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Jean Douarinou
Jean Douarinou (1906–1987) was a French art director.Hayward p.440 He was born in Indochina which was then a French colonial possession. He was the elder brother of the cinematographer Alain Douarinou. He was married to the actress Madeleine Sologne. Selected filmography * ''Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935) * ''Marinella'' (1936) * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) * ''The West'' (1938) * ''Sing Anyway'' (1940) * ''The Stairs Without End '' (1943) * '' A Woman in the Night'' (1943) * ''The White Truck'' (1943) * ''Dorothy Looks for Love'' (1945) * ''The Other Side of Paradise ''The Other Side of Paradise'' is a 1992 miniseries about a doctor who goes to the Cook Islands. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995: The Complete Guide to Tele-Features and Mini-Series'' (Melbourne: Oxford University Pres ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Hayward, Susan. ''French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film''. Intellect Books, 2010. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing Anyway
''Sing Anyway'' (French: ''Chantons quand même'') is a 1940 French musical comedy film directed by Pierre Caron and starring Annie Vernay, Paul Cambo and Marie Bizet.Crisp p.418 The film's art direction was by Jean Douarinou. Cast * Guy Berry * Marie Bizet as Mathilde * Rivers Cadet Rivers Cadet (1 March 1892 – 1 November 1968) was a French actor. Cadet was born Jean Maurice Large in Paris. He was the brother of Fernand Rivers. Selected filmography * ''Maurin of the Moors'' (1932) * '' The Ironmaster'' (1933) * '' Thr ... * Paul Cambo as Le sergent Jacques Destranges * Raymond Cordy as Pimpant * Eugène Frouhins * Suzy Lay * Noël Roquevert as Le vieux villageois * Claude Roy as Le petit garçon * Annie Vernay as Rosette * Jack Wilson as Le Tommy References Bibliography * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. External links * 1940 films 1940 musical comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. ** Two British members of a poll tax collecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of Paradise (film)
''The Other Side of Paradise'' (French: ''L'envers du paradis'') is a 1953 French drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Erich von Stroheim, Jacques Sernas and Denise Vernac. Much of the film was shot on location in Provence.Lenning p.457 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Cast * Erich von Stroheim as William O'Hara * Jacques Sernas as Blaise d'Orliac * Denise Vernac as Claudine de Vervins * Jacques Castelot as Gabriel Dautrand * Dany Caron as Louisette * Dora Doll as Michèle * Dina Sassoli as Pepita * Edouard Hemme as Le curé * Pierre Lorsay as M. Romégoux * Edmond Ardisson as Célestin * Héléna Manson as Mme Roumégoux * Etchika Choureau Etchika Choureau (19 November 1929 – 25 January 2022) was a French film actress. She was at one point in a relationship with Hassan II of Morocco, who was then heir to the throne. Choureau died on 25 January 2022, at the age of 92. Filmogra ... as Violaine Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Looks For Love
''Dorothy Looks for Love'' (French: ''Dorothée cherche l'amour'') is a 1945 French drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Suzy Carrier, Claude Dauphin and Jules Berry.Rège p.469 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Cast * Suzy Carrier as Dorothée * Claude Dauphin as Robert * Jules Berry as M. Pascal * Henri Guisol as André Vincent * Samson Fainsilber as Sylvain * Luce Feyrer * Robert Arnoux * Maurice Maillot * Gaston Orbal * Félix Oudart Félix Charles Oudart (1881–1956) was a French stage and film actor.Goble p.452 Selected filmography * '' Crainquebille'' (1922) * ''Abduct Me'' (1932) * '' Toto'' (1933) * '' George and Georgette'' (1934) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1934) * '' Mer ... References Bibliography * Philippe Rège. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1945 films 1945 comedy films French comedy films 1940s French-language films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Truck
''The White Truck'' (French: ''Le camion blanc'') is a 1943 French comedy drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Jules Berry, Blanchette Brunoy and François Périer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Plot A young garage mechanic is hired for an unusual assignment, to drive a white truck around France carrying the corpse of a famed gypsy leader. Cast *Jules Berry as Shabbas - the chief of the northern gypsies *Blanchette Brunoy as Germaine *François Périer as François Ledru - a young mechanic *Fernand Charpin as Courbassié - gypsies' southern ambassador *Marguerite Moreno as The King's Widow *Roger Karl as Acho *Mila Parély as Madame Dupont *Jean Parédès as Ernest *Marcelle Monthil as Germaine's mother *Charles Lemontier as Germaine's father * Edmond Beauchamp as gypsy *Robert Berri as pump attendant *Georges Bever Georges Bever (1884–1973) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.38 Selected filmography * '' The Crys ... [...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 Stairs Without End
