Paule Emanuele

Paule Emanuele
Born
Paule-Marie Christophe

(1927-05-14) 14 May 1927 (age 97)
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Occupations
  • Actress
  • voice actress
Years active1951–present
Known forThe French version voice of Elizabeth Taylor and Lois Maxwell
SpouseJean-Claude Michel (died 1999)
Children3
RelativesFrançoise Christophe (sister)

Paule-Marie Christophe (born 14 May 1927) is a French actress, voice actress and comedian. Her voice was used in several animated and live-actions films to dub actresses that included Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall and Lois Maxwell.[1]

Life and career

Emanuele was born on 1927 in Fontenay-aux-Roses. She began her career on stage playing in various dramas[2] by greats dramaturges like Jean Marsan, Noël Coward, Diego Fabbri etc.[3] She appeared in cinema playing supporting roles in movies such as Desperate Decision (1952), The Soft Skin (1964)[4] and The Weeding Ring (1971).[5]

Later she began dubbing foreign films in the French language,[6] of which the most well-known was actress Lois Maxwell in the role of Miss Moneypenny in all the James Bond film series. Other different names that she has dubbed have been Elizabeth Taylor in The Blue Bird, Boom!, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Night Watch. Shelley Winters in Bloody Mama, A Patch of Blue. Lauren Bacall in Sex and the Single Girl and Harper.[7]

For Disney classic animated films[8] she voice Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland,[9] Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp,[10] Flora in Sleeping Beauty[11] and Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound (1981).[12]

Personal life

She was the younger sister of actress Françoise Christophe.[13] She married French actor Jean-Claude Michel until his death in 1999.[14] They had three children.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20970-1.
  2. ^ Ortmayer, Roger; Schillaci, Peter P. (1973). Three European Directors: François Truffaut. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-1504-0.
  3. ^ L'Avant-scène: Théâtre (in French). L'Avant-scène. 1967.
  4. ^ Monaco, James (2004). The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette. UNET 2 Corporation. ISBN 978-0-9707039-5-8.
  5. ^ Baudou, Jacques (1997). Radio mystères: le théâtre radiophonique policier, fantastique et de science-fiction (in French). Encrage. ISBN 978-2-906389-80-9.
  6. ^ Foreign Films: A Guide to Nearly 500 Films on Videocassette by Foreign Directors. CineBooks. 1989. ISBN 978-0-933997-22-6.
  7. ^ "Doublagissimo !". buffy.free.fr. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  8. ^ Renaut, Christian (1997). Disney: de Blanche-Neige à Hercule : 28 longs métrages d'animation des Studios Disney (in French). Dreamland. ISBN 978-2-910027-19-3.
  9. ^ Carroll, Lewis (2009-01-01). Alice in Wonderland. The Floating Press. ISBN 978-1-877527-81-4.
  10. ^ Lavigne, Guillaume de (2015-02-16). LES CHIENS CELEBRES, Réels et Fictifs, dans l'Art, la Culture et l'Histoire (in French). Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-326-03565-5.
  11. ^ Perrault, Charles (2014-05-20). Sleeping Beauty (Original Text with Classic Illustrations). Hythloday Press. ISBN 978-0-692-22461-8.
  12. ^ Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2015). Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05243-1.
  13. ^ Femina-illustration (in French). 1956.
  14. ^ Baudou, Jacques (1997). Radio mystères: le théâtre radiophonique policier, fantastique et de science-fiction (in French). Encrage. ISBN 978-2-906389-80-9.
  15. ^ Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier (2004-03-31). French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-8264-1600-1.
  16. ^ Rège, Philippe (2009-12-11). Encyclopedia of French Film Directors (in French). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6939-4.
  17. ^ Goble, Alan (2011-09-08). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
  18. ^ Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017-02-28). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2704-5.
  19. ^ Monaco, James (1992). The Movie Guide. Perigee Books. ISBN 978-0-399-51780-8.
  20. ^ Grant, Kevin (2022-11-29). Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-4581-0.