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Le Destin Fabuleux De Désirée Clary
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) is a French film released in September 1942, black and white, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. The film concerns the life of Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseilles merchant, who became Queen of Sweden and the founder of a dynasty. Plot Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte. Cast * Sacha Guitry as Narrator * Jean-Louis Barrault as Napoléon Bonaparte * Aimé Clariond as Joseph Bonaparte * Jacques Varennes as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, then Charles XIV John of Sweden * Geneviève Guitry as Désirée Clary, as a young woman * Gaby Morlay as Désirée Clary * Lise Delamare as Joséphine de Beauharnais * Yvette Lebon as Julie Clary * Camille Fournier as Julie Bonaparte * Georges Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Delamare
Lise Delamare (born Jolyse Effrey Jeanne Delamare; 9 April 1913 – 25 July 2006) was a French stage and film actress. Partial filmography * '' George and Georgette'' (1934) * ''Les précieuses ridicules'' (1934) * '' Pension Mimosas'' (1935) - Nelly * ''Notre-Dame d'amour'' (1936) - Roseline * '' The Cheat'' (1937) - Denise Moret * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - La Reine Marie-Antoinette * ''Péchés de jeunesse'' (1941) - Madeleine * '' The Duchess of Langeais'' (1942) - Madame de Serizy * '' La Symphonie fantastique'' (1942) - Harriet Smithson * ''La fausse maîtresse'' (1942) - Hélène * '' Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary'' (1942) - Joséphine de Beauharnais * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) - Haydée (French version only) * '' The White Waltz'' (1943) - Hélène Madelin * ''Sowing the Wind'' (1944) - Fernande *''Farandole'' (1945) - Blanche * ''Father Goriot'' (1945) - Madame de Beauséant * '' Lunegarde'' (1946) - Madame de Vertumne * ''Raboliot'' (1946) - Flora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Roquevert
Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1932 and 1972. Roquevert was born in Doué-la-Fontaine and was married to stage and film actress Paulette Noizeux. He died in Douarnenez, France, aged 80. Partial filmography * '' Miarka'' (1937) * '' Barnabé'' (1938) * '' Three Waltzes'' (1938) * ''Thérèse Martin'' (1939) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1939) * '' Paris-New York'' (1940) * '' Sing Anyway'' (1940) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * ''The Trump Card'' (1942) * '' La Main du diable'' (1943) * ''Le Corbeau'' (1943) * ''Pierre and Jean'' (1943) * '' The Last Penny'' (1946) * '' The Sea Rose'' (1946) * '' Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * ''Destiny Has Fun'' (1947) * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) * ''Dernier refuge'' (1947) * ''Croisière pour l'inconnu'' (1948) * '' Return to Life'' (1949) * ''Cage of Girls'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Périer
Jean (Alexis) Périer (2 February 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French operatic baryton-martin and actor. Although he sang principally within the operetta repertoire, Périer did portray a number of opera roles; mostly within operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giacomo Puccini. His career was almost entirely centered in Paris and he had a long association with the Opéra-Comique. He sang in a large number of world premieres, most notably originating the role of Pelléas in Debussy's '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' in 1902. In addition to his opera career, Périer appeared in several films between 1900 and 1938. Biography Jean Périer was born in Paris, the son of Belgian parents. His father was an opera singer and repetiteur. After initially working at the Credit Lyonnais,Gänzl K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. he became a pupil of Émile-Alexandre Taskin (opéra comique) and Romain Bussine (singing) at the Paris Conservatoire, winning first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Magnier
Pierre Frédéric Magnier (February 22, 1869 - October 15, 1959) was a French actor who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France. He was the second actor to portray ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' in any film in 1925. He continued acting until the 1950s. He is most remembered for the role of the General in Jean Renoir's ''La règle du jeu'', where he has one of the films more poignant quotes (''and the film's final line'') when he praises Marcel Dalio's character as one of "''a vanishing breed''." Selected filmography * '' Le Duel D'Hamlet'' with Sarah Bernhardt (1900) * '' André Cornélis'' (1918) *''La Roue'' (1923) * ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1925) * '' Tossing Ship'' (1932) * '' Antoinette'' (1932) * '' All for Love'' (1933) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1933) * '' Second Bureau'' (1935) * '' Lady Killer'' (1937) * ''The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937) * '' The Cheat'' (1937) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1937) * '' Golden Venus'' (1938) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Laugier
