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His Father's Portrait
''His Father's Portrait'' (french: Le Portrait de son père) is a 1953 French comedy film starring Brigitte Bardot. The film recorded 1,643,820 admissions. at Box Office Story Cast * Jean Richard as Paul * as Marie * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Berthomieu
André Berthomieu (16 February 1903 – 10 April 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was married to the actress Line Noro. Selected filmography Director * '' Not So Stupid'' (1928) * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1929) * ''My Friend Victor'' (1931) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1933) * ' (1934) * '' The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1936) * '' The Flame'' (1936) * ''The Lover of Madame Vidal'' (1936) * ''Death on the Run'' (1936) * '' Chaste Susanne'' (1937) * ''The Girl in the Taxi'' (1937) * ''The Train for Venice'' (1938) * ''The Woman of Monte Carlo'' (1938) * '' The Angel of the Night'' (1944) * '' Resistance'' (1945) * '' My First Love'' (1945) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Gringalet'' (1946) * ''The Heart on the Sleeve'' (1948) * ''The Chocolate Girl'' (1950) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1950) * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) * ''Wonderful Mentality'' (1953) * ''The Last Robin Hood'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Elloy
Max Elloy (5 May 1900 – 16 January 1975) was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1967. Filmography * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) - Max * ''Défense d'aimer'' (1942) - Le voyageur affamé * ''Feu Nicolas'' (1943) - Le croque-mort * ''Patrie'' (1946) * ''Mademoiselle s'amuse'' (1948) * ''Une femme par jour'' (1949) - Freddy * '' Manon'' (1949) - Le garçon de restaurant (uncredited) * ''Return to Life'' (1949) - Le vieux barman (segment 2 : "Le retour d'Antoine") (uncredited) * ''We Will All Go to Paris'' (1950) - Honorin * ''The Chocolate Girl'' (1950) * '' Le Roi Pandore'' (1950) - Un créancier * '' Father's Dilemma'' (1950) - Lo spazzino * ''Mon ami le cambrioleur'' (1950) - L'agent de police * ''Atoll K'' (1951) - Antoine * ''Nous irons à Monte Carlo'' (1951) - Himself * ''Plaisirs de Paris'' (1952) - Léon * '' The Sparrows of Paris'' (1953) - Petit Louis * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) - Le chauffeur * ''Mam'zelle Nitouche'' (1954) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Comedy Films
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French Black-and-white Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By André Berthomieu
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Louis (actor)
Pierre-Louis (1917–1987) was a French film actor. He also directed three films in the early 1950s including ''The Nude Dancer''.Goble p.11 Selected filmography Actor * ''Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935) * '' Hélène'' (1936) * ''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1943) * '' Box of Dreams'' (1945) * ''Counter Investigation'' (1947) * ''Quay of Grenelle'' (1950) * ''Sins of Madeleine'' (1951) * '' Folie douce'' (1951) * ''Moumou'' (1951) * '' Fortuné de Marseille'' (1952) * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) * ''Tourbillon'' (1953) * ''Burning Fuse'' (1957) * ''Anyone Can Kill Me'' (1957) * ''Maigret Sets a Trap'' (1958) Director * ''The Nude Dancer'' (1952) * ''Soyez les bienvenus ''Soyez les bienvenus'' or ''L'Autocar en folie'' is a 1953 French comedy film by Pierre-Louis. Plot The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the ...'' (1953) * '' Mandat d'amener'' (1953) References Bibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soyez Les Bienvenus
''Soyez les bienvenus'' or ''L'Autocar en folie'' is a 1953 French comedy film by Pierre-Louis (actor), Pierre-Louis. Plot The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there. Cast Songs Production The composer of the music of the film Henri Betti plays his own role. During a scene, there is an orchestra that plays the melody of the songs ''C'est si bon'' and ''What Can I Do? (Édith Piaf song), Mais qu’est-ce que j’ai ?'' (1947). The song ''Le Beau Pedro'' was used in the film ''His Father's Portrait'' directed by André Berthomieu the same year. References External links * 1953 films French comedy films French black-and-white films 1953 comedy films 1950s French films {{1950s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Nohain
Jean Nohain (1900–1981) was a French playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter, and a radio and television producer and presenter. He was the son of the librettist Franc-Nohain and the brother of the actor Claude Dauphin.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.118 Selected filmography * ''Arsene Lupin, Detective'' (1937) * ''The Tale of the Fox'' (1937) * ''Sing Anyway'' (1940) * ''Radio Surprises'' (1940) * ''Soyez les bienvenus ''Soyez les bienvenus'' or ''L'Autocar en folie'' is a 1953 French comedy film by Pierre-Louis. Plot The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * Writers from Paris 1900 births 1981 deaths 20th-century French screenwriters French lyricists French children's writers Lycée Condorcet alumni Order of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Mestral
Armand Mestral (born ''Armand Serge Zelikson''; 25 November 1917 - 17 September 2000) was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992. Filmography References External links * 1917 births 2000 deaths French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Windmill Song
"The Windmill Song" is the English version of the French popular song "Maître Pierre", composed in 1948 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Jacques Plante. "Maître Pierre" had already been recorded by numerous French performers when Mitchell Parish wrote the English lyrics in 1951, titled "The Windmill Song", which became popular in the United States when performed by The Andrews Sisters that year. Story In 1948, Henri Betti met Jacques Plante at the SACEM who told him that he had the idea of writing a song referring to the 1947 strikes by coal miners in France. Plante told Betti that the song would speak about a young employee who works in the countryside in a mill which is directed by a man whose name is Maître Pierre. The employee is tired, and decides to leave and find a new job in Paris. Unable to find a job, he returns to the mill where he worked before. When he arrives at the mill and he sees the director again, he tells him : "Il fait bon chez vous Maître Pierre" ("I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
