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French Films Of 1939 ...
A list of films produced in France in 1939: See also * 1939 in France References External links French films of 1939at the Internet Movie DatabaseFrench films of 1939at Cinema-francais.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:French Films Of 1939 1939 Films French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Film
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten Best Picture-nominated films that year include classics in multiple genres. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1939 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events Film historians often rate 1939 as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood". Hollywood films produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age (in spite of many cheaply made or undistinguished films also being produced, something to be expected with any year in commercial cinema), and during 1939 there are the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which become honored as all-time classic films. ** June 10 – MGM's first successful animated character, Barney Bear, made his debut in ''The Bear That Couldn't Sleep''. ** August 15 – ''The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ** October 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Dauphin (actor)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1930 and 1978. Biography He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole''. His elder brother was the writer Jean Nohain. Dauphin's debut on film came in ''La Vagabonde'' (1930). He debuted on stage in ''Chapeau Chinois'' (1930) in Paris. Private life Dauphin married three times: first to Rosine Derean, then to the actress Maria Mauban with whom he had a child, Jean-Claude Dauphin, also an actor. Eventually, in 1955, Dauphin married American actress Norma Eberhardt. The couple divided their time between Paris, Los Angeles, New York City and Ocean Township, New Jersey. They remained together until Dauphin's death in Paris in 1978. Selected filmography * '' A Tale of the Fox'' (1930) - Monkey (voice) * ''Tout s'arrang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette Barencey
Odette Barencey (20 August 1893 – 4 March 1981) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1927 and 1958. She was married to the actor Marcel Barencey. Selected filmography * '' My Childish Father'' (1930) * '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931) * ''Montmartre'' (1931) * ''The Faceless Voice'' (1933) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * ''Notre-Dame de la Mouise'' (1941) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * ''The Stairs Without End'' (1943) * '' Traveling Light'' (1944) * ''A Friend Will Come Tonight'' (1946) * ''Land Without Stars'' (1946) * '' Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean'' (1947) * '' Sybille's Night'' (1947) * ''The Cupid Club'' (1949) * ''Lady Paname'' (1950) * ''Paris Vice Squad'' (1951) * ''My Seal and Them'' (1951) * '' Passion'' (1951) * ''My Friend Oscar'' (1951) * '' The Red Head'' (1952) * '' The Sparrows of Paris'' (1953) * '' Little Jacques'' (1953) * ''Their Last Night'' (1953) * ''Flesh and the Woman'' (1954) * '' Madelon'' (1955) * ''The Whole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Darène
Robert Darène (10 January 1914 – 15 January 2016) was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in twelve films between 1934 and 1959, and directed nine films between 1951 and 1963. Selected filmography * ''Le Chevalier de la nuit'' (1953) * ''Goubbiah, mon amour'' (1956) * ''The Amorous Corporal'' (1958) * '' The Cage'' (1963) See also * List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers) The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians The following is a list of list ... References External links * 1914 births 2016 deaths French male film actors French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French centenarians Men centenarians 20th-century French male actors {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Poirier
Léon Poirier (25 August 1884 – 27 June 1968) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949. His most famous film today is '' Verdun: Visions of History'', a drama-documentary depicting the World War I Battle of Verdun. His later films adopted a form of poetic realism influenced by pictorialist photography. Life Poirier was the nephew of Berthe Morisot. He began his career in the theatre, as secretary of the Théâtre du Gymnase. Following a serious accident, he withdrew from theatrical productions and accepted a contract from Gaumont to make a film. In 1914 with the outbreak of war, he joined the army and became a lieutenant in the artillery, even though his accident exempted him from duty. At the end of the conflict he returned to filmmaking, creating a large number of films in the silent era, but reducing his output after the advent of sound. Most of these works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazza Ou L'Epopée Du Congo
