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The Paris Waltz
''The Paris Waltz'' (French: ''La Valse de Paris'') is a 1950 French-Italian historical musical film directed by Marcel Achard and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jacques Charon.Hayward p.287 It portrays the life of the nineteenth century composer Jacques Offenbach. The film's sets were designed by Robert Clavel. Main cast *Yvonne Printemps as Hortense Schneider *Pierre Fresnay as Jacques Offenbach *Jacques Charon as Jean-François Berthelier *Noëlle Norman as Marie Pradeau * Robert Manuel as José Dupuis *Pierre Dux as General Danicheff *Denise Provence as Brigitte *Jacques Castelot as Le duc de Morny *Raymonde Allain as L'impératrice Eugénie *Claude Sainval as Le prince *Lucien Nat as Napoleon III * Léa Gray as La duchesse de Morny *André Roussin as Henri Meilhac * Renée Sénac as La mère d'Hortense *Gabriel Gobin Gabriel Gobin (12 May 1903 – 9 February 1998) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 1990. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Achard
Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies Garzanti p. 3 maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.New York Times He was elected to the Académie française in 1959. Themes and variations within a philosophical outlook A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his pen name at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s. Able to absorb knowledge quickly, he became, in 1916, in the midst of World War I, a village schoolteacher at the age of 17. In 1919, a few months after the end of the war, the 20-year-old aspiring writer arrived in Paris and found jobs as a prompter at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and as a journalist for various publications, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Manuel (actor)
Robert Manuel (7 September 1916 – 8 December 1995) was a 20th-century French stage, television, and film actor, and film director. Filmography *1935: '' La Petite Sauvage'' (by Jean de Limur) *1937: '' Salonique, nid d'espions'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - un invité au consulat *1938: '' Orage'' (by Marc Allégret) - Gilbert *1938: ''La Marseillaise'' (by Jean Renoir) *1938: ''Le Drame de Shanghaï'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - Le client attaqué *1939: '' Jeunes filles en détresse'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - Robert (uncredited) *1946: '' The Captain'' (by Robert Vernay) - Le comte Hercule de Nesle *1946: '' Comédie avant Molière'' (by Jean Tedesco) (Short) *1950: ''The Paris Waltz'' (by Marcel Achard) - José Dupuis *1955: ''Le Fils de Caroline chérie'' (by Jean Devaivre) - Le Roi Joseph *1955: ''Napoléon'' (by Sacha Guitry) - Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited) *1955: ''Rififi'' (''Du rififi chez les hommes'') (by Jules Dassin) - Mario Ferrati *1955: ''Milord l'Arsouille'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Meilhac
Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's ''Manon''. Biography Meilhac was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in 1830. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and comédies en vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, Meilhac met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's ''Carmen''. However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are ''La belle Hélène'' (1864), '' Barbe-bleue'' (1866), '' La Vie parisienne'' (1866), ''La Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Roussin
André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. Bibliography *1933 ''Patiences et impatiences'' *1944 ''Am Stram Gram'' *1945 ''Une grande fille toute simple'' *1945 ''Jean Baptiste le mal aimé'' *1945 ''La Sainte Famille'' *1947 ''La petite hutte'' *1948 ''Les Œufs de l'autruche'' *1949 ''Nina'' *1950 ''Bobosse'' *1951 ''La main de César'' *1951 ''Lorsque l'enfant paraît'' *1952 ''Hélène ou la joie de vivre'' *1953 ''Patience et impatiences'' *1954 ''Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort'' *1955 ''L'Amour fou ou la première surprise'' *1957 ''La Mamma'' *1960 ''Les Glorieuses et une femme qui dit la vérité'' *1962 ''La Coquine'' *1963 ''La Voyante'' *1963 ''Un amour qui ne finit pas'' *1965 ''Un contentement raisonnable'' *1966 ''La Locomotive'' *1969 ''On ne sait jamais'' *1972 ''La Claque'' *1974 ''La boîte à couleurs'' *1982 ''Le ridea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léa Gray
Léa may refer to: People with the given name Léa *Princess Léa of Belgium (born Léa Inga Dora Wolman; 1951), the widow of Prince Alexandre of Belgium and aunt of King Philippe of Belgium * Léa Bouard (born 1996), German freestyle skier * Léa Catania (born 1993), French synchronized swimmer *Léa Clermont-Dion (born 1991) is a Canadian author, feminist, television and radio host, and body image advocate *Léa Cousineau, Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal *Léa Curinier (born 2001), French racing cyclist *Léa Drucker (born 1972), French actress *Léa Fazer (born 1965), Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress *Léa Fehner (born 1981), French film director and screenwriter *Léa Garcia (born 1933), Brazilian actress *Léa Jamelot (born 1992), French canoeist * Léa Labrousse (born 1997), French individual and synchronised trampolinist *Léa Le Garrec (born 1993), French footballer * Léa Lemare (born 1996), French ski jumper *Léa Linster (born 1955), Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Nat
