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Christian-Gérard
Christian Gérard Mazas (4 October 1903 – 27 July 1984), known as Christian-Gérard,Sometimes spelt without hyphen. was a French stage and film actor as well as theater director. Theatre Comedian * 1932 : ' by Jacques Deval, directed by Jacques Baumer, Théâtre Saint-Georges * 1934 : ''Les Temps difficiles'' by Édouard Bourdet, Théâtre de la Michodière * 1934 : ' by Sacha Guitry, directed by the author, théâtre de la Madeleine * 1935 : ''Les Joies du Capitole'' operette by Jacques Bousquet, Albert Willemetz, music Raoul Moretti, théâtre de la Madeleine * 1936 : ''Christian'' by Yvan Noé, Théâtre des Variétés * 1937 : ''Bureau central des idées'' by Alfred Gehri, directed by Louis Tunc, théâtre de la Michodière * 1945 : ''Le Fleuve étincelant'' by Charles Morgan, directed by , théâtre Pigalle * 1946 : ''Charivari Courteline'' after Georges Courteline, directed by Jean Mercure, théâtre des Ambassadeurs * 1948 : ''La Ligne de chance'' by Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Régnier
Max Régnier (4 December 1907 - 5 August 1993) was a French dramatist, playwright, theater director and actor. He was managing director of the théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin from 1949 up to 1969. He was the father of actor Yves Rénier. Filmography Cinema as an actor unless stated otherwise * 1936 in the movies, 1936 : ''Le Coup de trois'' by Jean de Limur : le secrétaire du commissaire * 1936 : ', short by Robert Péguy : Monsieur Croquignolle * 1937 in the movies, 1937 : ''Monsieur Bégonia'' by André Hugon : Max / Monsieur Bégonia * 1938 in the movies, 1938 : ' by André Hugon – short * 1948 in the movies, 1948 : ' by Jean Tedesco (+ scriptwriting and dialogues) * 1950 in the movies, 1950 : ''L'Art d'être courtier'' by Henri Verneuil – short (only co scriptwriter) Television Actor * 1979 : ', ''Les Petites Têtes'' by André Gillois and Max Régnier, directed by Pierre Sabbagh * 1981 : ''Au théâtre ce soir'', ''Mort ou vif'' by Max Régnier, directed by Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bernard-Luc
Jean Bernard-Luc, real name Lucien Boudousse, (Guatemala City, 8 February 1909 – Pontoise (Val-d'Oise), 18 May 1985) was a 20th-century French screenwriter and dialoguist. Biography Born in Guatemala, he arrived in France with his parents aged 3. He studied at Gerson, at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, then in an École supérieure de commerce. In 1935, he participated to the writing of the film ''Michel Strogoff'', directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. During World War II, he joined the army. Taken prisoner, he managed to escape and enter the zone libre. He would then write many scenarios, including that of '' Les Cadets de l'océan'' by Jean Dréville in 1945. During the 1950s and 1960s, Jean-Luc Bernard wrote many films, some of which obtained a great success. The second part of his career was essentially dedicated to television but also to a new genre, biology-science-fiction novels. Jean Bernard-Luc died in 1985 at Pontoise, after a long illness. Theatre ;Author *1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Ambassadeurs (restaurant)
Les Ambassadeurs was a restaurant in Paris, France, situated in the Hôtel de Crillon. It closed on March 31, 2013, when the hotel closed for renovations, and in 2017 the space reopened as a bar, with Les Ambassadeurs being replaced by a smaller restaurant. History Within the Hôtel de Crillon, which was built in 1758, Les Ambassadeurs operated as a restaurant since the mid-19th century. It reached its peak of fame as a restaurant and nightclub (a ''café-concert'') in the last three decades of the 19th century. Always a center of entertainment for the aristocracy, in the 1870s it also became a regular destination of some of the best known figures of art and the demi-monde. Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed visitors at the night club,George E. Smith, III, "James, Degas, and the Modern View", ''Novel: A Forum on Fiction'', 21.1 (Autumn 1987) 56–72. and artists like Eugénie Fougère and Aristide Bruant performed there. Following a renovation of the hotel in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mayo (playwright)
Margaret Mayo, born Lillian Elizabeth Slatten, was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. Early life She was raised on a farm near Brownsville, Illinois. Later, she was educated at the Girl’s College in Fox Lake, Wisconsin; the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Salem, Oregon; and at Stanford University. In her teen years, she traveled to New York City to pursue an acting career. She worked as many things: adapter, actress, film company founding partner, playwright, and a writer. In 1901, she married Edgar Selwyn, a fellow actor. Until about 1917, Mayo averaged about a play per year. Biography When she moved to New York City in her early teens, she won a small part in a play named ''Thoroughbred'' at the Garrick Theatre. She met her husband, Edgar Selwyn, in 1896. The same year, she began her writing career. Her earliest successes were adaptations of novels: '' The Marriage of William Ashe'' (1905) and ''The Jungle'' (1907). However, Mayo is best remembered as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Hennequin
Maurice Hennequin (10 December 1863 – 3 September 1926) was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright. Biography A great-grandson of the painter Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, Maurice Hennequin was the son of Alfred Hennequin (1842–1887), himself a playwright, who created a kind of vaudeville, with a complex plot but rigorously structured, nicknamed "hennequinade" The young Maurice began in the world of theater at the age of 19 in 1882, sometimes helped by his father during his early years. In a 45-year long career, he gave nearly a hundred plays, mostly comedies and vaudevilles, written either alone or in collaboration. Many of these works experienced vivid success, such as '' Le Système Ribadier'', written in collaboration with Georges Feydeau, or ''Vous n'avez rien à déclarer ?'', quoted by one character in the play ''A Flea in Her Ear'' by Feydeau, and twice adapted for film. Some of his plays even experienced real triumph, like ''Le Monsieur de cinq heures'' with 568 ... [...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 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim was to move out Montansier's troupe to make room for the company from the neighbouring Théâtre-Français, which had stayed empty even as the Variétés-Montansier had enjoyed immense public favour. Strongly unhappy about having to leave the theatre by 1 January 1807, the 77-year-old Montansier gained an audience with Napoleon himself and received his help and protection. She thus reunited the "Société des Cinq", which directed her troupe, in order to found a new theatre, the one which stands at the side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film. Early life Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph Pagnol and seamstress Augustine Lansot.Castans (1987), pp. 363–368 Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine. School years In July 1904, the family rented the ''Bastide Neuve'', – a house in the sleepy Provençal village of La Treille – for the summer holidays, the first of many spent in the hilly countrysi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
