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Irène Bordoni filmography

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This is a list of movies with singer Irène Bordoni.

Silent movies

Poster for Paris. Irène Bodoni's first talkie.
Title Year Color Role Notes
Pierrot aime les roses (short) 1910 Black and White Role unknown Irène Bordoni's first film. Unknown if a copy survives.
Le club des élégants (short) 1912 Black and White Role unknown Unknown if a copy survives.
La légende des tulipes d'or (short) 1912 Black and White Role unknown Unknown if a copy survives.
Le miracle des fleurs (short) 1912 Black and White Role unknown Unknown if a copy survives.
Le secret du châtelain (short) 1914 Black and White Role unknown Unknown if a copy survives.
Le traquenard (short) 1915 Black and White Role unknown Unknown if a copy survives.

Talking movies

Sheet music for The Show of Shows (1929).

In 1929 Irène Bordoni made 2 movies with Warner Bros. Paris and The Show of Shows, but Warner Bros. saw her one movie Paris wasn't grossing that much so they decided to stop making movies with her so she continued making few movies with small roles, but never made it to be a big star.

Title Year Color Role Notes
Paris 1929 Black and White, part color (Technicolor) Vivienne Rolland Irène Bordoni's first sound movie (Vitaphone). Also her first of second movies with The Warner Brothers. This is today a lost film with only the surviving sound disc.
The Show of Shows 1929 Black and White, part color (Technicolor) Herself Her second and last movie with Warner Bros.. Only survives in black and white except The Chinese Fantasy Scene introduced by Rin Tin Tin with Nick Lucas and Myrna Loy. Irène Bordoni's scene was in Technicolor.
Just a Gigalo (cartoon short) 1932 Black and White Herself Betty Boop cartoon. Cartoon still survives and is not a lost film.
Du Barry Did All Right (short) 1937 Black and White Irene Wainwright A Vitaphone short.
Louisiana Purchase 1941 Black and White Madame Yvonne Bordelaise Bordoni was 4th billed, the movie starred Bob Hope.

See also

Sound-on-disc