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Home > Gallery > Cinema > Second Empire > 1923-1940



Discover a world of films dedicated to the Second Empire.

For the detailed file, click on the underlined title.

 1923-1940

 1924

•  Mademoiselle Minuit (American, by Robert Z. Leonard, with Mae Murray; Paul Weigel in the role of Napoleon III and Clarissa Selwynne as the Empress Eugénie)

 1927

•  Bismarck (German, by Ernst Wendt; Franz Ludwig in the role of Bismarck and Léontina Künhberg as the Empress Eugénie)

 1929

•  Disraeli (English, by Alfred E. Green with George Arliss)
•  La Païva (American, by D.W. Griffith with Lupe Velez in the role of la Païva and Albert Conti as baron Finot)

 1932

•  Violettes impériales / Imperial Violets (French, by Henry Roussell with Raquel Meller, Suzanne Bianchetti in the role of the Empress Eugénie and E. Drain as Napoleon III)
•  Fanatisme (French, by Gaston Ravel and Tony Lekain, with Pola Negri, Lucien Rosenberg in the role of Napoleon III and Andrée Lafayette as the Empress)
•  Moi et l'Impératrice / The Empress and I (French, by Friedrich Holländer and Paul Martin, with Pierre Stephen in the role of Napoleon III and Danièle Brégis as the Empress)

 1933

•  1860 (Italian, by Alessandro Blasetti)

 1935

•  La vie de Louis Pasteur / The life of Louis Pasteur (by William Dieterle with Paul Muni in the role of Pasteur, Walter Kingsford as Napoléon III and Iphigénie Castiglioni in the role of the Empress)

 1936

•  The charge of the light brigade (English, by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn as Major Geoffrey Vickers)
•  The Spy of Napoleon (by Maurice Elvey with Richard Barthelmess, Frenk Vosper in the role of Napoleon III and Joyce Bland in the role of the Empress)

 1937

•  Les Perles de la Couronne / The jewels in the crown (French, by Sacha Guitry and Christian-Jacque, with Guitry in the role of Napoleon III)
•  Queen Victoria (English, by Herbert Wilcox, with Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook)
•  Spring song (American, by Robert Z. Leonard with Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Guy Bates Bost in the role of Napoleon III and Iphigénie Castiglioni in the role of the Empress)

 1938

•  Remontons les Champs-Elysées / Let's go down the Champs-Elysées (French, by Sacha Guitry with Guitry in the role of Napoleon III)
•  Verwehte Spuren / Gone without trace (German, by Veit Harlan, with Kristina Söderbaum)
•  Suez (American, by Allan Dwan with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young in the role of the Empress Eugénie and Leon Ames as Napoleon III)
•  Trois Valses / Three waltzes (French, by Ludwig Berger with Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Printemps and Maxudian in the role of Napoleon III)

 1939

•  Juarez (American, by William Dieterle with Paul Muni, Bette Davis in the role of Charlotte, Brian Aherne in the role of Maxilimien and Claude Rains as Napoleon III)

 1940

•  Bismarck (German, by Wolfgang Liebeneiner with Paul Hartmann, Lil Dagover in the role of the Empress Eugénie and Walter Franck as Napoleon III)
•  The Mad Empress (American, by Miguel Contreras Torres with Conrad Nagel, Lionel Atwill in the role of Bazaine, Evelyne Brent in the role of the Empress Eugénie and Guy Bates Bost as Napoleon III)
•  A Reuter's wire (American, by William Dieterle with Edward G. Robinson and Walter Kingsford in the role of Napoleon III)

Filmography taken from the Dictionnaire Napoléon (1999) "Napoléon au cinéma"
Philippe d'Hugues pp. 441-43.


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