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Edmond Beauchamp
Edmond Beauchamp (3 March 1900 – 3 June 1985), sometimes credited only as Beauchamp, was a French film and Broadway stage actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1928 and 1979. Partial filmography * '' Misdeal'' (1928) - Le gitan (uncredited) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1934) - Binet * ''Un homme de trop à bord'' (1935) * ''Roses noires'' (1935) * '' Royal Waltz'' (1936) - Maps * ''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'' (1936) - Priest in the Train (uncredited) * ''La Bataille silencieuse'' (1937) - (uncredited) * ''Feu !'' (1937) - Moulay Aidi * ''Ballerina'' (1937) - L'inspecteur * ''La femme du bout du monde'' (1938) - Charley * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - Le curé Fayet * ''Tamara la complaisantre'' (1938) - Borojski * '' People Who Travel'' (1938) - (uncredited) * '' Hercule'' (1938) - Le secrétaire de Vasco (uncredited) * ''La Rue sans joie'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''L'ange que j'ai vendu'' (1938) * ''La Maison du Maltais'' (1938) - Le policier (uncredited) * ''The Novel of Wert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Hérault. In 2018, 290,053 people lived in the city, while its Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 787,705.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, retrieved 20 June 2022. The inhabitants are called Montpelliérains. In the Middle Ages, Montpellier was an important city of the Crown of Aragon (and was the birthplace of James I of Aragon, James I), and then of Kingdom of Majorca, Majorca, before its sale to France in 1349. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the List of oldest univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Metro (1945 Film)
''The Last Metro'' (French: ''Dernier métro'') is a 1945 French crime film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Gaby Morlay, Alexandre Rignault and Mony Dalmès. It was based on the 1912 novel ''Mathilde et ses mitaines'' by Tristan Bernard. The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin. It recorded admissions in France of 2,218,391. at Box Office Story Synopsis Leaving the station after having caught the last , a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.Cast References< ...
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Captain Blood (1960 Film)
''Captain Blood'' (french: Le capitan) is a 1960 French–Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco. The film has no relation to the American film ''Captain Blood (1935 film), Captain Blood'' (1935). Cast * Jean Marais as François de Capestan * Bourvil as Cogolin * Elsa Martinelli as Gisèle d'Angoulême * Arnoldo Foà as Concino Concini * as Giuseppa * Lise Delamare as Marie de Médicis * as Béatrice de Beaufort * Guy Delorme as Rinaldo * as Louis XIII of France, Louis XIII * Jacqueline Porel as Léonora Galigaï * Jean-Paul Coquelin as Nicolas de L'Hôpital, Vitry * Raphaël Patorni as Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, Le duc d'Angoulême * as Henri, Duke of Rohan, Duc de Rohan * Jean Berger (actor), Jean Berger as Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Luynes * as Lorenzo * Paul Préboist as A thief Release ''Captain Blood'' was released thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bossu (1959 Film)
''Le Bossu'' is a French-Italian adventure film starring Jean Marais and directed by André Hunebelle. The film also featured Bourvil, possibly the most popular French comedian of the time. So successful was the formula that Hunebelle teamed up the same two actors for his next adventure film, ''Captain Blood (1960 film), Captain Blood''. Plot Duke Philippe de Nevers (Hubert Noël) is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Isabelle (Sabine Sesselmann). His rival Philippe de Gonzague (François Chaumette) hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompanied by Henri de Lagardère (Jean Marais) when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil (Bourvil) he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Beau Serge
''Le Beau Serge'' (, literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared with Chabrol's subsequent film '' Les Cousins'', which also stars Gérard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy. Plot François, a young man recovering from a mild case of a respiratory illness (probably tuberculosis), returns to his home town of Sardent after a long absence to spend the winter there. He is surprised to find that his old friend Serge has, dissatisfied with life in the village, become a wretched alcoholic. Serge had hoped to leave the village to study, but had to stay to marry a local girl, Yvonne, when she became pregnant. Their first child was stillborn, but Yvonne is pregnant again. Though François feels somewhat out of place in the provincial village, he is driven by his desire to figure out a way to help Serge. While he works on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1956 Film)
''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (in French ''Notre-Dame de Paris'') is a 1956 French-Italian CinemaScope film version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, directed by Jean Delannoy and produced by Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim. It stars American actor Anthony Quinn and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. The film is the first version of the novel to be made in color. In the tradition of many sword and sandal spectacles, Quinn and Lollobrigida are the only two actors in the film who actually speak in English; the rest of the cast is made up of French actors who have had their voices dubbed into English. In the French version both Quinn and Lollobrigida speak French. Anthony Quinn's portrayal of the hunchback Quasimodo is less disfigured than most other portrayals. Instead of having a huge hump and a hideously deformed face, he only has a small curve in his spine and a slightly deformed face. The film is one of the few adaptations to use Victor Hugo's original ending; although Esmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Antoinette Queen Of France
