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Violetas Imperiales
''Imperial Violets'' (French: ''Violettes impériales'', Spanish: ''Violetas imperiales'') is a 1952 French-Spanish historical musical film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Luis Mariano, Carmen Sevilla and Simone Valère. It is an operetta film, based on the 1948 stage work of the same title. The film's sets were designed by Léon Barsacq and the costumes by Marcel Escoffier and Jean Zay. It was second most popular film released in France in 1952, attracting an audience of more than eight million.Hayward p.463 Cast * Luis Mariano as Juan de Ayala * Carmen Sevilla as Violetta * Simone Valère as Eugénie de Montijo * Marie Sabouret as Mme. de Pierrefeu * Colette Régis as Mme de Montijo * Louis Arbessier as Napoleon III * Micheline Francey as Clotilde * María Riquelme as Anaïs * Véra Norman as Mirette * Raymond Girard as Prosper Mérimée * Lucien Blondeau as Le grand chambellan * Paul Faivre as L'aubergiste * Camille Guérini as Le docteur * René Hel ...
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Richard Pottier
Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, Graz – 2 November 1994, Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * ''Guilty Melody'' (1936) * '' 27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * ''The Secrets of the Red Sea'' (1937) * ''Lights of Paris'' (1938) * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * '' Picpus'' (1943) * ''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * ''Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * '' The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic'' (1946) * '' The White Night'' (1948) * ''Barry'' (1949) * '' Two Loves'' (1949) * '' Meutres?'' (1950) * ''Casimir'' (1950) * '' Darling Caroline'' (1951) * ''Rendezvous in Grenada'' (1951) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * ''The Beautiful Otero'' (1954) * ''The Lebanese Mission'' (1956) *'' The Singer from Mexico'' (1957) * ' (1958) * ''Tabarin'' (1958) * ''David and Goliath Goliath ( ) ''Goləyāṯ''; ar, جُليات ''Ǧulyāt'' (Christian te ...
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Historical Film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' and Buster Keaton's '' The General'' are examples of popular early American works set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, con ...
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María Riquelme
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar *Maria, Quebec, Canada *Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines *María, Spain, in Andalusia *Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain *Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Maria'' (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk * ''Maria'' (play), a 1935 play b ...
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Micheline Francey
Micheline Francey (October 19, 1919 – January 1, 1969) was a French film actress.Hayward p.115 Selected filmography * ''The Chess Player'' (1938) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * ''Le Corbeau'' (1943) * ''Madly in Love'' (1943) * ''A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) * ''François Villon'' (1945) * ''The Village of Wrath'' (1947) * ''The Woman I Murdered'' (1948) * ''Marlene'' (1949) * ''Sending of Flowers'' (1950) * ''Quay of Grenelle'' (1950) * ''Holiday for Henrietta'' (1952) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * '' Little Jacques'' (1953) * ''Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus ga ...'' (1954) * '' The Dance'' (1962) References Bibliography * Hayward, Susan. ''Les Diaboliques''. University of Illinois Press, 2005. External links * 1919 births 1969 deaths ...
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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 ...
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Louis Arbessier
Louis Arbessier (9 April 190723 March 1998) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.122 He played Napoleon III in the 1952 musical film '' Imperial Violets.'' Amongst his television roles was that of Maigret. Arbessier was married and divorced four times, and had four children born between 1929 and 1964. His youngest son, Arnaud (born 1964), is a professional voice actor. Selected filmography * ''Les petits riens'' (1942) * ' (1948) - L'administrateur * '' Suzanne and the Robbers'' (1949) - Docteur Vinson * ''Thirst of Men'' (1950) - Collet * ''We Are All Murderers'' (1952) - L'avocat du tribunal pour enfants * ' (1952) - Valise * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) - Napoléon III * ''Mandat d'amener'' (1953) - M. Delanglade * ''The Three Musketeers'' (1953) - Louis XIII * ''Royal Affairs in Versailles'' (1954) - Louis XIII (uncredited) * '' Cadet Rousselle'' (1954) - Le tribun * ''La bella Otero'' (1954) - Le directeur du Café de Paris * '' Queen Margot'' (1954) - L'amiral de ...
