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List Of French Films Of 1944 ...
A list of films produced in France in 1944. Film production was at a low due to the height of the Second World War. See also * 1944 in France References External links French films of 1944at the Internet Movie DatabaseFrench films of 1944at Cinema-francais.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:French Films Of 1944 1944 Films French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Film
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning ''Going My Way'' plus popular murder mysteries such as ''Double Indemnity'', ''Gaslight'' and '' Laura''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *March 10 – MGM's ''A Guy Named Joe'', starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, is released nationally in the United States. *May 3 – The film ''Going My Way'', directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, premieres in New York City. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star". *May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – '' Cowboy and the Senorita''. *July 20 – ''Since You Went Away'' is released. *August 16–September 11 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. ''Carmen'' has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical Western canon, canon; the "Habanera (aria), Habanera" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of ''opéra comique'' with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irène Corday
Irène Corday (1919–1996) was a French film actress, who played a mixture of lead role, lead and supporting roles.Burch & Sellier p.139 She starred in the title role of Thérèse of Lisieux in ''Thérèse Martin (film), Thérèse Martin'' (1939). Selected filmography * ''Prison sans barreaux'' (1938) * ''Lights of Paris'' (1938) * ''Thérèse Martin (film), Thérèse Martin'' (1939) * ''The Guardian Angel (1942 film), The Guardian Angel'' (1942) * ''White Wings (1943 film), White Wings'' (1943) * ''First on the Rope'' (1944) * ''My Wife, My Cow and Me'' (1952) References Bibliography * Burch, Noël & Sellier, Geneviève. ''The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956''. Duke University Press, 2013. External links * 1919 births 1996 deaths People from Haute-Savoie French film actresses {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Baquet
Maurice Louis Baquet (26 May 1911 – 8 July 2005) was a French actor and cellist. He was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône and died in Noisy-le-Grand. . He studied music at the in the same class as Henri Betti, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Le Gall
André Le Gall (1917–1974) was a French stage actor, stage and film actor.Crisp p.96 Selected filmography *''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) * ''Love Around the Clock'' (1943) * ''First on the Rope'' (1944) * ''Fantômas (1946 film), Fantômas'' (1946) * ''Le bataillon du ciel'' (1947) * ''Passeurs d'or'' (1948) * ''I Like Only You'' (1949) * ''La taverna della libertà '' (1950) * ''The Case of Doctor Galloy'' (1951) * ''Guilty? (1951 film), Guilty?'' (1951) * ''The Angel of Sin'' (1952) * ''A Mother's Secret (1952 film), A Mother's Secret'' (1952) * ''Operation Magali'' (1953) * ''Daisy Town (1971 film), Daisy Town'' (1971) References Bibliography * Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958''. Indiana University Press, 2015. External links * 1917 births 1974 deaths French male film actors Male actors from Paris {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Daquin
Louis Daquin (20 May 1908 – 2 October 1980) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 14 films between 1938 and 1963. He also appeared in 11 films between 1937 and 1979. Selected filmography * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' Patrie'' (1946) * ''The Bouquinquant Brothers'' (1947) * ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' (1949) * ''Bel Ami'' (1955) * '' Ciulinii Bărăganului'' (1958) (co-director, with Gheorghe Vitanidis) * ''The Opportunists ''The Opportunists'' is a 1999 British-American crime drama film, written and directed by Myles Connell, and starring Christopher Walken, Cyndi Lauper, Donal Logue, and Vera Farmiga. The film takes place in the urban setting of Greenpoint, Brook ...'' (1959) * ''La Foire aux cancres'' (1963) References External links * * 1908 births 1980 deaths People from Calais French film directors French male film actors 20th-century Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First On The Rope
''First on the Rope'' (French: ''Premier de cordée'') is a 1944 French drama film directed by Louis Daquin and starring Irène Corday, André Le Gall and Lucien Blondeau. It is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same title by Roger Frison-Roche. It was a faithful adaptation of the novel, which began shooting in June 1943 during the German Occupation of France. Despite being directed by Daquin, a French Communist, it was considered to demonstrate a Pétainist ideology possibly even containing elements of Nazism.Crisp p.94-95 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. Location shooting took place around Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Synopsis The son of a veteran mountain climber succeeds his father as "the first on the rope", leading expeditions into the mountains. However, after nearly losing his life during a climb he develops vertigo and abandons his position to take over as a hotel manager. Two years later when his father is persuaded by a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tissier
Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Bureaucrats'' (1936) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) * '' I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * ''Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''Night in December'' (1940) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''Romance of Paris'' (1941) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' The Acrobat'' (1941) * '' The Murderer Lives at Number 21'' (1942) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) * ''Adrien'' (1943) * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Le Hénaff
René Le Hénaff (24 April 1901 – 5 January 2005) was a French film editor and director. As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others. His three films with Carné in the late 1930s — '' Port of Shadows'', ''Hôtel du Nord'', and ''Le Jour Se Lève'' — are widely admired examples of poetic realism. He also directed films from 1935 to 1950. Perhaps the best-known is '' Colonel Chabert'' (1943), which was a film adaptation of a famous novella by Honoré de Balzac. Le Hénaff retired from filmmaking in 1968. Selected filmography Editor * '' The Shark'' (1930) * ''Sous les toits de Paris ( Under the Roofs of Paris)'' (1930) * ''À Nous la Liberté'' (1931) * ''Bastille Day'' (1933) * ''Le Scandal ( The Scandal)'' (1934) * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''Le Quai des brumes ( Port of Shadows)'' (1938) * ''Hôtel du Nord'' (1938) * ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''Le Quai des brumes (Women Without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coup De Tête (1944 Film)
''Coup de tête'' ( en, italic=yes, Hothead) is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and scripted by Francis Veber. It stars Patrick Dewaere and Jean Bouise, who won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance. Plot François Perrin is a belligerent factory worker who plays football for a local amateur team, in a club owned by a rich businessman who also owns the factory where Perrin, as well as most of the population of Trincamp, works. His attitude doesn't endear him to anyone, and the situation is not helped when, at a training session, he pushes Berthier, the star and captain of the team, who demands that Perrin be expelled. Soon thereafter, he is also fired from his job, and the whole town turns against him and he is even prohibited from entering the local bar. When a drunk Berthier tries to rape a woman one night, Perrin is immediately framed for the deed, and ends up in jail after being brutalized by the police. Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Relli
Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve of toys and candy or coal or nothing, depending on whether they are "naughty or nice". In the legend, he accomplishes this with the aid of Christmas elves, who make the toys in his workshop, often said to be at the North Pole, and flying reindeer who pull his sleigh through the air. The modern figure of Santa is based on folklore traditions surrounding Saint Nicholas, the English figure of Father Christmas and the Dutch figure of ''Sinterklaas''. Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white-bearded man, often with spectacles, wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, red hat with white fur, and black leather belt and boots, carrying a bag full of gifts for childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
