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The Devil And The Ten Commandments
''Le Diable et les Dix Commandements'' ( en, The Devil and the Ten Commandments) is a French film from 1962 directed by Julien Duvivier that consists of seven sketches (eight in the versions shown in Germany and Japan) played by an ensemble cast that includes Michel Simon, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Mel Ferrer, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Fernandel, Alain Delon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Louis de Funès. The film contrasts a series of human failings with the ever-present hope of redemption and a snake (voiced by Claude Rich) adds the Devil's comments. Plot Episode 1 Jérôme, the old handyman at a convent, is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to take the name of the Lord in vain, but is saved when the visiting bishop proves to be an old school friend. Episode 2 To obtain a beautiful necklace, Françoise succumbs to the wealthy Philip, husband of her friend Micheline. Her husband Georges finds the necklace she had hidden and gives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ''Pépé le Moko'', ''Little World of Don Camillo'', ''Panic (1946 film), Panic (Panique)'', ''Voici le temps des assassins'' and '':fr:Marianne de ma jeunesse, Marianne de ma jeunesse''. Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet". Early years It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began. In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier. In 1919 he directed his first film. In the 1920s several of his films had a religious concern: ''Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes'', ''The Abbot Constantine (1925 film), L'abbé Constantin'' and ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (; born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''Notre histoire'' (1984). In 1991, he received France's Legion of Honour. At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Honorary Golden Bear. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, he received the Honorary Palme d'Or. Delon achieved critical acclaim for roles in films ''Purple Noon'' (1960), ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''L'Eclisse'' (1962), ''The Leopard'' (1963), ''Le Samouraï'' (1967), '' La Piscine'' (1969), ''Le Cercle Rouge'' (1970), ''Un flic'' (1972), and ''Monsieur Klein'' (1976). Over the course of his career Delon worked with many directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Louis Malle. As a singer, Delon recorded the popular duet "P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (10 May 194424 April 2011) was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Pisier was born in Dalat, Viet Nam, where her father was serving as a colonial official in French Indochina. Her younger brother, Gilles Pisier, is a mathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Her sister, political scientist Evelyn, was the first wife of Bernard Kouchner, a French politician and the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. The family moved to Paris when Marie-France was 12 years old. Career Five years later, Pisier made her screen acting debut for director François Truffaut in his 1962 film ''Antoine and Colette''. She had a brief but incendiary romance with the older, married Truffaut. Despite its end, she later appeared in Truffaut's ''Stolen Kisses'' (''Baisers volés'', 1968) and '' Love on the Run'' (''L'A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Piéplu
Claude Léon Auguste Piéplu (9 May 1923, Paris–24 May 2006, Paris) was a French theater, film and television actor. He was known for his hoarse and frayed voice. Selected filmography *''D'homme à hommes'' (1948) - (uncredited) *''Le Roi et l'oiseau'' (1952) - Le maire du palais (voice) *''Adorables démons'' (1957) *''Suivez-moi jeune homme'' (1958) - Contrôleur de train *''Du rififi chez les femmes'' (1959) - Un client au restaurant *''It Happened All Night'' (1960) - Clothes salesman *''La Française et l'amour'' (1960) - Marsac (segment "Adultère, L'") *''Le Caïd'' (1960) - Oxner *''La Belle Américaine'' (1961) - Me Fachepot, le notaire *'' Un nommé La Rocca'' (1961) - Le directeur de la prison *''Le Théâtre de la jeunesse'' (1961, TV Series) - Maître Goupil / Michel et Tartolino / Benjamin Franklin / Thenardier / Panocratès / Le libraire *'' La Chambre ardente'' (1962) - L'inspecteur *''Le Diable et les dix commandements'' (1962) - Un vigile (episode "Luxuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Dalio
Marcel Dalio (born Marcel Benoit Blauschild; 23 November 1899 in Paris – 18 November 1983) was a French movie actor. He had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, ''La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939). Life and career Early life in France Dalio was born Marcel Benoit Blauschild in Paris to Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire and performed in revues from 1920. Dalio appeared in stage plays from the 1920s and acted in French films in the 1930s. His first big film success was in Julien Duvivier's ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937). He followed them with two films for Jean Renoir, ''La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and ''The Rules of the Game'' (''La Règle du jeu'', 1939). After divorcing his first wife, Jany Holt, he married the young actress Madeleine Lebeau in 1939. Wartime exile In June 1940, Dalio and Lebeau left Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. They are presumed to have