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Toto (1933 Film)
''Toto'' is a 1933 French comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Albert Préjean, Renée Saint-Cyr and Félix Oudart.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.387 It was shot at Pathé's Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. Cast * Albert Préjean as Toto * Renée Saint-Cyr as Ginette * Robert Goupil as Carotte * Félix Oudart as L'agent * Jim Gérald as Bruno * Mercédès Brare as Concurente Miss Occasion * Gabrielle Fontan as La logeuse * Édouard Francomme as Un prisonnier * Anthony Gildès as Le président du jury * Pierre Juvenet as Le présentateur du concours * Ginette Leclerc Ginette Leclerc (born Geneviève Lucie Menut; February 9, 1912 – January 2, 1992) was a French film actress. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978. Her last TV appearance was in 1981. She was born in Ile-de-France, France ... as La petite femme References Bibliography * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEl ...
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Jacques Tourneur
Jacques Tourneur (; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir ''Out of the Past'' and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including ''Cat People (1942 film), Cat People'', ''I Walked with a Zombie'', and ''The Leopard Man''. He is also known for directing ''Night of the Demon'', which was released by Columbia Pictures. While in Hollywood, he was usually addressed by his anglicized name "Jack Turner", a literal and phonetic translation of his name in English. Life Born in Paris, France, Tourneur was the son of Fernande Petit and film director Maurice Tourneur.Earnshaw 2004, p. 102. At age 10, Jacques moved to the United States with his father. He started a career in cinema while still attending high school as an extra and later as a script clerk in various silent films. Both Maurice and Jacques returned to France after his father worked on the film ''The Mysterious Island (1929 film), The Mysterious ...
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Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ...
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1933 Comedy Films
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French Black-and-white Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ...
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1933 Films
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America. * Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code. * Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres. * Film industry takes eight week salary cut. * Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated. * John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager. * Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930. * Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment. * ...
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Ginette Leclerc
Ginette Leclerc (born Genevi̬ve Lucie Menut; February 9, 1912 РJanuary 2, 1992) was a French film actress. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978. Her last TV appearance was in 1981. She was born in Ile-de-France, France and died in Paris. She was married to the actor Lucien Gallas. She is possibly best-remembered for her roles in such films as ''Le Corbeau'' (1943), ''The Baker's Wife'' (1938), '' Cab Number 13'' (1948), and ''Tropic of Cancer'' (1970). Selected filmography * ''L'enfant du miracle'' (1932) * ''Pomme d'amour'' (1932) * ''La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933) - Une girl * '' Toto'' (1933) - La petite femme (uncredited) * ''Cette vieille canaille'' (1933) - (uncredited) * ''Adieu les beaux jours'' (1933) - Marietta * ''Ciboulette'' (1933) - Une cocotte * ''Les surprises du sleeping'' (1933) * ''Minuit... place Pigalle'' (1934) - Irma * ''L'h̫tel du libre ̩change'' (1934) - Victoire * ''D̩d̩'' (1934) - Une ...
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Pierre Juvenet
Pierre Juvenet (1883–1951) was a French stage and film actor.Powrie p.231 A character actor, he appeared in more than a hundred films frequently portraying officials and authority figures. Selected filmography * ''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (1930) * '' The Night Is Ours'' (1930) * '' Tenderness'' (1930) * '' The Shark'' (1930) * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * '' Holiday'' (1931) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1932) * '' The Blaireau Case'' (1932) * ''The Barber of Seville'' (1933) * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * ''To Be Loved'' (1933) * '' Toto'' (1933) * '' L'Aventurier'' (1934) * '' The Midnight Prince'' (1934) * '' Fanatisme'' (1934) * ''Divine'' (1935) * ''The Call of Silence'' (1936) * ''Marinella'' (1936) * ''Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''The Pearls of the Crown'' (1937) * '' The Red Dancer'' (1937) * ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (1938) * '' Stolen Life'' (1939) * '' The Emigrant'' (1940) * '' Love Around the Clock'' (1943) * '' As Long as I Live'' (1946 ...
