979 (film & TV)

Foun-Sen (28 February 1915 – 5 February 1989) was a French-Vietnamese film actress.^[1] She was married to the film director Léo Joannon.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Port Arthur (1936)
• Samson (1936)
• Wolves Between Them 1936)
• Forty Little Mothers (1936)
• The Alibi (1937)
• Yoshiwara (1937)
• Woman of Malacca (1937)
• Mollenard (1938)
• The City of Lights (1938)
• The Shanghai Drama (1938)
• Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared (1938)
• The Emigrant (1940)
• The Ménard Collection (1944)
• Fort du Fou (1963)
• Five Ashore in Singapore (1967)

Bibliography

• Keith, Charles. Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France. University of California Press, 2024.
• Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

Notes and References

1. Kennedy-Karpat p.134
2. Keith p.125