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La Femme En Homme
''The Woman Dressed As a Man'' (French: ''La femme en homme'') is a 1932 French comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Carmen Boni, Armand Bernard and André Dubosc.Andrew p.364 It was based on a 1925 play by Ugo Falena which had previously been adapted into the 1926 silent film ''The Last Lord'' and was remade in 1945 as ''The Twentieth Duke''. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lazare Meerson. Cast * Carmen Boni as Claude * Armand Bernard as M. Gray * André Dubosc as Le duc de Bressy * Françoise Rosay as Princesse Marie * Alex Bernard * Pedro Elviro * Bernard Koowost * Victor Vina References Bibliography * Andrews, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princeton University Press, 1995. External links * 1932 comedy films French comedy films 1932 films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Augusto Genina Remakes of French films Sound film remakes of silent films French black-and-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Biography Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the ''Il Mondo'' Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film ''Miss Europe''. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy. He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by ''Lo squadrone bianco'' and in 1940 by ''The Siege of the Alcazar'', both Fascist propaganda films. In 1953, he filmed ''Three Forbidden Stories'', another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in '' Rome 11 o'clock'' (''Roma ore 11''). Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |