Francine Mussey

{{Short description|French actress (1897–1933)}}

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| name = Francine Mussey

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|10|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paris, Île-de-France, France

| birthname = Marcelle Fromholt

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|3|23|1897|10|6|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, Île-de-France, France

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1920–1932

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Francine Mussey (6 October 1897 – 23 March 1933)[http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=104701.html Allociné] Retrieved 11 April 2016. was a French film actress whose career began in the silent film era of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by ingesting poison at age 35.[http://moviespictures.org/biography/Mussey,_Francine "Mussey, Francine Biography"]. Movies.Pics. Retrieved 18 May 2017.

Mussey was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris as Marcelle Fromholt in 1897. She made her debut in the 1920 Lucien Lehmann-directed film L'épave, opposite actors Marcel Bonneau and Jean-François Martial. She would go on to appear in a number of films throughout the 1920s and into the sound film era of the early 1930s directed by Louis Feuillade, Gaston Ravel, Alexandre Ryder and Jean Daumery, among others.[http://www.cinema-francais.fr/les_actrices/actrices_M/mussey_francine.htm cinema-francais.fr] Retrieved 11 April 2016. She appeared in the 1927 epic Napoléon[http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/127562/francine-mussey "Francine Mussey"]. Unifrance.org, Retrieved 12 April 2016 which ran for five and a half hours.