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Jean Brochard
Jean Brochard (12 March 1893 – 17 June 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1966. Selected filmography * '' A Man's Neck'' (1933) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''Boubouroche'' (1933) * ''The Invisible Woman'' (1933) * ''Son autre amour'' (1934) * ''Une femme chipée'' (1934) * ''Minuit... place Pigalle'' (1934) * ''Le diable en bouteille'' (1935) * '' The Scandalous Couple'' (1935) - Un ouvrier * ''Un soir de bombe'' (1935) * ''Le secret de l'émeraude'' (1935) - Le sergent Irving * ''Jonny, haute-couture'' (1935) * ''Inspector Grey'' (1936) - L'inspecteur Poussin * ''Bach the Detective'' (1936) - Le voyageur indisposé * ''Tout va très bien madame la marquise'' (1936) * ''The Mysterious Lady'' (1936) * ''À minuit, le 7'' (1937) - L'inspecteur Belenfant * ''Vous n'avez rien à déclarer ?'' (1937) - Le balayeur * ''À nous deux, madame la vie'' (1937) * ''Champs-Elysees'' (1937) - Un agent * '' The Cheat'' (1937) - Félicien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after th ... [...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] |
Traveling Light (1944 Film)
''Traveling Light'' () is a 1944 French drama film directed by Jean Anouilh, starring Pierre Fresnay and Blanchette Brunoy. The narrative is set in 1931, when a man with amnesia tries to recover his memories from World War I, in order to find out what kind of man he really is. The film is based on Anouilh's 1937 play with the same title. Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Gaston * Blanchette Brunoy as Valentine * Pierre Renoir as Georges Renaud * Marguerite Deval as Countess Dupont-Dufort * Louis Salou as Maître Uspard) * Odette Barencey as une parente * Mercédès Brare * Jean Brochard as Marcel Berthier * Pierre Brûlé as the little boy * Jenny Burnay as Juliette Production Just like with Jean Cocteau, World War II gave Jean Anouilh the opportunity to advance in the French film industry. Anouilh had written dialogue for several films in the 1930s, but ''Traveling Light'' was his directorial debut. He would eventually direct one additional film, ''Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voyage Without Hope
''Voyage Without Hope'' (French: ''Voyage sans espoir'') is a French 1943 French crime drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Simone Renant, Jean Marais and Paul Bernard. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It has been classified as a film noir with an opening that recalls the pre-war poetic realist film '' The Human Beast''.Walker-Morrison p.35 Synopsis A bank clerk steals money and plans to run off to Argentina on a freighter. On the train to the port he encounters a criminal just released from prison who takes him for a naïve, wealthy young man and persuades his old girlfriend, nightclub singer Marie-Ange, to seduce him. However, she falls in love with the essentially honest boy and as the net closes in against him from both the criminals and the law she ultimately sacrifices herself for him. Cast * Simone Renant as Marie-Ange * Jean Marais as Alain Ginestier * Paul Bernard as Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From London (1943 Film)
''The Man from London'' or ''The London Man'' (French: ''L'homme de Londres'') is a 1943 French thriller film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Prim and Jules Berry. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, which was later turned into the 1947 British film ''Temptation Harbour''.Goble p.800 It was shot at the Buttes-Chaumont Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff. Synopsis A railway worker at a ferry port discovers a suitcase containing a large sum of money, the proceeds of a crime recently committed in London. He chooses to keep it rather than turn it over to the police, but it ends up luring him into a downwards spiral that eventually ends in murder. Cast * Fernand Ledoux as Maloin * Suzy Prim as Camélia * Jules Berry as Brown * Mony Dalmès as Henriette Maloin * Blanche Montel as Madame Brown * René Génin as Maënnec * Made Siamé as La pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Corbeau
''Le Corbeau'' () is a 1943 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey. The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelous information, particularly targeting a doctor accused of providing abortion services. The mystery surrounding the letters eventually escalates into violence. The film caused serious problems for its director after World War II as it had been produced by Continental Films, a German production company established near the beginning of the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Occupation of France, and because the film had been perceived by the underground and the Communist press as vilifying the French people. Because of this, Clouzot was initially banned for life from directing in France, but after protests only until 1947. The film was suppressed until 1969. It was remake, remade as ''The 13th Letter'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caprices (film)
''Caprices'' is a 1942 French comedy film starring Danielle Darrieux and Albert Préjean, and was directed by Léo Joannon, who co-wrote screenplay with André Cayatte and Jacques Companéez for the German run film company Continental Films who made films to take the place of banned American films. It was released on VHS by TF1 Vidéo in France on 1 January 1998. Plot It tells the story of two young rich people. Famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures. Finally, the truth is revealed, and the couple return to normalcy but promise not to separate any more. Cast * Danielle Darrieux as Lise * Albert Préjean as Philippe * Jean Parédès as Constant * Fred Pasquali as the film director * Germaine Reuver as the mother * Jean Brochard Jean Brochard (12 March 1893 – 17 June 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Santa Claus?
