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Jane Marken
Jane Marken (born Jeanne Berthe Adolphine Crabbe, sometimes credited as Jeanne Marken, 13 January 1895 in Paris 10th arrondissement – 1 December 1976 in Paris 4th arrondissement) was a French actress. She was the first wife of the actor Jules Berry. Marken began her film career under the aegis of Abel Gance in 1915. She made several films with Marcel Carné including ''Hotel du Nord'' (1938), and as Madame Hermine, the hotelier (a comic role) in ''Les Enfants du Paradis'' (''Children of Paradise'', 1945). She also appeared in films of Julien Duvivier, Jacques Becker, Sacha Guitry, Renoir's ''Partie de campagne'' (''A Day in the Country'' 1936), Yves Allégret's ''Une si jolie petite plage'' (1949) and '' Manèges'' (1950), '' Dr. Knock'' (1951), ''The Turkey'' (1951), and in Roger Vadim's '' And God Created Woman'' (1956). Her last appearance was in ''L'Humeur vagabonde'' (1971), directed by Édouard Luntz. Selected filmography * ''Fioritures'' (1916) - Anny Dorleville * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Berry
Jules Berry (born Marie Louis Jules Paufichet; 9 February 1883 – 23 April 1951) was a French actor. Biography Early life Berry and his two brothers were born to parents who sold hardware and settled in Poitou. The family moved to Paris in 1888. Berry completed his studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then graduated from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Career It was during his studies that Berry developed an interest in the theater. Following an audition, he was hired by the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau to act in ''La Mort du duc d'Enghien'' by Léon Hennique, and ''Le Perroquet vert'' by Arthur Schnitzler. Later he performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the Théâtre de l'Athénée. During a tour in Lyon, he was noticed by Jean-François Ponson, who hired him for a period of 12 years at the Théâtre royal des Galeries Saint-Hubert in Brussels. Audiences in Brussels gave him a warm welcome, where he played in productions such as Le Maria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ironmaster (1933 Film)
''The Ironmaster'' (french: Le Maître de forges) is a 1933 French drama film scripted and supervised by Abel Gance, and directed by Fernand Rivers. It is a remake of the 1912 film ''Le Maître de forges''. In 1948 Rivers himself remade the film. Cast * Gaby Morlay as Claire de Beaulieu * Léon Belières as Monsieur Moulinet * Paule Andral as Marquise de Beaulieu * Jacques Dumesnil as Gaston de Bligny * Henri Rollan as Philippe Derblay * Rivers Cadet as Baron de Prefont * Christiane Delyne as Athenais de Moulinet * Ghislaine Bru as Suzanne Derblay * Guy Parzy as Octave de Beaulieu * Irma Génin as Baronne de Prefont * Jean Dulac * Jane Marken * 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 * ''Dance Hall'' (1931) * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' (1932) * '' The Iro ... References External links * 1933 films 1933 drama films Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Éternel Retour
''The Eternal Return'' (French: ''L'Éternel retour'') is a 1943 French romantic drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais. The screenplay was written by Jean Cocteau as a retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in contemporary France. In the United Kingdom, the film was released in 1946 by Eagle-Lion Distributors under the alternative title ''Love Eternal''. It was made at the Victorine Studios in Nice with sets designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. The film's costumes were by Georges Annenkov. Location shooting took place at the Chateau de Pesteils in Polminhac. It premiered in Vichy and was one of the greatest commercial hits of the occupation period. Cast * Madeleine Sologne as Nathalie, the blonde * Jean Marais as Patrice * Jean Murat as Marc * Junie Astor as Nathalie, the brunette * Roland Toutain as Lionel * Jane Marken as Anne * Jean d'Yd as Amédée Frossin * Piéral as Achille Frossin * Yvonne de Bray as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Light (film)
''Summer Light'' (French: ''Lumière d'été'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur and Madeleine Robinson.Crisp p.65 It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location at Soursac on the Dordogne. The film's sets were designed by the art director André Barsacq. Cast * Madeleine Renaud as Cricri * Pierre Brasseur as Roland * Madeleine Robinson as Michèle * Paul Bernard as Patrice Le Verdier * Georges Marchal as Julien * Léonce Corne as Tonton * Charles Blavette as Vincent * Jane Marken as Louise Martinet * Henri Pons as Amédée * Gérard Lecomte as Dany * Marcel Lévesque as Monsieur Louis * Raymond Aimos Raymond Aimos (4 February 1889 – 22 August 1944) was a French film actor.Capua p.127 Selected filmography * '' Accused, Stand Up!'' (1930) * ''Under the Roofs of Paris'' (1930) * ''Wooden Crosses'' (1932) * ''Aces of the Turf'' (1932) * ''The ... as Ernest References Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Timid Souls (1943 Film)
''Two Timid Souls'' (French: ''Les deux timides'') is a 1943 French historical comedy film directed by Yves Allégret, Marcel Achard and Marc Allégret and starring Pierre Brasseur, Jacqueline Laurent and Claude Dauphin.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.118 It was based on the 1860 play by Eugène Labiche which had previously been turned into a 1928 silent film version by René Clair. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Bertrand Paul Charles Édouard Bertrand (10 July 1879, Loos-lez-Lille – 24 February 1944, Paris) was a French paleobotanist. He was the son of botanist Charles Eugène Bertrand (1851–1917). He studied at the University of Lille, receiving his d .... Cast References Bibliography * Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1943 films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Yves Allégret Films directed by Marc Allégret Films directed by Marcel Achar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman In The Night
