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Bach The Millionaire
''Bach the Millionaire'' (French:'' Bach millionnaire'') is a 1933 French comedy film directed by Henry Wulschleger and starring Bach, Georges Tréville and Germaine Charley.Crisp p.84 Synopsis A workmen from a humble background of illegitimate parentage unexpectedly inherits a fortune. This causes great resentment from his distant relations, who had anticipated the money themselves, as well as several attempts to seduce or trick the money out of him. Cast * Bach as Papillon * Georges Tréville as M. Vérillac * Germaine Charley as Madame Vérillac * Roger Tréville as Le marquis de Sandray * Simone Héliard as Jeanine * Charles Montel as Jules * Sinoël as Le notaire * Jean-François Martial Jean-François Martial (12 September 1891 – 18 October 1977) was a Belgian actor who appeared in mostly French films beginning in the silent film era of the early 1910s until his retirement in the early 1960s. Born Martial Joseph Ghislain Fos ... as Pernu * Germaine Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wulschleger
Henry Wulschleger or Henri Wulschleger (1894–1943) was a French screenwriter and film director.Crisp p.84 Selected filmography * ''Une nuit agitée'' (1920) * '' Pervenche'' (1921) (co-direction : Alfred Machin) * ''Moi aussi, j'accuse'' (1923) (screenwriter) * ''L'énigme du Mont-Agel'' (1923) (co-direction: Alfred Machin) * ''The Heirs of Uncle James'' (1924) (script) * '' Le Nègre blanc'' (1925) (co-direction : Nicolas Rinsky)'' * ''Humanité'' (1925) * ''Bêtes comme les hommes'' (1925) (coréalisation : Alfred Machin) * ''Le Manoir de la peur'' (1927) (coréalisation : Alfred Machin) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1929) (assistant and screenwriter) * ''Elle veut faire du cinéma'' (1930) * ''La Prison en folie'' (1931) * ''En bordée'' (1931) * '' The Blaireau Case'' (1932) * '' The Regiment's Champion'' (1932) * ''Tire-au-flanc'' (1933) * '' Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * '' L'Enfant de ma sœur'' (1933) * ' (1935) * ' (1934) * '' Bout de chou'' (1935) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Black-and-white Films
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Films Directed By Henry Wulschleger
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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1933 Comedy Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Films
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America. * Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code. * Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres. * Film industry takes eight week salary cut. * Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated. * John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager. * Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930. * Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Aussey
Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, December 18, 1909 in Paris – March 15, 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress who worked with, among others, RenĂ© Clair, Julien Duvivier, Paul Fejos, Jean GrĂ©millon, Marc AllĂ©gret, and Sacha Guitry. She was, from 1940-1945, married to circus impresario John Ringling North. The union ended in divorce. Selected filmography * '' The Train of Suicides'' (1931) * ''Here's Berlin'' (1932) * '' Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * ''The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * '' Speak to Me of Love'' (1935) * '' Princesse Tam-Tam'' (1935) * '' Beloved Imposter'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins ''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. ...'' (1936) * '' Adventure in Paris'' (1936) * '' Parisian Life'' (1936) * '' The Pearls of the Crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Martial
Jean-François Martial (12 September 1891 – 18 October 1977) was a Belgians, Belgian actor who appeared in mostly French films beginning in the silent film era of the early 1910s until his retirement in the early 1960s. Born Martial Joseph Ghislain Fosseprez in Walcourt, Belgium, Martial's first film known appearance as an actor was in the 1911 Léonce Perret-directed ''Cœur de mère de''. This was followed by a role in the 1913 Louis Feuillade-directed crime drama film serial ''Fantômas (1913 serial), Fantômas''. His last film role would be in the 1964 René Allio-directed film ''La Vieille Dame indigne.'' Selected filmography *''The Clairvoyant (1924 film), The Clairvoyant'' (1924) * ''Terror (1924 film), Terror'' (1924) *''Lady Harrington'' (1926) *''Apaches of Paris'' (1927) * ''Yvette (1928 film), Yvette'' (1928) *''Accused, Stand Up!'' (1930) *''End of the World (1931 film), End of the World'' (1931) *''Fun in the Barracks'' (1932) *''Wooden Crosses'' (1932) * ''Shado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone HĂ©liard
Simone Héliard was a French stage and film actress.White p.366 Selected filmography * '' Mistigri'' (1931) * '' Topaze'' (1933) * ''Côte d'Azur'' (1932) * ''The Champion Cook'' (1932) * '' A Love Story'' (1933) * ''Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1934) * ''The Blue Danube "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 Februa ...'' (1940) References Bibliography * White, Susan M. ''The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman''. Columbia University Press, 1995. External links * 1910 births Year of death unknown French stage actresses French film actresses {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Jeanson
Henri Jules Louis Jeanson (6 March 1900 in Paris – 6 November 1970 in Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on 6 March 1900 in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for ''La Bataille'', newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening stints as reporter, interviewer and film critic. He was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic. Jeanson worked for several papers including the ''Journal du peuple'', ''Hommes du Jour'' and the ''Canard enchaîné'', where he defended complete pacifism. He resigned from the ''Canard enchaîné'' in 1937, in solidarity w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
