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The Brighton Twins
''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. Twins are separated at birth in 1890, with one being raised in the United States and the other in France. More than forty years later they encounter each other for the first time. Cast * Raimu as Alfred Beaugérard et les deux fils Achille * Michel Simon as Labrosse * Suzy Prim as Clémentine Beaugérard * Charlotte Lysès as Madame Tupin - La belle-mère * Pierre Finaly as L'avocat * Marcel Maupi as Le garde du corps * Jacques Bousquet as L'oncle d'Amérique * Georges Paulais as Le docteur Paulard * Mila Parély as Antoinette - La bonne de Nancy * Pierre Piérade as Le président du tribunal * Mansuelle as L'huissier * Lucienne Masset as La nourrice * Madeleine Milhaud as Madame Achille Beaugérard * Paul Velsa as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Heymann
Claude Heymann (13 November 1907 Р13 April 1994) was a French screenwriter and film director.Frey p.78 Selected filmography * '' American Love'' (1931) * '' Idylle au Caire'' (1933) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''Paris-New York'' (1940) * '' Jericho'' (1946) * '' Counter Investigation'' (1947) * ''Crossroads of Passion ''Crossroads of Passion'' (French: ''Carrefour des passions'', Italian: ''Gli uomini sono nemici'') is a 1948 French-Italian drama film directed by Ettore Giannini and Henri Calef and starring Viviane Romance, Cl̩ment Duhour and Valentina Cortes ...'' (1948) * '' Victor'' (1951) * '' The Beautiful Image'' (1951) * '' Darling Anatole'' (1954) References Bibliography * Frey, Hugo. ''Louis Malle''. Manchester University Press, 2004. External links * 1907 births 1994 deaths 20th-century French screenwriters Film directors from Paris {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Maupi
Marcel Maupi, stage name of Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin or Maupi, (6 November 1881, Marseille – 4 January 1949, Antibes) was a French actor. Selected filmography * ''Dance Hall'' (1931) * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' (1932) * '' The Ironmaster'' (1933) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * '' Roger la Honte'' (1933) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) * ''The Typist Gets Married'' (1934) * '' Ferdinand le noceur'' (1935) * '' César'' (1936) * ''Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''The Kings of Sport'' (1937) * ''The Baker's Wife'' (1938) * ''Rail Pirates'' (1938) * '' The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) * '' Berlingot and Company'' (1939) * ''Angelica'' (1939) * ''Camp Thirteen'' (1940) * ''President Haudecoeur'' (1940) * '' First Ball'' (1941) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * ''Malaria'' (1943) * ''Voyage Without Hope'' (1943) * '' Happy Go Luck'' (1946) * ''The Marriage of Ramuntcho ''The Marriage of Ramuntcho'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Pierson
Jane Pierson was a French film actress.Goble p.130 She appeared in fifty five films between 1924 and 1952. Selected filmography * ''The Imaginary Voyage'' (1926) * '' Captain Rascasse'' (1927) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1927) * ''Little Devil May Care'' (1928) * ''The Maelstrom of Paris'' (1928) * '' The Wonderful Day'' (1929) * ''Under the Roofs of Paris'' (1930) * '' Everybody Wins'' (1930) * ''Le Million'' (1931) * ''You Will Be My Wife'' (1932) * ''Youth'' (1933) * '' La tête d'un homme'' (1933) * ''Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''Fire in the Straw'' (1939) * ''The Stairs Without End ''The Stairs Without End'' (French: ''L'escalier sans fin'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Pierre Fresnay Pierre Fresnay (4 April 1897 – 9 January 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Biography Bor ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Malbert
Albert Malbert (1914–1972) was a French film actor.Goble p.66 Selected filmography * ''The Crisis is Over'' (1934) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * ''Bach the Detective'' (1936) * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''Culprit'' (1937) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''Crossroads'' (1938) * ''Rasputin'' (1938) * ''The Fatted Calf'' (1939) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * ''Le Corbeau'' (1943) * ''The Stairs Without End ''The Stairs Without End'' (French: ''L'escalier sans fin'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Pierre Fresnay Pierre Fresnay (4 April 1897 – 9 January 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Biography Bor ...'' (1943) * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Eternal Conflict'' (1948) * ''The Farm of Seven Sins'' (1949) * ''The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' (1949) * ''Cartouche, King of Paris'' (1950) R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Genevois
Émile Genevois (1 January 1918 – 19 September 1962) was a French film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ....Cardullo p.106 Genevois appeared in over ninety films and television programmes, generally in character roles. Selected filmography References Bibliography * Cardullo, Bert. ''Vittorio De Sica: Actor, Director, Auteur''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 84–85. External links * 1918 births 1962 deaths French male film actors 20th-century French male actors {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Aussey
Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, December 18, 1909 in Paris РMarch 15, 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress who worked with, among others, Ren̩ Clair, Julien Duvivier, Paul Fejos, Jean Gr̩millon, Marc All̩gret, and Sacha Guitry. She was, from 1940-1945, married to circus impresario John Ringling North. The union ended in divorce. Selected filmography * '' The Train of Suicides'' (1931) * ''Here's Berlin'' (1932) * '' Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * ''The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * '' Speak to Me of Love'' (1935) * '' Princesse Tam-Tam'' (1935) * '' Beloved Imposter'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins ''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. ...'' (1936) * '' Adventure in Paris'' (1936) * '' Parisian Life'' (1936) * '' The Pearls of the Crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Génin
Ren̩ G̩nin (25 January 1890 Р24 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] |
Jean Tissier
Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Bureaucrats'' (1936) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) * '' I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * ''Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''Night in December'' (1940) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * ''Romance of Paris'' (1941) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' The Acrobat'' (1941) * '' The Murderer Lives at Number 21'' (1942) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) * ''Adrien'' (1943) * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Sorya
Geneviève Sorya (born Geneviève Marie Thérèse Durand; 23 June 1912 – 23 March 2008) was a French stage and film actress. She was also known as the mother of actress Anouk Aimée. Sorya performed in over 15 films, including '' The End of the Day'', and ''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) with Maurice Chevalier although she was primarily a stage actress in her native Paris. In 1981 she appeared in the film ''What Puts David'' with her daughter. Sorya was the daughter of André Hippolyte Durand and Émilie Marguerite Mélanie (''née'' Boussiron) Durand. She was married to French actor Henry Murray (born Henri Dreyfus), with whom she had a daughter, who became actress Anouk Aimée. Sorya studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. gw.geneanet.org; accessed 15 December 2015. Selected ...
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Paul Velsa
Paul Velsa (29 December 1905 – 20 May 1944) was a French film actor.Alpi p.346 He appeared in more than thirty films between 1928 and 1938. Selected filmography * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1929) * ''Heart of Paris'' (1932) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1933) * ''The Crisis is Over'' (1934) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins ''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. T ...'' (1936) References Bibliography * Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. ''Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works''. McFarland, 1998. External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Milhaud
Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008) was a French actress and librettist. She was both cousin to and wife of composer Darius Milhaud. Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris to Michel and Maria Milhaud. Her father was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels. She began acting at a young age, and had a long career as an actress and reciter. Madeleine married her cousin, Darius Milhaud, in 1925. The couple had one son, Daniel (born 1930 died 2014), a painter. Darius' piano suite ''La Muse Menagère'' (''The Household Muse'') is dedicated to her, and depicts their daily life together. She wrote the libretti for his operas ''Médée'', ''Bolivar'', and ''La mère coupable''. The family fled France when the Germans were within range of Paris in May 1940. They reached Lisbon and from there sailed to America, where they and their 10-year-old son stayed for the remainder of the war. Darius taught at Mills College Mills College at Northeastern Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Piérade
Pierre Piérade (died 1937) was a Belgian stage and film actor.Hardt p.242 Selected filmography * ''Little Lise'' (1930) * ''American Love'' (1931) * '' The Indictment'' (1931) * ''To the Polls, Citizens'' (1932) * ''Here's Berlin'' (1932) * ''Narcotics'' (1932) * ''F.P.1'' (1933) * ''Charlemagne'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * '' Rothchild'' (1934) * ''Night in May'' (1934) * '' A Man Has Been Stolen'' (1934) * ''My Heart Is Calling You'' (1934) * ''Baccara'' (1935) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1936) * ''Taras Bulba'' (1936) * ''Jenny'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins ''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard. T ...'' (1936) References Bibliography * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |