''That's Not the Way to Die'' (French: ''On ne meurt pas comme ça'') is a 1946
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directed by
Jean Boyer and starring
Erich von Stroheim
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Anne-Marie Blanc
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Denise Vernac
Denise Vernac (3 June 1916 – 31 October 1984) was a French film actress. She appeared in 17 films between 1939 and 1966. Database (undated)."Filmography by Type for Denise Vernac" '' The Internet Movie Database''. Accessed 20 August 2010.
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Aimé Bazin
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. It borrows its main plot device from the 1932 American film ''
The Death Kiss
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''. von Stroheim was not happy with the film, but felt it received good reviews and was popular with audiences.
[Lennig p.441]
Synopsis
At a
film studios
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while shooting a scene in which a man is killed, director Eric von Berg angrily calls cuts and rebukes the actor and shouts "That's Not the Way to Die". However, the actor soon turns out to be really dead, murdered by somebody present.
Cast
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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. H ...
as Eric von Berg
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Anne-Marie Blanc
Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009) was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was a Swiss film and television actress. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland. as Marianne
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Denise Vernac
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as Lynn Laurens
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Jean Témerson
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* ''The Lover of Madame Vidal'' (1936) - Guillaume - le domestique
* '' With a Smile'' (1936) - Cam (uncredited)
* ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) - Gravère
* ''Blanchette'' (193 ...
as Le commissaire
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André Tabet as Cazenave
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Jean-Jacques Delbo
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1996 deaths
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as Pierre Vanier
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Jean Berton
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as Le régisseur
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René Havard
René Havard (20 December 1923 – 7 December 1987) was a French film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1946 and 1985. He was born and died in Paris, France.
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* ''That's Not the Way to Die'' (1946) - L'assistant
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as L'assistant
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Georges Lannes
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* '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1922)
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as Le docteur Jacques Forestier
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Jacqueline Pierreux
Jacqueline Pierreux (15 January 1923 – 10 March 2005) was a French film and television actress.Philip Mosley p.105 From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer.
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as La figurante
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Marcel Vallée
Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films.
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* '' ...
as Le producteur
References
Bibliography
* Lennig, Arthur. ''Stroheim''. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
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1946 films
French mystery films
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1946 mystery films
1946 drama films
1946 crime films
1940s French-language films
Films directed by Jean Boyer
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