Georges Neveux (1900–1982) was a

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. Neveux's first notable work was the play ''Juliette ou la clé des songes (Juliet or the key to dreams)'', written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of Theodor Schaefer's 1934 melodrama ''Julie aneb Snar'' (Julie or the Book of Dreams) for piano, jazz instruments, and small orchestra; for

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Julietta ''Juliette'' is an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, who also wrote the libretto, in French, based on the play ''Juliette, ou La clé des songes'' (''Juliette, or The Key of Dreams)'' by the French author Georges Neveux. A libretto in Czech was later pre ...

'', and for the 1951 film ''

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''. During the 1930s, when he was general secretary of the

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, he wrote little. In 1943 there appeared ''Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage of

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)'', which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera ''(

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'', 1958). In 1945 he translated and adapted

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''. Neveux also wrote numerous filmscripts, although he greatly preferred the theatre. As he said: 'the first because one must earn a living, the second because one must deserve to live'. In 1982 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française .

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1932) * '' The Decoy'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1942) * ''

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'' (1948) * '' Dr. Knock'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1954) * ''

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'' (1954) * '' The Affair of the Poisons'' (1955) * ''

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'' (1971, TV series)

Bibliography

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, ''Georges Neveux: A Theatre of Adventure'', in Yale French Studies, vol. IV (1954) French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1900 births 1982 deaths 20th-century French translators 20th-century French poets French male poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers {{France-translator-stub