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Jean Joffre
Jean Joffre (1872–1944) often styled simply as Joffre was a French film actor, film and stage actor. Crisp p.192 A character actor he played a variety of supporting roles in theatre and the cinema during his career. His final screen appearance was in the 1943 film ''The Count of Monte Cristo (1943 film), The Count of Monte Cristo''. Selected filmography * ''The Little Cafe (1919 film), The Little Cafe'' (1919) * ''Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (1921) * ''My Aunt from Honfleur (1923 film), My Aunt from Honfleur'' (1923) * ''Le Miracle des loups (1924 film), Le Miracle des loups'' (1924) * ''Education of a Prince'' (1927) * ''When Love Is Over'' (1931) * ''The Dream (1931 film), The Dream'' (1931) * ''Moonlight (1932 film), Moonlight'' (1932) * ''The Three Musketeers (1932 film), The Three Musketeers'' (1932) * ''L'Aventurier (film), L'Aventurier'' (1934) * ''Little Jacques (1934 film), Little Jacques'' (1934) * ''The Assault (1936 film), The Assault'' (1936) * ''Samson (1936 film), S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivesaltes
Rivesaltes (; ca, Ribesaltes, which means the ''high shores'') is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Rivesaltes is in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan. Politics and administration Mayors Twin towns Rivesaltes is twinned with: * - Calgary, Canada * - Chennai, India * - Rangoon, Myanmar * - Yaren, Nauru * - Ramallah, Palestine * - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago * - Chipping Norton, United Kingdom * - Clitheroe, United Kingdom * - Whalley, United Kingdom * - Wilpshire, United Kingdom Population Economy ;Wine Fortified wine is produced around Rivesaltes, as Rivesaltes AOC. Sites of interest * The Camp de Rivesaltes is situated on the outskirts of the city. The Rivesaltes memorial museum is now fully open and commemorates the history of this major French concentration camp from 1939 to 2007. Notable people * Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), general, born in Rivesaltes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Aventurier (film)
''L'Aventurier'' ( en, The Venturer) is a French drama film from 1934, directed by Marcel L'Herbier, written by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Victor Francen. at the ''Films de France'' Cast * : Étienne Ranson/Pierre Stols * : Marthe * : André Varèse * |
The Phantom Wagon
''The Phantom Carriage'' or ''The Phantom Wagon'' (French: ''La charrette fantôme'') is a 1939 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell and Micheline Francey. It is based on the novel '' Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'' by Selma Lagerlöf, which had previously been adapted into the 1921 Swedish silent film ''The Phantom Carriage'' by Victor Sjöström.Goble p.908 It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. It was due to be screened at the first Cannes Film Festival scheduled for September 1939, but cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... Plot summary Cast References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thérèse Martin (film)
''Thérèse Martin'' is a 1939 French biographical drama film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Irène Corday, Madeleine Soria and Marthe Mellot.Rège p.170 It portrays the life of the Roman Catholic saint Thérèse of Lisieux. The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin. Cast * Irène Corday as Thérèse Martin * Geneviève Callix as Elisabeth d'Estranges * Madeleine Soria as Mme. d'Estranges * Marthe Mellot as La supérieure * André Marnay as M. André Martin * Marthe Mancelle as Mme. Martin * Lucien Gallas as Le docteur Dartès * Camille Bert as Le docteur Carnière * Noël Roquevert as Le colonel d'Estranges * Raymond Aimos as Joseph * Georges Saillard as L'abbé * Colette Borelli as Thérèse enfant * Pierre Feuillère as Maître Moumelon * Yvonne Broussard as Céline Martin * Janine Borelli as Pauline * Solange Turenne as Pauline enfant * Robert Moor as M. Guérin * Geno Ferny Geno may refer to: __NOTOC__ People *Geno (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of The Day
''The End of the Day'' (french: La fin du jour) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Victor Francen, Michel Simon and Louis Jouvet. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around the city as well as at the Château de Lourmarin in Provence. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. Plot Monsieur St. Clair (Louis Jouvet), an aging romantic leading man, has decided to retire from the stage, but he is broke and goes to an old-age home for elderly actors. There he meets the other retired actors, all of whom know each other from having worked the same places over the years. One actor, Marny (Victor Francen), is a melancholy soul primarily because years ago his wife left him to have a fling with St. Clair and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As an actor Marny was brilliant, but he never got the recognition he deserved, nor anything like the popularity of St. Clair. Cabrissade (Michel Simon), the third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Facade
''Behind the Facade'' (French: ''Derrière la façade'') is a 1939 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande and starring Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry and André Lefaur.Aitken p.511 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. Synopsis When the owner of an apartment block is found murdered, two policeman investigate the lives of the various tenants who live there. Cast * Lucien Baroux as Le commissaire Boucheron * Jules Berry as Alfrédo D'Avila * André Lefaur as Corbeau * Gaby Morlay as Gaby * Elvire Popesco as Madame Rameau * Michel Simon as Picking * Betty Stockfeld as L'anglaise * Erich von Stroheim as Eric * Simone Berriau as Lydia * Missia as Joséphine Picking * Raymond Segard as Robert Bernier * Marcel Orluc as Gérard Bernier * Jean Daurand as Le télégraphiste * Elmire Vautier as Marie, l'habilleuse de Lydia * Lina Darwils as Une locataire * Robert Ozanne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orage (film)
