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Madeleine Barbulée
Madeleine Barbulée (2 September 1910 – 1 January 2001) was a French film, stage and television actress.''French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May'' p.265 Selected filmography * ''Métier de fous'' (1948) * '' The Spice of Life'' (1948) - La chanteuse * ''White Paws'' (1949) - La cousine (uncredited) * ''Mission in Tangier'' (1949) - Une dactylo du journal * ''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (1949) - La femme de chambre * ''Return to Life'' (1949) - (segment 5 : Le retour de Louis") (uncredited) * ''Cage of Girls'' (1949) - Une surveillante * ''Millionaires for One Day'' (1949) - L'infirmière * ''Rome Express'' (1950) - La libraire * ''Prélude à la gloire'' (1950) - Mademoiselle Duchemin * ''Le tampon du capiston'' (1950) - Une invitée * ''Le gang des tractions-arrière'' (1950) * '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950) - Mme Dubois * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) - La marchande de jouets de la gare (uncredited) * '' Darling Caroline'' (1951) - Mme de Tourville, la gouve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy, France
Nancy ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Nanzisch'' is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a Provinces of France, province, with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment, it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 511,257 inhabitants at the 2018 census, making it the 16th-largest functional area (France), functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,885. The motto of the city is , —a reference to the thistle, which is a symbol of Lorraine. Place Stanislas, a large square built between 1752 and 1756 by architect Emmanuel Héré under the direction of Stanislaus I of Poland to lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling Caroline (1951 Film)
''Darling Caroline'' (French: ''Caroline Chérie'') is a 1951 French historical comedy film in black and white, directed by Richard Pottier and starring Martine Carol, Jacques Dacqmine, and Marie Déa.Nowell-Smith p.352 It is based on Jacques Laurent's historical novel "The loves of Caroline Cherie: A novel". It was remade as '' Darling Caroline'' in 1968. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. It was followed by two sequels ''Un caprice de Caroline chérie'' (1953) and ''Caroline and the Rebels'' (1955). While Carol reprised her role for the first film, the second starred Brigitte Bardot playing a different character. Plot During her birthday in France, July 1782, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It is love at first sight, but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Husband Is Marvelous
''My Husband Is Marvelous'' (French: ''Mon mari est merveilleux'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Fernand Gravey, Sophie Desmarets and Elina Labourdette.Rège p.512 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. While a follow-up to the 1951 film ''My Wife Is Formidable'' which had the same director and cast, it is not a sequel. Synopsis Sylvia, a journalist, tries to uses subterfuge in order to gain an interview with Claude a writer who tries to maintain a reclusive, misanthropic image. Cast * Fernand Gravey as Claude Chatel * Sophie Desmarets as Sylvia Corbier * Elina Labourdette as Micheline * Jacques Dynam as L'efféminé * Mady Berry as Germaine * Anne Carrère as La snob * Made Siamé as La vieille dame * Pierre Larquey as Le père Henri * Jacques Castelot as Christian * Georgette Anys as L'aubergiste * Henri Arius as Le patron du bistrot * Madeleine Barbulée * Charles Bouillaud * Louis Bugette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauties Of The Night (1952 Film)
''Les Belles de nuit'' (US title: ''Beauties of the Night'') is a 1952 French language motion picture fantasy directed and written by René Clair who co-produced with Angelo Rizzoli. The film stars Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida and Magali Vendeuil. It was nominated the Venice Film Festival for Golden Lion (René Clair). Plot Impoverished piano teacher and composer Claude (Gérard Philipe) fantasizes about seducing beautiful rich women. One night a promising dream turns into a nightmare in which he's chased by the violent husbands and brothers of his lovers. He gets up and tries to stay awake for fear of feeling haunted again. Then he meets his neighbour Suzanne (Magali Vendeuil) who resembles a woman from his dream. Cast *Gérard Philipe as Claude *Martine Carol as Edmee *Gina Lollobrigida as Leila / Cashier *Magali Vendeuil as Suzanne *Marilyn Buferd as Madame Bonacieux / Postal clerk *Raymond Bussières as Roger the mechanic * Raymond Cordy as Suz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Taxi
''Monsieur Taxi'' is a 1952 French comedy film directed André Hunebelle and starring Michel Simon and Jane Marken and Jean Brochard.Bessy & Chirat p.189 It is about Pierre Verger, who is nicknamed Monsieur Taxi and always in company of a smart young dog called "Gangster". It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around the city including in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. Plot In Paris Monsieur Taxi comes across a bag a passenger seems to have forgotten on the backseat. The bag contains a considerable amount of money and he is desperate to return it. While trying to find the owner of the bag he is eventually taken for a criminal and arrested by police. But in the end everything is straightened out and he lives to see his both children get married. Cast * Michel Simon as Pierre Verger (Monsieur Taxi) * Jane Marken as Louise, wife of Léon * Jean Brochard as Léon, husband of Louise, policem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Against X