''A Woman in the Night'' (French: ''Une femme dans la nuit'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant and Claude Dauphin.Rège p.469 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Cast * Viviane Romance as Denise Lorin * Georges Flamant as Armand Leroy * Claude Dauphin as François Rousseau * Henri Guisol as Gustave * Marion Malville as Nicole Serin-Ledoux * Andrex as Le charbonnier * Pierre Stéphen as Campolli * Lysiane Rey as Lucie Février * Édouard Delmont as Le père Rousseau * Yves Deniaud as Maxime * Jacqueline Hervé as L'ouvreuse * Jane Marken as Madame Béghin * Robert Moor as Le baron Hochecorne * Marcelle Naudia as Madame Serin-Ledoux * Gaston Orbal as La Douleur * Félix Oudart as Monsieur Serin-Ledoux * Gilberte Prévost as La serveuse * Jacques Tarride as Un comédien * Vanda Gréville * Jean-François Martial Jean-François Martial (12 September 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marvelous Night
''The Marvelous Night'' or ''The Night of Marvels'' (French: ''La nuit merveilleuse'') is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Paulin and starring Fernandel, Charles Vanel and Janine Darcey.Connelly p.169 Cast * Fernandel as Le berger * Charles Vanel as Le fermier * Janine Darcey as La jeune femme * Fernand Charpin as L'aubergiste * Jean Daurand as Le mari * Milly Mathis as La paysanne * Madeleine Robinson as La réfugiée * Édouard Delmont as Le vieux berger * Jean Aquistapace as Le voyageur * Jacques Erwin as Le forgeron * Charlotte Clasis as La servante * Jane Marken as Mathilde, l'hôtelière * René Fleur René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ... as L'explorateur * Couty Bonneval * Wanny Teers References Bibliography * ... [...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] |
There's No Tomorrow (film)
''There's No Tomorrow'' (French: ''Sans lendemain'') is a 1939 French drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud and Daniel Lecourtois.Williams p.211 A number of those employed on the film were exiles from Nazi Germany. It premiered in Algiers in December 1939 before going on general release across France in March 1940. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Douy and Eugène Lourié. Synopsis In order to support her young son, a woman becomes a dancer in a striptease cabaret act. Cast * Edwige Feuillère as Evelyn (Babs) Morin * George Rigaud as Dr. Georges Brandon * Daniel Lecourtois as Dr. Armand Péreux * Mady Berry as Mme. Midu, concierge * Michel François as Pierre, Evelyn's son * Georges Lannes as Paul Mazuraud * André Gabriello as Mario * Pauline Carton as La bonne Ernestine * Paul Azaïs as Henri * Jacques Erwin as Hermann * Louis Florencie as Drunk client * Geo Forster a sUn danseur * Jane Marken as Mme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Du Nord
''Hôtel du Nord'' is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marcel Carné that stars Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It tells the story of two couples in Paris, one being a prostitute and her pimp and the other two young lovers without regular jobs. A work of poetic realism, cinematography, music, and dialogue add a poetic dimension to the lives and surroundings of working-class people. Plot At the Hôtel du Nord in a working-class district of Paris, a first communion party unites many of the occupants. Among them is the prostitute Raymonde, whose pimp Edmond stays in their room to develop some photographs he has taken. A young couple, Renée and Pierre, enter and take a room for the night. Once alone they run through their plan to kill themselves, as they can't afford to marry and set up home. Pierre shoots Renée with a pistol, but can't then kill himself. Hearing the shot, Edmond breaks into the room and tells the boy to flee. Later, he finds the pisto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Waltzes
''Three Waltzes'' (French: ''Les trois valses'') is a 1938 French historical musical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Henri Guisol.Diffrient p.55 It is an operetta film, based on music by Oscar Straus. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jean d'Eaubonne Jean d'Eaubonne (March 8, 1903 – July 30, 1971) was a French art director. He received an Oscar nomination in 1951 for his work on Max Ophüls's '' La Ronde''. Selected filmography * '' The Polish Jew'' (1931) * '' Love and Luck'' (1932) * '' ..., Raymond Gabutti and Jacques Gut. Cast References Bibliography * Diffrient, David Scott. ''Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. External links * 1938 films 1930s historical musical films French historical musical films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Ludwig Berger Films based on operettas Operetta films Films set in France Films s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Killer (1937 Film)
''Lady Killer'' (french: Gueule d'amour) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin and Marguerite Deval. It has been classified as both a film noir and an entry into the poetic realist group of films of the late 1930s. It was produced by the German company UFA in conjunction with its own French subsidiary ACE. Like '' Port of Shadows'' it drew on the tradition of German expressionism in its lighting and set design, although the Nazi authorities were opposed to the expressionist style. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location around Cannes, Orange and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Asmus and Max Mellin. The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Cast *Jean Gabin as Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour' *Mireille Balin as Madeleine * Pierre Etchepare as hotel owner * Henri Poupon as Monsieur Cailloux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |