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Plucking The Daisy
''Plucking the Daisy'' (french: En effeuillant la marguerite) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Brigitte Bardot. It was also known as ''Mam'selle Striptease'' and ''Please Mr Balzac''. ''Turner Classic Movies'' called it "a typical French romantic comedy... complete with a meet-cute on a train, and plenty of loving shots of Bardot's pert behind.... typical of the suggestive but innocuous films that Bardot made early in her career." Plot General Dumont discovers that his daughter Agnes is "A.D.", author of a scandalous under-the-counter novel. He tries to send her to a convent but she escapes to Paris to live with her brother. On the train she meets Daniel, a journalist. Agnes thinks her brother is a rich artist but he's actually a poor guide in the Balzac Museum. Agnes needs money and enters an amateur striptease contest. Daniel is covering the contest for his magazine. Cast * Brigitte Bardot as Agnès Dumont * Daniel Gélin as Daniel Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director. Biography Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in Paris, but while accompanying his lover André Gide on a trip in 1927 to the Congo in Africa, he recorded the trip on film,Marc Allégret Encyclopaedia Britannica after which he chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. He is credited with helping develop the careers of Simone Simon, Michèle Morgan, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in Paris, in 1982. Career Early life Patrick Dewaere was the third child of an actors family. Under the direction of his mother, Mado Maurin, Patrick, his four brothers and his sister played in movies and television series. The family lived in Paris. Dewaere attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. One of his first TV appearances was in 1961, when he was 14 years old. He appeared in a video for the song " Nuits d'Espagne" by Dalida. Later, he was a promising and popular French actor in the late 1960s and 1970s. Debuts as "Patrick Dewaere" At the age of 17, Dewaere learned that he was not the biological child of his mother’s ex-husband, Pierre-Marie Bourdeaux, but that of conductor and singer Michel Têtard. In 1968, he took t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s French Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and '' The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa (as TNT), and Asia-Pacific. History Origins In 1986, eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naughty Girl (film)
''Naughty Girl'' (french: Cette sacrée gamine), also released as ''Mam'zelle Pigalle'', is a 1956 French CinemaScope musical film starring Brigitte Bardot. Plot Handsome cabaret entertainer Jean Clery is engaged to his psychiatrist, Lili. He sings at a nightclub owned by Paul Latour which is being used as a front for a gang of forgers. Paul has been framed and decides to go to Switzerland to find out who is really behind this. He has a daughter, Brigitte, who is at finishing school and thinks he is a shipbuilder. Paul asks Jean to retrieve Brigitte from school and look after her for a few days so she is not caught up in the police investigation. Jean collects Brigitte pretending to be her uncle and keeps her at his apartment. While there, Brigitte causes chaos, upsetting Jean's butler, starting a fire, getting arrested for swearing and winding up in prison, and causing troubles with Jean's engagement to Lili. Eventually Brigitte and Jean fall in love and the real crooks are c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And God Created Woman (1956 Film)
''And God Created Woman'' (french: Et Dieu... créa la femme) is a 1956 French romantic drama film directed by Roger Vadim in his directorial debut and starring Brigitte Bardot. Though not her first film, it is widely recognized as the vehicle that launched Bardot into the public spotlight and immediately created her "sex kitten" persona, making her an overnight sensation. When the film was released in the United States by Kingsley-International Pictures in 1957, it pushed the boundaries of the representation of sexuality in American cinema, and most available prints of the film were heavily edited to conform with the Hays Code censorial standards. An English-language remake also titled '' And God Created Woman'' was directed by Vadim and released in 1988. Plot The action is set in St Tropez. Juliette is an 18-year-old orphan in Saint-Tropez, France, with a high level of sexual energy. She makes no effort to restrain her natural sensuality – lying nude in her yard, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Arnoul
