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Gisèle Préville
Gisèle Préville (1918–2006) was a French film actress and beauty contestant. She entered the film industry after being crowned Miss Paris in 1934 and Miss France in 1935. While she mainly featured in French films, she also starred in the British films '' Against the Wind'' (1948) and ''The Dancing Years'' (1950).Hayward p.242 Partial filmography * ''Adventure in Paris'' (1936) - Solange Surnisse * '' Beethoven's Great Love'' (1936) - (uncredited) * ''White Cargo'' (1937) - Béatrice Blanco * ''Trois artilleurs au pensionnat'' (1937) * '' Prison sans barreaux'' (1938) - Alice * ''Trois artilleurs en vadrouille'' (1938) - Monique Chabert * '' Mother Love'' (1938) - La jeune fille * '' Cocoanut'' (1939) - Nathalie * ''Nightclub Hostess'' (1939) - Lucienne Noblet * ''Paris-New York'' (1940) - Jane Billingham * ''Mélodie pour toi'' (1942) - Irène Daniel * ''Two Timid Souls'' (1943) - Cécile Vancouver * ''Vautrin'' (1943) - Madame de Maufrigneuse * ''Trente et quarante'' (1946) ... [...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] |
Paris-New York
''Paris-New York'' (French: ''Paris New-York'') is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Yves Mirande, Claude Heymann and Georges Lacombe. It stars Gaby Morlay, Michel Simon and André Lefaur.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.306 It was shot at the Cité Elgé studios in Paris and aboard the . The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew. It was produced during the Phoney War period and released shortly before the Fall of France. Synopsis During an Atlantic crossing aboard a liner, a variety of passengers interact including an Inspector escorting a precious diamond, another Sûreté officer on an investigation, several criminals, a journalist in love with the daughter of an American banker A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ... and her disapproving father who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docteur Jekyll Et Les Femmes
''Docteur Jekyll et les femmes'' is a 1981 horror film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. The film is a variation on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' and stars Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Howard Vernon, and Gérard Zalcberg. The film, a co-production between France and West Germany, was released in France in 1981 and won an award for Best Feature Film Director at the 1981 Sitges Film Festival for Borowczyk. Plot Fanny Osborne (Marina Pierro) and her mother arrive at the home of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier) to celebrate their engagement. The party is attended by numerous dignitaries, including General Carew (Patrick Magee) and his daughter; Dr Lanyon (Howard Vernon), a close friend and mentor to Henry who is nonetheless nonplused by Henry's endorsement of "transcendental science"; Enfield (Eugene Braun Munk), Henry's attorney; and the Reverend (Clément Harari). After dinner, the daughter of a guest is found raped and murdere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witness (1978 Film)
''The Witness'' (french: Le Témoin, it, Il testimone) is a French-Italian crime-thriller film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky and starring Alberto Sordi and Philippe Noiret. It is loosely based on the novel ''Shadow of a Doubt'' by Harrison Judd. Plot Italian artist Antonio Berti is invited by his French friend Robert Maurisson to restore the paintings in the Reims Cathedral. He needs a model and selects Cathy, a teenage girl from the local church choir. Despite her angelic demeanor, the girl makes sexually explicit comments while posing for Antonio. One day, Cathy goes missing, and her dead body is later found in a canal, not far from an empty house owned by Maurisson. Antonio remembers seeing his friend Robert near the house on the night of the crime, but the latter denies it and has an alibi. Instead, the police turn their attention to Berti who is an outsider and can't provide an alibi. Later, Robert privately confesses to Antonio, and suggests they both would escape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Time For Loving
''A Time for Loving'' is from an original screenplay by the French playwright Jean Anouilh, commissioned by the producer Anatole de Grunwald before he died in 1967, which was finally produced by his younger brother Dimitri de Grunwald with Christopher Miles directing in 1970. It is a bitter-sweet nostalgic look at Paris just before and during the second World War as seen by three couples, who over the years rent the same artist’s studio in Montmartre. Plot At the same time as an English man, Geoff arranges a rendezvous with his first love, Patricia, to recapture their first affair in a Montmartre studio, the son of the concierge persuades his first love Simone to climb up to the same studio bedroom window thinking it would be empty for the night. Meanwhile Geoff finds Patricia has grown bitter over the years, and that the warmth has gone from their relationship, but when they disturb the two young lovers in the bedroom, the evening ends in a humorous and more light-hearted m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Miles To Midnight
''Five Miles to Midnight'' (French: ''Le Couteau dans la plaie'', literally ''The Knife in the wound'') is a 1962 Franco-Italian international co-production drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. It starred Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins. It was produced through Filmsonor S.A., Dear Film Produzione and Mercury, and distributed by United Artists. Plot Immediately after Lisa (Loren) declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert (Perkins), he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor (Gig Young), Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt. Eventually the stress of putting up with Robert is too much for Lisa, and she runs over him and disposes of the body and car in a lake. The suitor realizes what she did as she has a mental breakdown and calls t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The President (1961 Film)
