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André Randall
André Randall (9 December 1892 – 4 July 1974) was a French screen actor. He was born André Ayaïs in Bordeaux and died at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande. Filmography *1919: ''The Odds Against Her'' (directed by Alexander Butler) *1931: '' Mistigri'' (directed by Harry Lachmann) *1935: '' L'Heureuse Aventure'' (directed by Jean Georgescu) - Joe Wilkins - le pasteur *1943: '' The Butler's Dilemma'' (directed by Leslie S. Hiscott) - Vitello *1944: ''English Without Tears'' (directed by Harold French) - Dutch Officer *1945: ''The Man from Morocco'' (directed by Mutz Greenbaum) - French General * 1948: '' Mademoiselle Has Fun'' (directed by Jean Boyer) - William Gibson * 1948: '' The Lame Devil'' (directed by Sacha Guitry) - Lord Grey *1951: ''Monsieur Fabre'' (directed by Henri Diamant-Berger) - Le philosophe John Stuart Mill *1951: ''Atoll K'' (directed by Léo Joannon) - Branwell *1957: ''Les Lavandières du Portugal'' (directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit) - Antoine Molinié *1960: ''Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ''"Bordelais"'' (masculine) or ''"Bordelaises"'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 260,958 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , With its 27 suburban municipalities it forms the Bordeaux Metropolis, in charge of metropolitan issues. With a population of 814,049 at the Jan. 2019 census. it is the fifth most populated in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille and ahead of Toulouse. Together with its suburbs and exurbs, except satellite cities of Arcachon and Libourne, the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,363,711 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Morocco
''The Man from Morocco'' is a 1945 British action adventure film directed by Mutz Greenbaum as Max Greene and starring Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott andMary Morris. The film was shot at Welwyn Studios of Associated British. Plot A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns to London to find his lover believes him to be dead and that she is being pursued by his deadliest enemy. Cast * Anton Walbrook as Karel Langer * Margaretta Scott as Manuela de Roya * Mary Morris as Sarah Duboste * Reginald Tate as Captain Ricardi * Peter Sinclair as Jock * David Horne as Doctor Duboste * Hartley Power as Colonel Bagley * Sybille Binder as Erna * Charles Victor as Bourdille * Joseph Almas as Franz * Carl Jaffe as German General * Orlando Martins as Jeremiah Crew * Director: Max Greene * Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation * Producer: Warwick Ward * Unit Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (29 November 1917 – 1 May 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film '' Shéhérazade'', which starred Anna Karina. He was once married to actress Claudine Auger when she was 18, and he was 41 years old.Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul, ''Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers (2002), p. 46 She acted in several of his films. Filmography * '' La Vie tragique d'Utrillo'' (1949) * '' L'Herbe à la Reyne'' (1951) * '' La Fugue de Monsieur Perle'' (1952) (co-directed with Roger Richebé) * ''The Little Czar'' (1954) * '' Sophie et le Crime'' (1955) * '' Maid in Paris'' (1956) * ''The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful'' (1956) * ''Les Lavandières du Portugal'' (1957) * ''Christine'' (1958) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1961) * '' Shéhérazade'' (1963) * ''Gibraltar'' (1964) * ''Living It Up'' (1966) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1968) (co-directed with Jean Dréville and Serg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Lavandières Du Portugal
''Les Lavandières du Portugal'' (''The Washerwomen of Portugal'') is a 1957 French film comedy directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit. It was produced by Les Films Univers, Société Pathé Cinéma and Suevia Films (Madrid), distributed by Pathé Consortium and developed by Laboratoire Franay L.T.C Saint-Cloud with montage by LAX. It was shot between 2 May and 6 June 1957 and released on 23 August that year. Plot Two companies are in fierce competition to carry out the publicity for the new American 'Floc' washing machine, with two teams led by Jean-François and Catherine. They both go to Portugal to try to tempt a jolly washerwoman to come to Paris to take part in the launch and both teams try to eliminate the competition. Catherine manages to find a suitable candidate, Mariana, but Jean-François manages to get her to follow him to Paris by offering to marry her. Crew * Director : Pierre Gaspard-Huit * Director (Spanish version) : Ramon Torrado * Screenplay: Jean Marsan, Madeleine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries. Events * February 1 – RKO ceases domestic distribution of feature films which is taken over by Universal Pictures. * May – Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'' wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. * June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in his first film without Dean Martin in ''The Delicate Delinquent''. * June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied ''The Man With the Golden Arm'' a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Joannon