Brazza may refer to: *Brazza (Lat. ''Brattia'') Italian name of the Croatian island of Brač, placed in the Adriatic sea * Cora Slocomb di Brazza also Brazzà (1862–1944), American-born Italian activist and businesswoman *Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, later known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza; 26 January 1852 – 14 September 1905), was an Italian-born, naturalized French explorer. With his family's financial help, he explored the Ogoou ... (1852–1905), Italian-born, naturalized French explorer. * Jacques Savorgnan de Brazza (1859–1888), Italian naturalist {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzy Prim
Suzy Prim (11 October 1896 – 7 July 1991) was a French actress. She was born Suzanne Mariette Arduini in Paris and died in 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She began her screen career as a child actress during the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1914) * ''Madame Coralie & C.'' (1914) * ''Les écrits restent'' (1917) * ''Le Noël d'Yveline'' (1918) * ''Haine'' (1918) * ''Appassionatamente'' (1919) * ''Passionnément'' (1920) * ''Il suo destino'' (1921) * ''La reine Lumière'' (1921) - Huguette Landry ' Reine Lumière ' * ''Un drame d'amour'' (1921) - Diane d'Évremont * ''L'aiglonne'' (1922) - Madame de Navailles * ''Mon coeur et ses millions'' (1931) - Marguerite Mirgaudon * ''Un petit trou pas cher'' (1934) * '' La Bandera'' (1935) - (uncredited) * ''Le bébé de l'escadron'' (1935) - Mathilde * ''Marie des angoisses'' (1935) - Marfa * ''Mayerling'' (1936) - La comtesse Larisch * ''Samson'' (1936) - Grace Ritter * '' La Peur'' (1936) - L'actrice * ''Moutonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin, Italy. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. His stage name originated from his marriage to Henriette Manse, the sister of his best friend and frequent cinematic collaborator Jean Manse. So attentive was he to his wife that his mother-in-law amusingly referred to him as ''Fernand d'elle'' ("Fernand of her"). Biography In 1930, Fernandel appeared in his first motion picture and for more than forty years he would be France's top comic actor. He was perhaps best loved for his portrayal of the irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the ''Don Camillo'' series of motion pictures. His horse-like teeth beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Rivers
Fernand Rivers (born François Large, 6 September 1879, Saint-Lager - 12 September 1960) was a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was the brother of the actor Rivers Cadet. Partial filmography Director * '' The Ironmaster'' (1933) * ''Pasteur'' (1935) * '' The Two Boys'' (1936) adaptation of the novel by Pierre Decourcelle * '' Berlingot and Company'' (1939) * ''Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...'' (1946) * '' The Ironmaster'' (1948) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1949) Producer * '' Compliments of Mister Flow'' (1936) * '' The Road to Damascus'' (1952) * '' Adam Is Eve'' (1954) * '' Blood to the Head'' (1956) References External links * 1879 births 1960 deaths People from Rhône (department) French film di ... [...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] |
André Lefaur
André Lefaur (25 July 1879 – 5 December 1952) was a French film and theatre actor, notably working several times with director Sacha Guitry. Partial filmography * ''La Vénus d'Arles'' (1911) * ''L'homme qui assassina'' (1913) * ''Ainsi va la vie'' (1918, short) * ''The Tenth Symphony'' (1918) * ''Une fleur dans les ronces'' (1920) * ''Monsieur Lebidois propriétaire'' (1922) * ''The Marriage of Rosine'' (1926) * '' A Gentleman of the Ring'' (1926) * ''His Highness Love'' (1931) * '' Le Bal'' (1931) * ''Orange Blossom'' (1932) * '' His Best Client'' (1932) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) *''An Ideal Woman'' (1934) * L'aristo (1934) * '' Dora Nelson'' (1935) * ''School for Coquettes'' (1935) * '' Tovaritch'' (1935) *'' With a smile'' (1936) * '' The King'' (1936) * ''Let's Make a Dream'' (1936) * Rigolboche (1936) * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''The Green Jacket'' (1937) * ''The House Opposite'' (1937) * La peau d'un autre (1937) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * Le faut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou; 21 September 1888 in Toulouse – 21 May 1968 in Hossegor) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from the 1930s. In the field of musical comedy he created roles in '' Brummell'' in 1931 (Jim), ''Déshabillez-vous !'' in 1928 (Dumontel), '' Passionément'' in 1926 (Captain Harris), and ''J'adore ça'' in 1925 (Jacques Cocardier). He appeared as Laurent XVII in the 1935 film and 1956 recording of ''La mascotte''. He took part in the complete recording of ''Le Malade imaginaire'' (as Monsieur Diafoirus), in 1964 starring Michel Galabru on L'Encyclopédie Sonore Hachette. Selected filmography * ''Monsieur le directeur'' (1925) - Ferdinand * ''Son premier film'' (1926) - Le metteur en scène * '' Tenderness'' (1930) - Carlos Jarry * ''Levy and Company'' (1930) - Louis * ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931) - Le duc d'Auribeau * ''La femme et le rossignol'' (1931) * ''Un soir de rafle' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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