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Jean Grémillon
Jean Grémillon (; 3 October 1901 – 25 November 1959) was a French film director. Biography Grémillon was born in Bayeux and spent his early years in Cerisy-la-Forêt in Normandy. His father was employed by the Ouest railway company. During his school years he developed an interest in music, and although his father wanted him to become an engineer, in 1920 he went to the Schola Cantorum in Paris. There he studied violin and composition under Vincent d'Indy and met other musicians including Ravel and Stravinsky; he was particularly influenced by the music of Debussy. He also found work in cinemas as a violinist with orchestras accompanying silent films, which provided his introduction to the world of the cinema.Henri Agel, ''Jean Grémillon''. Paris: L'Herminier, 1984. pp. 11-15.Obituary: "M. Jean Grémillon", in ''The Times'', 27 Nov. 1959, p. 17, col.1Nicolas Tixier, Michel Warren. ''Jean Grémillon. Cinéaste.'' 1997. Digital at HAL open sciencehal-01529316 Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul (; 4 February 1904 – 13 October 1967) was a French film critic, journalist and cinema writer. He is known for writing encyclopedias of film and filmmakers, many of which have been translated into English. Biography Sadoul was born in Nancy. His father, Charles Sadoul, was a well-known ethnologist. At the age of 19, a student in Nancy, he collaborated with '' L'Est Républicain'' and founded the Nancy-Paris Committee. The objective of this committee is to allow the population of Nancy to meet Parisian productions and artists. He notably brought there Jean Epstein, Henry Prunières, André Lurçat, Jacques Rivière, Jacques Copeau and André Lhote. Once a surrealist, he became a member of the French Communist Party The French Communist Party (, , PCF) is a Communism, communist list of political parties in France, party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its Member of the European Parliament, MEPs sit with The Lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maldone (Charles Dullin) -- Movie Poster
''Misdeal'' (French: ''Maldone'') is a 1928 French silent drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Charles Dullin, Marcelle Dullin and Geymond Vital.Levine p.190 The film's sets were designed by art director André Barsacq. Synopsis The film tells the story of a wealthy young man flees from his family's estate, and finds employment as a canal worker. He falls in love with a gypsy girl, but when a death in the family requires him to return home and run his estate, he marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later, he becomes obsessed with his old lover after a chance meeting. Cast * Charles Dullin as Olivier Maldone * Marcelle Dullin as Missia, la voyante * Geymond Vital as Marcellin Maldone * André Bacqué as Juste Maldone, l'oncle * George Seroff as Léonard, le serviteur * Annabella as Flora Lévigné * Roger Karl as Lévigné père * Mathilde Alberti as L'épicière * Lucien Arnaud as Le voyageur * Genica Athanasiou as Zita * Edmond Beauchamp as Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remorques
''Remorques'' (literally 'towlines'; English title: ''Stormy Waters'') is a 1941 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert (scenario and dialogue) and André Cayatte (adaptation), based on the novel '' Troubled Waters'' by Roger Vercel. The film stars Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud and Michèle Morgan. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Finistère in Brittany including at Brest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Trauner. It was distributed in France by the Paris subsidiary of the German Tobis Film company. After the Second World War it was given an American release by MGM. Plot André is the dedicated captain of a tugboat, his mission being to salvage vessels in distress before competitors do, but his wife Yvonne is weary of being a sea-widow and wants him to spend more time with her. Called out to save a cargo ship in a violent storm, he takes on board most of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mireille Balin
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris)"Balin, Mireille (1911–1968)." ''Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 1, Yorkin Publications, 2007, p. 123. ''Gale eBooks''. Accessed 11 Aug. 2021. was a French-Italian actress. Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test. Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), known as Jean Gabin (; 17 May 190415 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films, including '' Pépé le Moko'' (1937), '' La grande illusion'' (1937), '' Le Quai des brumes'' (1938), '' La bête humaine'' (1938), '' Le jour se lève'' (1939), and '' Le plaisir'' (1952). During his career, he twice won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival, respectively. Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema. Biography Early life Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe owner and cabaret entertainer whose stage name was Gabin, which is a first name in French. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFA GmbH
UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA (), is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany. The original UFA was established as on December 18, 1917, as a direct response to foreign competition in film and propaganda. UFA was founded by a consortium headed by Emil Georg von Stauß, a former Deutsche Bank board member. In March 1927, Alfred Hugenberg, an influential German media entrepreneur and later minister of the economy and minister of agriculture and nutrition in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, purchased UFA and transferred ownership of it to the Nazi Party in 1933. In 1942, as a result of the Nazi policy of "forcible coordination" known as the Gleichschaltung, UFA and all of its competitors, including Tobis Film, Tobis, Terra Film, Terra, Bavaria Film and Wien-Film, were bundled together with Nazi-controlled foreign film production companies to form the super-corporation UFA-Film GmbH (Ufi), with headquarters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Ploquin
