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Serge Véber
Serge Véber (1897–1976) was a French screenwriter and film director.Capua p.126 He also worked as a lyricist for operettas and was involved with many hit songs. Selected filmography * ''A Son from America (1932 film), A Son from America'' (1932) * ''King of the Hotel'' (1932) * ''Lilac (film), Lilac'' (1932) * ''Sailor's Song (film), Sailor's Song'' (1932) * ''King of the Ritz'' (1933) * ''The Old Devil'' (1933) * ''A Day Will Come (1934 film), A Day Will Come'' (1934) * ''My Heart Is Calling You'' (1934) * ''La Route impériale'' (1935) * ''The Romantic Age'' (1949) * ''Brilliant Waltz'' (1949) * ''A Hundred Francs a Second'' (1953) * ''Madelon (film), Madelon'' (1955) * ''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (1957) * ''The Lord's Vineyard'' (1958) References Bibliography * Michelangelo Capua. ''Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2015. External links * 1897 births 1976 deaths 20th-century French screenwriters Film directors from Paris {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Route Impériale
''La Route impériale'' ("the imperial road") is a 1935 French film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It combines a romantic drama with a military adventure story, set against the contemporary background of British operations against a rebellion in the kingdom of Iraq. Plot In the Kingdom of Iraq in 1935, British troops are stationed to protect the convoy route to India from rebel incursions. After spending three years in under-cover activities in the region, Lieutenant Brent, a British officer, has fallen under suspicion of treacherous dealings with the enemy but has been cleared by a military tribunal. He joins the garrison in Iraq commanded by Colonel Stark, but is embarrassed to meet there his former lover, Joyce, who is now the colonel's wife. During an operation to recapture the rebel stronghold of Ksour, Brent is inadvertently compromised with Joyce, and when he and her brother Dan attempt to protect her reputation, Brent becomes suspected of treason by the cynical Major Hudso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Deaths
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ** The United States v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lord's Vineyard
''The Lord's Vineyard'' (French: ''Les Vignes du Seigneur'') is a 1958 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Fernandel, Pierre Dux and Simone Valère. The title is a traditional expression for drunkenness in French. It is based on a play by Francis de Croisset and Robert de Flers, which had previously been adapted into a 1932 film.Goble p.1005 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Cast * Fernandel as Henri Lévrier * Pierre Dux as Comte Hubert Martin de Kardec * Simone Valère as Gisèle Bourjeon * Évelyne Dandry as Yvonne Bourjeon * Charles Bouillaud as Jean - le domestique des Bourjeon * Mag-Avril as La générale * Lona Rita as Lulu * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Tante Aline Tremplin * Michel Garland Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle And Her Gang
''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (French: ''Mademoiselle et son gang'') is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Noël Roquevert and Philippe Nicaud.Powrie & Stilwell p.143 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis Agnès Bourdieux the daughter of a police inspector, and a successful crime novelist under a male pseudonym, becomes leader of an inept gang of criminals. Cast * Line Renaud as Agnès Bourdieux * Noël Roquevert as L'inspecteur Bourdieux * Philippe Nicaud as Paul * Jean-Jacques Delbo as O'Connor * Georgette Anys as Gravos * Paul Bonifas as La patron du bistrot * Louis Bugette as Jojo * René-Louis Lafforgue as La Fourchette * Max Elloy as Victor * Jack Ary as Émile l'Africain - le troisième truand * Henri Garcin as L'ami snob de Christian * Raymond Gérôme as L'avocat * André Dalibert as Marcel * Sylvia Lopez Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madelon (film)
''Madelon'' (French: ''La Madelon'') is a 1955 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Jean Richard and Roger Pierre.The A to Z of French Cinema p.140 It is inspired by the popular song of the First World War "La Madelon" about Madelon, a waitress working in a country inn encountered by a group of soldiers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis In the First World War, Madeleine, a singing waitress who has become of the idol to the French Army travels up to Paris and the Western Front searching for her lover, encountering on the way a variety of different nationalities who make up the Allied forces. Cast * Line Renaud as Madeleine Thullier, dite La Madelon * Jean Richard as Antoine Pichot * Roger Pierre as Le caporal Georges Beauguitte * Pierre Larquey as Le curé * Georges Chamarat as Auguste Thullier * André Valmy as Le capitaine Van Meulen * Gilbert Gil as Un commandant d'aviation chez Maxim's * Jacques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hundred Francs A Second
''A Hundred Francs a Second'' (French: ''Cent francs par seconde'') is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Henri Génès, Philippe Lemaire and Jeannette Batti.Krautz p.476 It is a spin-off from the French radio game show of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Main cast * Henri Génès as Fernand * Philippe Lemaire as Philippe * Jeannette Batti as Louloute * Jean-Jacques Vital as L'animateur * Geneviève Kervine as Jacqueline Bourdinet * Jacques Eyser as Le fakir * Gaston Orbal as Le secrétaire * Fred Pasquali as Bourdinet * Bourvil as himself * Mons. Champagne as himself * André Gillois as himself * Charles Rigoulot as himself * Ray Ventura Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Career Ventura was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brilliant Waltz
''Brilliant Waltz'' (french: Valse brillante) is a 1949 French musical crime film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Mártha Eggerth, Jan Kiepura and Lucien Baroux.Fawkes p. 123 It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. Synopsis After a series of admirers of the singer Martha Vassary are attacked, the impresario has the idea of recruiting a famous tenor to act as her bodyguard. Cast * Mártha Eggerth as Martha Vassary * Jan Kiepura as Jan Kovalski * Lucien Baroux as Monsieur DeBosc, impresari * Roger Tréville as Hubert de Tiffauges * Arlette Merry as Lolita * Jean Hébey as Le directeur * Jacques Mercier as Le garçon d'ascenseur * Pierre Destailles as Le voyou * Léon Berton as Paulo * Joé Davray as Un pochard * Bob Ingarao as Un pochard * Jacques Beauvais as Le maître d'hôtel * Janine Clairville Janine may refer to: People and characters * Janine (given name) Music * "Janine" (David Bowie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Romantic Age
''The Romantic Age'' is a 1949 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville. The screenplay by Peggy Barwell and Edward Dryhurst is based on the French novel ''Lycee des jeunes filles'' by Serge Véber. The film was retitled ''Naughty Arlette'' for the American release. Plot The plot focuses on middle-aged Arnold Dickson, an art master who joins the staff of the girls' school in which his daughter Julie is enrolled. He soon finds himself the target of Arlette, a sophisticated French exchange student who has more than education on her mind. On a dare, she seduces the professor into running off to Paris with her, a plot derailed by Julie when she orchestrates a scheme designed to help him put the affair into perspective. Production notes In 1960, composer Charles Williams topped the American pop music charts with his theme for the film ''The Apartment''. It originally had been written for and was heard in this film under the title "Jealous Lover". Principal cast *Hugh Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Heart Is Calling You
''My Heart Is Calling You'' (French: ''Mon coeur t'appelle'') is the 1934 French version of a German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and Serge Véber, written by Ernst Marischka, produced by Arnold Pressburger. The film stars Jan Kiepura, Danielle Darrieux and Lucien Baroux. The music score is by Robert Stolz. Its English (''My Heart is Calling'') and German language (''My Heart Calls You'') versions were filmed simultaneously with different cast members, Marta Eggerth playing Danielle Darrieux's role. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It tells the story of a female tenor singer who ends up triumphing to the opera of Paris. Cast * Jan Kiepura as Mario Delmonti * Danielle Darrieux as Nicole Nadin * Lucien Baroux as Rosé - le directeur * Julien Carette as Coq * Charles Dechamps as Arvelle - le directeur de l'Opéra * Bill Bocket * Jeanne Cheirel as La directrice du salon de modes * Colette Darfeuil as Margot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
