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Life Together (film)
''Life Together'' (French: ''La Vie à deux'') is a 1958 French comedy film directed by Clément Duhour. It features an ensemble star cast including Fernandel, Pierre Brasseur Lilli Palmer, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Edwige Feuillère, Gérard Philipe and Sophie Desmarets.Harding p.203 The screenplay was written by Sacha Guitry, his final work before his death the same year. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location in Nice including at the Hotel Negresco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Gabutti. Synopsis A celebrated writer has made a fortune by writing a successful book about four loving couples. Many years later he considers leaving them money in his will and sends out researchers to find if they are still as happy at they once were. Cast * Pierre Brasseur as Pierre Carreau * Danielle Darrieux as Monique Lebeaut * Sophie Desmarets as Marguerite Caboufigue, wife of Marcel * Fernandel as Marcel Caboufigue, the husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Duhour
Clément Duhour was born in Saint-Jean d’Anglet, in the Aquitaine region of south-western France on 11 December 1912. He died on 3 January 1983 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was a French athlete, singer, actor, film director and producer. Biography A French Basque, Clément Duhour was the son of a baker. He was also the younger brother of Édouard Duhour.Édouard Duhour sports-reference.com At age 16, he won his first French national championships in both the shot put and discus. Almost simultaneously, he was expelled from the public high school in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent. Early life Desny was born in Peking, China. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted in more than 150 films, both in Germany and France. Desny appeared in the 1950 film '' Madeleine'' by the English director David Lean, who was then the husband of star Ann Todd. Death Desny died in Ascona, Switzerland. Selected filmography * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Bonheur en location'' (1949) - Gordon junior * '' Madeleine'' (1950) - Emile L'Anglier * ''Les mousquetaires du roi'' (1951) * ''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) - Fred Clarke - le fils du sénateur * '' The Lady Without Camelias'' (''La signora senza camelie'', 1953) - Bernardo 'Nardo' Rusconi * ''Good Lord Without Confession'' (1953) - Maurice Fréjoul * '' No Way Back'' (''Weg ohne Umkehr'', 1953) - Michael Zorin aka Mischa * '' Act of Love'' (1953) - (uncredi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Daëms
Marie Daëms (1928–2016) was a French stage actor, stage, film actress, film and television actress. Hayward & Vincendeau p.127 After studying at the Lycée Jules-Ferry (Paris), Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, Daëms made her stage debut in 1947 and her first screen appearance in 1949. She was married to the actor François Périer between 1949 and 1959. Selected filmography * ''Le sorcier du ciel'' (1949) * ''My Seal and Them'' (1951) * ''L'Amour, Madame'' (1952) * ''The Air of Paris'' (1954) * ''Scènes de ménage'' (1954) * ''Maid in Paris'' (1956) * ''Irresistible Catherine'' (1957) * ''Let's Be Daring, Madame'' (1957) * ''Filous et compagnie'' (1957) * ''Charming Boys'' (1957) * ''Life Together (film), Life Together'' (1958) * ''The Journey (1959 film), The Journey'' (1959) * ''We Will Go to Deauville'' (1962) * ''Que personne ne sorte'' (1964) * ''Alibis (film), Alibis'' (1977) * ''The Black Sheep (1979 film), The Black Sheep'' (1979) * ''Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez'' (1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Casadesus
Mathilde Casadesus (1921–1965) was a French film actress.Goble p.95 Partial filmography * '' Box of Dreams'' (1945) - L'Agitée * ''La part de l'ombre'' (1945) * ''The Idiot'' (1946) - Adélaïde Epantchine * ''The Murdered Model'' (1948) - Madame Malaise * ''Tous les deux'' (1949) - La cliente * ''Marlene'' (1949) - Betty * ''Au royaume des cieux'' (1949) - Madame Barattier la Patronne de l'Auberge * '' Branquignol'' (1949) - Suzanne * ''Le Roi Pandore'' (1950) - Marika * '' The Sleepwalker'' (1951) - Mademoiselle Thomas * ''Le Plaisir'' (1952) - Madame Louise dite Cocotte (segment "La Maison Tellier") * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1953) - Prudence * ''The Air of Paris'' (1954) - Voyageuse * ''Ce soir les jupons volent...'' (1956) - Madame Pommeau * '' Gervaise'' (1956) - Mme Boche - la concierge curieuse * '' Burning Fuse'' (1957) - Mimi * ''Me and the Colonel'' (1958) - Secretary (uncredited) * ''Love Is My Profession'' (1958) - Anna - la patronne du restaurant (uncredited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Carton
