Ketti Gallian was a French

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 actress, born 25 December 1912 in Nice

Nice

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, France

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 and died December 1972, aged 59 in Paris

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, France

She went to Paris at the age of 15 and secured work as a mannequin. She later went back to Nice and appeared in a number of foreign films made by Paramount

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Her performance in The Ace in which she played opposite Raymond Massey

Raymond Massey

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 on the London

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 stage resulted in a screen contract from Fox

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. However she never managed to make a big success of acting in America

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, so returned to France.

Partial filmography

• With Assurance 1932
• George White's Scandals
  George White's Scandals
  George White's Scandals were a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919–1939, modelled after the Ziegfeld Follies. The "Scandals" launched the careers of many entertainers, including W.C. Fields, the Three Stooges, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Ethel Merman, ...
  
  1934
• Marie Galante 1934
• Espionage
  Espionage
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  1937
• Mademoiselle X 1945
• Du Guesclin 1949
• Agnes de Rien 1950
• Soupcons
  Soupçons
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  1956