''Marie Antoinette Queen of France'' (french: Marie-Antoinette reine de France and also known as ''Shadow of the Guillotine'') is a 1956 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote the screenplay with Pierre Erlanger and Bernard Zimmer. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Richard Todd. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Jean Delannoy) at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Cast *Michèle Morgan as Marie-Antoinette *Richard Todd as le comte Axel de Fersen * Jacques Morel as Louis XVI *Aimé Clariond as Louis XV *Jeanne Boitel as Mme Campan * Guy Tréjan as La Fayette *Marina Berti as a comtesse de Polignac * Marcelle Arnold as Mme. Adélaïde * Jane Marken as Mme Victoire *Jacques Dufilho as Marat *Daniel Ceccaldi as Drouet *Madeleine Rousset as Mme de Tourzel * Suzy Carrier as Mme Elisabeth * Paul Bonifas as Herman *Jacques Bergerac a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Paris Were Told To Us
''If Paris Were Told to Us'' (french: Si Paris nous était conté) is a 1956 French historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry. The admissions in France were 2,813,682 people.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048616/business Principal cast *Françoise Arnoul as Duchesse de L... *Jeanne Boitel as Mme Geoffrin / Sarah Bernhardt *Gilbert Bokanowski as Louis XVI *Julien Carette as Un cocher *Danielle Darrieux as Agnès Sorel *Sophie Desmarets as Rose Bertin *Clément Duhour as Aristide Bruant * Sacha Guitry as Louis XI *Odette Joyeux as La Passementiere *Robert Lamoureux as Latude *Jacques Dumesnil as Cardinal Richelieu *Pierre Larquey as Pierre Broussel *Jean Marais as François Ier *Jean Martinelli as Henri IV / Firmin *Lana Marconi as La reine Marie-Antoinette *Michèle Morgan as Gabrielle d'Estrées *Jean Parédès as Un médecin *Giselle Pascal as Comtesse de G... *Gérard Philipe as Le Trouvère *Odile Rodin as the Princess of Essling * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School For Love
''School for Love'' (''Futures vedettes'') is a French drama film from 1955 directed by Marc Allégret, written by Marc Allégret and starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean Marais. The screenplay was based on a novel by Vicki Baum. at the ''Films de France'' The film was known under the titles ''Joy of Living'' or ''School for Love'' in the U.S., ''Sweet Sixteen'' in the U.K. and ''Reif auf jungen Blüten'' in West Germany. Plot Tenor Eric Walter is a teacher at a Vienna conservatory who is separated from his wife, opera singer Marie. When he begins seeing one of the students, Sophie, another student named Elisa becomes jealous.Cast * Jean Marais as Éric Walter * |
Crimson Curtain (1952 Film)
''Crimson Curtain'' (French: ''Le rideau rouge'') is a 1952 French drama film directed by André Barsacq and starring Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur and Jean Brochard.Monaco p.305 It was made at the Saint-Maurice Studios, with scenes also shot on location at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. Cast * Michel Simon as Bertal / Banquo * Pierre Brasseur as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth * Monelle Valentin as Aurélia Nobli / Lady Macbeth * Jean Brochard as L'inspecteur en chef * Olivier Hussenot as L'inspecteur-adjoint * Paul Barge as Le bistro * Michel Barsacq * Edmond Beauchamp as Un acteur * Lucien Blondeau * Louis Bugette * Daniel Cauchy as Léon * Gérard Darrieu as Un machiniste au théâtre * Jacques Denoël * Jacques Dufilho as Un acteur / An actor * Michel Etcheverry as Un acteur * Henri Gaultier * Madeleine Geoffroy * Gabriel Gobin * Françoise Goléa * Pierre Goutas * Michel Herbault * Katherine Kath * Benoîte Labb * Paul Laurent * Robert Le Béal * Serge Lecointe * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Jeux Sont Faits (film)
''Les jeux sont faits'', known in English as ''The Chips are Down'', is a 1947 French fantasy film directed by Jean Delannoy, based on the screenplay of the same name by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Plot In a country very similar to France under German military occupation, two people are murdered at the same moment. Ève is poisoned by her influential husband, who wants her money and her naïve younger sister, Lucette. Pierre, a worker and a leader of the resistance, is shot by an informer. Meeting in the afterlife, the two fall in love. As they were fated to do so, but prevented by others, they are granted 24 hours back on earth. Their first mission is to do a favour to a dead man who was worried about his young daughter. Then, after brief sex, they address unfinished business. Ève confronts her evil husband and tries to convince her sister of his treachery. Pierre goes to a meeting of resisters and tries to convinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil In The Flesh (1947 Film)
''Devil in the Flesh'' (french: Le diable au corps) is a 1947 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Raymond Radiguet. The film stars Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe, with Palau, Jean Varas, Jacques Tati, Denise Grey and Jean Debucourt in supporting roles. It was shot at the and Neuilly Studios and on location at a number of places around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. Premise In France during World War I, nurse Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. The lonely Marthe begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with François' baby. Cast * Micheline Presle as Marthe Grangier * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
