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Screen Adaptations Of Plays By Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau, the best-known writer of French farce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote more than twenty full-length comic plays and twenty one-act ones. Some of these have been adapted for the cinema. Although Feydeau was active well into the era of film he never wrote for the medium, but within two years of his death in 1921 other writers and directors began to take his plays as the basis for films, of which more than twenty have been made, in several countries and languages. Films based on Feydeau plays {, class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0;" ! scope="col" , Film title ! scope="col" , Based on Feydeau's play ! scope="col" , Year ! scope="col" , Country ! scope="col" , Director , - , '' La dama de Chez Maxim's'' , '' La Dame de chez Maxim'' , 1923 , Italy , Amleto Palermi , - , ''Il tacchino'' , ''Le Dindon'' , 1925 , Italy , Mario Bonnard , - , ''Take Care of Amelia'' , ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie!'' , 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Feydeau
Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. In his teens he wrote comic monologues and moved on to writing longer plays. His first full-length comedy, ''Tailleur pour dames'' (Ladies' tailor), was well received, but was followed by a string of comparative failures. He gave up writing for a time in the early 1890s and studied the methods of earlier masters of French comedy, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin and Henri Meilhac. With his technique honed, and sometimes in collaboration with a co-author, he wrote seventeen full-length plays between 1892 and 1914, many of which have become sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Anton
Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. Anton studied medicine, but left the school after his father's death. He started as a stage actor and director in Vienna, Linz and Prague. During the World War I Anton made amateur documentaries with his friends Karel Lamač and Otto Heller. He directed his first movie, a lyrical drama ''Gypsies'', in 1921. Anton is considered an early proponent of Czech lyrical cinema tradition. He founded his own production companies Antonfilm (1923–30) and Sonorfilm (1930–32). After the international success of ''Tonka of the Gallows'' he worked in Paris for Paramount Pictures from 1932 to 1935. After leaving Paramount he moved to Germany in 1935. He died in Berlin, Germany in 1979. Czech actor Raoul Schránil was his cousin. Selected filmography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turkey (film)
''The Turkey'' (French: ''Le Dindon'') is a 1951 French period comedy film directed by Claude Barma and starring Nadine Alari, Jacqueline Pierreux and Denise Provence. It is an adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1896 play '' Le Dindon'' (''The Turkey'' or ''Sauce for the Goose''). It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Henri Schmitt. Synopsis In Paris during the Belle Epoque, Monsieur Pontagnac loves his wife but also has a wandering eye that gets him into trouble. This happens particularly when he becomes entangled with Lucienne Vatelin, the wife of a lawyer. A variety of other characters have various suspicions and intrigue and all gather at the same hotel with farcical results. Cast * Nadine Alari as Lucienne Vatelin, the notary's wife * Jacqueline Pierreux as Armandine * Denise Provence as Clotilde Pontagnac * Gisèle Préville as Maggy Pacarel * Jane Marken as Mrs Pinchard * Louis Seigner as Mr Pinchard * Jacques Charon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Aboulker
Marcel Aboulker (1 January 1905 in Algiers – 7 September 1952 in Garches) was a French Algerian screenwriter and film director. Aboulker built up a successful career from the late 1940s directing comedy films before his death from illness at the age of 47. Selected filmography * ''Radio Surprises'' (1940) * '' Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1948) * '' Le trésor des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1950) * ''The Girl from Maxim's'' (1950) * ''Women Are Angels ''Women Are Angels'' (French: ''Les femmes sont des anges'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Aboulker and starring Viviane Romance, Jeanne Fusier-Gir and André Gabriello.Rège p.2 Cast * Viviane Romance as Edmée Clotier * Jeanne ...'' (1952) Bibliography * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1905 births 1952 deaths French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French film directors People from Algiers 20th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl From Maxim's (1950 Film)
''The Girl from Maxim's'' (French: ''La dame de chez Maxim's'') is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Marcel Aboulker and starring Arlette Poirier, Saturnin Fabre and Marcelle Monthil. It is an adaptation of the 1899 farce '' La Dame de chez Maxim'' by Georges Feydeau.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.159 Cast * Arlette Poirier as La môme Crevette * Saturnin Fabre as Le général Petypon du Grêlé * Marcelle Monthil as Mme. Petypon * Jacques Morel as Le docteur Petypon * Marcelle Praince as La duchesse * Robert Vattier as Le docteur Montgicourt * Jean Marsan as Le lieutenant Corrigon * Luc Andrieux as Etienne * Colette Ripert as Clémentine * Jacques Fabbri as Le duc * Jacques Beauvais as Eugène * Pierre Flourens * Philippe de Chérisey * Albert Rieux See also * Maxim's Maxim's is a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No. 3 rue Royale in the 8th . It is known for its Art Nouveau interior decor. In the mid 20th century Maxim's was regarded as the most famous restaurant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Biography Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer; his best-known work in this vein was possibly for ''Nana'' (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes. On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep An Eye On Amelia