''The President'' (french: Le Président) is a 1961 French political thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil and based on, though altering the ending of, the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. It tells the story of a French prime minister (Jean Gabin), a lifelong proponent of the national good, who is twice betrayed by an opportunistic younger politician (Bernard Blier) but in the end gets his revenge. The film's title refers to the former French term for prime minister, which was ''président du conseil des ministres'' (chairman of the cabinet), but has since been replaced by the term ''premier ministre'' (prime minister). Plot Aged 73 and in ill-health, a former prime minister of France, the widower Émile Beaufort, spends his days in his country house near Evreux dictating his memoirs to his secretary. He gets to the point, some twenty years earlier, when he had to devalue the currency. After secretly meeting the governor of the central bank and the minister of financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened All Night
''It Happened All Night'' (in French: ''Affaire d'une nuit'') is a 1960 French film directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Pierre Mondy and with the participation of Brigitte Bardot. Cast * Pascale Petit : Christine Fiesco * Roger Hanin : Michel Ferréol * Pierre Mondy : Antoine Fiesco * Robert Dalban : Lenormand * Gabriel Gobin : Sergeant * Émile Genevois : drunkard * Micheline Luccioni : Mireille Luccioni * Bernard Musson : pharmacist * Claude Piéplu : salesman * Gisèle Préville : Madame Lenormand * Brigitte Bardot : a woman in the restaurant (uncredited) * Jacques Charrier : a man in the restaurant (uncredited) * Henri Verneuil : a man in the restaurant (uncredited) * Christine Gouze-Rénal : a woman in the restaurant (uncredited) * Guy Henry : librarian (uncredited) * Félix Marten : a man in the restaurant (uncredited) * Darío Moreno David Arugete (3 April 1921 – 1 December 1968), commonly known under his sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turkey (film)
''The Turkey'' (French: ''Le Dindon'') is a 1951 French period comedy film directed by Claude Barma and starring Nadine Alari, Jacqueline Pierreux and Denise Provence. It is an adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1896 play '' Le Dindon'' (''The Turkey'' or ''Sauce for the Goose''). It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Henri Schmitt. Synopsis In Paris during the Belle Epoque, Monsieur Pontagnac loves his wife but also has a wandering eye that gets him into trouble. This happens particularly when he becomes entangled with Lucienne Vatelin, the wife of a lawyer. A variety of other characters have various suspicions and intrigue and all gather at the same hotel with farcical results. Cast * Nadine Alari as Lucienne Vatelin, the notary's wife * Jacqueline Pierreux as Armandine * Denise Provence as Clotilde Pontagnac * Gisèle Préville as Maggy Pacarel * Jane Marken as Mrs Pinchard * Louis Seigner as Mr Pinchard * Jacques Charon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Life
''Return to Life'' (french: Retour à la vie) is a 1949 French drama portmanteau film in five parts directed by Georges Lampin, André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean Dréville (who directed the last two parts). It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Paul Azaïs as the captain * Bernard Blier as Gaston * Jean Brochard as the Hotel tender * Léonce Corne as Virolet * Janine Darcey as Mary * Max Elloy as the old barman * Louis Florencie as the chief of police * Paul Frankeur as the maire * Jacques Hilling as a soldier * Louis Jouvet as Jean Girard * Léon Larive as Jules, the guard * Héléna Manson as Simone * Marie-France Plumer as Aunt Berth * Noël-Noël as René * Jeanne Pérez as the mother * François Périer as Antoine * Serge Reggiani as Louis, the husband of the young German * Patricia Roc as Lieutenant Evelyne * Noël Roquevert as the commander * Maurice Schutz Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal Brigade (1947 Film)
''Criminal Brigade'' (French: ''Brigade criminelle'') is a 1947 French thriller film directed by and starring Gilbert Gil. The cast also included Gisèle Préville, Jean Davy and Maurice Teynac.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.47 It was made at the Photosonor Studios in Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris. The film's set were designed by the art director Nordès Bartau. Synopsis Enemy agents attempt to gain control of information about a secret defence system. Commissioner Chabrier attempts to stop them before they can pass the information to their embassy. Cast * Jean-Louis Allibert as Inspecteur * Ellen Bernsen as Myriam * Michel Bouquet as Le tueur * Raymond Cordy as Mérignac * Jean Davy as Commissaire Chabrier * Jacques Dufilho as Lucien * Gilbert Gil as Michel Perrin * Daniel Ivernel as Jean-Jacques * Jean-Max as Oudrach * Gaëtan Jor as Inspecteur * Gisèle Préville as Christine * Maurice Teynac Maurice Teynac (1915–1992) was a French actor. In 1948 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroir (film)
''Miroir'' is a 1947 French film directed by Raymond Lamy. The film starred Jean Gabin. Plot ''Miroir'' is about a businessman who moonlights as a gangster. Cast Production ''Miroir'' was produced by Alcina and Sud-Pacifique Films. The assistant director for the film was Raymond Bailly, the dialogue writer was Carlo Rim, the screenwriters were Paul Ollivier and Carlo Rim, the director of photography was Roger Hubert, the sound engineers were Jean Putel and Jacques Carrère, the cinematographer was Marc Fossard, the production director was Marcel Bryau, the editor was Germaine Artus, the script supervisor was Jacqueline Loir, the production designers were Roland Berthon and Georges Wakhevitch, the composer was Maurice Yvain, the make-up artist was Boris de Fast, and the general manager was Claude Pinoteau. The film is in black and white and was shot with 35 mm movie film. The aspect ratio of the film was 1.37:1, the Academy ratio. The audio of the film was monaural. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
