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Marcel Gerbidon
Marcel Gerbidon (1868–1933) was a French playwright and screenwriter. He collaborated frequently with Paul Armont. A number of his plays have been adapted into films such as the 1958 film '' School for Coquettes''.Pallister & Hottell p.77 Selected plays * '' School for Coquettes'' (1918) Filmography *''Le Porion'', directed by Georges Champavert (France, 1921, based on the play ''Le Porion'') *''The Hotel Mouse'', directed by Fred Paul (UK, 1923, based on the play ''Souris d'hôtel'') *''The French Doll'', directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1923, based on the play ''Jeunes filles de palaces'') *''The Goldfish'', directed by Jerome Storm (1924, based on the play '' School for Coquettes'') *'' A Son from America'', directed by Henri Fescourt (France, 1925, based on the play ''Un fils d'Amérique'') *''Souris d'hôtel'', directed by Adelqui Migliar (France, 1929, based on the play ''Souris d'hôtel'') *''Madame Makes Her Exit'', directed by Wilhelm Thiele (German, 1931, based on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Son From America (1932 Film)
''A Son from America'' (French: ''Un fils d'Amérique'') is a 1932 French-Hungarian comedy drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Albert Préjean, Annabella, and Gaston Dubosc.Driskell p.208 It was a co-production made at the Hunnia Film Studios in Budapest. The same story had previously been made into a 1924 silent film of the same name. Cast * Albert Préjean as Pierre Berterin * Annabella as Dorette * Gaston Dubosc as M. Berterin * Guy Sloux as Guy Dupont * Henri Kerny as Mouchin * Jane Loury as Mme. Mouchin * Simone Simon Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon (23 April 1910 or 1911 – 22 February 2005) was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. Early life Born in Marseille, France, she was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin Clair Simon, a French J ... as Maryse References Bibliography * Jonathan Driskell. ''The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France''. I.B.Tauris, 2015. External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Boyer (director)
Jean Boyer (26 June 1901 – 10 March 1965) was a French film director and songwriter. He was born in Paris. Selected songs * 1930: "Un regardé", in ''Flagrant délit'' (Hanns Schwarz, 1930, music by F. Hollaender) * 1931: "Les Gars de la marine", in '' Le Capitaine Craddock'' (music by W. R. Heyman) * 1932: "Totor t'as tort" (music by René Mercier) - "Un homme" - "L'amour est un mystère" - "Maintenant, je sais ce que c'est" - "Quand ça m'prend" (music by Michel Levine) * 1934: "C’est peu de chose" (music by R. Ervan) * 1936: "Y'a toujours un passage à niveau" (music by Georges Van Parys) * 1939: " Comme de bien entendu" - "Ça c'est passé un dimanche" - "Mimile" - "Ça fait d'excellents Français" (music by Georges Van Parys) * 1945: " Pour me rendre à mon bureau" (words and music) * 1950: "La Pagaïa" and "Je cherche un cœur" (music by Henri Betti) Filmography Director * ''Calais-Dover'' (1931) * ''La Pouponnière'' (1932) * ''Monsieur, Madame and Bibi'' (1932) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Artist With Ladies
''An Artist with Ladies'' (French: ''Coiffeur pour dames'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Fernandel, Renée Devillers and Arlette Poirier.Monaco p.189 It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis A former sheep shearer becomes the most celebrated hairdresser in France. His gift has a positive effect on the lives of a number of different woman. Cast * Fernandel as Marius, dit Mario * Renée Devillers as Mme Brochand * Arlette Poirier as Edmonde * Georges Chamarat as Le docteur * Françoise Soulié as Denise Brochand * Jacques Eyser as Vatherin * Mireille Ponsard as Une cliente * Claudette Donald * Nadine Tallier as Mlle Mado * Nicole Jonesco as Colette - la soubrette * Yana Gani as L'impératrice * Julien Maffre as Le paysan à la jument * José Noguéro as Gonzalès Cordeba y Navarro y Vavor * Manuel Gary as Gaëtan * Georges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With '' Catene'', produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were ''Neorealismo d'appendice'' (neorealism wannabe). Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine '' Positif'' loved his erotic-historical peplum '' Ship of Lost Women''. Filmography * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * ''Littoria'' (1933) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * ''Tourist Train'' (1933) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Kiki'' (1934) * '' The Serpent's Fang'' (''Il serpente a sonagli'') (1935) * ''Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' The Amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Péguy
Robert Péguy (14 December 1883 – 21 July 1968) was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s. He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s. Selected filmography * ''600,000 Francs a Month (1926 film), 600,000 Francs a Month'' (1926) * ''Croquette (film), Croquette'' (1927) * ''Kiss Me (1929 film), Kiss Me'' (1929) * ''His Highness Love'' (1931) * ''Clochard (1932 film), Clochard'' (1932) * ''Jacques and Jacotte'' (1936) * ''The Mysterious Lady (1936 film), The Mysterious Lady'' (1936) * ''My Little Marquise'' (1937) * ''Notre-Dame de la Mouise'' (1941) External links * French film directors Silent film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 1883 births 1968 deaths Writers from Paris 20th-century French male writers {{france-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla (23 June 1902 – 6 April 1965) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer, and