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Mammy (1951 Film)
''Mammy'' is a 1951 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay, Pierre Larquey and Françoise Arnoul.Rège p.939 It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Druart. Synopsis Madame Pierre, known as Mammy, dotes on her grandson Maurice. He has been away in Canada for ten years, and is a disreputable lowlife. However her husband has created a false image of a decent, happily-married architect for her benefit. When news comes of Maurice's disappearance in a plane crash, Mammy is so distraught that her husband hires a young couple to pose as Maurice and his invented wife Marthe, in the hope that his wife will accept them as real. Cast * Gaby Morlay as Mme Pierre dite Mammy * Pierre Larquey as Dr. André Pierre * Françoise Arnoul as Marthe Roux * Andrée de Chauveron as Geneviève * Claude Nicot as Le petit ami * Micheline Gary as Lucette * Solange Varenne as Marie * Michel Jourdan as L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Stelli
Jean Stelli (6 December 1894 in Lille – 2 February 1975 in Grasse) was a French screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography * ''The Hurricane on the Mountain'' (1922) * ''Gibraltar'' (1938) * ''Cristobal's Gold'' (1940) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * ''The White Waltz'' (1943) * ''The Temptation of Barbizon'' (1946) * '' The Mysterious Monsieur Sylvain'' (1947) * ''Five Red Tulips'' (1949) * '' Last Love'' (1949) * ''Sending of Flowers'' (1950) * '' The Unexpected Voyager'' (1950) * '' Maria of the End of the World'' (1951) * '' Mammy'' (1951) * '' The Night Is Ours'' (1953) * ''The Lovers of Marianne ''The Lovers of Marianne'' (French: ''Les amoureux de Marianne'') is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay, André Luguet and Jean Debucourt Jean Debucourt (19 January 1894 – 22 March 1958) was a F ...'' (1953) * '' Baratin'' (1956) External links * 1894 births 1975 deaths French film directors French male screenwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Hell
René Hell (1891–1965) was a French actor. Selected filmography * '' Special Mission'' (1946) * ''Dilemma of Two Angels'' (1948) * '' After Love'' (1948) * '' Five Red Tulips'' (1949) * '' The Red Angel'' (1949) * '' The Unexpected Voyager'' (1950) * '' Quay of Grenelle'' (1950) * ''Rome Express'' (1950) * '' Mammy'' (1951) * '' Passion'' (1951) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * '' The House on the Dune'' (1952) * '' The Red Head'' (1952) * '' Darling Anatole '' (1954) * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) * ''The Count of Bragelonne'' (1954) * '' I'll Get Back to Kandara'' (1956) * '' A Bomb for a Dictator'' (1957) * ''And Your Sister? ''And Your Sister?'' (French: ''Et ta soeur?'') is a 1958 French comedy film directed by Maurice Delbez and starring Pierre Fresnay, Arletty and Jean-Claude Brialy.Parish p.98 Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Bastien du Boccage * Arletty as Lucrèce ...'' (1958) * '' All the Gold in the World '' (1961) * '' The Gentleman from Epsom'' (1962) 1891 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Sauval
Georges may refer to: Places * Georges River, New South Wales, Australia * Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 song originally recorded by Pat Simon and covered by Sylvie Vartan *Georges (store), a department store in Melbourne, Australia from 1880 to 1995 * Georges (''Green Card'' character) People with the surname * Eugenia Georges, American anthropologist *Karl Ernst Georges (1806–1895), German classical philologist and lexicographer, known for his edition of Latin-German dictionaries. See also * École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * École secondaire Georges-Vanier in Laval, Quebec, Canada * French cruiser ''Georges Leygues'', commissioned in 1937 * French frigate ''Georges Leygues'' (D640), commissioned in 1979 *George (other) *Georges Creek (other) *Georges Creek Coal and Iro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luce Fabiole
Luce may refer to: People * Luce (name), as a given name and a surname * Luce (singer) Places * Luče Luče (; sometimes ''Luče ob Savinji'', german: Leutsch) is the largest settlement and the centre of the Municipality of Luče in northern Slovenia. It belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Re ..., a town in Slovenia * Luce, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Luce Bay, a large Bay in Wigtownshire in southern Scotland * Luce County, Michigan, a county in the U.S. state of Michigan * Luce Township, Spencer County, Indiana * New Luce, village in the Scottish unitary council area of Dumfries and Galloway * Sainte-Luce, Martinique, a commune in the French overseas département of Martinique * Sainte-Luce, Isère, a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France * Santa Luce, a commune in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany * Water of Luce, a river in Dumfries and Galloway, in south west Scotlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaby Tyra
Gaby may refer to: People Gaby is short for Gabrielle, Gabriella or Gabriel, and in particular may refer to: * Gaby (singer) (born 1965), Panamanian Reggae en Español and Reggaeton singer and rapper *Gaby, a Spanish clown, one of Los Payasos de la Tele *Gaby Aghion (1921–2014), French fashion designer and founder of the fashion house Chloé * Gabriel Aragón (1920–1995), Spanish clown better known as Gaby * Gaby Canizales (born 1960), American former welterweight boxing world champion *Gaby Charroux (born 1942), French politician *Gaby Deslys (1881–1920), French dancer, singer and actress *Gaby Dunn (born 1988), American writer, actor, pop journalist, comedian, LGBTQ activist, & podcaster *Gaby Espino (born 1977), Venezuelan actress and model *Gaby Hoffmann (born 1982), American actress *Gaby Layoun (born 1964), Lebanese politician *Gaby Lewis (born 2001), Irish cricketer *Gaby Mudingayi (born 1981), Belgian footballer *Gaby Roslin (born 1964), British presenter *Gaby Sán ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Blanchot (actor)
