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The Lafarge Case
''The Lafarge Case'' (French: ''L'Affaire Lafarge'') is a 1938 French historical crime film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Pierre Renoir, Marcelle Chantal and Raymond Rouleau. It recalls a famous nineteenth century case, and is mostly portrayed in flashback.Andrew p.164 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Gys and Eugène Lourié Eugène Lourié (russian: Евгений Лурье; 8 April 1903 – 26 May 1991) was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for .... Cast References Bibliography * Andrews, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princeton University Press, 1995. External links * 1938 films 1930s French-language films French crime drama films Films directed by Pierre Chenal 1938 crime drama films French historical films 1930s historical films Films set in the 19th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Chenal
Pierre Chenal (; 5 December 1904 – 23 December 1990) was a French director and screenwriter who flourished in the 1930s. He was married to Czech-born French film actress Florence Marly from 1937 to 1955. Work Chenal was best known for film noir thrillers such as the 1937 film '' L'Alibi'', where he worked with Erich von Stroheim and Louis Jouvet. In 1939 he made ''Le Dernier Tournant'', the first of many film treatments of James M. Cain's celebrated novel, '' The Postman Always Rings Twice''. Chenal was Jewish and was forced in 1942 to flee occupied France with his wife, Czech actress Florence Marly, for South America. He made a number of films while living in Argentina and more in France after the war; but his post-war work never achieved the success and popularity of his pre-war efforts.Chenal, Pierre, ''La dernière tempête'' (L'Aventure vécue), ">rench_Edition,_Paperback">Chenal,_Pierre,_''La_dernière_tempête''_(L'Aventure_vécue),_[French_Edition,_Paperback/nowiki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flashback (narrative)
A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future. Both flashback and flashforward are used to cohere a story, develop a character, or add structure to the narrative. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started. In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma". Flashbacks are important in film noir and melodrama films. In films and television, several camera techniques, editing approaches and special effects have evolved to alert the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette Talazac
Odette Talazac (1883–1948) was a French film actress.Capua p.129 Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing in music halls before turning to the theater and cinema. She was married in 1900 in Chatou to jeweler Georges Aucoc. Selected filmography * ''Two Timid Souls'' (1928) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' Figaro'' (1929) * ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930) * ''The Man at Midnight'' (1931) * ''Der Kongreß tanzt'' (1931) * '' The Nude Woman'' (1932) * '' The House on the Dune'' (1934) * ''George and Georgette'' (1934) * ''Antonia'' (1935) * '' Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935) * '' Anne-Marie'' (1936) * '' Nights of Fire'' (1937) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * '' Southern Mail'' (1937) * ''The Lafarge Case'' (1938) * ''Gibraltar'' (1938) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * '' The White Slave'' (1939) * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) * '' Happy Go Lucky'' (1946) * ''Last Chance Castle ''Last Chance Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisette Missier
Lisette may refer to: People: *Jean Lisette Aroeste (1932-2020), ''Star Trek'' fan who sold scripts to the program *Lisette de Brinon (1896–1982), the Jewish wife of the pro-Nazi French collaborator, Fernand de Brinon * Lisette Burrows, New Zealand physical education academic *Lisette Diaz (born 1983), American actress, model and beauty pageant contestant * Lisette Dufour (born 1949), Québécoise voice actress, the French voice of Lisa Simpson on ''The Simpsons'' * Lisette Denison Forth (1786–1866), African-American woman from Michigan who was born a slave * Lisette Kampus (born 1984), Estonian LGBT rights movement activist * Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969), South Australian artist *Lisette Lanvin (1913–2004), French film actress *Lisette Lapointe (born 1943), Quebec politician, journalist and teacher *Gabriel Lisette (1919–2001), Chadian politician, played a key role in the decolonization of Chad * Lisette Luca of Luca Family Singers, African American singing group in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palau (actor)
Pierre Palau (13 August 1883 – 3 December 1966), often known simply as Palau, was a French actor. Palau was born Pierre Palau del Vitri in Paris and died at age 83 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Partial filmography * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''Monsieur Albert'' (1932) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) * '' Zouzou'' (1934) * ''The Typist Gets Married'' (1934) * '' The Midnight Prince'' (1934) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * '' Tovaritch'' (1935) * ''Girls of Paris'' (1936) * ''The Green Jacket'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''Rasputin'' (1938) * ''Crossroads'' (1938) * ''The Lafarge Case'' (1938) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * '' I Am with You'' (1943) * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) * '' Box of Dreams'' (1945) * '' Mademoiselle X'' (1945) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' Messieurs Ludovic'' (1946) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * '' Jericho'' (1946) * '' The Uncatchable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvette Fillacier
