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Antoine And Antoinette
''Antoine and Antoinette'' (french: Antoine et Antoinette) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Jacques Becker. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis Antoine and Antoinette are a working class family living and working in Paris. He is employed in a printing press and she in a department store. The couple are poor, but have many friends. However Antoine is jealous of the attention paid to the vivacious Antoinette by other men, despite the fact she is devoted to him. An apparent lottery win seems to have solved their financial problems, until Antoine loses the winning ticket on the Paris Metro. Main cast * Roger Pigaut as Antoine Moulin * Claire Mafféi as Antoinette Moulin * Noël Roquevert as Mr. Roland * Gaston Modot as civil servant * Made Siamé as the shopkeeper's wife * Pierre Trabaud as Riton * Jacques Meyran as M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement. Biography Born in Paris, Becker was from an upper-middle-class background. His father Louis Becker, from Lorraine, was corporate director for Fulmen, a battery manufacturer; his mother, Margaret Burns, of Scottish and Irish descent, managed a fashion house in rue Cambon near Chanel in Paris. He was educated at the Lycées Condorcet and Carnot and then at the École Bréguet. Becker was reluctant to pursue a business career like his father and at the age of 18 he went to New York. On a transatlantic liner he met the film director King Vidor who offered him a job but Becker turned it down. Back in France Becker developed a friendship with Jean Renoir, whom he had first met in 1921 through their mutual acqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottery
A lottery is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments. The most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors, and vendors must be licensed to sell lottery tickets. Although lotteries were common in the United States and some other countries during the 19th century, by the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling, including lotteries and sweepstakes, were illegal in the U.S. and most of Europe as well as many other countries. This remained so until well after World War II. In the 1960s, casinos and lotteries began to re-appear throughout the world as a means for governments to raise revenue without raising taxes. Lotteries come in many formats. For example, the prize can be a fixed amount of cash or goods. In this format, there is risk t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Films
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, ''It Happened on Fifth Avenue''. *May 22 – ''Great Expectations'' is premiered in New York. *August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival. *November 24 – The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten". *November 25 – The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry that marks the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Comedy Films
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solved. * January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of France. * January 19 – Ferry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Poivre
Annette Poivre (24 June 1917 – 2 June 1988) was a French stage and film actress.Hayward p.241 She was married to the actor Raymond Bussières with whom she sometimes co-starred. Poivre was noted for her comic performances. Selected filmography * ''Premier rendez-vous'' (1941) * '' I Am with You'' (1943) * ''The White Waltz'' (1943) * '' Alone in the Night'' (1945) * ''The Ideal Couple'' (1946) * ''Devil and the Angel'' (1946) * '' Copie conforme'' (1947) *'' Rumours'' (1947) * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) * '' Mademoiselle Has Fun'' (1948) * ''Fandango'' (1949) * ''Five Red Tulips'' (1949) * '' Branquignol'' (1949) * ''I Like Only You'' (1949) * '' Street Without a King'' (1950) * '' The Passerby'' (1951) * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) * ''Moumou'' (1951) * ''My Wife, My Cow and Me'' (1952) * ''Soyez les bienvenus'' (1953) * ''Le Chevalier de la nuit'' (1953) * ''The Lottery of Happiness'' (1953) * ''The Enchanting Enemy'' (1953) * ''My Brother from Senegal'' (1953) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Drain
Émile Drain (1890–1966) was a French actor and comedian. In 1925, he starred as Napoleon with Gloria Swanson in '' Madame Sans-Gene''. In 1927 he played ''Napoleon'' in the Donald Crisp directed ''The Fighting Eagle''. In 1948, he appeared, again as Napoleon, in the film '' The Lame Devil''. Selected filmography *''Après la chute de l'aigle'' (1909) *''Androcles and the Lion'' (1911) *''Trois Familles'' (''Three Families'') (1918) *''Papa bon cœur'' (1919) - Marcel Daubenton *''La Double Existence du docteur Mozart'' (1919) - Docteur André *''Un drame sous'' (''Drama With Napoleon'') (1921) - Napoleon *''L'Aiglonne'' (1921) - Napoleon *''Molière, sa vie, son œuvre'' (1922) *''Château historique'' (1923) *'' After Love'' (1924) *'' Madam Sans-Gene'' (1925) - Napoleon *''The Fighting Eagle'' (1927) * ''Madame Récamier'' (1928) - Napoleon *''L'Étrangère'' (''The Stranger'') (1931) - M. Mauriceau *''L'Aiglon'' (''The Eagle'') (1931) - Napoleon * '' Imperial Violets'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Camus
