- 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.
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