Pauline Carton (4 July 1884 – 17 June 1974) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 190 films between 1907 and 1974. Filmography * ''La fille du Boche'' (1915) * ''Blanchette'' (1921) * ''La femme de nulle part'' (1922) * ''Château historique'' (1923) - Tante Chloë * ''Mon curé chez les riches'' (1925) * ''Feu Mathias Pascal'' (1926) - Tante Scholastique * ''Le p'tit Parigot'' (1926) - Tante Prudence * ''La tournée Farigoule'' (1926) - La poétesse * ''La petite fonctionnaire'' (1927) - Madame Lebardin * ''Education of a Prince'' (1927) - La concierge * ''La ronde infernale'' (1928) * ''Yvette'' (1928) * ''Miss Édith, duchesse'' (1929) - Marie * ''L'arpète'' (1929) - La concierge * '' My Childish Father'' (1930) - The Concierge * ''Cendrillon de Paris'' (1930) * ''Black and White'' (1931) - Marie - la bonne * ''Montmartre'' (1931) * '' The Voice of Happiness'' (1931) * ''American Love'' (1931) - Pauline * ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1932) * ''Seul'' (1932) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Richard (actor)
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's ''Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...'' in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Filmography *1947: ''Six heures à perdre'' (directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte) – Le sergent de ville *1949: ''Mission à Tanger'' (directed by André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valet
A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "valet" by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer, and making minor arrangements. In the United States, the term most often refers to a parking valet, and the role is often confused with a butler. Word origins In English, ''valet'' as "personal man-servant" is recorded since 1567, though use of the term in the French-speaking English medieval court is older, and the variant form ''varlet'' is cited from 1456 (OED). Both are French importations of ''valet'' or ''varlet'' (the "t" being silent in modern French), Old French variants of ''vaslet'' "man's servant", originally "squire, young man", assumed to be from Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin *''vassellittus'' "young nobleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis De Funès
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in film and over 100 on stage. His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and tics. A considerable part of his best-known acting was directed by Jean Girault. One of the most famous French actors of all time, Louis de Funès also enjoys widespread international recognition. In addition to his immense fame in the French-speaking world, he is also still a household name in many other parts of the world, including German-speaking countries, the former Soviet Union, former Eastern Bloc, Italy, Spain, Greece, Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, as well as Turkey, Iran, Israel, and Mauritius. Despite his international fame, Louis de Funès remains almost unknown in the English-speaking world. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lamoureux
Robert Lamoureux (4 January 1920 – 29 October 2011) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1951 and 1994. He starred in the film ''The Adventures of Arsène Lupin'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. He was married to the actress Magali Vendeuil. Partial filmography *''Le roi des camelots'' (1951) - Robert *' (1951) - Himself *''Chacun son tour'' (1951) - Robert Montfort *''Au fil des ondes'' (1951) - Himself *''Allô... je t'aime'' (1952) - Pierre Palette * ''Open Letter'' (1953) - Martial Simonet * ''The Enchanting Enemy'' (1953) - Roberto Mancini *''Saluti e baci'' (1953) - Himself *''Women of Paris'' (1953) - Himself - Animateur de spectacle *'' Virgile'' (1953) - François Virgile * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) - François Berthier *''Papa, maman, la bonne et moi'' (1954) - Robert Langlois *'' Magic Village'' (1955) - Robert *''Papa, maman, ma femme et moi'' (1955) - Robert Langloi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Gabutti
Raymond Gabutti (1908-1985) was a French art director.Turk p.439 Selected filmography * ''Three Waltzes'' (1938) * '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938) * ''Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Children of Paradise'' (1945) * ''The Seventh Door'' (1947) *'' Judicial Error'' (1948) * ''Emile the African'' (1949) * ''Fantomas Against Fantomas'' (1949) * ''Thirst of Men'' (1950) * ''Captain Ardant'' (1951) * '' Endless Horizons'' (1953) * ''The Lovers of Marianne'' (1953) * ''Royal Affairs in Versailles'' (1954) * ''I'll Get Back to Kandara'' (1956) * '' Anyone Can Kill Me'' (1957) * '' Life Together'' (1958) * '' Leontine'' (1968) * ''A Golden Widow ''A Golden Widow'' (French: ''Une veuve en or'') is a 1969 comedy film directed by Michel Audiard and starring Michèle Mercier, Claude Rich and Roger Carel.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.28 It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West G ...'' (1969) References Bibliography * Turk, Edward Baron . ''Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
