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Madeleine Gug
Madeleine Gug (1913–1971) was a French film editor. She worked with Henri-Georges Clouzot on the 1955 film '' Les Diaboliques''.Hayward p.116 She also collaborated on a number of occasions with Claude Autant-Lara. Selected filmography * '' The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois'' (1943) * ''Love Story'' (1943) * ''Six Hours to Lose'' (1946) * ''Sylvie and the Ghost'' (1946) * '' Devil in the Flesh'' (1947) * ''Keep an Eye on Amelia'' (1949) * ''Barry'' (1949) * ''The Red Inn'' (1951) * '' The Wages of Fear'' (1953) * ''Good Lord Without Confession'' (1953) * '' Les Diaboliques'' (1955) * '' Lola Montès'' (1955) * '' Marguerite de la nuit'' (1955) * '' The Affair of the Poisons'' (1955) * '' La Traversée de Paris'' (1956) * ''Lovers of Paris'' (1957) * '' The Gambler'' (1958) * ''In Case of Adversity'' (1958) * ''The Trip to Biarritz'' (1963) * '' Enough Rope'' (1963) * ''A Woman in White ''A Woman in White'' (French: ''Le Journal d'une femme en blanc'') is a 1965 French-Italian dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Pavillons-sous-Bois
Les Pavillons-sous-Bois () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. History The commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois was created on 3 January 1905 by detaching its territory from the commune of Bondy but the first traces of activity on its territory are found around the 17th century. The name of the commune literally means "the lodges under wood". The lodges mentioned in the name are two guard lodges, built of local stone around 1770 and rehabilitated in 1998, that were located at the entrance of the estate belonging to the château du Raincy. The wood mentioned in the name is the ancient Bondy Forest which covered most of the area to the northeast of Paris. Population Transport Les Pavillons-sous-Bois is served by no station of the Paris Métro or RER, but since 2006 its own Tram station on line , Les Pavillons-sous-bois. The closest RER station to Les Pavillons-sous-Bois is Le Raincy – Villemomble – Montfermeil statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Montès
''Lola Montès'' is a 1955 historical romance film and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls. Based on the novel ''La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès'' by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria. A co-production between France and West Germany, the dialogue is mostly in French and German, with a few English-language sequences. The most expensive European film produced up to its time, ''Lola Montès'' underperformed at the box office. However, it had an important artistic influence on the French New Wave cinema movement and continues to have many distinguished critical admirers. Heavily re-edited (multiple times) and shortened after its initial release for commercial reasons, it has been twice restored (1968, 2008). It was released on DVD and Blu-ray i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Film Editors
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1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two For The Road (film)
''Two for the Road'' is a 1967 British romance film directed and produced by Stanley Donen, and starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. The film tells the story of a married couple who reflect on their twelve-year relationship while on a road trip from England to the French Riviera. As they survey their foundering marriage in the present, the evolution of their relationship reveals itself through vignettes from four previous trips they took along the same route. The film was made from an original screenplay by Frederic Raphael. Supporting cast members include Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Claude Dauphin, and Nadia Gray. Raphael conceived the idea for the film while driving with his wife to the south of France. He pitched the concept initially to producer Joseph Janni, who declined to make the picture, and then wrote the script for Donen. Originally the film was to be made by Universal, but after the studio backed out, Donen took the project to Twentieth Century-Fox. ''Two f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman In White
''A Woman in White'' (French: ''Le Journal d'une femme en blanc'') is a 1965 French-Italian drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marie-José Nat, Jean Valmont and Claude Gensac. It was written by Jean Aurenche and André Soubiran. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. Cast * Marie-José Nat as Claude Sauvage * Claude Gensac as Mlle Viralleau * Jean Valmont as Pascal * Paloma Matta as Mariette Hugon * Jean-Pierre Dorat as Landeau * Ellen Bernsen as'Mme Michelon * Robert Benoît as Yves Hugon * Martine de Breteuil as La mère de Mariette * Germaine Delbat as Un docteur * Daniel Ceccaldi Daniel Ceccaldi (25 July 1927 – 27 March 2003) was a French actor. He was born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France. The mild-mannered Daniel Ceccaldi is famous as Claude Jade's father ''Lucien Darbon'' in François Truffaut's movies ''Stolen Kis ... as 'L'inspecteur Georget References External links * 1965 films 1965 drama films French d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enough Rope (film)
