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André Mouëzy-Éon
André Mouëzy-Éon (9 June 1880 – 23 October 1967) was a French dramatist, author of comedies, librettist, screenwriter and Dialogue, dialoguist. Biography André Mouëzy-Éon begins his career by writing short plays for the Théâtre de Cluny, located in the Latin Quarter, Paris, Latin quarter of Paris. After his conscription and before World War I, he became famous by going into the military vaudeville, a popular genre at the time with plays like ''Tire au flanc'', ''Le Tampon du capiston'', then ''Les Dégourdis de la 11e''. After the war, he collaborated with Nicolas Nancey on ''L'Héritier du bal Tabarin'' in 1919 and ''Il est cocu, le chef de gare'' in 1925. During the 1920s, he gained interest in operetta and created several extravaganza pieces, operettas and Sketch comedy, sketch comedies with a famous author by the name of Albert Willemetz. In 1924, the operetta ''Les Amants de Venise'' is created at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Opéra-Comique. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Lopez (composer)
Francis Lopez (1916–1995) was a French composer of film scores.Powrie & Cadalanu p.113 He also wrote a number of operettas, many of which starred Luis Mariano. He was married several times including to the actress Sylvia Lopez. Selected filmography * ''The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * '' Alone in the Night'' (1945) * '' The Three Cousins'' (1947) * '' Fandango'' (1949) * ''Marlene'' (1949) * ''Eve and the Serpent'' (1949) * ''I Like Only You'' (1949) * '' The Red Angel'' (1949) * ''The Dream of Andalusia'' (1951) * ''Rendezvous in Grenada'' (1951) * ''Monsieur Leguignon, Signalman'' (1952) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * ''The Blonde Gypsy'' (1953) * ''Their Last Night'' (1953) * '' The Cheerful Caravan'' (1953) * ''Saluti e baci'' (1953) * ''The Beauty of Cadiz'' (1953) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1953) * ''Adventures of the Barber of Seville'' (1954) * ''Four Days in Paris'' (1955) * '' Love in Jamaica'' (1957) * ''Irresistible Catherine'' (1957) * '' A Night at the Moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Mogador
Théâtre Mogador, founded in 1913 with design by Bertie Crewe, is a Parisian music hall theatre located at 25, rue de Mogador in the 9th district. It seats 1,800 people on three tiers. In 1913 financier Sir Alfred Butt rented an area in Paris. Built according to English music hall principles and style during World War I, the theatre was originally named the "Palace Theatre", after the like-named one in London, in order to appeal to British soldiers. The name was shortly thereafter changed to "Théâtre Mogador", Mogador being the old name of the town of Essaouira in Morocco. The inauguration guests include President Wilson, in France to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. It was inaugurated by US president to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt April 1919. From 1920 it was a Cine-variety, and gained fame with the performances of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and with the ''Thés Mogador'' – performances of operettas and plays in the afternoon. Until the seventies, the Thé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Emer
Michel Emer (June 19, 1906 – November 23, 1984), (real name Emer Rosenstein), was a French musician, composer and lyricist. His songs have been performed by Edith Piaf, Fréhel, Damia, Lys Gauty, Yves Montand, Jean Sablon, André Claveau, Ray Ventura and his Collegians, Luis Mariano, Tino Rossi, and Eartha Kitt. He also wrote songs for at least one of his wife Jacqueline Maillan's shows. The first of his songs to be sung by Edith Piaf was "L'Accordéoniste", which he composed in 1940. He went on to write more than twenty songs for her, including "J'm'en fous pas mal", "Bal dans ma rue", and "A quoi ça sert l'amour?", one of her most famous songs, which she sang as a duet with her second husband Theo Sarapo. He co-authored with Charles Trenet the music for the song "Y'a d'la joie", and arranged many of Trenet's songs. Jean Sablon performed and recorded his song "Béguin-Biguine" in 1932. Personal life In 1954 he married the actress Jacqueline Maillan. He is buried in the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Waltz (musical)
''The Great Waltz'' is a musical conceived by Hassard Short with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Desmond Carter, using themes by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II. It is based on a pasticcio by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner called ''Walzer aus Wien'', first performed in Vienna in 1930. The story of the musical is loosely based on the real-life feud between the older and younger Strauss, allegedly because of the father's jealousy of his son's greater talent. ''The Great Waltz'' debuted on Broadway at the Center Theatre on September 22, 1934 and ran for 289 performances. The production was directed by Hassard Short and presented by Max Gordon, with choreography by Albertina Rasch, settings by Albert Johnson and costumes by Doris Zinkeisen together with Marion Claire, Marie Burke and Guy Robertson. The musical was made into a motion picture by MGM in 1938 with a screenplay and new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1949 impresario Edwin Lester hired R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert-Jean
