Marcelle Chantal

Marcelle Chantal
Born	(1901-02-09)9 February 1901 Paris, France
Died	11 March 1960(1960-03-11) (aged 59) Paris, France
Other names	Marcelle Jenny Chantal Pannier
Occupation(s)	Film actress Stage actress
Years active	1920–1950 (film)
Spouse	Jefferson Davis Cohn ​ ​ (m. 1921;died 1951)​

Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) was a French stage and film actress. Chantal appeared in a number of leading roles in films such as Maurice Tourneur's In the Name of the Law (1932). ^[1] Early in her career she married British banker Jefferson Davis Cohn and was billed as Marcelle Jefferson-Cohn. She was the daughter of Georges Favrel. ^[2]

Selected filmography

• Le Carnaval des vérités (1920)
• The Queen's Necklace (1929)
• Tenderness (1930)
• The Indictment (1931)
• The Devil's Holiday (1931)
• In the Name of the Law (1932)
• The Orderly (1933)
• Amok (1934)
• Antonia (1935)
• The Phantom Gondola (1936)
• Nitchevo (1936)
• A Romance in Flanders (1937)
• Widow's Island (1937)
• The Lafarge Case (1938)
• Rasputin (1938)
• Girls in Distress (1939)
• Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949)
• Julie de Carneilhan (1950)
• Chéri (1950)

References

1. Waldman, Harry (2008). Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland. pp. 144–145. ISBN   978-0-7864-4085-6.
2. The Sketch, 2 April 1924, p.7. (In the caption to a full-page photograph of her).

External links

• Marcelle Chantal at IMDb