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Michel Audiard
Paul Michel Audiard (; 15 May 1920 – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director, known for his witty, irreverent and slang-laden dialogues which made him a prominent figure on the French cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the father of French film director Jacques Audiard. Screenwriting filmography 1940s–1950s *1949 : ** ''Mission à Tanger'', directed by André Hunebelle ** ''On n'aime qu'une fois'', directed by Jean Stelli *1950 : ** ''Brune ou blonde'', directed by Jacques Garcia ** ''Beware of Blondes (1950 film), Beware of Blondes'', directed by André Hunebelle *1951 : ** ''Vedettes sans maquillage'', directed by Jacques Guillon ** ''Une histoire d'amour (1951 film), Une histoire d'amour'', directed by Guy Lefranc ** ''Le Passe-muraille'', directed by Jean Boyer (director), Jean Boyer ** ''Darling Caroline (1951 film), Darling Caroline'', directed by Richard Pottier ** ''Ma femme est formidable'' (''uncredited''), directed by André Hunebelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Passe-muraille
''The passer-through-walls'' (french: Le Passe-muraille), translated as ''The Man Who Walked through Walls'', ''The Walker-through-Walls'' or ''The Man who Could Walk through Walls'', is a short story published by Marcel Aymé in 1941.Michel Lecureur, Le Passe-muraille - Notice, in Marcel Aymé, Œuvres romanesques complètes – III, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2001, p. 1843-1851 () Plot summary A man named Dutilleul lived in Montmartre in 1943. In his forty-third year, he discovered that he possessed the ability to pass effortlessly through walls. In search of a cure he consulted a doctor, who prescribed intensive work and a medicine. Dutilleul made no change to his rather inactive life, however, and a year later still retained his ability to pass through walls, although with no inclination to use it. However, a new manager arrived at his office and began to make his job unbearable. Dutilleul began using his power to annoy his manager, who went mad and was taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elle Et Moi
''She and Me'' (french: Elle et moi) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Guy Lefranc from a screenplay by Michel Audiard and , based on Duché's 1952 novel ''Elle et lui''. It stars François Périer and Dany Robin, with Jacqueline Gauthier, Jean Carmet and Noël Roquevert. The film's sets were designed by art director Robert Clavel. Cast * François Périer as Jean Montaigu * Dany Robin as Juliette Capulet * Jean Carmet as Gaston, Jean's friend * Jacqueline Gauthier as Irène Duval (nicknamed "Biquette") * Noël Roquevert as Mr Belhomme, the eccentric owner * Paul Faivre as Jean's uncle * as Marie, Jean's aunt * Michel Nastorg as Juliette's father * as Juliette's mother * Louis de Funès as café waiter * as mayor * Geneviève Morel Geneviève Morel (1916–1989) was a French stage and film actress.Bessy & Chirat p.233 Selected filmography * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) * '' Secrets of a Ballerina'' (1943) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pour Vous, Mesdames
Pour may refer to these people: * Kour Pour (born 1987), British artist of part-Iranian descent * Mehdi Niyayesh Pour (born 1992), Iranian footballer * Mojtaba Mobini Pour (born 1991), Iranian footballer * Pouya Jalili Pour (born 1976), Iranian singer residing in the United States * Pour Lui (born Puu Rui, 1990), Japanese singer See also * * * Decantation, a method of pouring that can be used to remove sediment * Pur, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Mohammad Pour Rahmatollah (born 1995), Iranian footballer * Rahim Pour-Azghandi, (born 1964/65), Iranian scholar and politician * Sirous Pour Mousavi (born 1971), Iranian football coach * Mohammad-Reza Pour-Mohammadi (born 1958), President of Tabriz University, Iran * Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi ( fa, مصطفی پورمحمدی; born 9 March 1960, Qom) is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), '' Madame du Barry'' (1954), and ''Nana'' (1955). Christian-Jaque's 1946 film '' A Lover's Return'' was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Best Director award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for his popular swashbuckler ''Fanfan la Tulipe''. At the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear award for the same film. In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Christian-Jaque began his motion picture career in the 1920s as an art director and production designer. By the early 1930s, he had moved into screenwriting and directing. He continued working into the mid-1980s, though from 1970 on, most of his work was done for television. In 1979, he was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adorables Créatures