Albert-Jean, pen name for Marie, Joseph, Albert, François Jean (28 June 1892 – 7 September 1975), was a 20th-century French poet, novelist and playwright. Familiar with the Grand-Guignol, Albert-Jean was president of the Société des gens de lettres. Main publications ;Poetry *1912: ''La Pluie au printemps'' *1913: ''L'Ombre des fumées'' ;Novels *1914: ''Maude et les trois jeunes gens'' *1920: ''La Dame aux écailles'' *1925: ''Le Singe''. This novel, co-written with Maurice Renard Maurice Renard (28 February 1875, Châlons-en-Champagne – 18 November 1939, Rochefort-Sur-Mer) was a French writer. Career Renard authored the archetypal mad scientist novel ''Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu'' r. Lerne - Undergod(1908), whic ... features the writer J.-H. Rosny aîné. *1926: ''Une rose à la main'' *1942: ''Belles du sud'' *1946: ''La Maison du vent'' *1950: ''Le Secret de Barbe-Bleue'' *1950: ''Amours à Saint-Domingue'' ;Theatre *1925: ''L'étrange histoire du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Szulc
Josef Zygmunt Szulc (4 April 1875, Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Russian Empire – 10 April 1956, Paris, France) was a composer and conductor. He also used the pseudonym Jan Sulima. Life Born in Poland to a musical family, he began his formal training as a pianist at the Warszawa Conservatory under Moszkowski. He also lived in Berlin briefly (using the name Joseph Schultz) and later moved to Paris to complete his studies in conducting and composition in 1899, converting the spelling of his first name to Joseph. At the conservatoire he trained under Jules Massenet. In 1903 he moved to Brussels, where he was made chief conductor at the Théâtre de la Monnaie and saw instant success with his ballet ''Ispahan'' and several tunes. His wife, Suzy Delsart, was an operetta star (operette divette) and sang the title role of ''The Merry Widow'' by Franz Lehár and also influenced her husband into writing lighter and more popular tunes. In 1907 he completed the music for Marcel Gerbidon's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De L'Ambigu-Comique
The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in 1827 was destroyed by fire. A new, larger theatre with a capacity of 2,000 as compared to the earlier 1,250 was built nearby on the boulevard Saint-Martin at its intersection with the rue de Bondy and opened the following year. The theatre was eventually demolished in 1966. History of the first theatre in the boulevard du Temple It was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple, originally known as the Promenades des Ramparts, in Paris by Nicolas-Médard Audinot, formerly a comedian of the Opéra-Comique, which he had left to become a puppet-master at the Paris fairs. Audinot had already been a success in one of the sites of the Saint-Germain Fair, where his large marionettes (called "bamboches") were in vogue. Under the name of his foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kistemaeckers (playwright)
Henry Hubert Alexandre Kistemaeckers (October 13, 1872 – January 21, 1938) was a prolific Belgian-born French author and playwright. Early life and career Henry Hubert Alexandre Kistemaeckers was born in Floreffe,Who's Who in the Theatre; Volume 3; 1916; pg. 745 accessed September 29, 2012 a small town some forty-five miles southeast of Brussels. He was the son of Henry Kistemaeckers (1851–1934), a controversial Belgian publisher often at odds with the censorship laws of the day. As a young man, Kistemaeckers attended the Royal Athenaeum at , the |
Yves Mirande
Yves Mirande (Bagneux (Maine-et-Loire), May 8, 1876 – Paris, March 17, 1957) was a French screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. Career Yves Mirande began his acting career in the theater, transitioning to movies in the silent era. Filmography * ''She Wolves'', directed by Maurice Elvey (Silent, 1925, based on the play ''Un homme en habit'') * ''Evening Clothes'', directed by Luther Reed (Silent, 1927, based on the play ''Un homme en habit'') * '' The Porter from Maxim's'', directed by Roger Lion and Nicolas Rimsky (Silent, 1927, based on the play ''Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's'') * ', directed by Robert Boudrioz (Silent, 1929, based on the operetta ''Trois jeunes filles nues'') * '' Kiss Me'', directed by Robert Péguy (Silent, 1929, based on the play ''Embrassez-moi'') * '' The Wonderful Day'', directed by René Barberis (Silent, 1929, based on the play ''La Merveilleuse Journée'') * ''L'Arpète'', directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien (Silent, 1929, based on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges De La Fouchardière
Georges Alphonse de La Fouchardière (February 1874 - 10 February 1946) was a French writer and journalist. He wrote for the Canard enchaîné (creator of the " Chronique du Bouif"), at '' L'Œuvre'', as well as being the author of several literary works, notably '' La Chienne'', a story adapted for film by Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ... under the same title and by Fritz Lang as '' Scarlet Street''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:La Fouchardiere, Georges de French journalists 1874 births 1946 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Édouard VII
The Théâtre Édouard VII, also called théâtre Édouard VII – Sacha Guitry, is located in Paris between the Madeleine and the Opéra Garnier in the 9th arrondissement. The square, in which there is a statue of King Edward the Seventh, was opened in 1911. The theatre, which was originally a cinema, was named in the honour of King Edward VII, as he was nicknamed the "most Parisian of all Kings", appreciative of French culture. In the early to mid 1900s,under the direction of Sacha Guitry, the theatre became a symbol of anglo-franco friendship, and where French people could discover and enjoy Anglo Saxon works. French actor and director Bernard Murat is the current director of the theatre. Modern "boulevard comedies" and vaudevilles are often performed there, and subtitled in English by the company Theatre in Paris. Important figures in the arts, cinema and theatre have performed there, including Orson Welles, Eartha Kitt, and more. Pablo Picasso created props for a play at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