Raoul Edouard Ploquin (20 May 1900 – 29 November 1992) was a French film producer, production manager and screenwriter. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film ''The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954). Selected filmography * '' The Adventures of Robert Macaire'' (1925) * '' Paris in Five Days'' (1926) * '' The Girl and the Boy'' (1931) * '' About an Inquest'' (1931) * '' Court Waltzes'' (1933) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1934) * ''Night in May'' (1934) * ''At the End of the World'' (1934) * '' The Devil in the Bottle'' (1935) * '' The Decoy'' (1935) * ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936) * '' The Heart Disposes'' (1936) * ''Donogoo'' (1936) * '' The Blue Mouse'' (1936) * '' S.O.S. Sahara'' (1938) * '' The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' The Woman Who Dared'' (1944) * '' The Loves of Colette'' (1948) * '' Tuesday's Guest'' (1950) * '' Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * '' Love, Madame'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dainah The Mulatto
''Dainah the Mulatto'' (French: ''Daïnah la métisse'') is a 1932 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia and Gaston Dubosc.Crisp p.418 Location shooting took place around Nice and Corsica. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Lafitte. The original length was of 90 minutes, but it was cut down by the distribution company Gaumont to a shorter 51 minute version for release. This is the only version that survives in film archives. Cast * Charles Vanel as Le mécanicien Michaux * Habib Benglia as Le mari * Gaston Dubosc as Le commandant * Lucien Guérard as Le docteur * Laurence Clavius as Dainah Smith * Gabrielle Fontan Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959. Selected filmography * '' Misdeal'' (1928) * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * '' The La ... as Berthe * Maryanne as Alice Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Lise
''Little Lise'' (French: ''La petite Lise'') is a 1930 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Nadia Sibirskaïa.Andrew p.107 It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by Guy de Gastyne. Cast * Pierre Alcover as Victor Berthier * Joe Alex as Le danseur noir * Alex Bernard as Un client de Lise * Julien Bertheau as André * Raymond Cordy as Un joueur de billiard * Lucien Hector as Un bagnard * Alexandre Mihalesco as L'usurier * Pierre Piérade as M. Bazet * Nadia Sibirskaïa Nadia Sibirskaïa (born Germaine Marie Josèphe Lebas, 11 September 1901 – 14 July 1980) was a French film actress.Sultanik p.263 She was married to the Russian-born director Dimitri Kirsanoff and appeared in several of his early films. Earl ... as Lise Berthier * Ernest Léardée as Le violoniste dans la rue References Bibliography * Andrews, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Guignol
The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol () was a theater in the Pigalle district of Paris (7, cité Chaptal). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialized in horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theater (for instance Shakespeare's ''Titus Andronicus'', and Webster's ''The Duchess of Malfi'' and '' The White Devil''), to today's splatter films. Theater The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1897 by Oscar Méténier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance. With 293 seats, the venue was the smallest in Paris. A former chapel, the theatre's previous life was evident in the which looked like and in the angels over the orchestra. Although the architecture created frustrating obstacles, the design that was initially a predicament ultimately became beneficial to the marketing of the theatre. The opaque furniture and gothic structures placed sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in Cinema of France, French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928. Career Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, he was educated at the École régimentaire in Nivelles, and was destined for a military career. At age twenty-five however he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film, adopting the name Jacques Feyder. He joined the Gaumont Film Company and in 1914 he became an assistant director with Gaston Ravel. He started directing films for Gaumont in 1916, but his career was interrupted by service with the Belgian Land Component, Belgian Army from 1917 to 1919 during World War I. After the end of the war, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Arnoux
Alexandre Arnoux (; 27 February 1884, Digne-les-Bains - 4 January 1973, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French screenwriter and novelist.Powrie & Rebillard p.135 Selected filmography * '' Quatre-vingt-treize (film)'' (1921) * '' Tillers of the Soil'' (1923) * '' Misdeal'' (1928) * '' The Faceless Voice'' (1933) * '' On the Streets'' (1933) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''Ultimatum An ; ; : ultimata or ultimatums) is a demand whose fulfillment is requested in a specified period of time and which is backed up by a coercion, threat to be followed through in case of noncompliance (open loop). An ultimatum is generally the ...'' (1938) * '' The Shanghai Drama'' (1938) * '' The Corsican Brothers'' (1939) * '' La Loi du Nord'' (1939) * '' The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1950) References Bibliography * Powrie, Phil & Rebillard, Éric. ''Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema''. Edinburgh University Press, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
