--- name: "Simone Mareuil" canonical: "https://film.one/person/simone-mareuil" fi1m_id: "simone-mareuil" imdb_id: "nm0546540" tmdb_id: 8993 wikidata_id: "Q2529461" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 August 1903" died: "24 October 1954" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T00:07:28.711401+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Simone Mareuil ## Identity Simone Mareuil - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simone-mareuil - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** simone-mareuil - **IMDb ID:** nm0546540 - **TMDB ID:** 8993 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2529461 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Mareuil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529461, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8993 Actor. Born 25 August 1903 in Perigueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. Died 24 October 1954. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 August 1903, Perigueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France - **Died:** 24 October 1954 - **Also known as:** Louise Simone Vacher - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Mareuil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529461, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8993 ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*Un Chien Andalou*](https://film.one/film/un-chien-andalou.md) (83) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Simone Mareuil > One face in one film: the woman in *Un Chien Andalou* who watches the impossible and does not blink. Mareuil was a working ingénue of the French silent screen for the best part of two decades, and that steadiness is most of what survives. Ninety seconds into *Un Chien Andalou* (1929) a man sharpens a razor, looks at the moon, and turns to the woman sitting beside him. The woman is Simone Mareuil, and the film's most famous image is done to her. What follows is a quarter of an hour of wardrobes, hands, a bedroom and Pierre Batcheff, and her job throughout is to react to things that make no sense. She does it with the same steady face for all of them, without flinching and without pushing. We came out shaken by the images, as everyone does, and rather more shaken by her, because she never once looks as though she has been told the joke. That composure was not what she was hired for elsewhere. She began at Gaumont around 1921 in uncredited parts, moved into credited roles from 1924, and spent the rest of the decade as a young woman or a servant in dramas, melodramas and comedies: Céphise in *Le Juif errant* (1926), Rosette in *La Petite Chocolatière* (1927), Lucie in Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein's *Peau de pêche* (1929). Reviewers of the time called her fresh and gamin-like and admired her eyes. Some of the earliest notices, around *Chouchou poids-plume* (1925), found her timid and short on spontaneity, and thought she got better. The interesting thing is that the two verdicts describe one quality. A stillness that reads as shyness in a boxing comedy reads as freshness in a melodrama and, in Buñuel's hands, as nerve. She worked three times each with Benoît-Lévy and Jean Kemm, twice with André Berthomieu and with Epstein, and once with Batcheff, and it is the once that anyone now remembers. She made the crossing into sound, and some accounts single out her Annette in *Le Juif polonais* (1931) as natural, but the parts stayed secondary and by 1939 the career was more or less over. Thirty-odd credits, one lead of any consequence, and that one seventeen minutes long. So the recommendation is narrow and firm. See *Un Chien Andalou*, once, with the lights off, and when you have got past the razor, watch her rather than him. Batcheff leers and rolls his eyes and belongs to a sillier film; Mareuil stands still and belongs to this one. It is a small monument, but most careers of forty films leave nothing that anyone can still watch, and hers left the face that half of film history has been trying to look away from. ## Biography Simone Mareuil (born Marie Louise Simonne Vacher) was a French actress. She was born on 25 August 1903 in Périgueux, Dordogne, and died there on 24 October 1954. She began appearing in films in the early 1920s and took supporting and leading roles through the 1930s. Mareuil is best known for playing the young woman in Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's surrealist short *Un Chien Andalou* (1929). Other credits include *Genêt d'Espagne* (1927), *Peau de pêche* (1929) and *Le Juif polonais* (1931). She was married to actor Philippe Hersent. *Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Un Chien Andalou* (1929), Fi1m 83, as Young Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/un-chien-andalou.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Sur le plancher des vaches* (1940), as Gaby - *Neuf de trèfle* (1938), Actor - *L'Amant de madame Vidal* (1936), Actor - *Mariage à responsabilité limitée* (1934), Actor - *L'héritier du Bal Tabarin* (1933), as Mademoiselle Longuebois - *Miss Helyett* (1933), Actor - *Le Soir des rois* (1933), as Suzanne Lenormand - *Heart of Paris* (1931), as Jeannette Durand - *Polish Jew* (1931), Actor - *Nos maîtres les domestiques* (1930), Actor - *Ces dames aux chapeaux verts* (1929), as Arlette - *Un Chien Andalou* (1929), as Young Girl — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/un-chien-andalou.md) - *Peachskin* (1929), as Lucie, jeune fille - *The Chocolate Girl* (1927), Actor - *Le Juif Errant* (1926), as Céphise - *Jocaste* (1925), as Maîtresse de Fellaire de Sizac - *Mylord l'Arsouille* (1925), as Une grisette (uncredited) - *The Gallery of Monsters* (1924), Actor - *Survivre* (1924), as Servante - *Chichinette et Cie* (1921), as Fille au cabaret --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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