received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Dauphin (actor)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1930 and 1978. Biography He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole''. His elder brother was the writer Jean Nohain. Dauphin's debut on film came in ''La Vagabonde'' (1930). He debuted on stage in ''Chapeau Chinois'' (1930) in Paris. Private life Dauphin married three times: first to Rosine Derean, then to the actress Maria Mauban with whom he had a child, Jean-Claude Dauphin, also an actor. Eventually, in 1955, Dauphin married American actress Norma Eberhardt. The couple divided their time between Paris, Los Angeles, New York City and Ocean Township, New Jersey. They remained together until Dauphin's death in Paris in 1978. Selected filmography * '' A Tale of the Fox'' (1930) - Monkey (voice) * ''Tout s'arrang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Myral
Nina Myral, stage name of Eugénie, Hortense Gruel, (26 June 1884 – 30 March 1975) was a 20th-century French actress, dancer and singer. Filmography * 1916: ''Paris pendant la guerre'' by Henri Diamant-Berger * 1917: ''Ils y viennent tous au cinéma'' by Henri Diamant-Berger * 1923: '' Gonzague'' by Henri Diamant-Berger : Pierrette * 1922: '' Le Mauvais Garçon'' by Henri Diamant-Berger: La bonne * 1931: '' Coiffeur pour dames'' by René Guissart : Mme Dupetit-Flageot * 1931: ''L'Indéfrisable'' by Jean de Marguenat, short film * 1932: '' Les Bleus de l'amour'' by Jean de Marguenat - La comtesse * 1932: ''Histoire de rire'' by Jean Boyer (short film) : La vieille cuisinière * 1932: ''Je vois ça d'ici / Un coup de téléphone'' by Jean Caret - short film * 1932: ''Quand monsieur voudra'' by Jean Marguerite - short film * 1932: ''La Saisie'' by Jean Marguerite, short film * 1933: ''Coralie et Cie'' by Alberto Cavalcanti - La tante Laure * 1933: '' A Man Has Been Stolen'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Michel
Albert Michel (1909–1981) was a French stage, film and television actor.Paietta p.40 Selected filmography * ''Je chante'' (1938) - Un laitier (uncredited) * ''Ne bougez plus'' (1941) - Clanpinet * ''Chèque au porteur'' (1941) * ''Fièvres'' (1942) * ''Croisières sidérales'' (1942) - Un employé au commissariat (uncredited) * ''Pontcarral'' (1942) * ''Haut le vent'' (1942) - Un passager du bateau * '' Love Story'' (1943) - (uncredited) * ''Voyage Without Hope'' (1943) - Un membre d'équipage (uncredited) * ''La vie de plaisir'' (1944) - Un écclésiastique (uncredited) * ''Le bossu'' (1944) * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Le paysan accusé * '' Sylvie et le fantôme'' (1946) - Gabriel (uncredited) * ''Jericho'' (1946) - Le correspondant qui vient de Hollande * ''Les J3'' (1946) * ''Trente et quarante'' (1946) - Le voyageur bègue dans le train * ''Mensonges'' (1946) - Le greffier de la prison * ''The Sea Rose'' (1946) - Un mécanicien * ''Nuits d'alerte'' (1946) - (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Nollier
Claude Nollier (born Yvette Emilie Maria Louise Nollier), French actress, was born on 12 December 1919 in Paris, and died 12 February 2009 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Biography A theatre actress, she joined the Comédie Française in 1946 to 1951. She began a modest cinematic career during the 1940s. She most notably worked with André Cayatte, John Huston and Sacha Guitry. She is best known for playing the role of Joan of Arc on a number of occasions for the Opéra de Paris, in Jeanne au bûcher, by Paul Claudel and Arthur Honegger. Selected filmography ;Cinema * 1944 : '' La Vie de plaisir'' by Albert Valentin * 1946 : '' Mensonges'' by Jean Stelli * 1950 : '' Justice est faite'' by André Cayatte * 1952 : '' Le Fruit défendu'' by Henri Verneuil * 1952 : ''Moulin Rouge'' by John Huston * 1954 : ''Si Versailles m'était conté'' by Sacha Guitry * 1956 : ''Si Paris nous était conté'' by Sacha Guitry * 1957 : ''Pot-Bouille'' by Julien Duvivier * 1961 : ''The Greengage Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou; 21 September 1888 in Toulouse – 21 May 1968 in Hossegor) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from the 1930s. In the field of musical comedy he created roles in '' Brummell'' in 1931 (Jim), ''Déshabillez-vous !'' in 1928 (Dumontel), '' Passionément'' in 1926 (Captain Harris), and ''J'adore ça'' in 1925 (Jacques Cocardier). He appeared as Laurent XVII in the 1935 film and 1956 recording of ''La mascotte''. He took part in the complete recording of ''Le Malade imaginaire'' (as Monsieur Diafoirus), in 1964 starring Michel Galabru on L'Encyclopédie Sonore Hachette. Selected filmography * ''Monsieur le directeur'' (1925) - Ferdinand * ''Son premier film'' (1926) - Le metteur en scène * '' Tenderness'' (1930) - Carlos Jarry * ''Levy and Company'' (1930) - Louis * ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931) - Le duc d'Auribeau * ''La femme et le rossignol'' (1931) * ''Un soir de rafle' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868, and has been officially headquartered at the university's flagship campus in Berkeley, California, since its inception. As the non-profit publishing arm of the University of California system, the UC Press is fully subsidized by the university and the State of California. A third of its authors are faculty members of the university. The press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print. It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives. The University of California Press publishes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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