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René Thévenet
René Thévenet (1926–1998) was a French film producer.Ford & Hammond p.147 He was a member of the jury at the 1973 Berlin Film Festival and the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. He was the elder brother of the film historian Pierre Lherminier. Selected filmography * '' Thirteen at the Table'' (1955) * '' Mannequins of Paris'' (1956) * ''Les Collégiennes'' (1957) * ''Mademoiselle Strip-tease'' (1957) * ''Casino de Paris'' (1957) * ''Daniella by Night ''Daniella by Night'' (French: ''De quoi tu te mêles Daniela!'', German: ''Zarte Haut in schwarzer Seide'') is a 1961 French-West German spy thriller film directed by Max Pécas and starring Elke Sommer, Ivan Desny and Danik Patisson. It was ba ...'' (1961) * '' Caesar the Conqueror'' (1962) * '' The Killing Game'' (1967) * '' Goto, Island of Love'' (1968) * '' The Witness'' (1969) References Bibliography * Ford, Charles & Hammond, Robert. ''Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History''. McFarland, 2005. * Kinnard, Roy & Crnkovich, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oullins
Oullins () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Population Transport *Several Buses (C7, C10, 8, 12, 14, 17, 63, 88) *Subway Line B in December 2013. *Oullins station, which is part of the TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes rail network Notable people *Jean-Bryan Boukaka, footballer * François Boulliat, fencer * Barbara Buatois, cyclist *Paul Jules Deschanel, father of director Caleb and grandfather of actresses Zooey and Emily *Patrice Garande, footballer *Sabrina Palie, basketball athlete * Pierre Saby, rugby player *Joseph Marie Jacquard *Louis Charles Émile Lortet, physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist. *Lionel Bah, professional football player *Féthi Harek, professional football player *Patrick de Gayardon, skydiver *Charles Le Gendre, American Civil War general & first foreign advisor in Japan *Dora Jemaa-Amirouche, Athlete(400m hurdl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle Strip-tease
''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] |
1998 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos (general), Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Kingdom of Hejaz, Hejaz. ** Bảo Đại, Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam. * January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program ''Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city (it is a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy''). * January 16 – A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox, about a workers' revolution, causes a panic in London. * January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties. * January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witness (1969 French Film)
''The Witness - A Change of Heart'' (french: Le Témoin, Flemish dialects, Flemish De Getuige) is a 1969 in film, 1969 France, French/Belgium, Belgian film directed by Anne Walter. Synopsis Cecile lodges with the astrologer lady Hanka, and teaches English at a college in Bruges. Cecile's horoscope is "Venus (astrology), Venus in Capricorn (astrology), Capricorn - the cold, winter, solitude." Cecile has a boyfriend called Thomas. Their relationship is calm and peaceful, not to say uneventful. Then Cecile meets a strange man, the museum curator Van Britten. But the old lady is shot dead. Cecile remembers having often noticed the silhouette of a man watching the house. It's Hermann, Van Britten's chauffeur. Then the net begins to close in on Van Britten, but Cecile cannot resist seeing him again: She is as fatally intrigued by him as a bird by a snake. Sometimes she tries to get away... The climax comes in Van Britten's castle. Cecile becomes his mistress, while Hermann resolves t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goto, Island Of Love
''Goto, Island of Love'' (french: Goto, l'île d'amour) is a 1968 French drama film directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring Pierre Brasseur. Cast * Pierre Brasseur - Goto * Ligia Branice - Glossia * - Gono * Ginette Leclerc - Gonasta * - L'instituteur / Professor * - Grymp * Pierre Collet Pierre Collet (10 March 1914 – 30 October 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1943 and 1977. Selected filmography * ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Le marchand d'habits (uncredite ... * - General Gwino * - Le juge d'instruction References External links * 1968 films 1968 drama films Dystopian films Films about capital punishment Films about suicide French drama films 1960s French-language films French black-and-white films Films directed by Walerian Borowczyk 1960s French films {{1960s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Killing Game (1967 Film)
''The Killing Game'' (french: Jeu de massacre) is a 1967 French comedy film directed by Alain Jessua. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best Screenplay. Cast * Jean-Pierre Cassel as Pierre Meyrand * Claudine Auger as Jacqueline Meyrand * Michel Duchaussoy as Bob Neuman * Eléonore Hirt as Geneviève Neuman * Guy Saint-Jean as Ado * Anna Gaylor as Lisbeth * Nancy Holloway Nancy Holloway ( Brown; December 11, 1932 – August 28, 2019) was an American jazz, pop and soul singer and actress who was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and live.1967 films 1960s Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesar The Conqueror
