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Fernand Charpin
Fernand Charpin (30 May 1887 – 6 November 1944) was a French actor. He is known for his role as Honoré Panisse in Marcel Pagnol's Marseille trilogy, beginning with '' Marius'' in 1931. Selected filmography * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' (1932) * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * '' Chotard and Company'' (1933) * ''The Barber of Seville'' (1933) * '' Paprika'' (1933) * '' Sapho'' (1934) * '' Three Sailors'' (1934) * '' César'' (1936) * ''Michel Strogoff'' (1936) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * ''The Baker's Wife'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * '' In the Sun of Marseille'' (1938) * ''Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * '' Berlingot and Company'' (1939) * '' The Marvelous Night'' (1940) * '' Strange Suzy'' (1941) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' The Secret of Madame Clapain'' (1943) * '' The White Truck'' (1943) * ''The Island of Love'' (1944) * '' La Fiancée des ténèbres'' (1945) * ''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * ''The Last Penny ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baker's Wife (film)
''The Baker's Wife'' (french: La femme du boulanger) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It is based on the novel '' Blue Boy'' by French author Jean Giono and became the basis of the American musical ''The Baker's Wife''. It tells how the peace of a Provençal village is shattered when the baker's wife runs off with a handsome shepherd. In his despair, the baker becomes heartbroken and can no longer bake. The villagers organise themselves to bring the wife back to her husband and so regain their daily bread. Plot One summer night in an idyllic village in the south of France, the pretty young wife of the baker runs off with a handsome young shepherd. Finding her gone in the morning, the baker is devastated. He pretends she has had to go suddenly to her mother, but people are not fooled and their efforts at consoling him misfire. Going into Sunday mass, he is deeply upset at what seems an unfeeling sermon from the inexperienced young priest and heads for the caf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Penny
''The Last Penny'' (French: ''Le dernier sou'') is a 1946 French drama film directed by André Cayatte and starring Ginette Leclerc, Gilbert Gil and Fernand Charpin. It was one of three films Leclerc appeared in for the collaborationist Continental Films, which she believed led to her arrest by the authorities following the Liberation.Mayne p.84 Although it was made during the Second World War the film was not released until March 1946. Synopsis A secretary tries to save her friend's company from being bankrupted by unscrupulous figures. Cast * Jacques Berlioz as Le président du tribunal * Fernand Charpin as Colon * Guy Decomble * Gabrielle Fontan as Mme. Durban * Annie France as Jacqueline * Gilbert Gil as Pierre Durban * René Génin as Perrin * Ginette Leclerc as Marcelle Levasseur * Noël Roquevert Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majestic Hotel Cellars
''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (French: ''Les caves du Majestic'') is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Albert Préjean, Suzy Prim and Denise Grey. It is based on the Maigret novel '' Maigret and the Hotel Majestic'' by Georges Simenon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne. The film earned admissions in France of 1,870,814. at Box Office Story It was the last production of the German-controlled French film production company , which was dissolved after the |
La Fiancée Des Ténèbres
''La Fiancée des ténèbres'' ("the fiancée of darkness") is a 1945 French film directed by Serge de Poligny and starring Pierre Richard-Willm and Jany Holt. It was one of a small number of films in the fantastique genre made during the German occupation of France. Although filmed in 1944, its completion was delayed by the Liberation and it was not shown until 1945. The film is set in the city of Carcassonne in south-west France. Synopsis Roland Samblanca, a pianist and composer, returns with his family to present-day Carcassonne, his native town, in search of inspiration for his music. Roaming through the old mediaeval town he encounters Sylvie, a mysterious young woman who was adopted as an orphaned child by M. Toulzac, a former teacher now confined to a wheelchair. Toulzac secretly maintains the cult of the Cathar or Albigensian religion, which was eradicated in Carcassonne by the Albigensian Crusade in the 13th century, and he sees in Sylvie someone predestined to rediscov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island Of Love
''The Island of Love'' (French: ''L'île d'amour'') is a 1944 French drama film directed by Maurice Cam and starring Tino Rossi, Édouard Delmont and Josseline Gaël.Rège p.166 A Corsican fisherman becomes ensnared by a sophisticated woman and follows her to 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. S .... Cast Reception It was one of the most popular movies in France in 1945 with admissions of 3,142,290.French box office of 1945 at Box Office Story References Bibliography * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Truck