''Sylvette'' is a large concrete sculpture created by Pablo Picasso and the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, which was erected in the city of Rotterdam in 1970. It is located on the corner of Westersingel next to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The sculpture portrays a young woman with a ponytail. The model for the sculpture was Sylvette David, whom Picasso met in 1953 when she was 19. The sculpture was produced following the creation of a series of artworks, known as the ''Sylvette'' series, that Picasso made of his muse in a variety of artistic styles. Background Sylvette David was the daughter of a Parisian art dealer who, during the summer of 1953, met 73-year-old Picasso at his pottery studio located on Rue du Fournas in Vallauris. Finding her appearance appealing, Picasso asked her to be his model and subsequently created 60 works inspired by her over the course of two months (between April and June), including drawings, paintings and small metal sculptures. This was the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Bovério
Auguste may refer to: People Surname * Arsène Auguste (born 1951), Haitian footballer * Donna Auguste (born 1958), African-American businesswoman * Georges Auguste (born 1933), Haitian painter * Henri Auguste (1759–1816), Parisian gold and silversmith * Joyce Auguste, Saint Lucian musician * Jules Robert Auguste (1789–1850), French painter * Tancrède Auguste (1856–1913), President of Haiti (1912–13) Given name * Auguste, Baron Lambermont (1819–1905), Belgian statesman * Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810–1835), prince consort of Maria II of Portugal * Auguste, comte de La Ferronays (1777–1842), French Minister of Foreign Affairs * Auguste Clot (1858–1936), French art printer * Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics * Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935), French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer * Auguste Metz (1812–1854), Luxembourgian entrepreneur * Auguste Léopold Protet (1808–1862), French Navy admiral * Auguste Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthe D'Yd
Saint Bertha or Saint Aldeberge (c. 565 – d. in or after 601) was the queen of Kent whose influence led to the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England. She was canonized as a saint for her role in its establishment during that period of English history. Life Bertha was a Frankish princess, the daughter of Charibert I and his wife Ingoberga, granddaughter of the reigning King Chlothar I and great-granddaughter of Clovis I and Saint Clotilde. Her father died in 567, her mother in 589. Bertha had been raised near Tours.Taylor, Martin. ''The Cradle of English Christianity'' Her marriage to the pagan |
Florence Marly
Florence Marly (2 June 1919 – 9 November 1978) was a Czech-born French film actress. During World War II, Marly moved to neutral Argentina with her Jewish husband, film director Pierre Chenal, where she appeared in several films. She also acted in two of her husband's films while they were in Chile. Career Marly was born Hana Smékalová in Obrnice, Czechoslovakia. She studied French and her dream was to become an opera singer. At age 18 she went to Paris to study art, literature, and philosophy at Sorbonne. She met her future husband Pierre Chenal who cast her in his film ''The Alibi''. She played a major role in René Clément's ''Les Maudits'', a fictionalized account showing the fate of Nazi refugees. After moving to Hollywood, she acted in Paramount's film ''Sealed Verdict'' opposite Ray Milland. Next year, she starred in Stuart Heisler's '' Tokyo Joe'' (1949) alongside Humphrey Bogart. In it she played Bogart's wife, who divorces him after he moves to the United States fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film ''Greed'' (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel ''McTeague'') is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors.Obituary ''Variety'', May 15, 1957, page 75. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died of prostate cancer in France in 1957, at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie (actress)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with ''The Old Heidelberg''. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for ''Don Camillo'' (1952), ''The Shameless Old Lady'' (1965), and ''Le Corbeau'' (1943). She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in ''The Shameless Old Lady''. Partial filmography * '' Germinal'' (1913) - Catherine * ''Le coupable'' (1917) - Louise Rameau * '' Roger la Honte'' (1922) - Henriette Laroque * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) - Catherine Ivanova * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) - La maîtresse de Thierry * ''The Lafarge Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Lion (cabaret Singer)
Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion (28 February 1899 – 24 February 1989), known as Margo Lion, was a Jewish singer and actress. She was born in Constantinople during Ottoman rule. She moved to Berlin after World War I with her father to join the school of Russian ballet. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 she moved to France to flee antisemitic persecution. She was a successful chanteuse, parodist, cabaret singer, and actress, best known for her role as Pirate Jenny in director G. W. Pabst's 1931 French language adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's '' Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper''). She appeared in several French films until the early 1970s, including ''Docteur Françoise Gailland'', ''L'Humeur Vagabonde'', ''La Faute De L'Abbe Mouret'', ''Le Petit Matin'', ''Le Fou Du Labo'', ''Julie La Rousse'', and the French romantic melodrama ''Martin Roumagnac'', which starred Marlene Dietrich. Lion and Dietrich sang a famous duet, "Wenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
