Francine Mussey Explained

Francine Mussey
Birth Date:6 October 1897
Birthname:Marcelle Fromholt
Death Place:Paris, Île-de-France, France
Occupation:Actress
Yearsactive:1920–1932

Francine Mussey (6 October 1897 – 23 March 1933)[1] was a French film actress whose career began in the silent film era of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by ingesting poison at age 35.[2]

Mussey was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris as Marcelle Fromholt in 1897. She made her debut in the 1920 Lucien Lehmann-directed film L'épave, opposite actors Marcel Bonneau and Jean-François Martial. She would go on to appear in a number of films throughout the 1920s and into the sound film era of the early 1930s directed by Louis Feuillade, Gaston Ravel, Alexandre Ryder and Jean Daumery, among others.[3] She appeared in the 1927 epic Napoléon[4] which ran for five and a half hours.

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=104701.html Allociné
  2. http://moviespictures.org/biography/Mussey,_Francine "Mussey, Francine Biography"
  3. http://www.cinema-francais.fr/les_actrices/actrices_M/mussey_francine.htm cinema-francais.fr
  4. http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/127562/francine-mussey "Francine Mussey"