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Yvette Etiévant
Yvette Etiévant (1922–2003) was a French actress. She starred in Yves Robert's '' War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') in 1962. Filmography *1945: '' Les Dames du bois de Boulogne'' (directed by Robert Bresson) - La bonne *1949: ''Between Eleven and Midnight'' (directed by Henri Decoin) - La fille qui tapine sous le tunnel routier *1949: '' Le Point du jour'' (directed by Louis Daquin) *1949: '' Last Love'' (directed by Jean Stelli) - Lina Bell *1949: ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' (directed by Louis Daquin) - Une fille à la soirée chez Rouletabille *1950: '' Le Rosier de Madame Husson'' (directed by Jean Boyer) - Marie, la jeune paysanne *1951: ''Without Leaving an Address'' (directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois) - Adrienne Gauthier, la femme d'Emile, le chauffeur de taxi *1951: '' Topaze'' (directed by Marcel Pagnol) - La dactylo de Topaze *1951: '' Journal d'un curé de campagne'' (directed by Robert Bresson) - la femme de ménage *1951: ''Maître aprè ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Leaving An Address
''Without Leaving an Address'' (french: ...Sans laisser d'adresse) is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Douy and Serge Piménoff. Plot Thérèse has a child but the father left her without leaving an address. She hires taxi driver Émile to find her lover in Paris. Cast * Bernard Blier as Émile Gauthier * Danièle Delorme as Thérèse Ravenaz * Pierre Trabaud as Gaston * Arlette Marchal as Madame Forestier * Pierre Mondy as Forestier's friend * Juliette Gréco as the singer * Paul Ville as Victor (the agitated driver) * Yvette Etiévant as Adrienne Gauthier (Émile's wife) * Sophie Leclair as Raymonde (Gaston's girl-friend) * Gérard Oury as a journalist * France Roche as Catherine * Julien Carette as the craftsman * Colette Régis as a difficult female customer * Sylvain as a difficult customer * Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervé Bromberger
Hervé Bromberger (11 November 1918 – 25 November 1993) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1951 and 1982. His 1951 film ''Paris Vice Squad'' was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Paris Vice Squad'' (1951) * ''Alone in Paris'' (1951) * ''Wild Fruit'' (1954) * ''Three Fables of Love'' (1962) * ' (1966) * ''Figaro-ci, Figaro-là ''Figaro-ci, Figaro-là'' is a 1972 French film directed by Hervé Bromberger. Cast * Jean-François Poron - Beaumarchais * Marie-Christine Barrault - Julie * Yves Rénier - Gudin * Isabelle Huppert - Pauline * Alexandre Rignault - Caron, le p ...'' (1972) References External links * 1918 births 1993 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alone In Paris
''Alone in Paris'' (French: ''Seul dans Paris'') is a 1951 French comedy drama film directed by Hervé Bromberger and starring Bourvil, Magali Noël, Georgette Anys and Yvette Etiévant.Siclier p.21 It was shot at the Francoeur Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Delfau. Synopsis A couple from Normandy arrive in Paris to spent their honeymoon in the capital. However, separated on the Paris Metro they both experience a series of adventures in the city on the eve of the Bastille Day celebrations. Eventually the couple are reunited, much the wiser for their time in Paris. Cast * Bourvil as Henri Milliard * Magali Noël as Jeanne 'Jeannette' Milliard née Duvernet * Yvette Etiévant as Germaine * Camille Guérini as Ernest Milliard * Georges Baconnet as François Bouqueret * Claire Olivier as Amélie Bouqueret * Germaine Reuver as Mathilde * Albert Rémy as Arthur * Georgette Anys as La dame du métro * Lé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play ''Antigone'', an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Life and career Early life Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Pennies Worth Of Violets
''Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' (French: ''Deux sous de violettes'') is a 1951 French drama film directed by Jean Anouilh and starring Dany Robin, Georges Baconnet and Madeleine Barbulée.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.376 It was one of two films directed by the dramatist Anouilh along with '' Traveling Light'' (1944). It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq. Synopsis Thérèse is a young flower seller in Paris who has had a hard life with an unsympathetic family. Her encounters with men are also tragic as they prove to be either predatory or abandon her when she needs them most. Cast * Dany Robin as Thérèse Desforges * Georges Baconnet as Pignot - le fleuriste * Madeleine Barbulée as La chanteuse des rues * Michel Bouquet as Maurice Desforges * Georges Chamarat as Monsieur Dubreck * Jacques Clancy as André Delgrange * Léonce Corne as Le médecin * Henri Crémieux as Bousquet * Max Dalban as Le cafetier * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Lavorel