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Colette Régis
Colette Régis (1893–1978) was a French film actress.Hayward p.280 Selected filmography * ''Rasputin'' (1938) - Une religieuse (uncredited) * ''Three Waltzes'' (1938) - Sarah Bernhardt * ''La Bête Humaine'' (1938) - Victoire Pecqueux * ''Trois de St Cyr'' (1939) - Mme Mercier * ''Sarajevo'' (1940) - L'archiduchesse Isabelle * ''Volpone'' (1941) - La marquise * ''Ne bougez plus'' (1941) - Une cliente de la photo * ''Le briseur de chaînes'' (1941) - Mme Ferdinand * '' Caprices'' (1942) - La vieille dame * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) - La dame de l'association * ''Huit hommes dans un château'' (1942) - La comtesse de Chanceau * ''Picpus'' (1943) - Madame Le Cloaguen * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) - Madame Duval (uncredited) * '' Le secret de Madame Clapain'' (1943) - Une dame * ''Le val d'enfer'' (1943) - La religieuse * ''Martin Roumagnac'' (1946) - Madame Rimbaut - la femme de l'adjoint au maire * ''La kermesse rouge'' (1947) - La duchesse d'Alençon * ''Miroir'' (1947) - ...
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Marie Sabouret
Marie Sabouret (31 January 1924 – 23 July 1960) was a French stage and film actress 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 (), lite ....Phillips Filmography References Bibliography * Alastair Phillips. ''Rififi: French Film Guide''. I.B.Tauris, 2009. External links * 1924 births 1960 deaths French stage actresses French film actresses People from La Rochelle 20th-century French women {{France-actor-stub ...
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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 ...
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Jean Zay (designer)
Jean Élie Paul Zay (6 August 1904 – 20 June 1944) was a French politician. He served as Minister of National Education and Fine Arts from 1936 until 1939. He was imprisoned by the Vichy government from August 1940 until he was murdered in 1944. Early life Zay was born in Orléans, in the départment of Loiret, about south of Paris. His father, Leon Zay, descended from a Jewish family from Metz, but was born and died in Orléans, where he was the director of a radical socialist regional newspaper, ''Le Progrès du Loiret''. His mother Alice Chartrain was a Protestant and a teacher. He grew up with his sister in the Protestant religion. Zay was educated at the Lycée Pothier in Orléans, and became a lawyer in 1928. He was politically active from his early days, joining the Radical Party aged 21. With his wife, Madeleine Dreux, he had two daughters, Catherine Martin-Zay, and Hélène Mouchard-Zay (born 1940). Political career In May 1932, he was elected to the French ...
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Marcel Escoffier
Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian striker * Marcel (footballer, born 1983), Marcel Silva Cardoso, Brazilian left back * Marcel (footballer, born 1992), Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (singer), American country music singer * Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of merchants of Paris * Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher, Christian existentialist and playwright * Jean Marcel (died 1980), Madagascan Anglican bishop * Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931–2014), French football player * Rosie Marcel (born 1977), English actor * Sylvain Marcel (born 1974), Canadian actor * Terry Marcel (born 1942), British film director * Claude Marcel (1793-1876), French diplomat and applied linguist Other uses * Marcel (''Friends''), a fictional monkey ...
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Léon Barsacq
Léon Barsacq (18 October 1906 – 23 December 1969) was a Russian-born and naturalized French production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film '' The Longest Day''. He was the brother of French theatre director André Barsacq and the father of film actor Yves Barsacq. Selected filmography * ''Compliments of Mister Flow'' (1936) * '' Southern Mail'' (1937) * '' I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1943) * '' Children of Paradise'' (1945) * '' The Last Vacation'' (1948) * '' Eternal Conflict'' (1948) * ''White Paws'' (1949) * ''Maya'' (1949) * ''The Glass Castle'' (1950) * ''Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' (1951) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * '' The Beauty of Cadiz'' (1953) * ''Their Last Night'' (1953) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1953) * ''All the Gold in the World ''All the Gold in the World'' (French: ''Tout l'or du monde' ...
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