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Plays And Films Of Sacha Guitry
The French actor, writer, manager and director, Sacha Guitry had a prolific output of plays and films. His stage works range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. During the era of silent films Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year. Theatre *''Le Page, ''opéra-bouffe in one act, music by Ludo Ratz (théâtre des Mathurins, 1902) *''Yves le fou, "pastorale tragique'' in one act (Pont-Aven, 1903) *''Le KWTZ, ''"drame passionnel" in one act (théâtre des Capucines, 1905) *''Nono, ''comedy in three acts (théâtre des Mathurins, 1905) *''Le Cocu qui faillit tout gâter, ''comedy in one act (théâtre Antoine, 1905) *''Un étrange point d'honneur, ''comedy in one act and two tableaux (Tréteau-Royal, 4 rue de Caumarti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Bachelors
''Nine Bachelors'' (French: ''Ils étaient neuf célibataires'') is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. Synopsis An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. Partial cast * Sacha Guitry as Jean Lécuyer * Max Dearly as Athanase Outriquet * Elvire Popesco as Comtesse Stacia Batchefskaïa * Victor Boucher as Alexandre * Saturnin Fabre as Adhémar Colombinet de la Jonchère * André Lefaur as Adolphe * Raymond Aimos as Agénor * Gaston Dubosc as Antonin Rousselier * Marguerite Deval as Mme Picaillon de Chéniset * Marguerite Moreno as Consuelo Rodriguez * Marguerite Pierry as Isabelle Patureau * Betty Stockfeld as Margaret Brown * Pauline Carton Pauline Carton (4 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pearls Of The Crown
''The Pearls of the Crown'' (french: Les Perles de la couronne) is a 1937 French comedy film of historically based fiction by Sacha Guitry who plays four roles in it (many of the other performers play multiple roles, as well). Guitry's Jean Martin investigates the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England, while the other three initially go missing. It was made at the Billancourt Studios in Paris with location shooting at a variety of sites including the Abbaye de Royaumont, the Château de Louveciennes and aboard the S.S. Normandie. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Perrier. Plot Tracing the history of seven valuable pearls of the English Crown from the time of Henry VIII of England to the present day (1937). Writer Jean Martin (Sacha Guitry) attempts to track down three of the missing pearls by tracing their previous owners, with events seen in flashback, involving Napoleon, King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England amongst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Make A Dream
''Let's Make a Dream'' (French: ''Faisons un rêve...'') is a 1936 French romantic comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Raimu and Jacqueline Delubac.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.24 It is an adaptation of the 1916 play of the same title by Guitry. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It was shot at the Epinay Studios on the outskirts of Paris, and distributed by the French subsidiary of Tobis Film. Cast * Sacha Guitry as L'amant * Raimu as Le mari * Jacqueline Delubac as La femme * Arletty as Une invitée (prologue) * Louis Baron fils as Un invité (prologue) * Pierre Bertin as Un invité (prologue) * Victor Boucher as Un invité (prologue) * Jean Coquelin as Un invité (prologue) * Claude Dauphin as Un invité (prologue) * Rosine Deréan as Une invitée (prologue) * Yvette Guilbert as Une invitée (prologue) * André Lefaur as Un invité (prologue) * Marcel Lévesque a Un invité (prologue) * Marguerite Moreno as Une invitée (prologue) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confessions Of A Cheat
''Le Roman d'un tricheur'' (sometimes known in English as ''The Story of a Cheat'', but also as ''Confessions of a Cheat'', ''The Story of a Trickster'', or ''The Cheat'') is a 1936 film starring, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. It was adapted from Guitry's only novel, ''Les Mémoires d'un tricheur'', published in 1935. Plot The 54-year-old Cheat writes his memoirs in a café. As the age of 12, he is caught stealing money from the family grocery shop. As punishment, he is not allowed to enjoy a treat with the rest of the family: mushrooms which turn out to be poisonous. His parents, siblings, uncle and grandparents all die. His mother's unscrupulous cousin takes charge of him, and uses his inheritance for his own benefit. Thus, it appears to the youngster that dishonesty pays. He runs away and works at various jobs, such as doorman and hotel bellhop. In Paris, he is unwillingly drawn into a plot to assassinate the visiting Czar Nicholas II of Russia by fellow restaurant wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N'écoutez Pas, Mesdames !
''N'écoutez pas, mesdames !'' (Don't Listen, Ladies!) is a three-act comedy by Sacha Guitry, premiered at the Théâtre de la Madeleine on 23 May 1942. Original cast * Sacha Guitry : Daniel Bacheley * Hélène Perdrière : Madeleine Bacheley * Jeanne Fusier-Gir : Julie Bille-en-bois * Léon Walther : le baron de Charançay Revivals The play was given as ''Don't Listen, Ladies'' at the St James's Theatre, London, in September 1948 with a cast including Constance Cummings, Denholm Elliott and Betty Marsden, and at the Booth Theatre, Broadway, in December 1948 with a cast headed by Jack Buchanan. , Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 19 August 2020 Notes External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Lafarge
Guy Lafarge (Périgueux, 5 May 1904 - Paris, 17 December 1990) was a French composer of operettas and popular songs.Benoît Duteurtre L'opérette en France 1997 - 202029902X Page 153 "Musicien raffiné, entre opérette classique et comédie musicale, Guy Lafarge (1904-1990) donnait avant-guerre Niquette (1930), Carabas et Cie (1932) sur des rythmes de rumba ou Monsieur Papillon (1934). Pendant la guerre, il compose La Course à l'amour (1941) où débute le jeune Guétary. Dans les années 1950, il donne plusieurs ouvrages humoristiques: Il faut marier maman (1950) sur un livret de Marc Cab, créé notamment par Denise Grey ; puis un « marivaudage » : La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (1951) ; et une « folie...Lafarge composera encore de nombreuses pièces créées en province : Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (Strasbourg, 1966), L'Œuf à voiles (Nantes, 1977), Le Petit Café (Mulhouse, 1980), composé avec Jack Ledru, et d'autres partitions restées inédites, dans le vent" Selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Borchard
Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967) was a French pianist and composer who worked on a number of film scores during the 1930s and 1940s including large-budget films such as ''Ultimatum (1938 film), Ultimatum'' (1938). He has several music students. The Vietnamese composer Nguyễn Văn Quỳ is one of them and studied through distance education between 1953 and 1954. Selected filmography * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * ''The Invisible Woman (1933 film), The Invisible Woman'' (1933) * ''Prince Jean (1934 film), Prince Jean'' (1934) * ''Confessions of a Cheat'' (1936) * ''Désiré (1937 film), Désiré'' (1937) * ''Quadrille (1938 film), Quadrille'' (1938) * ''Ultimatum (1938 film), Ultimatum'' (1938) * ''Kreutzer Sonata (1938 film), Kreutzer Sonata'' (1938) * ''Nine Bachelors'' (1939) * ''Tornavara'' (1943) * ''Jeannou'' (1943) References Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. * Nichols, Roger. ''The Harlequin Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 to the French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy ''Antigone'' by Sophocles. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. However, his most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work ''Pacific 231'', which was inspired by the sound of a steam locomotive. Biography Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) to Swiss parents in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony with Robert-Charles Martin (to whom he dedicated his first published work and violin in Le Havre. After studying for two years at the Zurich Conservatory, he enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire from 1911 to 1918, studying with both Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De La Michodière
The Théâtre de la Michodière is a theatre building and performing arts venue, located at 4 bis, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Built by in 1925 in Art Deco style, it has a tradition of showing boulevard theatre. History On the site of the Hotel de Lorge, sold in lots, the rue de la Michodiere opened in 1778. Around the place where the Gaillon gate stood at the enclosure of Louis XIII, in 1925, the architect built a theatre in the Art Deco style. Decorated by Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, the red and gold auditorium could accommodate 800 spectators, but in the 21st century, it has only 700 seats left. Unlike the West End, where the activities of "bricks and mortar" and producers tend to be separate, Parisian commercial theatres are producing houses. Management decides on the artistic policy, and shows are financed by the theatre, albeit sometimes in co-production with a touring management that hopes to profit from a Parisian success to take a show out on tour. Inaugur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Beydts
Louis Beydts was a French composer, music critic and theatre director, born 29 June 1895 in Bordeaux and died on 15 August 1953 at Caudéran in Gironde. Life and career His father was a wine-merchant who played the flute, while his mother played the piano. At 16, having finished his school studies, he went into the family business. Having learnt the piano and tried some composition, at 18 he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin, director of the Bordeaux Conservatoire, although Beydts never enrolled there. Through Vaubourgoin he gained a strict classical harmonic technique.James Stevens. Louis Beydts (1895-1953). ''Opera'', December 1953, Vol.4 No.12, p747. Beydts also studied with André Messager to whom he paid homage in ''Moineau'' with a variation on the theme of the swing duet. During the First World War Beydts was mobilized, only returning to civilian life in 1919, picking up his much-appreciated studies with Vaubourgoin until 1924. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
