Biography
Maximilienne, born Henriette Adeline Genty, was a French stage and film actress. She appeared in supporting roles from the silent era into the late 1950s, often portraying spinsters, authority figures or eccentric older women.
She made her screen debut in 1925 and went on to work with directors including René Clair and Marcel Pagnol. Notable credits include À Nous la Liberté (1931), The Baker's Wife (1938) as Melle Angèle, The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) as Miss Cuq and Monsieur Vincent (1947). Later in her career she played the comic foil to Fernand Raynaud.