Henri-Albert-Sylvestre Lavorel (5 July 19147 January 1955) was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie and was married to the English actress Madeleine Carroll from 1946 to 1949. Lavorel died in a car crash in Versailles (city), Versailles in 1955 aged 40. He worked as a producer, writer and director, most notably on ''The Voyage to America'' (1951) (writer, producer, director) and ''C'est arrivé à Paris'' (1953) (producer, director). Selected filmography * ''The Voyage to America'' (1951) * ''It Happened in Paris (1952 film), It Happened in Paris'' (1952) 1914 births 1955 deaths People from Annecy French film directors French male writers Road incident deaths in France 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voyage To America
''The Voyage to America'' (French: ''Le Voyage en Amérique'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Henri Lavorel and starring Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Printemps and Jean Brochard. The film contrasts the prosperity of France and the United States in the post-Second World War era It replaced the Laurel and Hardy film ''Atoll K'' at the Olympia cinema in Paris, and was much more successful.Aping p.258 Synopsis A couple living a peaceful life in rural France, learn that their daughter who married an American GI is due to give birth to a grandchild. They head to the United States to visit, to the delight of the wife. Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Gaston Fournier * Yvonne Printemps as Clotilde Fournier * Jean Brochard as the mayor * Claude Laydu as François Soalhat * Olivier Hussenot as Mr Soalhat, the gardener * Jane Morlet as Marie * Yvette Etievant as the post clerk * Lisette Lebon as Marguerite * Claire Gérard as Mrs Tassote * Maurice Jacquemont as the priest * Pierre ... [...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] |
Under The Sky Of Paris
''Under the Sky of Paris'' (French: ''Sous le ciel de Paris'') is a 1951 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. The song of the same name, later recorded by Édith Piaf and others, was written for this film by Hubert Giraud (music) and Jean Dréjac (lyrics). In the film it was sung by Jean Bretonnière. Plot Under the sky of Paris, during a day, we see large and small events that occur in the lives of several people whose fates will intertwine. A poor old lady, after searching in vain all day to feed her cats, receives an unexpected reward from a mother whose daughter she had found. A young girl, dreaming of love, refuses the advances of her childhood friend to be stabbed to death by a sadistic sculptor. The latter is shot by a policeman who accidentally injured a worker who was returning home after the successful conclusio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maître Après Dieu
''Maître après Dieu'' (German title: ''Schiff ohne Hafen'') is a 1951 French film directed by Louis Daquin. It stars Pierre Brasseur and Yvette Etiévant Yvette Etiévant (1922–2003) was a French actress. She starred in Yves Robert's '' War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') in 1962. Filmography *1945: '' Les Dames du bois de Boulogne'' (directed by Robert Bresson) - La bonne *19 .... External links * 1951 films 1950s French-language films Films directed by Louis Daquin Films based on Dutch novels French films based on plays Films set in Hamburg Seafaring films French drama films 1951 drama films French black-and-white films 1950s French films {{1950s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal D'un Curé De Campagne (film)
''Diary of a Country Priest'' (french: Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1951 French drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu in his debut film performance. A faithful adaptation of Georges Bernanos' novel of the same name, which had won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1936, it tells the story of a sickly young Catholic priest who has been assigned a small village in northern France as his first parish. The film was lauded for Laydu's performance, which has been called one of the greatest in the history of cinema, and won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the Prix Louis Delluc. Plot In the small village of Ambricourt, the new parish priest keeps a diary, which he can be seen writing in and heard reading from throughout the film. Due to an undiagnosed stomach ailment, he has excluded meat and vegetables from his diet and primarily subsists on cheap wine with sugar a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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