''Adorable Creatures'' (french: Adorables créatures, it, Quando le donne amano) is a 1952 romantic comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque. A French-Italian co-production, it stars Daniel Gélin, Antonella Lualdi, Danielle Darrieux and Martine Carol.Bandy p. 173 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Synopsis André, an unmarried commercial artist in Paris, has a lot of free time which he devotes to pursuing older women, not being interested in the lively Catherine, a schoolgirl in the next apartment. His lover Christiane wants to be free of her dull husband Jacques, but when she does leave him does not then want to be encumbered by André. He meets the glamorous Minouche, who wants to leave her boring lover Georges and go on a skiing holiday. There she meets the rich Gaston and drops André, who is briefly consoled by Évelyne, Gaston's discarded mistress. Returning to Paris he is scooped up by the even older Denise, a rich and beautiful widow, but ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (; 13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer of award-winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s. He also invented the strategic board game ''Risk'' in 1957. Life Lamorisse was born in Paris, France. He first came into prominence – just after ''Bim'' (1950) – for directing and producing ''White Mane'' (1953), an award-winning short film that tells a fable of how a young boy befriends an untamable wild white stallion in the marshes of Camargue (the ''Petite Camargue''). Lamorisse's best known work is the short film ''The Red Balloon'' (1956), which earned him the ''Palme d'Or'' Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and an Oscar for writing the Best Original Screenplay in 1956. Lamorisse also wrote, directed and produced the well-regarded films ''Stowaway in the Sky'' (1960) and ''Circus Angel'', as well as the documentaries ''Versailles'' and ''Paris Jamais Vu.'' In addition to films, he created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bim Le Petit âne
''Bim'' is a 1974 Trinidad and Tobago film written by Raoul Pantin and directed by Hugh A. Robertson. It was described by Bruce Paddington as "one of the most important films to be produced in Trinidad and Tobago and... one of the classics of Caribbean cinema". In 1975 at the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas, ''Bim'' won a gold medal special jury award as "a film of unusual merit". Plot Bim (pronounced Bheem) Singh is an Indo-Trinidadian teenage boy living in the rural Indian countryside of Chaguanas in Caroni County in central Trinidad with his parents and sister during the British colonial era. The character is based partly on Bhadase Sagan Maraj and partly on Boysie Singh according to historian Angelo Bissessarsingh. He is friends with a girl his age named Anna. His sister Ria is getting married to Ramdass, and Bim's father, Bhagwan Singh, a famous trade union leader and activist, is in a feud with rival Gopaul. On the day of Ria's wedding, Bhagwan S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Homme De Ma Vie
''The Man in My Life'' (French: ''L' Homme de ma vie'', Italian: ''L'uomo della mia vita'') is a 1952 French-Italian drama film directed by Guy Lefranc and starring Madeleine Robinson, Jeanne Moreau and Jane Marken. It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. Cast * Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine Dubreuil * Jeanne Moreau as Suzanne Dubreuil * Jane Marken as Emma * Walter Santesso as Michel * Henri Vilbert as Léon Fontaine * Gianni Musy as Alberto Grino * Émile Genevois as Monsieur Grino * Olga Solbelli * Umberto Spadaro Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – ... External links * 1952 films 1950s French-language films Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard Films directed by Guy Lefranc French black-and-white films Italian black-and-white films Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massacre En Dentelles
''Massacre in Lace'' (French: ''Massacre en dentelles'') is a 1952 French comedy crime film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Anne Vernon and Tilda Thamar. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. It is the third in the trilogy of films featuring the character of Georges Masse following ''Mission in Tangier'' (1949) and '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950). Synopsis A playboy reporter takes a break from his holiday to track down some gangsters. Cast * Raymond Rouleau as Georges Masse * Anne Vernon as Thérésa Larsen * Tilda Thamar as Clara Cassidi * Bernard La Jarrige as P'tit Louis * Maurice Teynac as Sophocle Zélos * John Kitzmiller as Rocky Saddley * Georges Chamarat as Alexandro Cassidi * Monique Darbaud as Nora Cassidi * Robert Vattier as Arsène de Loubiac * Jacques Dynam as Pablo * Monique Aïssata as Petite Lisette * Louis Bugette as Carlos * Anne-Marie Duverney as La secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Femme Est Formidable
''My Wife Is Formidable'' (French: ''Ma femme est formidable'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Fernand Gravey, Sophie Desmarets and Simone Valère.Rège p.43 It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. Main cast * Fernand Gravey as Raymond Corbier (Sylvia's husband) * Sophie Desmarets as Sylvia Corbier (Raymond's wife) * Simone Valère as Marguerite Rival (Gaston's wife) * Alfred Adam as Dr Gaston (Daisy's husband) * Suzanne Dehelly as Sylvia's mother * Jacques Dynam as Francis Germain (the trumpet player) * Pauline Carton as the concierge * Alan Adairas Mr Hartley (the Englishman) * Louis de Funès as the skier in search of a hotel room * Pierre Destailles as the hotel porter * Noël Roquevert as the hotel director * Max Dalban as a furniture remover See also * ''My Husband Is Marvelous ''My Husband Is Marvelous'' (French: ''Mon mari est merveilleux'') is a 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