Françoise Arnoul (born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch; 3 June 1931 – 20 July 2021) was a French actress, who achieved popularity during the 1950s. Early life Born in Constantine, French Algeria, as the daughter of stage actress Janine Henry and artillery general Charles Gautsch, she had two brothers. While her father continued military service in Morocco, the rest of the family moved to Paris, France, in 1945. Career After learning drama in Paris, she was noticed by director Willy Rozier, who offered her a major role in the film ''L'Épave'' (1949). Arnoul starred in such films as Henri Verneuil's '' Forbidden Fruit'' (1952), Jean Renoir's ''French Cancan'' (1954), ''People of No Importance'' (1956) with Jean Gabin, Henri Decoin's '' The Cat'' (1958), ''Way of Youth'' (1959) with Bourvil, and Jean Cocteau's ''Testament of Orpheus'' (1960). Her American film debut came in ''Companions of the Night'' (1954). Later in life, she moved into television, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Eyraud
Marc Eyraud (1 March 1924 – 15 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995. Partial filmography * ''Plucking the Daisy'' (1956) - Un photographe (uncredited) * ''The Man in the Raincoat'' (1957) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''Les Misérables'' (1958) - Grantaire * '' Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida'' (1958) - Le douanier espagnol * ''Le mouton'' (1960) - Le passant qui demande du feu (uncredited) * ''Le coeur battant'' (1960) - Le directeur de la galerie * ''Léon Morin, Priest'' (1961) - Anton * ''Par-dessus le mur'' (1961) - Un père * ''The Immoral Moment'' (1962) - Le metteur en scène * ''Ballade pour un voyou'' (1963) - Le radiologue * ''La belle vie'' (1963) - Le photographe (uncredited) * '' Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1964) - Le secrétaire du commissaire * ''A Taste for Women'' (1964) - Rocard * '' Le Bonheur'' (1965) - J. Forestier - le frère de François * '' The Wise Guys'' (1965) - L'éducateur * ''Beatrice'' (1965) - Giaco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Constantin
Michel Constantin (born Constantin Hokhloff, 13 July 1924 – 29 August 2003) was a French film actor. Biography Born to a Russian father and a Polish mother in Billancourt (near Paris), Constantin made his first film appearance in 1956. His first credited role was in the prison breakout drama ''Le Trou'' (aka ''The Hole'') in 1960. Selected filmography * ''Plucking the Daisy'' (1956) - Un spectateur du strip-tease (uncredited) * '' The Hole'' ''(Le Trou)'' (1960) - Jo Cassine * ''A Man Named Rocca'' (1961) - Le chef des racketteurs américains * '' The Law of Men'' (1962) - Paulo * ''Maigret Sees Red'' (1963) - Cicero * '' The Gorillas'' (1964) - Otto, le légionnaire (uncredited) * ''The Wise Guys'' ''(Les Grandes Gueules)'' (1965) - Skida * ' (1966) - Jeff * '' Le deuxième souffle'' (1966) - Alban * ''Dirty Heroes'' ''(Dalle Ardenne all'inferno)'' (1967) - Sgt Rudolph Petrowsky * ' (1967) - Stan * ''Jerk à Istambul'' (1967) - Vincent * ' (1967) - Georges * '' The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Loup Philippe
Jean-Loup Philippe (born 24 March 1936) is a French actor, writer and director of film and theatre He is best known for his role in Jean Rollin's 1975 horror classic ''Lèvres de sang''.Richey, Jeremy (February 8, 2009) He had collaborated will Rollin on several occasions, having worked on '' Les paumées du petit matin'' (1981), '' Killing Car'' (1993) and ''La nuit des horloges'' (2007). Career Philippe began his acting career in 1956, appearing uncredited in the film ''En effeuillant la marguerite'', with Daniel Gélin and Brigitte Bardot. He had a larger role in his next film, ''Escapade'', with Louis Jourdan. Following his 1957 film, ''Une manche et la belle'', his acting career became somewhat erratic, with film appearances occurring every few years. After a long break, Philippe returned with the film, ''L'itinéraire marin'' in a small role, and his first time working with French director Jean Rollin. He starred in the 1963 film ''Les bonnes causes'', with award-winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Garcin
Henri Garcin (born Anton Albers; 11 April 1928 – 13 June 2022) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1956 to 2022. Selected filmography * ''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (1957) * '' Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964) * '' A Matter of Resistance'' (1965) * '' Judoka-Secret Agent'' (1966) * '' Les Gauloises bleues'' (1968) * '' The Cop'' (1970) * '' Someone Behind the Door'' (1971) * '' Les Guichets du Louvre'' (1974) * ''Verdict'' (1974) * ''Love at the Top'' (1974) * '' The Common Man'' (1975) * ''The More It Goes, the Less It Goes'' (1977) * ''An Almost Perfect Affair'' (1979) * '' La Femme flic'' (1980) * '' The Woman Next Door'' (1981) * '' A Hundred and One Nights'' (1995) * '' The Eighth Day'' (1996) * ''The Proprietor'' (1996) * '' The Dress'' (1996) * ''The Pink Panther'' (2006) * '' My Best Friend'' (2006) * '' Schneider vs. Bax'' (2015) * ''Tonio Tonio may refer to: * ''Tonio'' (film), a 2016 Dutch film *Tonio (software), a Vocaloid vocal *Tonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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