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Carré De Valets
''Four Knaves'' (French: ''Carré de valets'') is a 1947 French comedy film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Jean Desailly, Martine Carol and Denise Grey.https://www.unifrance.org/film/4856/carre-de-valets It was shot at the Francoeur Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Nègre. Synopsis Jacques de la Bastide is a struggling lawyer who is dominated by his overbearing mother. For once he manages to win a case, getting three petty criminals off. To his surprise he finds out from Catherine, the attractive daughter of one of the men, that they are disappointed as they had been hoping to have board and lodging in prison over the winter. He agrees to take them on as servants in his own household. Cast * Jean Desailly as Jacques de la Bastide * Martine Carol as Catherine Bonpain * Denise Grey as Madame de la Bastide * Pierre Larquey as Arthur Bonpain - un cambrioleur * Liliane Bert as Betty * Paul Faivre as Le président Piquet * Robe ...
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André Berthomieu
André Berthomieu (; 16 February 1903 – 10 April 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was married to the actress Line Noro. Selected filmography Director * '' Not So Stupid'' (1928) * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1929) * '' My Friend Victor'' (1931) * '' Make a Living'' (1931) * '' Coquecigrole'' (1931) * '' The Crime of Bouif'' (1933) * '' Broken Wings'' (1933) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1933) * '' The Ideal Woman'' (1934) * '' The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1936) * '' The Flame'' (1936) * ''The Lover of Madame Vidal'' (1936) * '' Death on the Run'' (1936) * '' Chaste Susanne'' (1937) * '' The Girl in the Taxi'' (1937) * '' The Train for Venice'' (1938) * '' The New Rich'' (1938) * '' The Woman of Monte Carlo'' (1938) * '' Deputy Eusèbe'' (1939) * '' The Crossroads'' (1942) * '' Promise to a Stranger'' (1942) * '' The Snow on the Footsteps'' (1942) * '' The Angel of the Night'' (1944) * '' Resistance ...
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Raymond Nègre
Raymond Nègre was a French art director born on 13 July 1908 in Domjulien, Vosges, France and died on the 8th of July 1985 in Créteil (Val-de-Marne). He was active in the film industry from the 1930s until the 1970s in more than sixty films of this period.Hayward p.241 Family Raymond Nègre is the father of the painter Osanne and the chief decorator and artistic director Alain Nègre. Posterity The municipality of Joinville-le-Pont paid homage to him by christening one of the roads in the Palissy district '. Selected filmography Cinema: * ''Home Port'' (1943) * '' My First Love'' (1945) * '' Resistance'' (1945) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Women's Games'' (1946) * ''Devil's Daughter'' (1946) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * '' Monsieur de Falindor'' (1947) * '' The Village of Wrath'' (1947) * '' Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948) * ''The Firemen's Ball'' (1948) * ''The Shadow'' (1948) * ''The Heart on the Sleeve'' (1948) * '' White as Snow'' (1948) * '' The Nude Woman'' (1949) * '' ...
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Yves Deniaud (actor)
Yves Hyacinthe Deniaud (December 6, 1901 – December 7, 1959) was a French comic actor and musical comedian. Born in Paris, Deniaud died of cancer in Vésinet, in 1959 the day after his birthday. Selected filmography * '' Women's Prison'' (1938) * '' People Who Travel'' (1938) * '' The Gutter'' (1938) * ''Coral Reefs'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''Midnight Tradition'' (1939) * '' Radio Surprises'' (1940) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' Tobias Is an Angel'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Love Letters'' (1942) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * '' Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) * '' A Woman in the Night'' (1943) * ''Domino'' (1943) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Florence Is Crazy'' (1944) * ''Fantômas'' (1946) * '' The Ideal Couple'' (1946) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' Lessons in Conduct'' (1946) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * '' The Idol'' (1948) * ''The Cupboard Was Bare'' (1948) * '' Barry'' (1949) * '' The Red Signal'' (1949) * '' The Lov ...
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Alexandre Mathillon
Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Alexandra (other) * Xano (other) Xano is the name of: * Xano, a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name " Alexandre (other)" * Idálio Alexandre Ferreira (born 1983), Portuguese footballer known as "Xano", currently playing for Sligo Rovers {{hndis ...
