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Forfaiture
''The Cheat'' (French: ''Forfaiture'') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa and Louis Jouvet.Kennedy-Karpat p.156 It is a remake of the American silent film '' The Cheat'' by Cecil B. DeMille. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. Main cast * Victor Francen as Pierre Moret * Sessue Hayakawa as Prince Hu-Long * Louis Jouvet as Valfar * Lise Delamare as Denise Moret * Lucas Gridoux as Tang-Si * Ève Francis as Mrs. Curtis * Lucien Nat as Maître Ribeyre * Pierre Magnier as Le Président de la société * Jean Brochard as Félicien * Sylvia Bataille Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès; 1 November 1908 – 22 December 1993) was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bata ... as Ming References Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cheat (1915 Film)
''The Cheat'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean, Ward's real-life husband. In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Plot Edith Hardy is a spoiled society woman who continues to buy expensive clothes even when her husband, Richard, tells her all his money is sunk into a stock speculation and he can't pay her bills until the stock goes up. She even delays paying her maid her wages, and the embarrassed Richard must do so. Edith is also the treasurer of the local Red Cross fund drive for Belgian refugees, which holds a gala dance at the home of Hishuru Tori, a rich Japanese ivory merchant (or, in the 1918 re-release, Haka Arakau, a rich Burmese ivory merchant). He is an elegant and dangerously sexy man, to whom Edith seems somewhat drawn; he shows her his roomful of treasures, and stamps one of them with a heated brand to show that it belongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ève Francis
Ève Francis (born Eva Louise François; 20 August 1886 – 6 December 1980) was an actress and film-maker. She was born in Belgium but spent most of her career in France. She became closely associated with the writer Paul Claudel, and she was married to the critic and film-maker Louis Delluc. Career Ève Francis was born Eva Louise François at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Belgium. After completing her secondary education in Belgium, she embarked on a career as an actress and began working in the theatre in Paris in 1913. In 1914 she was introduced to the author Paul Claudel who chose her for the leading role in the first Paris production of his play ''L'Otage''. Although only a few performances were given, the play was well received in literary and artistic circles and her reputation was established. Her long-lasting association with Claudel was at times personal as well as artistic, and in later years she described him as the most extraordinary person she had known and the domi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Early life Marcel L'Herbier was born in Paris on 23 April 1888 into a professional and intellectual family, and as he grew up he demonstrated a multi-talented disposition for sports, dancing, debating and the arts. He attended a Society of Mary (Marists), Marist school and then the Lycée Voltaire (Paris), Lycée Voltaire, followed by the École des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris. He worked hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Georges Auriol
Jean George Auriol (January 8, 1907 – April 2, 1950) was a French film critic and screenwriter. He was the founder of the film magazine ''La Revue du cinéma''. Biography Jean George Auriol (born Jean-Georges Huyot; his name is sometimes written as Jean-Georges Auriol) was the son of the French poet, artist, and type-designer George Auriol. In December 1928 Auriol published the first issue of a magazine called ''Du cinéma'' which, after being adopted by the publisher Gallimard, became ''La Revue du cinéma''. It ran for a total of 29 issues until December 1931, and it established a reputation for intellectual seriousness and the quality of its contributors, who included Jacques Brunius, Louis Chavance, and Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Auriol established a structure for each issue (a major article, a selection of studies, film reviews and news items) which became a model for other journals.Lucien Logette, "Jean George Auriol ou l'Oublié majuscule", i''La Lettre du syndicat français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Francen
Victor Francen (born Victor Franssens, 5 August 1888 – 18 November 1977) was a Belgian-born actor with a long career in French cinema and in Hollywood. Biography Francen was born in 1888 in Tienen, the son of a chief of police. According to Russian sources, he attended opera classes in Odessa before 1914. Was already well known in Russian empire before 1914. Postcards with his portraits were printed and sold. He worked in trade in Belgium before settling in Paris where he trained in dramatic art under Paul Mounet. His stage career in the 1920s included appearances in plays by Henri Bernstein, Georges Bataille and Edmond Rostand which took him all over the world. After three appearances in silent films, he played the Prophet in Abel Gance's film '' La Fin du monde'' (''The End of the World'') (1931) and established his career as a leading man in French films. In 1940, he was introduced to American films by Charles Boyer and appeared in ''Hold Back the Dawn'' (1941), ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Magnier
