Jane Marken

Jane Marken (born Jeanne Berthe Adolphine Crabbe, sometimes credited as Jeanne Marken, 13 January 1895, Paris 10th arrondissement – 1 December 1976, Paris 4th arrondissement) was a French actress. She was the first wife of the actor Jules Berry.
Marken began her film career under the aegis of Abel Gance in 1915. She made several films with Marcel Carné including Hotel du Nord (1938), and as Madame Hermine, the hotelier (a comic role) in Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). She also appeared in films of Julien Duvivier, Jacques Becker, Sacha Guitry, Renoir's Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country 1936), Yves Allégret's Une si jolie petite plage (1949) and Manèges (1950), Dr. Knock (1951), The Turkey (1951), and in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman (1956). Her last appearance was in L'Humeur vagabonde (1971), directed by Édouard Luntz.

Selected filmography

• Court Waltzes (La guerre des valses, 1933)
• Lady Killer (Gueule d'amour, 1937)
• Three Waltzes (Les trois valses, 1938)
• The Marvelous Night (La nuit merveilleuse, 1940)
• Love Eternal (L'Éternel retour, 1943)
• Adrien (1943)
• The Idiot (L'idiot, 1946)
• Night Warning (Nuits d'alerte, 1946)
• The Ladies in the Green Hats (Ces dames aux chapeaux verts, 1949)
• The Passerby (La Passante, 1951)
• Dr. Knock (Knock, 1951)
• Mister Taxi (Monsieur Taxi, 1952)
• Companions of the Night (Les Compagnes de la nuit, 1952)
• The Man in My Life (L'Homme de ma vie, 1952)
• Crazy for Love (Le Trou normand, 1952)
• Captain Pantoufle (Capitaine Pantoufle, 1953)