''Orage'' is a 1938 in film, 1938 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret. The screenplay was written by Marcel Achard and , based on the play ''Le venin'' by Henri Bernstein. The film stars Charles Boyer and Michèle Morgan. It tells the story of the mistress of an engineer who has a pregnant wife. Principal cast *Charles Boyer as André Pascaud *Michèle Morgan as Françoise Massart *Lisette Lanvin as Gisèle Pascaud *Robert Manuel (actor), Robert Manuel as Gilbert *Jean-Louis Barrault as The African External links * * * 1938 films Films directed by Marc Allégret French black-and-white films French drama films Films scored by Georges Auric French films based on plays 1938 drama films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasputin (1938 Film)
''Rasputin'' (French: ''La Tragédie impériale'') is a 1938 French historical film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal and Pierre Richard-Willm.Kennedy-Karpat p.204 It depicts the rise and fall of the Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the advisor to the Romanov royal family. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne. Cast * Harry Baur as Rasputin * Marcelle Chantal as Tsarine Alexandra * Pierre Richard-Willm as Comte Igor Kourloff * Jean Worms as Tsar Nicholas II * Jany Holt as Groussina * Jacques Baumer as Prokoff * Georges Malkine as Beggar * Lucien Nat as Ostrowski * Carine Nelson as Ania Kitina * Palau as Piotr * Georges Prieur as Grand-Duc Nikolaievich * Alexandre Rignault as Bloch * Gabrielle Robinne as Tsarine-mère * Martial Rèbe as Iliodore * Denis d'Inès as Évèque Gregorian * Georges Vitray as Ivanov * André Gabriello as Stankevitch * Joffre as L'archimandrite * Georges Paulais as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Lecouvreur (film)
''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' is a 1938 French-German biographical film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Junie Astor. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Anton Weber. Plot A famous actress and a Polish prince have an ill-fated love affair. Cast * Yvonne Printemps as Adrienne Lecouvreur * Pierre Fresnay as Maurice de Saxe * Junie Astor as the Duchess of Bouillon * André Lefaur as the Duke of Bouillon * Jaque Catelain as d'Argental * Madeleine Sologne as Flora * Pierre Larquey as Pitou * Thomy Bourdelle as Pauly * Jacqueline Pacaud as Fanchon * Gabrielle Robinne as la Duclos * Véra Pharès as little Adrienne * Michèle Alfa as Amour * Andrée Berty a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abused Confidence
''Abused Confidence'' (french: Abus de confiance) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Danielle Darrieux and Charles Vanel. Plot A female law student pretends to be the daughter of a famous historian. Selected cast * Danielle Darrieux as Lydia * Charles Vanel as Jacques Ferney * Valentine Tessier as Hélène Ferney * Pierre Mingand as Pierre Montant * Yvette Lebon as Alice * Thérèse Dorny as the landlady * Jean Worms as the tribunal's president * Gilbert Gil as Paul * René Bergeron as Dieulafoy * Svetlana Pitoëff as Renée Leclerc * Jean Marais as Marais * Jean Joffre Jean Joffre (1872–1944) often styled simply as Joffre was a French film and stage actor. Crisp p.192 A character actor he played a variety of supporting roles in theatre and the cinema during his career. His final screen appearance was in the ... as Le directeur de la Voix Populaire References External links * *''Abus de confiance''at filmsdefrance.com 1938 films Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marthe Richard (film)
Marthe Richard ( Betenfeld; 15 August 1889 in Blâmont – 9 February 1982) was a French prostitute and spy. She later became a politician, and worked towards the closing of brothels in France in 1946. Early life In Nancy, she became an apprentice to a tailor at fourteen, but later was registered as a prostitute in 1905. After a soldier accused her of giving him syphilis, she was forced to leave for Paris, where she met, in 1907, and later wed, Henry Richer. He was a rich industrialist who worked at Les Halles. In 1912, her husband bought himself a plane, and she flew it for the first time in 1913. She claimed in the press at the time to have broken the female record for the Le Crotoy– Zurich trip. She actually only flew the plane to Burgundy, whence it was shipped by train to the Zurich countryside, and flew it into Zurich. However, the new record was approved. In 1914, she participated in the founding of ''L'Union patriotique des aviatrices françaises'' ("Patriotic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culprit (1937 Film)
''Culprit'' (French: ''Le coupable'') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Signoret and Suzet Maïs.Andrew p.211 It is a remake of the 1917 silent film ''Culprit'', which was based on a novel by François Coppée. Partial cast * Pierre Blanchar as Jérôme Lescuyer * Gabriel Signoret as Monsieur Lescuyer * Suzet Maïs as Marie-Louise Gaude * Junie Astor as Louise Donadieu * Palmyre Levasseur as Rosalie * Gilbert Gil as Jérôme Forgeat * Marcel André as Edouard * Jean Joffre as Le bâtonnier * Henri Échourin as Donadieu * Daniel Clérice as Anatole * Henri Richard as Le président des assises * Charles Fallot as Jude Nicolet * Pierre Finaly as Le ministre * Albert Gercourt as Lucas * Albert Malbert as L'agent * André Dionnet as Le petit Jérôme * François Rodon as Le petit Anatole * Madeleine Ozeray as Thérèse Forgeat * Marguerite Moreno Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