''Caesar the Conqueror'' (Italian: ''Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie'') is a 1962 Italian film directed by Tanio Boccia. The scenario is based on Julius Caesar's ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico''. The plot centres around Julius Caesar's battling the rebels in Gaul. Cast * Cameron Mitchell as Julius Caesar * Rik Battaglia as Vercingetorix * Dominique Wilms as Queen Astrid *Ivica Pajer as Claudius Valerian *Raffaella Carrà as Publia * Carlo Tamberlani as Pompey *Cesare Fantoni as Caius Opio *Giulio Donnini as Eporedorix *Nerio Bernardi as Cicero * Carla Calò as Calpurnia *Piero Palermini * Bruno Tocci as Mark Anthony *Aldo Pini as Quintus Cicero Quintus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 102 – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman and military leader, the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was born into a family of the equestrian order, as the son of a wealthy landowner in Arpinum, some south-east ... * Lucia Randi as Clelia * Fedele Gentile as Centurion * Enzo Petracca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniella By Night
''Daniella by Night'' (French: ''De quoi tu te mêles Daniela!'', German: ''Zarte Haut in schwarzer Seide'') is a 1961 French-West German spy thriller film directed by Max Pécas and starring Elke Sommer, Ivan Desny and Danik Patisson. It was based on the novel ''Daniela'' by Walter Ebert. It was Sommer's first of several spy films, but was largely an exploitation film featuring several nude scenes. Synopsis International model Daniella is urgently summoned to Rome to appear for Count Castellani's fashion house after the previous model was murdered. She soon discovers that it is a front for an smuggling operation. Cast * Ivan Desny as Count Castellani * Elke Sommer as Daniella * Danik Patisson as Claudine * Helmut Schmid as Karl Bauer * René Dary as Lanzac * Sandrine as Mannequin * Claire Maurier as Esmerelda * Brigitte Banz as Mannequin * Françoise Alban * Jean-Louis Boucher * Albert Dinan Albert Dinan (27 March 1902 – 3 July 1976) was a French film actor.Gob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casino De Paris (film)
The Casino de Paris, located at 16, rue de Clichy, in the 9th arrondissement, is one of the well known music halls of Paris, with a history dating back to the 18th century. Contrary to what the name might suggest, it is a performance venue, not a gambling house. The closest métro/RER stations are , , and . The first building at this location where shows could be mounted was erected by the Duc de Richelieu around 1730, while after the Revolution the site was renamed Jardin de Tivoli and was the venue for fireworks displays. In 1880 it became the Palace Theatre, which housed shows of different types, including wrestling. It was at the beginning of the First World War, however, that the modern Casino de Paris began to take shape, when the venue was converted into a cinema and music hall. After the bombardments of the First World War caused performances to be interrupted, the revue format was resumed, one which lasted through a good part of the twentieth century. Over the decades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Collégiennes
''Les Collégiennes'' ( en, The Twilight Girls) is a 1957 comedy-drama directed by André Hunebelle and starring Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Christine Carère and Estella Blain. It is the film debut of Catherine Deneuve (credited as Catherine Dorléac). Cast * Marie-Hélène Arnaud as Catherine Royer * Christine Carère as Monique * Estella Blain as Martha * Gaby Morlay as Madame Ancelin * Henri Guisol as Christian Brenner * Véronique Verlhac as Solange * Agnès Laurent as Anne-Marie * Paul Guers as Gilles Mareuil * Sophie Daumier as Nicole * Jacqueline Corot as Sophie * Anna Gaylor as Geneviève * Anita Treyens as Betty * Sylvie Dorléac as Adélaïde * Madeleine Barbulée as Madame Letellier * Made Siamé as Supervisor of the Girls * Elga Andersen as Hélène * Fernand Fabre as Doctor * Catherine Deneuve as Schoolgirl * Gérard Barray as Television Journalist * Yvonne Monlaur as Older Girl * Georgina Spelvin as Topless Girl #2 (US Insert, Uncredited) * Louisa Colpeyn * Marce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône and the Alps mountain range. Its capital, Lyon, is the second-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris. Rhône-Alpes has the sixth-largest economy of any European region. Geography Rhône-Alpes is located in the southeast of France. The neighboring (pre-2016) regions are Bourgogne (Burgundy) and Franche-Comté to the north, Auvergne to the west, Languedoc-Roussillon to the southwest, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to the south. The eastern part of the region is in the Alps, and borders Switzerland and Italy. The highest peak is Mont Blanc, on the French-Italian border. The central part of the region comprises the river valleys of the Rhône and the Saône. The confluence of these two rivers is at Lyon. The western part of the regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
