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The Eleventh Hour Guest
''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (French: ''L'invité de la onzième heure'') is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy and Roger Pigaut.Rège p.229 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Synopsis An inventor claims to have invented an incredible new machine which acts as a thought detector amongst other things. On the evening he unveils it to his family and intended wife, tragedy strikes and he is found dead. Cast * Jean Tissier as Christophe Berri * Roger Pigaut as Le docteur Rémi Lambert * Blanchette Brunoy as Antoinette Langeais * Junie Astor as Isabelle Bourgoin * Lily Baron as Olga * Guillaume de Sax as Thomas Bourgoin * Marcel Delaître as Monsieur Sulnac * André Fouché as Serge * René Génin as Calixte * Jean Hébey as Frédéric * Lily Mounet as Madame Sulnac * Georgette Tissier Georgette Tissier (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Cloche
Maurice Cloche (17 June 1907, Commercy, Meuse – 23 March 1990, Bordeaux, France) was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. Best known for his Oscar-winning film ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947) he won a 1948 Special Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ''Monsieur Vincent,'' a dramatization of the life of St. Vincent de Paul that starred Pierre Fresnay, won the Academy Award in 1947 for best foreign film. It also was honored as the best film in France that year. Mr. Cloche, whose career spanned more than a half-century, also made spy thrillers and films with religious and social themes. His best-known films include ''La Cage aux Oiseaux'' (''The Bird Cage''); ''Le Docteur Laennec,'' the story of the inventor of the stethoscope; ''Ne de Pere Inconnu'' (''Father Unknown'') and ''La Cage aux Filles (''The Girl Cage''). In 1940, Mr. Cloche founded a film society for young talent. It later became France's leading film school, the Institute of Adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhévitch (russian: Георгий Леонидович Вахевич; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director. The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s. Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Covent Garden included '' Boris Godunov'', '' Otello'', ''Die Meistersinger'' and London's first ever staging of Verdi's '' Macbeth'' in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 with new sets for Gounod's ''Faust'', replacing some in use for over half a century. He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Films
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 26 – The film ''National Velvet'', starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. * January 30 – Restricted release of '' Kolberg'', an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000, probably fewer people view it than appear in it. * April 20 – Release of ''Son of Lassie'', the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgette Tissier
Georgette Tissier (1910–1959) was a French actress.Desrichard p.179 She was the wife of the actor Jean Tissier. Selected filmography * ''Metropolitan'' (1939) * ''The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (French: ''L'invité de la onzième heure'') is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy and Roger Pigaut.Rège p.229 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in P ...'' (1945) * '' The Bread Peddler'' (1950) References Bibliography * Yves Desrichard. ''Henri Decoin''. Durante, 2003. External links * 1910 births 1959 deaths French stage actresses French film actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Mounet
''Lilium'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. Most species are native to the northern hemisphere and their range is temperate climates and extends into the subtropics. Many other plants have "lily" in their common names, but do not belong to the same genus and are therefore not true lilies. Description Lilies are tall perennials ranging in height from . They form naked or tunicless scaly underground bulbs which are their organs of perennation. In some North American species the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes, on which numerous small bulbs are found. Some species develop stolons. Most bulbs are buried deep in the ground, but a few species form bulbs near the soil surface. Many species form stem-roots. With these, the bulb grows naturally at some depth in the soil, and each yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hébey
Jean Hébey (1916–1992) was a French Algerian film actor.Capua p.163 Selected filmography * ''Le bébé de l'escadron'' (1935) * ''Bichon'' (1936) - Jacques Fontanges * ''Les grands'' (1936) * ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936) - Fil-de-fer / Slim * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) - Pomino * ''L'accroche-coeur'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''Remontons les Champs-Élysées'' (1938) - Louis XVI * ''Eusèbe député'' (1939) - Le maître d'hôtel * ''L'entraîneuse'' (1939) - Un pensionnaire (uncredited) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) - Ponthus * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) - Frédéric * ''La femme fatale'' (1946) - Le directeur de l'hôtel * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) - Le roi Louis XVI * ''The Marriage of Ramuntcho'' (1947) - L'hôtelier Dugoret * ''Naughty Martine'' (1947) - Le marquis * ''Quai des Orfèvres'' (1947) - L'excentrique (uncredited) * ''Une nuit à Tabarin'' (1947) - Le speaker * ''Scandals of Clochemerle'' (1948) - Un commis * ''Emile the African'' (1949) - Le c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Génin
