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A Woman Of No Importance (1937 Film)
''A Woman of No Importance'' (french: Une femme sans importance) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Jean Choux and starring Pierre Blanchar, Lisette Lanvin and Marguerite Templey.Bessy & Chirat p.268 It is an adaptation of the 1893 play ''A Woman of No Importance'' by Oscar Wilde. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. The film was made by the French subsidiary of Tobis Film, which had made a German adaption of the story the previous year. Main cast * Pierre Blanchar as Lord Illingworth * Lisette Lanvin as Hester * Marguerite Templey as Lady Hustanton * Gilbert Gil as Gerald * Catherine Fonteney as Lady Patricia * Charles Granval as Le pasteur * Jean Périer as Lord Illingworth père * Laure Diana as Caroline * Line Noro as Sylvia * Jean Tissier Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Choux
Jean Choux (1887–1946) was a French/Swiss film director and producer born in Geneva. Filmography * '' La Vocation d'André Carel'' (1925) * '' La Terre qui meurt'' (1926) * '' Le Baiser qui tue'' (1927) * '' Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes'' (1928, actor) * '' Chacun porte sa croix'' (1929) * '' La servante'' (1929) * '' Amours viennoises'' (1930) * '' Un chien qui rapporte'' (1931) * '' Jean de la Lune'' (1931) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1932) * '' L'Ange gardien'' (1933) * '' La Banque Nemo'' (1934) * '' Le Greluchon délicat'' (1934) * '' Maternité'' (1934) * ''Paris'' (1936) * '' Une femme sans importance'' (1937) * ''La Glu'' (1937) * '' Miarka'' (1937) *'' Café du port'' (1938) *'' Paix sur le Rhin'' (1938) *''Rose de sang'' (1939) * ''Angelica'' (1939) *''La Naissance de Salomé'' (1942) *''Port d'attache'' (1942) * ''The Lost Woman ''The Lost Woman'' (Spanish: ''La mujer perdida'') is a 1966 drama film directed by Tulio Demicheli and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobis Film
Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company. Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as a leading German sound studio. Tobis used the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system under the Tobis-Klang trade name. The Ufa production company had separate rights to the Tobis system, which it used under the trade name of Ufa-Klang. Some Tobis films were released in Germany by the subsidiary Europa Film. Its principal production studios were the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. During the Nazi era, Tobis was one of the four major film companies along with Terra Film, Bavaria Film and UFA. In 1942 all these companies were merged into a single state-controlled industry bringing an end to Tobis' independent existence, though films continued to be released under the Tobis banner. International operations From 1933 until 1938, Tobis controlled the dominant Austrian producer Sascha- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Jean Choux
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s French-language Films
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1937 Drama Films
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French Drama Films
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1937 Films
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''The Good Earth'' premieres in the U.S. * April 16 – '' Way Out West'' premieres in the US. * May 7 – ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US. * May 11 – ''Captains Courageous'' premieres in New York. The film is released nationwide on June 25. * Monogram Pictures, who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again. * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaratan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. * June 11 – '' A Day at the Races'' premieres in the U.S. * July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tissier
Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Bureaucrats'' (1936) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) * '' I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * ''Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''Night in December'' (1940) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''Romance of Paris'' (1941) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' The Acrobat'' (1941) * '' The Murderer Lives at Number 21'' (1942) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) * ''Adrien'' (1943) * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Noro
Line Noro (22 February 1900 – 4 November 1985) was a French stage and film actress.Hayward p.172 During the 1930s she played glamorous, often exotic, women in films such as ''Pépé le Moko''. Between 1945 and 1966 Noro was a member of the Comédie Française. She was married to the film director André Berthomieu. Selected filmography * ''The Divine Voyage'' (1929) * ''Montmartre'' (1931) * '' La Tête d'un homme'' (1933) * '' Little Jacques'' (1934) * '' The Flame'' (1936) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * ''Ramuntcho'' (1938) * '' Street Without Joy'' (1938) * '' The Well-Digger's Daughter'' (1940) * '' The Secret of Madame Clapain'' (1943) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) * '' La Fiancée des ténèbres'' (1945) * ''Girl with Grey Eyes'' (1945) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * ''Pastoral Symphony The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the ''Pastoral Symphony'' (German: ''Pastorale''), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laure Diana
Laure Diana (1897–1980) was a French film actress.St. Pierre p.205 Selected filmography * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''The Tender Enemy'' (1936) * '' Wolves Between Them'' (1936) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1937) * ''Three Waltzes'' (1938) * ''The Beautiful Trip ''The Beautiful Trip'' (French: ''Le beau voyage'') is a 1947 French drama film directed by Louis Cuny and starring Renée Saint-Cyr, Pierre Richard-Willm and André Valmy.The A to Z of French Cinema p. 374 The film's sets were designed by the a ...'' (1947) References Bibliography * St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. ''E.A. Dupont and his Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge, Piccadilly, Atlantic, Two Worlds, Cape Forlorn''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. External links * 1897 births 1980 deaths French film actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French women {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Périer
Jean (Alexis) Périer (2 February 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French operatic baryton-martin and actor. Although he sang principally within the operetta repertoire, Périer did portray a number of opera roles; mostly within operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giacomo Puccini. His career was almost entirely centered in Paris and he had a long association with the Opéra-Comique. He sang in a large number of world premieres, most notably originating the role of Pelléas in Debussy's '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' in 1902. In addition to his opera career, Périer appeared in several films between 1900 and 1938. Biography Jean Périer was born in Paris, the son of Belgian parents. His father was an opera singer and repetiteur. After initially working at the Credit Lyonnais,Gänzl K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. he became a pupil of Émile-Alexandre Taskin (opéra comique) and Romain Bussine (singing) at the Paris Conservatoire, winning firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Granval
Charles Granval (born Charles Louis Gribouval; December 21, 1882 – July 28, 1943) was a French stage and film actor.Macdonald p.244 He was Jean-Pierre Granval's father. Selected filmography * ''Golgotha'' (1935) * ''La belle équipe'' (1936) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * ''The Terrible Lovers'' (1936) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1937) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''White Cargo'' (1937) * '' The End of the Day'' (1939) * ''First Ball'' (1941) * ''La Nuit fantastique'' (1942) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) References Bibliography * Nicholas Macdonald Nicholas Gardiner Macdonald (born October 22, 1944) is an American author and filmmaker (as Nick Macdonald) who made several independent films during the 1970s, including ''Break Out!'' (1971) and ''The Liberal War'' (1974). His book ''In Search .... ''In Search of La Grande Illusion: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir's Elusive Masterpiece'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
