Trivia

Used the stage name Arlette Genny until 1927.

She made only one film in the 1940s, Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943). During this time, she moved to Algeria, and then Martinique, where she worked in propaganda radio.

She made her German film debut in 1929 in Father and Son, directed by Géza von Bolváry.

Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully was born on 3 March 1905 at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy. Her father was a hairdresser, whilst her mother was a painter.

When she was still an infant, the family moved to Rouen, where Toully studied at the Lycée Jeanne d'Arc.

She made her film debut in 1924 with a small role in Raymond Bernard's historical epic Le Miracle des Loups under the stage name Arlette Genny, which she used until 1927.

At the age of 18, Toully moved to Paris, where she began attending dance classes.

In 1939, she had her last leading role. Her last film appearance was in 1960; her last television appearance was in 1964.

In the three hours plus French-German co-production L'Argent (1928), directed by Marcel L'Herbier, she played the lead female role alongside Brigitte Helm and Pierre Alcover.

In the 1930s, she played predominantly leading roles in such films as Les Deux mondes, directed by Ewald André Dupont, and Madame ne veut pas d'enfants, directed by Hans Steinhoff.

Her first talking picture was Leo Mittler's Le Roi de Paris (1930), co-starring with the exiled Serbian actor Ivan Petrovich.

In Paris, she entered the first of many beauty contests, winning second place and her first professional job, working as a model, posing for postcards and posters.

In the early 1950s, she was cast in Italian film productions playing minor roles.

In the mid-1990s, she was interviewed for Kevin Brownlow's documentary about the history of silent film: Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood.

She starred with Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, and Gaston Modot in the French-German co-production, Henri Fescourt's Monte Cristo.