''Enough Rope'' () is a 1963 French thriller film directed by Claude Autant-Lara. The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel '' The Blunderer''. Plot synopsis Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence. Cast * Maurice Ronet as Walter Saccard * Robert Hossein as Corby * Marina Vlady as Ellie * Gert Fröbe as Melchior Kimmel * Yvonne Furneaux as Clara * Paulette Dubost as Mme Kimmel * Laurence Badie Laurence Badie (born 15 June 1928) is a French actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films since 1952. Selected filmography References External links * 1934 births Living people French film actresses {{France-actor- ... as la serveuse * Clara Gansard as Claudia Release The film was released in France on 11 January 1963 through Tamasa Distribution. It had 946,050 admissions in France. References External links * 1960s psychological thriller films 1963 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trip To Biarritz
''The Trip to Biarritz'' (French: ''Le voyage à Biarritz'') is a 1963 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Fernandel, Michel Galabru and Rellys.Le Bail & Le Bail p.385 It is based on the play of the same title by Jean Sarment which was staged at the Comédie-Française in 1936. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location in Toulon and London. The sets were designed by the art director Rino Mondellini. It also marked the final film role of the veteran actress Arletty in the role of a hotel proprietor. Synopsis Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an engineer in London. Cast * Fernandel as Guillaume Dodut * Michel Galabru as Touffanel * Rellys as Louis * Catherine Sola as Thérèse * Jacques Chabassol as Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Case Of Adversity
''In Case of Adversity'' () is a 1958 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, starring Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot and Edwige Feuillère. It was released as ''Love Is My Profession'' in the United States. It tells the story of a married lawyer who rigs a trial to acquit a young female criminal he has become obsessed with, even to the point of imagining they might have a life together and start a family. The screenplay was written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost after the novel ''In Case of Emergency'' by Georges Simenon. The film was released in France on 17 September 1958. Plot A petty criminal aged 22, the attractive Yvette is caught after robbing a watchmaker's shop with a toy pistol and felling his old wife. To defend her, she asks for André Gobillot, a leading member of the Paris bar. Telling him she has no money to pay him, she lifts her skirt to show him her goods. Accepting the deal, he arranges a false witness and after getting her acquitted instals her in a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gambler (1958 Film)
''The Gambler'' (French: ''Le joueur'') is a 1958 French-Italian drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver and Françoise Rosay.Monaco p.30 It is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel '' The Gambler''. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. It was made in Eastmancolor. Cast * Gérard Philipe as Alixei Ivanovitch * Liselotte Pulver as Pauline Zagorianski * Françoise Rosay as La tante Antonia * Jean Danet as Marquis des Grieux * Jean-Max as Le directeur de la banque * Nadine Alari as Blanche de Cominges * Sacha Pitoëff as Afpley * Suzanne Dantès as Mme de Cominges * Paul Esser * Pierre Jourdan * Julien Carette as Bagdovitch * Bernard Blier as Le Général Zagoriensky * Georges Bever as Un majordome au bal * Corrado Guarducci as Un joueur italien * Mona Dol as La baronne * Richard Francoeur as Le portier de l'hôtel * Gib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers Of Paris
''Lovers of Paris'' (original title ''Pot-Bouille'', "Stew Pot") is a 1957 France, French film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Gérard Philipe. It is based on the 1882 novel ''Pot-Bouille'' by Émile Zola. The movie is in black and white, and filmed in 35mm movie film, 35 mm. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and location shooting, on location in the city. The sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq. It premiered in France on October 18, 1957. It was the second film Duvivier directed based on a novel in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart, Rougon-Macquart series, the first being ''Au Bonheur des Dames (film), Au Bonheur des Dames'' in 1930. Plot A young provincial, Octave Mouret, arrives in Paris during the Second French Empire, Second Empire. Madame Josserand, a society woman who thinks of little other than marrying off her daughter Berthe, sets her sights on him. But Octave has already turned his attention to the married Madame Hédouin, who runs a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
