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Eléna Et Les Hommes
''Elena and Her Men'' is a 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais. The film's original French title was ''Elena et les Hommes'', and in English-speaking countries, the title was ''Paris Does Strange Things''. It is the third addition to the trilogy, preceded by '' The Golden Coach'' (1953) and ''French Cancan'' (1955). A restored copy has been released in the 21st century. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. Location shooting took place around the city including in Saint-Cloud and the Castle of Ermenonville. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean André. Plot Produced in 1956, and set in 1890 France, ''Elena and Her Men'' tells the story of a young, beautiful, and free-spirited Polish princess in fin de siècle Paris who specializes in granting people good luck. Elena's family has run out of money, and in order to save them, she agrees to marry a wealthy, older family friend. No sooner has she agreed to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. His films ''La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the List of films considered the best, greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the British Film Institute, BFI's ''Sight & Sound'' poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Awards, Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an ''auteur''. Early life and early career Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and 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 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, 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 the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-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 region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Rémy
Albert Rémy (9 April 1921 – 26 January 1967) was a French actor best known for his supporting roles in François Truffaut's first two feature films. He played Antoine Doinel's father in ''The 400 Blows'' and Charlie Koller's (Charles Aznavour) brother in ''Shoot the Piano Player''. He also appeared in Marcel Carné's ''Les Enfants du Paradis'', John Frankenheimer's '' The Train'' and René Clément's '' Is Paris Burning?'' Selected filmography * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) - L'ivrogne (uncredited) * ''It Happened at the Inn'' (1943) - Jean des Goupi * ''Madame et le Mort'' (1943) - Henri * ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Le marchand d'oiseaux * '' Love Story'' (1943) - Le sacristain (uncredited) * '' The Woman Who Dared'' (1944) - Marcel * '' Children of Paradise'' (1945) - Scarpia Barrigni * ''The Black Cavalier'' (1945) - Pinte * ''La Boîte aux rêves'' (1945) * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Perrot * ''La part de l'ombre'' (1945) * ''La Fille du diable'' (1946) - Cléme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Morel (actor)
Jacques Morel (29 May 1922 in Paris – 9 April 2008 in Paris) was a French film and television actor. He was, perhaps, best known as the French language voice of the cartoon character, Obelix, in the animated adaptation of the comic book, Asterix. Jacques Morel died in Paris, France, on 9 April 2008, at the age of 85. Partial filmography * ''L'aventure est au coin de la rue'' (1944) - L'homme mystérieuse * '' Alone in the Night'' (1945) - Melor * ''Toute la famille était là'' (1948) - Villediou * ''Between Eleven and Midnight'' (1949) - Bouture * ''Au p'tit zouave'' (1950) - Félix Lambert * ''Voyage à trois'' (1950) - Maurice * ''The Girl from Maxim's'' (1950) - Le docteur Petypon * ''L'homme de joie'' (1951) - Edouard Jolivet * '' Les joueurs'' (1951, TV Movie) * '' Topaze'' (1951) - Régis Castel-Vernac * ''Victor'' (1951) - Jacques Genoust * '' Le Dindon'' (1951) - Vatelin * ''La poison'' (1951) - (voice) * ''Au fil des ondes'' (1951) - Himself * ''We Are All Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Duvallès
Frédéric Duvallès (1884–1971) was a French film actor.Hayward p.383 He was often simply credited as Duvallès. Selected filmography * '' The Wonderful Day'' (1932) * ''Companion Wanted'' (1932) * '' Dora Nelson'' (1935) * '' The King'' (1936) * ''Excursion Train'' (1936) * '' Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * '' Folie douce'' (1951) * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1953) * '' Elena and Her Men'' (1956) * ''Love in Jamaica'' (1957) * ''Neither Seen Nor Recognized ''Ni vu, ni connu'' (literally "Neither seen, nor known"), also known by its English title ''Neither Seen, Nor Recognized'', is a French comedy film from 1958, directed by Yves Robert and starring Louis de Funès. The film is based on the novel ... '' (1958) * '' The Burning Court'' (1962) References Bibliography * Hayward, Susan. ''French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film''. Intellect Books, 2010. External links * 1884 births 1971 deaths French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Doll
Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a French actress. Career One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's ''Manon'' (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's ''Touchez pas au grisbi'' (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's ''French Cancan'' (1955). In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series ''Hôtel Baltimore'' in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's ''Julia'' as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). In 1982, she played in Ettore Scola's ''That Night in Varennes''. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series ''Tide of Life''. Personal life She was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, and they had a daughter, Danielle. She was later married to François Deguelt. In 1993, Dora Dol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bertin
Pierre Victor Théophile Bertin (24 October 1891 – 13 May 1984) was a French stage and film actor. In 1948, he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under Sacha Guitry. He was the librettist of the opéra-comique ''La Gageure imprévue'' after Sedaine with music by Henri Sauguet, first performed at the Paris, Opéra-Comique in 1944, and for the radio opera ''Les Deux Rendez-vous'' (after Nerval) by Claude Arrieu first broadcast in 1951. accessed 6 December 2018. Pierre Bertin was born in and died in |
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (; 7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career came to an end in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci". As an actress, Gréco played roles in films by French directors such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville. Early life Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier, France, to an absent Corsican father, Gérard Gréco; her mother Juliette Lafeychine (1899–1978) was from Bordeaux. Her lineage hails in part from Greece. She did not receive love from her mother in her childhood and suffered from her harsh comments due to being an unwanted child, such as "You ain't my da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Bergman - Mel Ferrer - 1957 apple cultivar
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Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name) * Ingrid (record label), and artist collective * Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing project within D-Grid See also * * * In-Grid * Ingrid Marie Ingrid Marie is an apple cultivar. It was cultivated by accident around 1910 on the premises of a school in Høed on the island of Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called the (; "French National Celebration"); legally it is known as (; "the 14th of July"). The French National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held throughout France. One that has been reported as "the oldest and largest military parade in Europe" is held on 14 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French officials and foreign guests. History In 1789, tensions rose in France between reformist and conservative factions as the country struggled to resolve an economic crisis. In May, the Estates General legislative assembly was revived, but members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fin De Siècle
() is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom "turn of the century" and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. Without context, the term is typically used to refer to the end of the 19th century. This period was widely thought to be a period of social degeneracy, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning. The "spirit" of often refers to the cultural hallmarks that were recognized as prominent in the 1880s and 1890s, including ennui, cynicism, pessimism, and "a widespread belief that civilization leads to decadence.” The term is commonly applied to French art and artists, as the traits of the culture first appeared there, but the movement affected many European countries. The term becomes applicable to the sentiments and traits associated with the culture, as opposed to focusing solely on the movement's initial recognition in France. The ideas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean André (art Director)
Jean André (1916–1980) was a French art director, active as a production designer in French cinema.Slide p.97 es: Jean André (director de arte) Selected filmography * ''Elena and Her Men'' (1956) * '' And God Created Woman'' (1956) * '' Toi... le venin'' (1958) * ''The Ravishing Idiot'' (1964) * ''La Grande Vadrouille'' (1966) * ''The Game Is Over'' (1966) * '' Darling Caroline'' (1968) * ''Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman'' (1973) * '' Someone Is Bleeding'' (1974) * '' On aura tout vu'' (1976) * '' Violette & François'' (1977) * ''La Carapate'' (1978) * ''The Umbrella Coup ''The Umbrella Coup'' (french: Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe. The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of Bulgarian ...'' (1980) References Bibliography * Slide, Anthony. ''Fifty Classic French Films, 1912-1982: A Pictorial Record''. Dover Publications, 1987. Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