''The Case Against X'' (French: ''Ouvert contre X'') is a 1952 French crime thriller film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Yves Deniaud, Elina Labourdette and Yves Vincent. https://www.unifrance.org/film/2002/ouvert-contre-x It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. Synopsis A wealthy industrialist is murdered at his residence, and suspicion falls on his mistress Catherine. The experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel is convinced of her guilt and arrests her, but his younger colleague Inspector Richard is less convinced and searches for the real culprit. Cast * Yves Deniaud as L'inspecteur-chef Bonnardel * Elina Labourdette as Catherine Villard * Yves Vincent as L'inspecteur Richard * Jean Debucourt as Maître Landry * Marcel André as Le médecin légiste * Marie Déa as Madame Le Mesles * Charles Dechamps as Le juge d'instruction Ferrand * Marthe Mercadier as La d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrimonial Agency (1952 Film)
''Matrimonial Agency'' (French: ''Agence matrimoniale'') is a 1952 French comedy drama film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, written by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, and starring Bernard Blier and Louis de Funès.The A to Z of French Cinema p.241 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. Plot An average man inherits a marriage agency. He isn't prepared in any way to deal with this situation but step by step he lives up to the expectations. Partial cast *Bernard Blier as Noël Pailleret (the modest bank clerk) *Louis de Funès as Monsieur Charles *Michèle Alfa as Gilberte Jolivet *Julien Carette as Jérôme *Jean-Pierre Grenier as Jacques *Yolande Laffon as Madame Pailleret (Noël's mother) *Anne Campion as Viviane Galey *Marcelle Praince as Madame Martin *Pierre Mondy Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Games
''Forbidden Games'' (french: Jeux interdits) is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel ''Jeux Interdits''. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards. Plot It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local grav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 Film)
''The Seven Deadly Sins'' (French: ''Les Sept Péchés capitaux'') is a 1952 French/Italian co-production motion picture drama. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Viviane Romance, Maurice Ronet, Louis de Funès, Isa Miranda, Henri Vidal and Gérard Philipe. It has seven separate sections: ("Pride/L'Orgueil", "Lust/La Luxure", "Sloth/La Paresse", "Envy/L'Envie", "Avarice and Anger/L'Avarice et la colère", "Gluttony/La Gourmandise", "The Eighth Sin/Le Huitième péché") with five episodes from France, and two episodes from Italy. Director *Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride") *Yves Allégret (segment "Lust") *Jean Dréville (segment "Sloth") *Roberto Rossellini (segment "Envy") *Eduardo De Filippo (segment "Avarice and Anger") *Carlo Rim (segment "Gluttony") * Georges Lacombe (segment "The Eighth Sin") Writer *Diego Fabbri *Liana Ferri *Léo Joannon *Turi Vasile *René Wheeler *Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride") *Jean Aurenche (segments "Pride", "Lust", "The Eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Man (film)
''Great Man'' (French: ''Un grand patron'') is a 1951 French drama film directed by Yves Ciampi and starring Pierre Fresnay, Renée Devillers and Jean-Claude Pascal.Monaco p.305 The film's art direction was by René Moulaert. Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Le professeur Louis Delage. * Renée Devillers as Florence Delage * Jean-Claude Pascal as L'interne Marcillac * Claire Duhamel as Catherine Delage * Michel Vadet as Le docteur Larmy * Robert Moor as Le professeur Peccavi * Claude Nicot as Barby * Philippe Mareuil as Georges * Ky Duyen as Chang - le majordome * Maurice Ronet as François * Émile Genevois as L'ami de Gaston * Raymond Galle as Un médecin * Bernard Hubrenne as Un élève * Catherine Romane as Paulette * Georgette Talazac as L'infirmière * Georgette Anys as Madame Berval * Claire Muriel as Une malade * Christian Fourcade as Emile * Serge Lecointe as Le petit Albert * Elisa Lamotte as La dame d'Orléans * Nadine Alari as Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Pennies Worth Of Violets
''Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' (French: ''Deux sous de violettes'') is a 1951 French drama film directed by Jean Anouilh and starring Dany Robin, Georges Baconnet and Madeleine Barbulée.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.376 It was one of two films directed by the dramatist Anouilh along with '' Traveling Light'' (1944). It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq. Synopsis Thérèse is a young flower seller in Paris who has had a hard life with an unsympathetic family. Her encounters with men are also tragic as they prove to be either predatory or abandon her when she needs them most. Cast * Dany Robin as Thérèse Desforges * Georges Baconnet as Pignot - le fleuriste * Madeleine Barbulée as La chanteuse des rues * Michel Bouquet as Maurice Desforges * Georges Chamarat as Monsieur Dubreck * Jacques Clancy as André Delgrange * Léonce Corne as Le médecin * Henri Crémieux as Bousquet * Max Dalban as Le cafetier * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (1951 Film)
''The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'' (French: ''La plus belle fille du monde'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Christian Stengel and starring Françoise Arnoul, Jacqueline Gauthier, Paul Bernard and Nadine Alari. It marked Arnoul's first starring role. Oscherwitz & Higgins p.26 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. Cast * Françoise Arnoul as Françoise * Jacqueline Gauthier as Jacqueline "Jackie" Tessier * Paul Bernard as Martineau * Nadine Alari as Marie Charmy * Madeleine Barbulée as La secrétaire de l'agence * Claude Borelli as Une concurrente * María Riquelme as Christiane Thomas * Marc Cassot as Robert * Jacques Castelot as Gabory - le président * Henri Crémieux as Balbec de la Morlière * Marius David as L'imprésario * Hubert de Lapparent as Carnot * Nicole Francis as Colette Dumont * Nicole Frantz as Une concurrente * Renée Grisier as Une mère * Jean Hébey as Le directeur du journal France Presse * Joëlle Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