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' ÄŠearl'' or ''ÄŠeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''Ä‹eorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. Life and career Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish origin, and French Jewish Marcelle Houry, a journalist and art critic. Tannenbaum was absent from the life of Oury and he was raised in an unobservant house of his mother and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner.Michael Mulvey (photographer), Mulvey, Michael. (2017). "What Was So Funny about ''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (1973): A Comedic Film between History and Memory", ''French Politics, Culture & Society'', 35(3), pp. 24-43 , p. 29 Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress ) to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Joux
François Joux (born 11 July 1912, date of death unknown) was a French stage and film actor.Paietta p.15 Selected filmography * ''The Pavilion Burns'' (1941) * '' The Duchess of Langeais'' (1942) * '' The Trump Card'' (1942) * ''Paris Frills'' (1945) * '' The Murderer is Not Guilty'' (1946) * '' Women's Games'' (1946) * '' Once is Enough'' (1946) * '' The Battle of the Rails'' (1946) * '' Not Guilty'' (1947) * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) * '' Six Hours to Lose'' (1947) * ''Barry'' (1949) * '' Manon'' (1949) * '' The King'' (1949) * ''The Cupid Club'' (1949) * '' A Hole in the Wall'' (1950) * ''Alone in Paris'' (1951) * ''Rue des Saussaies'' (1951) * ''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) * '' Follow That Man'' (1953) * ''The Lovers of Marianne'' (1953) * '' Alarm in Morocco'' (1953) * '' Endless Horizons'' (1953) * ''Julietta'' (1953) * '' Virgile'' (1953) * ''Faites-moi confiance'' (1954) * '' Adam Is Eve'' (1954) * ''French Cancan'' (1955) * ''Three Days to Live'' (1957) * ''Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Trabaud
Pierre Trabaud (7 August 1922 – 26 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1945 and 1989. Personal life Trabaud met French actress Capucine on the set of ''Rendez-vous'' (1949). The two married a year later in 1950; however, the marriage ended only eight months later. Selected filmography * ''Le jugement dernier'' (1945) - Extra (uncredited) * ''Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire'' (1946) * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) - Riton * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * '' Manon'' (1949) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''Rendezvous in July'' (1949) - Pierrot Rabut * ''Lady Paname'' (1950) - Marcel Bosset - le frère de Caprice, mêlé au milieu (uncredited) * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) - Gaston * '' Endless Horizons'' (1953) - Pierre Castel * ''The Unfrocked One'' (1954) - Gérard Lacassagne * ''Le petit nuage/La chasse au nuage/Le nuage atomique'' (1954) - Journalist (I) * ''Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs'' (1955) - Para * ''Ah ! Quelle équip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made Siamé
Made Siamé (1885–1974) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.229 Selected filmography * ''Youth'' (1933) * '' The House on the Dune'' (1934) * ''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1935) * '' The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1936) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * '' Father Goriot'' (1945) * '' Once is Enough'' (1946) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Captain Blomet'' (1947) * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) * ''Clear the Ring'' (1950) * ''The Beautiful Image'' (1951) * ''My Friend Oscar'' (1951) * ''Clara de Montargis'' (1951) * ''My Seal and Them'' (1951) * ''My Husband Is Marvelous'' (1952) * ''Operation Magali ''Operation Magali'' (French: ''Opération Magali'') is a 1953 French thriller film directed by László V. Kish and starring Raymond Souplex, Nicole Maurey and Germaine Montero.Parish & Pitts p.548 It is based on the 1951 novel ''Operation Magali ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Modot
Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors. Biography Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th century where he met Picasso and Modigliani. In 1909 he started his career with Gaumont and for the following 20 years he covered all silent film genres. In 1917 he was the main actor in Abel Gance's ''Mater dolorosa''. He played in Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc's avant-garde films ''La fête espagnole'' (1919) and ''Fièvre'' (1921). With Max Linder, Modot played in Abel Gance's ''Au secours!'' (1924). Towards the end of the 1920s he performed in German-French co-productions. He is still famous for his role of "Manns" in Luis Buñuel's ''L'Âge d'Or'' (1930). He had his first role in a sound film with René Clair's '' Sous les toits de Paris'' (1930). He and Jean Gabin are main characters in Julien Duvivier's ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