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Jacques Louvigny
Jacques Louvigny (1884–1951) was a French stage and film actor.Hayward p.241 Selected filmography * '' Delphine'' (1931) * ''On purge bébé'' (1931) * '' Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * '' The Squadron's Baby'' (1935) * ''The Lover of Madame Vidal'' (1936) * '' Hôtel du Nord'' (1938) * '' Mollenard'' (1938) * '' Thunder Over Paris'' (1940) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) * '' Colonel Pontcarral'' (1942) * ''Fever'' (1942) * '' Frederica'' (1942) * '' I Am with You'' (1943) * '' Madly in Love'' (1943) * '' The Island of Love'' (1944) * '' Death No Longer Awaits'' (1944) * '' Florence Is Crazy'' (1944) * '' My First Love'' (1945) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Gringalet'' (1946) * '' Pastoral Symphony'' (1946) * '' Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * '' Loves, Delights and Organs'' (1947) * ''The Heart on the Sleeve'' (1948) * '' White as Snow'' (1948) * '' Colomba'' (1948) * ''The Shadow The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazi ...
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Eliane Charles
Éliane is a French feminine given name, also used as a surname. Eliane or Éliane may also refer to: * 1329 Eliane, a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 23, 1933 * Éliane, the name for Hill A1 in the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu taken by Colonel General Nguyễn Hữu An Nguyễn Hữu An (October 1, 1926 – April 9, 1995) was a Vietnamese military officer in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War. Overview Nguyễn Hữu An was born in the Truong Yen Commune of the Hoa Lư (city), Hoa ...
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Christiane Muller
Christiane or Christianne is a given name, derived from the Latin ''Christiana'', the feminine form of ''Christianus'' (see Christian). It can also be a Latinized version of Middle English '' Christin'' 'Christian' (Old English ''christen'', from Latin).. A common short form is Chris and alternate spellings include Christianne, Cristiane and Kristiane. People with the name Christiane *Christiane Amanpour (born 1958), British-Iranian journalist *Christiane Bøcher (1798–1874), Norwegian actress * Christiane Brunner (1947–2025), Swiss politician and advocate * Christiane Chabot (born 1950), French-Canadian artist * Christiane Collange (1930–2023), French journalist * Christiane Duchesne (born 1949), Canadian researcher, educator, illustrator, translator and writer * Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932–2020), French soprano * Christiane Felscherinow, German actress, and subject of the 1981 film ''Christiane F'' * Christiane von Goethe (1765–1816), wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goet ...
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Roger Saget
Roger is a masculine given name, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic languages">Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Franks, Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is '' Rodger''. Slang and other uses From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entendre and the pirate term "Jolly Roger". In 19th-century England, Roger was slang for another term, the cloud of toxic green gas that swept through the chlori ...
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Henri Charrett
Henri is the French form of the masculine given name Henry, also in Estonian, Finnish, German and Luxembourgish. Bearers of the given name include: People French nobles * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway (1648–1720), French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Almansa * François-Henri de Mon ...
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Robert Berri
Robert Berri (16 December 1912 – 22 November 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1979. Selected filmography References External links * 1912 births 1989 deaths French male film actors Male actors from Paris 20th-century French male actors {{France-film-actor-1910s-stub ...
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Paul Faivre
Paul Faivre (3 March 1886 – 5 March 1973) was a French actor. Selected filmography * '' The House Opposite'' (1937) * '' The Lady from Vittel'' (1937) * ''Cinderella'' (1937) * '' Behind the Facade'' (1939) * '' Vidocq'' (1939) * ''Moulin Rouge'' (1941) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * ''The Woman I Loved Most'' (1942) * '' Romance for Three'' (1942) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) * ''Domino'' (1943) * '' Florence Is Crazy'' (1944) * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' My First Love'' (1945) * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' The Captain'' (1946) * '' Monsieur Grégoire Escapes'' (1946) * '' Gringalet'' (1946) * '' The Misfortunes of Sophie'' (1946) * '' Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1946) * ''Fantômas'' (1946) * '' Love Around the House'' (1947) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * ''Mirror'' (1947) * '' Loves, Delights and Organs'' (1947) * '' Rendezvous in Paris'' (1947) * '' The Last Vacati ...
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Liliane Bert
Liliane Bert (1922-2015) was a French film and television actress.Hayward p.146 Selected filmography * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * ''We Are Not Married'' (1946) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * '' Colonel Durand'' (1948) * '' Sergil and the Dictator'' (1948) * '' The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' (1949) * '' The Atomic Monsieur Placido'' (1950) * ''Andalusia'' (1951) * '' The Dream of Andalusia'' (1951) * '' A Girl on the Road'' (1952) * ''Au diable la vertu'' (1954) * ''Orient Express'' (1954) * '' The Price of Love'' (1955) * ''Voici le temps des assassins ''Voici le temps des assassins'' (French for "This is the time for murderers") is a 1956 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin and Danièle Delorme. The title is a line of ''Matinée d'ivresse'' - part of ''Illuminat ...'' (1956) * '' La Tour, prends garde !'' (1958) References Bibliography * Hayward, Susan. ''French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film''. Intellect Books, 2010. E ...
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