''The Stairs Without End'' (French: ''L'escalier sans fin'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Pierre Fresnay Pierre Fresnay (4 April 1897 – 9 January 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Biography Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach, he was encouraged by his uncle, actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. He joined the company a ..., Madeleine Renaud and Suzy Carrier.Aitken p.754 The film's art direction was by Jean Douarinou. Cast References Bibliography * Aitken, Ian. ''The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film''. Routledge, 2013. External links * 1943 films French drama films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Georges Lacombe French black-and-white films 1943 drama films 1940s French films {{1940s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The West (1938 Film)
''The West'' (French: ''L'occident'') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Henri Fescourt and starring Charles Vanel, José Noguéro and Hélène Robert.Kennedy-Karpat p.78 It is a remake of the director's own 1928 silent film of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Synopsis The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge. Cast See also *''Eye for Eye ''Eye for Eye'' (1987) is a science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the March 1987 issue of ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine. In 1990 it appeared in Card's short story collection ''Maps in a Mirror'' and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, officially known as the Indochinese Union; vi, Liên bang Đông Dương, , lit. 'East Ocean Federation'; km, សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; lo, ສະຫະພາບອິນໂດຈີນ and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation,; vi, Liên đoàn Đông Dương; km, សហព័ន្ធឥណ្ឌូចិន; lo, ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin (French protectorate), Tonkin in the north, Annam (French protectorate), Annam in the centre, and French Cochinchina, Cochinchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Dances On
''Life Dances On'' or ''Christine'' or ''Dance Program'' (French: ''Un carnet de bal'') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay and Louis Jouvet. It was partly shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris. The film's art direction was by Jean Douarinou. Duvivier's American film '' Lydia'' (1941) is to some extent a remake of this one. Plot Twenty years after her debut ball when she was sixteen years old, recently widowed Christine is disposing of papers and other effects belonging to her late husband. Living in a mansion on an Italian lake, she has had a comfortable and affluent but unfulfilling life. Coming across her dance card from that debut ball, she gets lost in nostalgic memories of that night, and decides to find out what has happened to the dance partners who signed that card. Her beaus, living in different locations throughout France, have generally not fared well, with lives that range from the tragic to the comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinella (film)
''Marinella'' is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Pierre Caron and starring Tino Rossi, Yvette Lebon and Jeanne Fusier-Gir.Rège p.181 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou. Cast * Tino Rossi as Tino Pirelli * Yvette Lebon as Lise * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Madame Irma * Albert Duvaleix as Barton * Pierre Juvenet as Vautrat * Georges Flateau as Bob Grey * Spadolini as Le danseur * Marcya Capri as La speakerine * Julien Carette as Trombert * Ginette Darcy * Cinda Glenn as Sylvia Grey * Raymond Cordy * Paul Demange * Philippe Derevel * Madeleine Gérôme * Jany Laferrière * Georges Marceau * Edouard Rousseau * Marthe Sarbel Marthe may refer to: *Marthe (given name) a feminine given name * ''Marthe'' (novel), an 1876 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans *''Marthe'', an 1877 play by Georges Ohnet * ''Marthe'' (film), a 1997 film by Gérard Jugnot People with the surname *Willi ... References Bibliography * Philippe Rège. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