''The White Truck'' (French: ''Le camion blanc'') is a 1943 French comedy drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Jules Berry, Blanchette Brunoy and François Périer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Plot A young garage mechanic is hired for an unusual assignment, to drive a white truck around France carrying the corpse of a famed gypsy leader. Cast *Jules Berry as Shabbas - the chief of the northern gypsies *Blanchette Brunoy as Germaine *François Périer as François Ledru - a young mechanic *Fernand Charpin as Courbassié - gypsies' southern ambassador *Marguerite Moreno as The King's Widow *Roger Karl as Acho *Mila Parély as Madame Dupont *Jean Parédès as Ernest *Marcelle Monthil as Germaine's mother *Charles Lemontier as Germaine's father * Edmond Beauchamp as gypsy *Robert Berri as pump attendant *Georges Bever Georges Bever (1884–1973) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.38 Selected filmography * '' The Crys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of Madame Clapain
''The Secret of Madame Clapain'' (French: ''Le secret de Madame Clapain'') is a 1943 French crime film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Raymond Rouleau, Line Noro and Michèle Alfa.Rège p.227 The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232 Selected filmography * '' Nights of Princes'' (1930) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * '' Sailor's Song .... Cast References Bibliography * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1943 films French crime films 1943 crime films 1940s French-language films Films directed by André Berthomieu French black-and-white films 1940s French films {{1940s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Veil (1942 Film)
''The Blue Veil'' (French: ''Le voile bleu'') is a 1942 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay, Elvire Popesco and André Alerme.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.306 The film was remade in 1951. Cast * Gaby Morlay as Louise Jarraud * Elvire Popesco as Mona Lorenza * André Alerme as Ernest Volnar-Bussel * Fernand Charpin as Émile Perrette * Aimé Clariond as Le juge d'instruction * Pierre Larquey as Antoine Lancelot * Marcelle Géniat as Madame Breuilly * Georges Grey as Gérard Volnar-Bussel * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Mademoiselle Eugénie * Renée Devillers as Madame Forneret * Denise Grey as Madame Volnar-Bussel * Francine Bessy as La jeune danseuse * Jean Clarieux as Henri Forneret * Pierre Jourdan as Dominique * Camille Bert as Le médecin * Noël Roquevert as L'inspecteur Duval * Marcel Vallée as L'imprésario de Mona Lorenza * Jean Bobillot as Julien * Mona Dol as L'infirmière-chef * Camille Guérini as d'Aubigny * Marthe Mellot as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Suzy
''Strange Suzy'' (French: ) is a 1941 French comedy film directed by Pierre-Jean Ducis and starring Suzy Prim, Claude Dauphin and Marguerite Moreno. Made in the southern zone of Vichy France, the film was a commercial success. Along with another hit '' The Well Digger's Daughter'', it was banned by the Nazi authorities in the Occupied Zone in retaliation for a Vichy ban on the German film ''Bel Ami''.Winkel & Welch p.142 Cast * Suzy Prim as Suzy * Claude Dauphin as Jacques Hébert * Marguerite Moreno as La tante * Albert Préjean as Henri Berger * Pierre Stéphen as Joseph * Gaby André as Aline * Fernand Charpin * Marcel Delaître * Lisette Didier * Lysiane Rey * Marthe Sarbel * Jacques Tarride Jacques Tarride (10 March 1903 – 5 October 1994) was a French actor. Biography He was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and died in La Loupe, Eure-et-Loir. He was the son of the actor Abel Tarride and the brother of the director Jean T ... References Bibliograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marvelous Night
''The Marvelous Night'' or ''The Night of Marvels'' (French: ''La nuit merveilleuse'') is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Paulin and starring Fernandel, Charles Vanel and Janine Darcey.Connelly p.169 Cast * Fernandel as Le berger * Charles Vanel as Le fermier * Janine Darcey as La jeune femme * Fernand Charpin as L'aubergiste * Jean Daurand as Le mari * Milly Mathis as La paysanne * Madeleine Robinson as La réfugiée * Édouard Delmont as Le vieux berger * Jean Aquistapace as Le voyageur * Jacques Erwin as Le forgeron * Charlotte Clasis as La servante * Jane Marken as Mathilde, l'hôtelière * René Fleur René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ... as L'explorateur * Couty Bonneval * Wanny Teers References Bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlingot And Company
''Berlingot and Company'' (French: ''Berlingot et compagnie'') is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Fernand Rivers and starring Fernandel, Suzy Prim and Fernand Charpin.Crisp p.415 It was shot at Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Cast * Fernandel as François, vendeur de berlingots * Fernand Charpin as Victor, l'associé de François * Suzy Prim as Isabelle Granville * Fréhel as Bohémia * Jean Brochard as Le directeur de l'asile * Rivers Cadet as Le lutteur * Monique Bert as Thérèse * Édouard Delmont as Courtepatte * Jean Témerson as Un client du café * Josselyne Lane as Lisa * René Alié as Dédé * Marco Behar as Le fou * Jacques Servière as Gaston * Fernand Flament as Paulo * Le petit Jacky as La petite Gisèle * Marcel Maupi Marcel Maupi, stage name of Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin or Maupi, (6 November 1881, Marseille – 4 January 1949, Antibes) was a French actor. Selected filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