Pierre Frédéric Magnier (February 22, 1869 - October 15, 1959) was a French actor who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France. He was the second actor to portray ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' in any film in 1925. He continued acting until the 1950s. He is most remembered for the role of the General in Jean Renoir's ''La règle du jeu'', where he has one of the films more poignant quotes (''and the film's final line'') when he praises Marcel Dalio's character as one of "''a vanishing breed''." Selected filmography * '' Le Duel D'Hamlet'' with Sarah Bernhardt (1900) * '' André Cornélis'' (1918) *''La Roue'' (1923) * ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1925) * ''Tossing Ship'' (1932) * ''Antoinette'' (1932) * '' All for Love'' (1933) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1933) * '' Second Bureau'' (1935) * '' Lady Killer'' (1937) * ''The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937) * '' The Cheat'' (1937) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1937) * ''Golden Venus'' (1938) * '' Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Nat
Lucien Nat (born Lucien Maurice Natte; 11 January 1895 – 25 July 1972) was a French film, stage and television actor.McCann p.95 He was married to the actress Marie Déa. Selected filmography * ''Fun in the Barracks'' (1932) - Maréchal des Logis chef Barnot * ''Les Misérables'' (1934) - Montparnasse * ''The Tender Enemy'' (1936) - Le Promis * ''Boissière'' (1937) - Jean Le Barois * '' The Cheat'' (1937) - Maître Ribeyre * ''Rasputin'' (1938) - Ostrowski * ''Le corsaire'' (1939) * ''Camp Thirteen'' (1940) - Carlos * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) - Marcel Gernicot * ''Les affaires sont les affaires'' (1942) - Lucien Garraud * ''Pontcarral'' (1942) - Garron * ''The Heart of a Nation'' (1943) - Bernard Froment adulte * ''Des jeunes filles dans la nuit'' (1943) - Le père d'Andrée * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1943) - Agostin / Agostino * ''Mermoz'' (1943) - Julien Pranville * ''Le Bossu'' (1944) - Jean de Peyrolles * '' Lunegarde'' (1946) - Monsieur de Lunegarde * '' Patrie'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Gridoux
Lucas Gridoux (16 April 1896 – 22 April 1952) was a Romanian-born French stage and film actor.Lanzoni p. 99 Biography He was born in 1896 in Herța, at the time in Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania. After emigrating to France, Gridoux began his film career in 1931, playing mainly in roles of traitors. In 1935, he was Judas in Julien Duvivier's Golgotha, and then in 1937, Inspector Slimane, a sworn enemy of Jean Gabin in Pépé le Moko, by the same director. He died in 1952 at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and was buried at the city's Père Lachaise Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''American Love'' (1931) * '' Golgotha'' (1935) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * '' The Cheat'' (1937) * ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937) * '' Beethoven's Great Love'' (1937) * ''The Men Without Names'' (1937) * '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938) * ''Rail Pirates'' (1938) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * '' The Captain'' (1946) * ''Panic (Panique)'' (1947) * ''Secret Cargo'' (1947) * ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Delamare
Lise Delamare (born Jolyse Effrey Jeanne Delamare; 9 April 1913 – 25 July 2006) was a French stage and film actress. Partial filmography * ''George and Georgette'' (1934) * ''Les précieuses ridicules'' (1934) * ''Pension Mimosas'' (1935) - Nelly * ''Notre-Dame d'amour'' (1936) - Roseline * '' The Cheat'' (1937) - Denise Moret * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - La Reine Marie-Antoinette * ''Péchés de jeunesse'' (1941) - Madeleine * '' The Duchess of Langeais'' (1942) - Madame de Serizy * ''La Symphonie fantastique'' (1942) - Harriet Smithson * '' La fausse maîtresse'' (1942) - Hélène * ''Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary'' (1942) - Joséphine de Beauharnais * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) - Haydée (French version only) * ''The White Waltz'' (1943) - Hélène Madelin * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) - Fernande *''Farandole'' (1945) - Blanche * '' Father Goriot'' (1945) - Madame de Beauséant * '' Lunegarde'' (1946) - Madame de Vertumne * '' Raboliot'' (1946) - Flora * ... [...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] |
Billancourt Studios
Billancourt Studios was a film studio in Paris which operated between 1922 and 1992. Located in Boulogne-Billancourt, it was one of the leading French studios. It was founded in the silent era by Henri Diamant-Berger. During the Second World War the studio was used by Continental Films Continental Films was a German-controlled French film production company. It stood as the sole authorized film production organization in Nazi-occupied France. Established in October 1940, it was entirely bankrolled by the German government, and ..., a company financed by the German occupiers. They are also known as the Paris-Studio-Cinéma. History Henri Diamant-Berger set up his studios in the buildings sold by the aircraft cabin builder Niepce and Fetterer, taking advantage of the infrastructure left behind and the immensity of the buildings. He thus created the first modern French studio, including on the same place restaurant, workshops, dressing rooms. A clean power plant produces light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
