Silent Film French Actress Marie Glory 1905-2009
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Louise Marcelle Toully, was a French actress.
She was born in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy. Along with Doris
Eaton Travis, Miriam Seegar, Dorothy Janis and Barbara Kent, she is
one of the last living silent film actors who had lead roles as an
adult. She made her film debut in 1924 with a small role in Raymond
Bernard's historical epic Le Miracle des Loups under the stage name
"Arlette Genny", which she used until 1927.
From then on, she was credited under the name "Marie Glory". In the
more than three-hour French-German co-production L'Argent (1928),
directed by Marcel L'Herbier, she played the lead female role
alongside Brigitte Helm and Pierre Alcover. She starred with Jean
Angelo, Lil Dagover and Gaston Modot in another French-German co-
production, Henri Fescourt's The Count of Monte Cristo. She made her
German film debut in 1929 in Vater und Sohn, directed by Géza von
Bolváry.
Her first talking picture was Leo Mittler's Le Roi de Paris (1930), co-
starring with the exiled Serbian actor Ivan Petrovich. In the 1930s,
she played predominantly leading roles in such films as Les Deux
mondes, directed by Ewald André Dupont, and Madame ne veut pas
d'enfants, directed by Hans Steinhoff. In 1939, she had her last
leading role. She made only one film in the 1940s, 1943's Dagli
Appennini alle Ande.
In the early 1950s, she was cast in Italian film productions playing
minor roles. Her last film appearance was in 1960; her last television
appearance was in 1964.
In the mid-1990s,[clarification needed] she was interviewed for Kevin
Brownlow's documentary about the history of silent film: Cinema
Europe: The Other Hollywood.