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Mélo (play)
''Mélo'' is a 1929 play by Henri Bernstein which premiered in the US in 1931 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Plot Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Pierre little suspects. Romaine carries on her affair with Marcel, even as Pierre falls ill, which she may have deliberately exacerbated with her treatment in order to murder him. Soon Marcel goes on a concert tour, and Romaine abandons Pierre for a romantic tryst. When Marcel returns, Romaine reconsiders the affair, and realizes that she loves both Pierre and Marcel. She decides that she does not want to hurt either her husband or her lover, and as no other solution seems possible, she commits suicide. Three years later, Pierre visits Marcel to seek the truth, and Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Bernstein
Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre. Biography Bernstein was born in Paris. His earliest plays, including ''La Rafale'' (1905), ''Le Voleur'' (1907), ''Samson'' (1908), ''Israël'' (1908), and ''Le Secret'' (1913), are written in a realistic style and powerfully depict harsh realities of modern life and society. The far-right royalist ''Camelots du Roi'' youth organization of the ''Action française'' organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During the Second World War, he fled to the United States and lived in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria. Jean-Pierre Aumont relates in his work ''Le Soleil et les Ombres'' (Robert Laffont, 1976) the luxury in which he lived, as well as his general lack of interest in the war. He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. Works *''Le Marché'' (The Market), 1900 *''Le Détour'', 1902 *''Joujou'', 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mélo (1986 Film)
Mélo may refer to: * Mélo (play), a 1929 play by Henri Bernstein * Mélo (film) ''Mélo'' is a 1986 French romantic drama film directed by Alain Resnais and starring Fanny Ardant, André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi based on the 1929 play by Henri Bernstein. Plot Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violin ..., a 1986 French romantic drama film, based on the play See also * Melo (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt * César Award, a French film award Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar River, a river within the Magdalena Basin of Colombia * Cesar River, Chile * Cesar Department, Colombia Other uses * César (grape), an ancient red wine grape from northern Burgundy * French ship ''César'' (1768), ship of the line, destroyed 1782 * Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R), in Brazil * Cesar, a brand of dog food manufactured by Mars, Incorporated People with the given name * César (footballer, born May 1979), César Vinicio Cervo de Luca, Brazilian football centre-back * César (footballer, born July 1979), Clederson César de Souza, Brazilian football winger * César Alierta (born 1945), Spanish businessman * César Augusto Soares dos Reis Ribela (born 1995), Brazilian footballer * César Azpilic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Actress
The César Award for Best Actress (french: César de la meilleure actrice, link=no) is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie. History Superlatives As of 2019, 82 actresses have been nominated in the category, with a total of 34 different winners. The average age at first nomination is 36 and the average age of winners at first win is 39. With five wins (1982, 1984, 1989, 1995, 2010), Isabelle Adjani has the most Best Actress Césars. Six actresses have won two Best Actress Césars: Romy Schneider (1976, 1979), Sabine Azéma (1985, 1987), Catherine Deneuve (1981, 1993), Nathalie Baye (1983, 2006), Yolande Moreau (2005, 2009) and Isabelle Huppert (1996, 2017). Adjani also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is a French actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi. Life and career Born in Paris, his father was the painter Georges Arditi, from Marseille of Jewish descent, and his mother Yvonne Leblicq was Belgian from Brussels. In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in '' Mélo'', and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in ''Smoking/No Smoking''. Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve. Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the French-language version of the three first Superman films by Richard Donner and Richard Lester. Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donner's ''Superman'', the film had to be re-dubbed with a different voice actor. He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedy/whodunit '' Deathtrap''. He was the voice of the docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Azéma
Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Career Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the Country'' (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including ''Life Is a Bed of Roses'' (1983), '' L'Amour à mort'' (1984), '' Mélo'' (which won her a second César Award for Best Actress), '' Smoking/No Smoking'' (1993), '' On connaît la chanson'' (1997), '' Pas sur la bouche'' (2003), and ''Cœurs ''Private Fears in Public Places'' (french: Cœurs ("Hearts"), is a 2006 French comedy-drama film directed by Alain Resnais. It was adapted from Alan Ayckbourn's 2004 play ''Private Fears in Public Places''. The film won several awards, including a ...'' (2006). She has been nominated a further five times. Filmography As actress As director Decorations * Commander of the Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Dussollier
André Dussollier (born 17 February 1946) is a French actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li .... Selected filmography Awards and nominations César Awards Lumières Award Molière Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dussolier, Andre 1946 births Living people People from Annecy French male film actors French male television actors French male stage actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Best Actor César Award winners Best Supporting Actor César Award winners Magritte Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Early life Ardant was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France, to a military attaché father. She grew up in Monaco until age 17, when she moved to Aix-en-Provence to study at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence. In her early twenties, her interest turned to acting and in 1974 she made her first appearance on stage. Career By the early 1980s, Ardant was a major film star, gaining international recognition for her role opposite Gérard Depardieu in ''La Femme d'à côté'' (''The Woman Next Door''). The film, directed by François Truffaut, brought Ardant her first César Award nomination for best actress in 1982 and in 1984 she was nominated again for '' Vivement dimanche!''. Eventually, she became Truffaut's partner, giving birth to their daughter, Joséphine Truffaut, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included ''Night and Fog'' (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.Ephraim Katz, ''The International Film Encyclopedia''. (London: Macmillan, 1980.) p. 966–967. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959), ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (1961), and '' Muriel'' (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (''la nouvelle vague''), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Lips (1953 Film)
''Dreaming Lips'' (german: Der träumende Mund) is a 1953 German drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Maria Schell, O. W. Fischer and Philip Dorn. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Peter Röhrig. It is a remake of the 1932 film '' Dreaming Lips'' by Paul Czinner. Czinner had also remade the film in Britain in 1937. Cast *Maria Schell as Elisabeth *O. W. Fischer as Peter *Philip Dorn as Michael *Marga Maasberg as Marie *Eva Portmann as Christine *Günther Jerschke as Sekretär *Erwin Linder Erwin Linder (1903–1968) was a German stage, film and television actor.Meyer p.76 Selected filmography * ''Only One Night'' (1950) * '' Klettermaxe'' (1952) * '' Dreaming Lips'' (1953) * '' Wedding in Transit'' (1953) * '' Don't Forget Love'' ... as Arzt References External links * 1953 films 1953 romantic drama films German romantic drama films West German films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 241 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adam styles for the Shubert family. The theater, named in honor of actress Ethel Barrymore, has 1,058 seats and is operated by the Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks. The ground-floor facade is made of rusticated blocks of terracotta. The theater's main entrance consists of two archways and a doorway shielded by a marquee. The upper stories contain an arched screen made of terracotta, inspired by Roman baths, which is surrounded by white brick. The auditorium contains ornamental plasterwork, a sloped orchestra level, a large balcony, and a coved ceiling with a dome. The balcony level contains box seats topped by decorative arches. The theater was also designed with a basement lounge and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Lips (1937 Film)
''Dreaming Lips'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Romney Brent and Raymond Massey. Synopsis The wife (Bergner) of a violin player (Brent) in a famous orchestra, falls in love with her husband's friend and, tragically, drowns herself. Cast * Elisabeth Bergner as Gaby Lawrence * Raymond Massey as Miguel del Vayo * Romney Brent as Peter Lawrence * Joyce Bland as Christine * Sydney Fairbrother as Mrs. Stanway * Felix Aylmer as Sir Robert Blaker * J. Fisher White as Dr. Wilson * Charles Carson (actor), Charles Carson as Impresario * Donald Calthrop as Philosopher * Ronald Shiner as Friend * Cyril Raymond as PC * George Carney as Rescuer * Bruno Barnabe as Rescuer Production The film was produced by Trafalgar Film Productions with art direction by Thomas N. Morahan. It was a remake of the 1932 German film ''Dreaming Lips (1932 film), Dreaming Lips'' also directed by Czinner and starring Bergner which had bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