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Anthony Gildès
Anthony Gildès (13 August 1856 – 6 October 1941) was a French actor. Anthony Gildès was born Anatole Gleizes in Metz, France. He died in Paris at age 85. Selected filmography * '' The Zone of Death'' (1917) * '' The Torture of Silence'' (1917) * '' The Man with the Hispano'' (1926) * '' American Love'' (1931) * ''All That's Not Worth Love'' (1931) * '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932) * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * '' Toto'' (1933) * '' The Abbot Constantine'' (1933) * ''Lake of Ladies'' (1934) * '' Prince Jean'' (1934) * '' Dora Nelson'' (1935) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * '' 27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) * '' The King'' (1936) * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''The Green Jacket'' (1937) * '' Chaste Susanne'' (1937) * '' The House Opposite'' (1937) * '' Josette'' (1937) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1937) * ''The Pearls of the Crown'' (1937) * '' Vidocq'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''His Uncle from Normandy'' (1939) * ''Entente Cordiale'' (1939) * '' Miquette'' ...
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Édouard Francomme
Édouard is both a French given name and a surname, equivalent to Edward in English. Notable people with the name include: * Édouard Balladur (born 1929), French politician * Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), French photographer * Édouard Colonne (1838–1910), French conductor * Édouard Daladier (1884–1970), French prime minister at the start of World War II * Edouard Drumont (1844–1917), French anti-semitic journalist * Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949), French writer * Édouard Gagnon (1918–2007), French Canadian cardinal * Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French prime minister, three times, and mayor of Lyon from 1905 to 1957 * Edouard F. Henriques, Make-up artist * Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), French composer * Édouard Lockroy (1838–1913), French politician * Édouard Louis (born 1992), French Writer * Édouard Lucas (1842–1891), French mathematician * Édouard Mathé (1886–1934), French silent film actor * Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French impressionist painter ...
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Gabrielle Fontan
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 Р8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959. Selected filmography * '' Misdeal'' (1928) * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1929) * '' The Lighthouse Keepers'' (1929) * ''My Friend Victor'' (1931) * '' Toto'' (1933) * ''Gold in the Street'' (1934) * ''Partie de campagne'' (1936) * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1937) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * ''Ramuntcho'' (1938) * '' The Time of the Cherries'' (1938) * ''The Fatted Calf'' (1939) * '' First Ball'' (1941) * ''The Stairs Without End'' (1943) * '' Mademoiselle B̩atrice'' (1943) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * '' Love Story'' (1943) * '' Night Shift'' (1944) * ''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * ''Fran̤ois Villon'' (1945) * ''Her Final Role'' (1946) * ''Sylvie and the Ghost'' (1946) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * ''The Last Penny'' (1946) * '' Night Exp ...
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Mercédès Brare
Merc̩d̬s Brare (born Merc̩d̬s Emma Jos̬phe Brare; December 20, 1880 РJanuary 24, 1967) was a French actress active in film roles from the 1930s to the 1950s. Filmography * 1931: ''Faubourg Montmartre'' by Raymond Bernard * 1932: ''His Best Client'' by Pierre Colombier * 1933: '' Toto'' by Jacques Tourneur - ''Une concurrente de Miss Occasion'' * 1942: '' Le Grand Combat'' by Bernard Roland * 1943: ''The Phantom Baron'' by Serge de Poligny * 1944: '' Le Voyageur sans bagage'' by Jean Anouilh * 1945: '' Alone in the Night'' by Christian Stengel * 1946: '' Lunegarde'' by Marc All̩gret * 1946: ' by Pierre Billon * 1946: ''Martin Roumagnac'' by Georges Lacombe * 1951: ' by Raymond Leboursier Theatre * 1940: ''L̩ocadia'' by Jean Anouilh, Th̢̩tre de la Michodi̬re Publications * ''Po̬mes en prose'', La Haye-Pesnel, Manche, imprimerie Garlan, 1947 * ''La concierge est dans sa loge'', sketch with one character, La Haye-Pesnel, Manche, imprimerie Garlan, 1947 * ...
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