Barbara Laage

After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II, Laage returned to the city after the war and commenced her acting career in the Paris theatre district of Montparnasse.{{Cite news|date=3 June 1946|title=Busy French Girl|magazine=LIFE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0oEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Barbara+Laage&pg=PA105}}

Her first move to Hollywood was arranged by theatrical agent William Morris, founder of the William Morris Agency.{{Cite news|date=2 September 1946|title=French Swim Suit|magazine=LIFE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Barbara+Laage&pg=PA112}} She is one of several Hollywood stars of the era that would frequent the Chateau Marmont.{{Cite book|last1=Sarlot|first1=Raymond|title=Life at the Marmont|last2=Basten|first2=Fred E.|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|year=2013|isbn=9781101598696}}

She was the first choice for the lead role in the Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai, though the part was eventually awarded to Rita Hayworth.{{Cite book|last=Mell|first=Eila|title=Casting Might-Have-Beens|publisher=Macfarland Incorporated|year=2005|isbn=9780786420179|pages=140}}{{Cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|title=Have You Seen...?|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|year=2008|isbn=9780141926582}}

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• Signé illisible (1942)
• B.F.'s Daughter (1948) - Eugenia Taris
• The Red Rose (1951) - Claire Claris - la photographe
• The Respectful Prostitute (1952) - Lizzie Mac-Kay - chanteuse entraîneuse
• The Slave (1953) - Anne-Marie 'Fétiche'
• Traviata '53 (1953) - Rita
• Act of Love (1953) - Nina
• Zoé (1954) - Zoé
• Quay of Blondes (1954) - Barbara
• A Parisian in Rome (1954) - Germaine, la Parigina
• Nagana (1955) - Geneviève Larguillière
• The Adventures of Gil Blas (1956) - Antonia Caldera
• Guilty? (1956) - Jaqueline Delbois
• Les Assassins du dimanche (1956) - Simone Simonet
• The Happy Road (1957) - Suzanne Duval
• Action immédiate (1957) - Hiedi Effen
• Deuxième Bureau contre inconnu (1957) - Mariana
• Miss Pigalle (1958) - Yvonne Pigalle
• Un mundo para mí (1959) - Isabelle
• Ce soir on tue (1959) - Nelly
• Orientalische Nächte (1960) - Arlette
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960) - Olga
• Le caïd (1960) - Rita
• Ça va être ta fête (1960) - Michèle Laurent
• Paris Blues (1961) (with Paul Newman) - Marie Séoul
• Le captif (1962) - Sylvie Hamelin
• Portuguese Vacation (1963) - Barbara
• The Crime of Aldeia Velha (1964) - Joana
• O Corpo Ardente (1966) - Marcia
• Drôle de jeu (1968) - Mathilde
• Therese and Isabelle (1968) - Thérèse's mother
• Bed and Board (1970) - Monique, la secrétaire
• Défense de savoir (1973) - Mme Christiani
• Projection privée (1973) - Madeleine

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