Maurice Blanchot ( , ; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. Biography Pre-1945 Blanchot was born in the village of Quain (Saône-et-Loire) on 22 September 1907. Blanchot studied philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, where he became a close friend of the Lithuanian-born French Jewish phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. He then embarked on a career as a political journalist in Paris. From 1932 to 1940 he was editor of the mainstream conservative daily the ''Journal des débats''. In 1930 he earned his DES (diplôme d'études supérieures), roughly equivalent to an M.A. at the University of Paris, with a thesis titled "La Conception du Dogmatisme chez les Sceptiques anciens d'après Sextus Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Hersent
Philippe Hersent (26 July 1912 – 30 December 1982) was a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1930 to 1978. Filmography References External links * 1912 births 1982 deaths French male film actors {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Delaître
Marcel Delaître (1888–1963) was a French film and stage actor.Crisp p.94 Selected filmography * '' Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' Poliche'' (1934) * ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * '' Girls of Paris'' (1936) * '' The Gardens of Murcia'' (1936) * '' Return at Dawn'' (1938) * '' Women's Prison'' (1938) * ''The Puritan'' (1938) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * ''Immediate Call'' (1939) * '' Paradise Lost'' (1940) * '' Strange Suzy'' (1941) * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' Father Goriot'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * '' Special Mission'' (1946) * '' Raboliot'' (1946) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Du Guesclin'' (1948) * ''The Secret of Monte Cristo'' (1948) * '' Rocambole'' (1948) * ''The Revenge of Baccarat'' (1948) * '' The King'' (1949) * ''God Needs Men ''God Needs Men'' (French: ''Dieu a besoin des hommes'') is a 1950 French historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Jourdan
Michel Yves René Leray (2 June 1926 – 4 August 1985), better known by the stage name of Michel Jourdan, was French film actor. Jourdan died in Paris on 4 August 1985, at the age of 59. Selected filmography * '' The Passenger'' (1949) * '' Mammy'' (1951) * ''They Were Five'' (1952) * ''At the Edge of the City'' (1953) * '' Burning Fuse'' (1957) * '' The Cat'' (1958) * ''The Cat Shows Her Claws ''The Cat Shows Her Claws'' (French: ''La chatte sort ses griffes'') is a 1960 French war drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Françoise Arnoul, Horst Frank and François Guérin.Bessy & Chirat p.287 It was shot at the Billancourt S ...'' (1960) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1926 births 1985 deaths Actors from Nantes French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solange Varenne
Solange (died 10 May, c. 880) was a Frankish shepherdess and a locally venerated Christian saint and cephalophore, whose cult is restricted to Sainte-Solange, Cher. Saint Solange was the patron of the traditional Province of Berry, of which Cher is a part. Solange was born to a poor, but devout family in the town of Villemont, near Bourges, and consecrated her virginity at the age of seven; according to some, her mere presence cured the sick and exorcised devils. The son of the count of Poitiers was highly taken with the beauty and popularity of Solange and approached her when she was tending to her sheep, but she rejected his suit. He argued with her to no avail, and so he decided to abduct her. At night, he came and took Solange by force, but she struggled so violently that she fell from his horse while he was crossing a stream. Her abductor grew enraged and beheaded her with his sword. According to the fully-developed legend, Solange's severed head invoked three times the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micheline Gary
Christiane Micheline Guary (1 October 1925 – 25 December 2022), better known as Micheline Gary, was a French film and stage actress who was active in the French film industry throughout the 1950s. In 1960 she married the actor Paul Meurisse. Gary died in Paris on 25 December 2022, at the age of 97. Selected filmography * '' Mammy'' (1951) * ''An Artist with Ladies'' (1952) * '' Endless Horizons'' (1953) * ''The Lovers of Midnight'' (1953) * ''Quay of Blondes'' (1954) * ''The Big Flag'' (1954) * ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1954) * ''The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954) * ''The Beautiful Otero'' (1954) * ''Caroline and the Rebels'' (1955) * ''Stopover in Orly'' (1955) * '' Maid in Paris'' (1956) * '' Serenade of Texas'' (1958) * '' The Doctor's Horrible Experiment'' (1959) * ''Picnic on the Grass ''Picnic on the Grass'' (french: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) is a 1959 French comedy film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring Paul Meurisse, Fernand Sardou and Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |