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Paulette Pax
Paulette Pax (née Paulette Ménard born in 1887 in Russia – died in 1942 in Paris) was a French actress, theatre director and scenographer. She co-directed the Théâtre de l'Œuvre from 1929 until her death succeeding Bella Rossellini. Theatre Comedian Selection of plays interpreted by Paulette Pax: * 1920: ''La Couronne de carton'' by Jean Sarment * 1921: ''La Gloire'' by Maurice Rostand * 1921: '' Uncle Vanya'' by Anton Chekhov, directed by Sacha Pitoëff * 1922: ''La Mort de Molière'' by Maurice Rostand * 1923: ''L'Éveil du fauve'' by Edward Knoblauch * 1924: '' Jeanne d'Arc'' by Charles Péguy, directed by Fernand Crommelynck * 1925: ''Tripes d'or'' by Fernand Crommelynck, directed by Louis Jouvet * 1926: '' Sardanapalus'', directed by Georges Pitoëff * 1926: ''L'Absolution'' by José Germain Drouilly * 1926: '' Comme ci'' by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Georges Pitoëff * 1927: '' Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores'' by George Bernard Shaw * 1929: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Germain Drouilly
José Germain Drouilly (Paris, 1884-1964), more commonly writing under the name José Germain, was a French writer. Some of his works were turned into Silent era film scripts, such as ''The Magnificent Flirt'' (1928), from the novel ''Maman''. Works More than 200 works are listed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ..., some of them under the name (Jean-)Germain Drouilly, others under the name of Lieutenant D., among which: * ''À bas les calottes'', Paris, A. Lesot, 1911. * ''Notre guerre'', Paris, Renaissance du livre, 1918. * ''Notre France en guerre'', Paris, Hachette, 1919. * ''Nos marins en guerre'', Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1919. * ''Rosa Berghem'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1921. * ''Danseront-elles ? Enquête sur les danses moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Demasy
Paul Demasy (21 March 1884 – 30 January 1974) was a francophone Belgian playwright. Main works ;Theatre *1919: ''La Tragédie d'Alexandre'' *1924: ''Jésus de Nazareth'' *1925: ' *1926: ''Dalilah'' *1933: ''Milmort'' *1925: ''Panurge'' *1937: ''Midi à quatorze heures'' *1939: ''L'Homme de nuit'' *1959: ''Materna'' *1959: ''Vannina ou la Survivante'' *1964: ''L'Indésirable'' Bibliography Daniel Droixhe, « Le désarroi démocratique dans Panurge (1935) de Paul Demasy » Bruxelles, Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique - Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium - or ARLLFB is a Belgian institution which brings together personalities who, through their works, writings, le ..., 2007. External links Paul Demasyon IdRef Belgian writers in French 20th-century Belgian dramatists and playwrights Belgian male dramatists and playwrights Writers f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play ''Antigone'', an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Life and career Early life Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Hermine
''Courted'' (french: L'Hermine) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Christian Vincent. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival where Fabrice Luchini won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. At the 41st César Awards, Sidse Babett Knudsen won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Plot Michel Racine is a feared president and judge of Assize Court, as strict with himself as with others. Everything changes when he meets Ditte when she's selected as a juror in a criminal trial over which he presides. Cast * Fabrice Luchini as Michel Racine * Sidse Babett Knudsen as Ditte Lorensen-Coteret * Raphaël Ferret as Lieutenant Massimet * Miss Ming as Jessica Marton * Corinne Masiero as Marie-Jeanne Metzer * Marie Rivière as Marie-Laure Racine * Michaël Abiteboul as Lawyer Jourd'hui Accolades Reception On Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Dumas, Fils
Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel ''La Dame aux Camélias'' (''The Lady of the Camellias''), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera ''La traviata'' (''The Fallen Woman''), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled '' Camille'' in English-language versions. Dumas ( French for 'son') was the son of Alexandre Dumas ('father'), also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as ''The Three Musketeers''. Dumas was admitted to the (French Academy) in 1874 and awarded the (Legion of Honour) in 1894. Biography Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of (1794–1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the ''Institution Goubaux'' and the '' Collège Bourbon''. At that time, the law all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Of The Camellias
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André Birabeau
André Birabeau (6 December 1890 – 1 October 1974) was a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Novels and short stories * ''La débauche'' (1924), English trans. ''Revelation'' (1930). Cited as the first novel about a homosexual man from the mother's point of viewSlide, Anthony ''Lost Gay Novels'' Routledge 2003 p23 * ''Voyage d'agrément'', became 1935 movie * ''Chfr. 35'' (short story, 1928), became 1942 French movie ''À vos ordres, Madame'' * ''Le jardin aux vingt-cinq allées'' (1928) * ''Désirable'' (1949) * ''La belle égarée'' (1965) * ''Rendez-vous avec l'amour'' (1972) * ''L'amour naît où il veut'' (1974) Plays * ''Le coeur sur la main'' (1919) * ''La peau'' (with Nicolas Nancey, 1919) * ''Le bébé barbu'' (1920) * ''La Femme fatale'' (1920), became 1946 movie * ''Une sacrée petite blonde'' (with Pierre Woolf, 1921) * ''Est-ce possible?'' (1923) * ''Un jour de folie'' (1923) * ''On a trouvé une femme nue'' (with Jean Guitton, 1923), became 1934 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Ghéon
Henri Ghéon (15 March 1875 – 13 June 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic. Biography Brought up by a devout Roman Catholic mother, he lost his faith in his early teens, while still at the Lycée in Sens. Among the factors that brought this about, one stood out in his own mind: at school religion was taught without life or understanding. Ghéon did not miss it. As F. J. Sheed says, "His was a happy atheism." He replaced Catholicism with a semi-pagan cult of beauty in all its forms — nature, literature, music, painting. He moved to Paris in 1893 to study medicine. Around the same time, he started to write poetry, along with his colleagues Francis Jammes and Stéphane Mallarmé. He also published avant garde criticism. In 1887 he met André Gide, who became his literary guide and friend for twenty years. Ghéon, writes Gide's biographer Alan Sheridan, "was Gide's closest friend and companion on innumera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Sisters (play)
''Three Sisters'' (russian: Три сeстры́, translit=Tri sestry) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''The Seagull'' and ''Uncle Vanya''. Characters The Prozorovs * Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova (Olga) – The eldest of the three sisters, she is the matriarchal figure of the Prozorov family, though at the beginning of the play she is only 28 years old. Olga is a teacher at the high school, where she frequently fills in for the headmistress whenever the latter is absent. Olga is a spinster and at one point tells Irina that she would have married "any man, even an old man if he had asked" her. Olga is very motherly even to the elderly servants, keeping on the elderly nurse/retainer Anfisa, long after she has ceased to be useful. When Olga reluctantly takes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ''Man and Superman'' (1902), ''Pygmalion'' (1913) and '' Saint Joan'' (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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