Léo Joannon (21 August 1904 – 28 March 1969) was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman. Career Joannon first attracted international attention in early 1939 during the production of ''S.O.S. Mediterranean,'' when his attempts to include shots of a German naval ship docked in the port of Tangier created a diplomatic incident between the pre-World War II French and German governments. The film later won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. Joannon is best known to international audiences as the director of the comedy film ''Atoll K'' (1951), which was the final motion picture starring the legendary comedic double act Laurel and Hardy. Among his other better-known films were ''The Unfrocked One, Le Defroqué'' (1954) and ''Fort du Fou'' (''Outpost in Indochina)'' (1962). Joannon died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Selected filmogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atoll K
''Atoll K'' is a 1951 Franco-Italian international co-production, co-production film—also known as ''Robinson Crusoeland'' in the United Kingdom and ''Utopia'' in the United States – which starred the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in their final screen appearance. The film co-stars French singer/actress Suzy Delair and was directed by Léo Joannon, with uncredited co-direction by Hollywood blacklist, blacklisted U.S. director John Berry (film director), John Berry. Plot Stan learns that he is to receive an inheritance left by a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, most of the inheritance is consumed by taxes and legal fees, and he is left with only a rickety but fully provisioned yacht and a private island in the Pacific Ocean. Stan and Ollie leave for the island, accompanied by Statelessness, stateless refugee Antoine (Max Elloy) and stowaway Giovanni Copini, a malcontent Italy, Italian bricklayer (Adriano Rimoldi). On the voyage, the friendly Antoine acts as chef, but the food myste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Diamant-Berger
Henri Diamant-Berger (9 June 1895 – 7 May 1972) was a French director, producer and screenwriter. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he directed 48 films between 1913 and 1959, produced 17 between 1925 and 1967 and wrote 21 screenplays between 1916 and 1971. Biography Born in Paris, to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer but was drawn to the motion picture business. He began his career when he co-directed the 1913 silent film short ''De film... en aiguilles'' with André Heuzé. In addition to writing screenplays, during the period from 1916 to 1919, Diamant-Berger also published and edited a film magazine and books about the movies. In 1918, he was hired by Pathé and sent to the United States to help set up the company's film laboratory at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Upon his return to France, Pathé had him set up a laboratory in Vincennes, as well as organize a film studio in Boulogne-Billancourt. In 1921, Diamant-Berger directed the film serial ''Les Trois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Fabre
''Monsieur Fabre'' (''Mr Fabre'') is a 90-minute black and white French film comedy from 1951, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and produced by Diamant-Berger and Walter Futter. It was on 35mm film, in 1,37:1 format, with monophonic sound. It was released in France on 5 July 1951. Plot It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, ''Souvenirs entomologiques''. Crew * Director : Henri Diamant-Berger * Screenplay : Henri Diamant-Berger and Jack Kirkland * Adaptation and dialogue : Henri Diamant-Berger and Jack Kirkland * Sets : Robert Giordani * Costumes : Rosine Delamare * Photography : Clau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Film
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine ''Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's '' Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lame Devil (film)
''The Lame Devil'' (UK: ''The Devil Who Limped'';Tertiary sources: BFI, ''The Lame Devil''. original title: ', French for "the devil with a limp") is a 1948 French black-and-white historical film written and directed by Sacha Guitry. A biography of the titular French diplomat Talleyrand (1754–1838), it stars Guitry in the lead role. Originally forbidden by the French censor and turned into a play, the film went on to be released into six languages. Film Description The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron. The movie is often noted for its opening sequence: after showing the birthpla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