director. He directed seventeen films including the musical comedy ''Dance Music'' (1935)Waldman p.103 and the Karl May adaptation ''Across the Desert'' (1936). Selected filmography Director * '' Blood Brothers'' (1935) * ''Dance Music'' (1935) * ''The Violet of Potsdamer Platz'' (1936) * ''Across the Desert'' (1936) * ''The Mysterious Mister X'' (1936) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1952) * ' (1952) * '' Dutch Girl'' (1953) * ''The Inn on the Lahn'' (1955) Producer * ''The Trial'' (1948) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1956) * '' Doctor Bertram'' (1957) * ''The Hero of My Dreams'' (1960) Writer * '' Blood Brothers'' (1935) * ''The Hero of My Dreams ''The Hero of My Dreams'' (german: Der Held meiner Träume) is a 1960 West German romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Carlos Thompson, Heidi Brühl and Peter Vogel.Bock & Bergfelder p.382 It was sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mysterious Mister X
''The Mysterious Mister X'' (German: ''Der geheimnisvolle Mister X'') is a 1936 German comedy film directed by J.A. Hübler-Kahla and starring Ralph Arthur Roberts, Annemarie Steinsieck and Herti Kirchner.Waldman p.205 The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. Synopsis A British lord, fascinated by crime, spends his time collecting artefacts. He is thrilled when he receives mysterious letters warning that a thief plans to steal a valuable statue from his country house. His secretary persuades him to bring in her fiancée, a private detective, to investigate the case. Cast * Ralph Arthur Roberts as Lord Wilford * Mady Rahl as Nelly Taylor, Sekretärin * Annemarie Steinsieck as Lady Wilford * Herti Kirchner as Lilian, ihre Tochter * Curt Ackermann as James - ihr Neffe * Hermann Thimig as Richard Murray * Eugen Rex as Smith, Kunsthändler * Robert Jungk as Duncan - Hausmeister auf Schloß Wilford * Erwin Biegel as Williams - Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry (born Géza Gyula Mária Bolváry Zahn, german: Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn; 26 December 1897 – 10 August 1961) was a Hungarians, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria. Biography Géza von Bolváry was born in Budapest. He attended the Imperial Military Academy in Budapest and subsequently served in the Hungarian army (Honved Hussars). After World War I he left military service with the rank of Royal Hungarian ''Rittmeister''. He then earned his living in the new Hungarian film industry. He began his career in about 1920 as an actor in various silent films, but soon changed to the Star-Film company, where he was first active as a director and made his debut as director and screenwriter with ''A Kétarcú asszony''. In 1922 the film concern Emelka in Munich hired him as a director for four years. Between 1926 and 1928 he worked for the firm Felsom Film in Berlin, after which he went to London for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Colombier
Pierre Colombier (1896–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Director * ''The Marriage of Rosine'' (1926) * '' His Best Client'' (1932) * ''Charlemagne'' (1933) * '' School for Coquettes'' (1935) * ''La Marraine de Charley'' (1935) (''Charley's Aunt'') * '' The King'' (1936) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * ''The Kings of Sport'' (1937) * '' Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''Latin Quarter The Latin Quarter of Paris (french: Quartier latin, ) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne. Known for its student life, lively atmosphere, and bistro ...'' (1939) References External links * 1896 births 1958 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters People from Compiègne 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School For Coquettes (1935 Film)
''School for Coquettes'' (French: ''L'école des cocottes'') is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier Pierre Colombier (1896–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Director * ''The Marriage of Rosine'' (1926) * '' His Best Client'' (1932) * ''Charlemagne'' (1933) * '' School for Coquettes'' (1935) * ''La Marraine ... and starring Raimu, André Lefaur and Renée Saint-Cyr.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.242 It is based on the 1918 play ''School for Coquettes (play), School for Coquettes'' by Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont. In Edwardian Paris, a young working-class girl attends an academy which teaches her the arts of a coquette to enable her to rise in society. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier (art director), Jacques Colombier. Future star Ginette Leclerc had a small supporting role. Cast * Raimu as Labaume * André Lefaur as Stanislas de la Ferronnière * Renée Saint-Cyr as Ginette * Henry Roussel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Anton
Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. Anton studied medicine, but left the school after his father's death. He started as a stage actor and director in Vienna, Linz and Prague. During the World War I Anton made amateur documentaries with his friends Karel Lamač and Otto Heller. He directed his first movie, a lyrical drama ''Gypsies'', in 1921. Anton is considered an early proponent of Czech lyrical cinema tradition. He founded his own production companies Antonfilm (1923–30) and Sonorfilm (1930–32). After the international success of ''Tonka of the Gallows'' he worked in Paris for Paramount Pictures from 1932 to 1935. After leaving Paramount he moved to Germany in 1935. He died in Berlin, Germany in 1979. Czech actor Raoul Schránil was his cousin. Selected filmography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