''Keep an Eye on Amelia'' (French: ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'') is a 1949 French-Italian comedy film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Danielle Darrieux and Jean Desailly and Grégoire Aslan. It is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Georges Feydeau, set in Belle Époque Paris. It is one of several of film adaptations to be made of the story. Background One reviewer described it as a "lively adaptation of the popular Feydeau farce", "played with verve and charm by Danielle Darrieux", whose character is "an extremely personable young lady of not too difficult virtue".Peter Simmons. Paris : The Current Season. ''Sight and Sound'', March 1950, p13. Another critic rated it highly; with a screenplay by Autant-Lara's regular collaborators, Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, he saw it as "a tour de force of virtuosity: the old play - about a rising cocotte in the Paris of 1900, who deceives her rich admirer, agrees to a mock marriage ceremony with an engaging rake to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Rozier
Willy Rozier (27 June 1901 – 29 May 1983) was a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter who also used the pseudonym Xavier Vallier. Filmography Director * ''Les Monts en flammes'' (1931) * ''Calais-Dover'' (1931) * ''Le Petit Écart'' (1931) * ''The Night at the Hotel'' (1931) * ''Avec l'assurance'' (1932) * ''Trois cent à l'heure'' (1934) * ''Pluie d'or'' (1935) * ''Maria de la nuit'' (1936) * ''Veinte mil duros'' (1936) * ' (1937) * ' (1937) * ''Champions de France'' (1938) *' (19411) * ' (1942) * ' (1943) * ''Solita de Cordoue'' (1946) * ' (1947) * ' (1947) * '' 56 Rue Pigalle'' (1949) * ' (1949) * '' The Convict'' (1951) * ''The Damned Lovers'' (1952) * ''Manina, the Girl in the Bikini'' (1952) * ''The Adventurer of Chad'' (1953) *''Your Turn, Callaghan'' (1955) * ''More Whiskey for Callaghan'' (1955) * ' (1957) * ' (1958) * ' (1960) * ' (1960) * ' (1964) * ' (1965) * ' (1969) * ' (1972) * ' (1976) Actor * ''La venenosa'' (1928) * '' About an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Chasse!
''Monsieur chasse!'' (Monsieur is hunting!) is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau, first produced in Paris in 1892. A married man disguises his absences conducting an extramarital affair in Paris as shooting trips in the country, but an evening's chaotic events expose his deception. The play was Feydeau's first success since his first full-length play, ''Tailleur pour dames'', six years earlier. It ran for 144 performances and has been revived frequently in the 20th and 21st centuries. Background and first production In 1886 the 24-year-old Feydeau had a great success with his first full length play, ''Tailleur pour dames'' (Ladies' Tailor), but his next five plays had been failures or very modest successes.Pronko, pp. 1–2 After a period of studying the works of the earlier comic masters of the 19th century he wrote two new plays in 1892: ''Monsieur chasse!'' and ''Champignol malgré lui'' (Champignon despite himself) – the latter in collaboration with Maurice Desvallières ... [...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 industry. He is credited with helping develop the careers of , |
L'Hôtel Du Libre échange
''L'Hôtel du Libre échange'' (: ''Free Exchange Hotel'') is a comedy written by the French playwrights Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières in 1894. The play takes place in Paris in the 19th century, and follows two Parisian households and their friends over the course of two days. The play has three acts; acts one and three take place in Monsieur Pinglet's office, while act two takes place in Hôtel du Libre échange, a small Paris hotel. The play has been translated into several other languages. The vaudeville was first performed at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris on 5 December 1894.Noël and Stoullig (1895), p. 363 and (1896), p. 260 The '' Annales du théâtre et de la musique'', noting that the laughter reverberated inside and out of the auditorium, said that a reviewer could only laugh and applaud rather than criticise. Another critic, predicting a long run, wrote that he and his colleagues would not be needed at the Nouveautés in their professional capacities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champignol Malgré Lui
''Champignol malgré lui'' (Champignol despite himself) is a farce in three acts, by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières. It was first performed in Paris in 1892–93, and ran for 434 performances. The play depicts the complications arising when one man is obliged by circumstances to do military service for another, while the latter, unaware, is doing military service on his own account, under the same name. Background and first production In 1886 the 24-year-old Feydeau had a great success with his first full-length play, ''Tailleur pour dames'' (Ladies' Tailor), but his next five plays had been failures or very modest successes. After a period of studying the works of the earlier comic masters of the 19th century he wrote two new plays in 1892: ''Monsieur chasse!'' (Monsieur is hunting) and ''Champignol malgré lui'' – the latter in collaboration with Maurice Desvallières. The management of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal accepted ''Monsieur chasse!'' for production, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