René Génin (25 January 1890 – 24 October 1967) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1965. Selected filmography * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * ''Nights of Fire'' (1937) * ''The Red Dancer'' (1937) * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' Port of Shadows'' (1938) * ''Ernest the Rebel'' (1938) * ''Ramuntcho'' (1938) * ''Girls in Distress'' (1939) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * ''Patricia'' (1942) * '' Pierre and Jean'' (1943) * ''A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * ''Pamela'' (1945) * ''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * ''The Last Penny'' (1946) * ''The Sea Rose'' (1946) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean'' (1947) * ''The Beautiful Trip'' (1947) * ''The Farm of Seven Sins'' (1949) * ''The Lovers Of Verona'' (1949) * '' The Passenger'' (1949) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Fouché
André Eugène Fouché (17 September 1908 – 23 July 2001) was a French actor. Fouché was born in Paris and died in Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +02:00 , blank_name_sec1 = Gross regional product , blank_info_sec1 = Ranked 1st , bla .... Filmography Bibliography * Oscherwitz,Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1908 births 2001 deaths French male film actors Male actors from Paris {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Delaître
Marcel Delaître (1888–1963) was a French film and stage actor.Crisp p.94 Selected filmography * '' Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' Poliche'' (1934) * ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * '' Girls of Paris'' (1936) * '' The Gardens of Murcia'' (1936) * '' Return at Dawn'' (1938) * '' Women's Prison'' (1938) * ''The Puritan'' (1938) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * ''Immediate Call'' (1939) * '' Paradise Lost'' (1940) * '' Strange Suzy'' (1941) * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' Father Goriot'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * '' Special Mission'' (1946) * '' Raboliot'' (1946) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Du Guesclin'' (1948) * ''The Secret of Monte Cristo'' (1948) * '' Rocambole'' (1948) * ''The Revenge of Baccarat'' (1948) * '' The King'' (1949) * ''God Needs Men ''God Needs Men'' (French: ''Dieu a besoin des hommes'') is a 1950 French historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume De Sax
Guillaume de Sax (1889–1945) was a Belgian actor. De Sax was born Guillaume Henri Robert de Segur Lamoignon in Belgium and died in France. He was married to the actress Cécile Sorel. Partial filmography * '' Ernest the Rebel'' (1938) * '' Three Waltzes'' (1938) * '' I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * ''Coral Reefs'' (1939) * ''Immediate Call'' (1939) * ''Angelica'' (1939) * ''Cristobal's Gold'' (1940) * '' Sins of Youth'' (1941) * '' Miss Bonaparte'' (1942) * ''The Lover of Borneo'' (1942) * '' Twisted Mistress'' (1942) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) * '' Picpus'' (1943) * ''Vautrin'' (1943) *''Farandole'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films''. McFarland & Co, 2008. External links *Photograph of Guillaume de Saxfrom BlogSpot Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Baron
''Lilium'' () is a genus of Herbaceous plant, herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. Most species are native to the northern hemisphere and their range is temperate climates and extends into the subtropics. Many other plants have "lily" in their common names, but do not belong to the same genus and are therefore not true lilies. Description Lilies are tall perennial plant, perennials ranging in height from . They form naked or tunicless scaly underground bulbs which are their organs of perennation. In some North American species the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes, on which numerous small bulbs are found. Some species develop stolons. Most bulbs are buried deep in the ground, but a few species form bulbs near the soil surface. Many species form stem-roots. With these, the bulb grows naturally at s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junie Astor
Rolande Jeanne Risterucci (1911–1967), better known as Junie Astor, was a French actress. Selected filmography * ''Stradivarius'' (1935) * ''The Lower Depths'' (1936) * ''Women's Club'' (1936) * ''Excursion Train'' (1936) * ''27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * '' La Garçonne'' (1936) * ''Culprit'' (1937) * ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (1938) * ''Entente cordiale'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''The Carnival of Venice'' (1939) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * ''Secret Cargo'' (1947) * ''Du Guesclin'' (1949) * ''A Certain Mister'' (1950) * ''The Beautiful Image'' (1951) * '' Guilty?'' (1951) * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) * ''Mademoiselle Strip-tease'' (1957) * ''Isabelle Is Afraid of Men'' (1957) * ''Interpol Against X'' (1960) * ''Business'' (1960) * ''The Man from Interpol ''Man from Interpol'' is a 1960 TV series produced by The Danzigers. The NBC series was filmed in England and the music was scored by jazz musician Tony Crombie. Premise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