''Who Killed Santa Claus?'' (french: L'Assassinat du père Noël) is a 1941 French comedy-drama film by Christian-Jaque. This adaptation of Pierre Véry's novel of the same name was the first film produced by Continental Films. Cast * Harry Baur as Gaspard Cornusse * Raymond Rouleau as Roland de La Faille * Renée Faure as Catherine Cornusse * Robert Le Vigan as Léon Villard, the schoolmaster * Fernand Ledoux as Noirgoutte, the mayor * Jean Brochard as Ricomet, the pharmacist * Héléna Manson as Marie Coquillot * Arthur Devère as Tairraz, the watchmaker * Marcel Pérès as Rambert * Georges Chamarat as Constable Gercourt * Bernard Blier as police sergeant * Jean Sinoël Jean Sinoël (13 August 1868 – 30 August 1949), often known simply as Sinoël, was a French actor and singer. Born Jean Léonis Blès in Sainte-Terre, Gironde, France, he died in Paris in 1949. Selected filmography * ''Captain Craddock'' (1931) ... as Noblet * Marie-Hélène Dasté as Mother Michel * Jean Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Ball
''First Ball'' (French: ''Premier bal'') is a 1941 French romantic comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux and Raymond Rouleau.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.309 The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Cast * Marie Déa as Nicole Noblet * Fernand Ledoux as Michel Noblet * Raymond Rouleau as Jean de Lormel * Gaby Sylvia as Danielle Noblet * François Périer as Ernest Vilar * Gabrielle Fontan as Marie * Jean Brochard as Thomas * Bernard Blier as Le maitre d'hôtel * Charles Granval as De Lormel, père * Marcel Maupi as Mélik * Anthony Gildès as Le facteur * Louis Salou Louis Vincent Goulven Salou (23 April 1902 – 12 October 1948) was a French stage and film actor. Louis was born in Oissel and died in Fontenay-aux-Roses. Selected filmography * ''First Ball'' (1941) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * ''Bolero' ... as François References Bibliography * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Acrobat
''The Acrobat'' (French: ''L'acrobate'') is a 1941 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Fernandel, Jean Tissier and Thérèse Dorny.Lorcey p.208 It was made at the Victorine Studios in Nice, in the Unoccupied Zone of France. The film's art direction was by Paul-Louis Boutié and Guy de Gastyne. Cast * Fernandel as Ernest Sauce * Jean Tissier as Briquet * Thérèse Dorny as Pauline * Marcel Carpentier as Le dîneur * Jean Brochard as Le commissaire * Paulette Berger as La comtesse de Puypeux * Lucien Callamand as Le médecin-chef * Pierre Labry as Dubier * Fernand Flament as Un infirmier * Nicolas Amato * Les Zemgano as Les frères Brindisi * Charles Dechamps as Le comte de Puypeux * Gaby Wagner Gaby may refer to: People Gaby is short for Gabrielle, Gabriella or Gabriel, and in particular may refer to: * Gaby (singer) (born 1965), Panamanian Reggae en Español and Reggaeton singer and rapper *Gaby, a Spanish clown, one of Los Pay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquette (1940 Film)
''Miquette'' is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilian Harvey, Lucien Baroux and André Lefaur. It was one of two films made in France by the Anglo-German star Harvey, after emigrating from Nazi Germany.Ascheid p. 243 It was her final film appearance, although she continued to act on stage. The film is based on the play '' Miquette et sa mère'' by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet, which was later adapted into the 1950 film '' Miquette''. Cast * Lilian Harvey as Miquette Grandier * Lucien Baroux as Monchablon * André Lefaur as Le marquis de la Tour-Mirande * Daniel Clérice as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande * Marguerite Pierry as Madame Grandier * Léon Belières as Lahirel * Suzanne Dantès as Mademoiselle Émilienne * Agnès Capri as Madame Mercadier * Madeleine Suffel as Perrine * Daniel Gélin * Eliane Charles * Jean Brochard * Hugues de Bagratide * Yvonne Yma * Madeleine Suffel as Perrine * Anthony Gildès Anthony Gildès (13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise Lost (1940 Film)
''Paradise Lost'' (french: link=no, Paradis perdu) is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle.The A to Z of French Cinema p.181 In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter. Cast * Fernand Gravey as Le peintre Pierre Leblanc * Elvire Popesco as Sonia Vorochine * Micheline Presle as Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblanc * André Alerme as le couturier Raoul Calou * Monique Rolland as Laurence Aubujan * Robert Le Vigan as Édouard Bordenave * Robert Pizani as Le couturier Bernard Lesage * Jane Marken as Madame Bonneron – la concierge * Marcel Delaître as Le capitaine * Les Bluebell Girls as Les girls à l'inauguration de la Marie-Galante * Gérard Landry Landry Fernand Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