Lucien Nat (born Lucien Maurice Natte; 11 January 1895 – 25 July 1972) was a French film, stage and television actor.McCann p.95 He was married to the actress Marie Déa. Selected filmography * ''Fun in the Barracks'' (1932) - Maréchal des Logis chef Barnot * ''Les Misérables'' (1934) - Montparnasse * ''The Tender Enemy'' (1936) - Le Promis * ''Boissière'' (1937) - Jean Le Barois * '' The Cheat'' (1937) - Maître Ribeyre * ''Rasputin'' (1938) - Ostrowski * ''Le corsaire'' (1939) * ''Camp Thirteen'' (1940) - Carlos * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) - Marcel Gernicot * ''Les affaires sont les affaires'' (1942) - Lucien Garraud * ''Pontcarral'' (1942) - Garron * ''The Heart of a Nation'' (1943) - Bernard Froment adulte * ''Des jeunes filles dans la nuit'' (1943) - Le père d'Andrée * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1943) - Agostin / Agostino * ''Mermoz'' (1943) - Julien Pranville * ''Le Bossu'' (1944) - Jean de Peyrolles * '' Lunegarde'' (1946) - Monsieur de Lunegarde * '' Patrie'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Sainval , a form of brainstem stroke syndrome
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Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Madame Claude, French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet (1923–2015) Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Other uses * Allied reporting name of the Mitsubishi A5M Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft * Claude (alligator), an albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences See also * Claude's syndrome Claude's syndrome is a form of brainstem stroke syndrome characterized by the presence of an ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy, contralateral hemiparesis, contralateral ataxia, and contralateral hemiplegia of the lower face, tongue, and shoulder. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Montijo
''Doña'' María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marchioness of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo (), was Empress of the French from her marriage to Emperor Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870. Born to prominent Spanish nobility, Eugénie was educated in France, Spain, and England. As Empress, she used her influence to champion "authoritarian and clerical policies"; her involvement in politics earned her much criticism from contemporaries.McQueen, 2011; p. 3 Napoléon and Eugénie had one child together, Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856–79). After the fall of the Empire, the three lived in exile in England; Eugénie outlived both her husband and son and spent the remainder of her life working to commemorate their memories and the memory of the Second Empire. Youth The woman who became the last Empress of the French was born in Granada, Spain, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymonde Allain
Raymonde Allain (22 June 1912 – 27 July 2008) was a French model (people), model and actress. She was Miss France in 1928. Her participation in the 1928 International Pageant of Pulchritude, Miss Universe contest drew international media attention, and her controversial loss to American Ella Van Hueson prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty". Allain later wrote an autobiography titled ''Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté''. Selected filmography * ''The Tunnel (1933 French-language film), The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''The Pearls of the Crown'' (1937) * ''The Paris Waltz'' (1950) Bibliography * ''Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté'', Gallimard, 1933, References External links * 1912 births 2008 deaths French film actresses French stage actresses French female models Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses Models from Paris {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Morny, Duke Of Morny
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph de Morny, 1er Duc de Morny () (15–16 September 1811, Switzerland10 March 1865, Paris) was a French statesman. Biography Morny was born in Switzerland, and was the extra-marital son of Hortense de Beauharnais (the wife of Louis Bonaparte and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, making him half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III and grandson of Talleyrand. His birth was duly registered in a misleading certificate, which made him the legitimate son of Auguste Jean Hyacinthe Demorny, and born in Paris on 23 October 1811, and described as a landowner of Saint-Domingue. M. Demorny was in fact an officer in the Prussian army and a native of St. Domingue (Modern day Haiti), though he owned no land there or elsewhere. Morny was educated by his grandmother, Adelaïde Filleul. After a brilliant school and college career the future duc de Morny received a commission in the army, and the next year he entered the staff college. The comte de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Castelot
Jacques Castelot (born Jacques Marie Paul Éloi Storms) (11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis (pseudonym of Henriette Berthe Blanche Berriau). Selected filmography * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) * ''Love Cavalcade'' (1939) - Un danseur (uncredited) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) - Jean Plantel * '' Monsieur des Lourdines'' (1943) - Le prince Stimov * ''La Malibran'' (1944) - Lamartine * ''The Island of Love'' (1944) - L'ami de Xénia * ''Children of Paradise'' (1945) - Georges * ''Pamela'' (1945) - Le prince de Carency * ''Pour une nuit d'amour'' (1947) - Le comte de Vétheuil * ''Captain Blomet'' (1947) - Rodolphe * ''Route sans issue'' (1948) - Larsac * ''The Murdered Model'' (1948) - Emile * ''Les Condamnés'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