Germaine may refer to: Given name *Germaine Arnaktauyok (born 1946), Inuk printmaker, painter, and drawer *Germaine Cousin (1579-1601), French saint * Germaine Greer (born 1939), feminist writer and academic *Germaine Koh (born 1967), Malaysian-born Canadian artist * Germaine Lindsay (1985–2005), British-Jamaican Islamist suicide bomber *Germaine Pratt (born 1998), American football player *Germaine de Randamie (born 1984), Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist *Germaine Schnitzer (1888-1982), French-born American pianist *Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), French composer Surname *Gary Germaine (born 1976), Scottish footballer Other uses *Germaine (olive), an olive grown in Corsica *SS Empire Adventure, a cargo ship which carried the name ''Germaine L D'' between 1924 and 1931 Places *Germaine, Aisne, France *Germaine, Marne, France See also *Germain (other) *Germane, a chemical compound *Germanus (other) *Jermaine (other) Jermaine Jermaine ( ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Jeanne Fusier-Gir (1885–1973) was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir.Rège p. 442 Selected filmography * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * ''The Man in Evening Clothes'' (1931) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''The Devil's Holiday'' (1931) * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) * ''Beauty Spot'' (1932) * ''Aces of the Turf'' (1932) * ''The Champion Cook'' (1932) * '' The Fish Woman'' (1932) * ''The Midnight Prince'' (1934) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * '' The Decoy'' (1935) * ''Divine'' (1935) * ''Marinella'' (1936) * ''A Hen on a Wall'' (1936) * ''Excursion Train'' (1936) * ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937) * ''Claudine at School'' (1937) * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) * '' Miarka'' (1937) * ''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) * ''Gargousse'' (1938) * ''Fire in the Straw'' (1939) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * ''Le Corbeau'' (1942) * '' The Guardian Angel'' (1942) * ''Marie-Martine'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Joseph Talma
François Joseph Talma (15 January 1763 – 19 October 1826) was a French actor. Life He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, and saw that his son received a good English education. François Joseph returned to Paris, where for a year and a half he himself practised dentistry. His predilection for the stage was cultivated in amateur theatricals, and on 21 November 1787 he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's ''Mahomet''. His efforts from the first won approval, but for a considerable time he only obtained secondary parts. It was as a juvenile lead that he first came to prominence, and he only gradually achieved his unrivalled position as the exponent of strong and concentrated passion. Talma was among the earliest advocates of realism in scenery and costume, being aided by his friend, the painter Jacques-Louis David. His first step in this direction was to appear in the small role of Proculus in Voltaire's ''Brutus'', with a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hervé
Jean Hervé was a French rugby union player. He competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics and won gold as part of the French team in what was the first rugby union competition at an Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi .... References External links * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Olympic rugby union players of France French rugby union players Olympic gold medalists for France Rugby union players at the 1900 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{France-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot, 1st Duke of Abrantes (24 September 1771 – 29 July 1813) was a French military officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Biography Early life Junot was born in Bussy-le-Grand, Côte-d'Or, son of Michel Junot, a farmer (1739–1814), and wife Marie Antoinette Bienaymé (1735–1806). His father was the son of François Junot (?–1759) and wife Edmée Laurain (1703–1784), while his mother was the daughter of Guy Bienaymé and wife Ursule Rigoley. Jean-Andoche went to school in Châtillon. He was studying law in Dijon when the French Revolution started. After joining a battalion as volunteer, he was twice wounded and also made sergeant. He first met Napoleon Bonaparte during the siege of Toulon in 1793, when he became his secretary (aide de camp). Italian campaign He distinguished himself in Italy but received a serious head wound at Lonato, which some claim led to a permanent change in his character, reduced the qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Grey
Georges Grey, born Georges-Jean-Joseph Gacon (1911–1954) was a French actor. In 1948 he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under Sacha Guitry. Biography He studied engineering at university, before going to the Cavalry School of Saumur. He then went to Paris to begin a career as an actor, where he was noticed by Sacha Guitry who began giving him roles in his films. He toured with Marcel Pagnol and Gilles Grangier later on in life. He died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium on April 2, 1954, in Passy. Filmography Film * 1937: ''Cinderella'', Pierre Caron * 1937: ''The Pearls of the Crown'', Sacha Guitry and Christian-Jaque * 1937: ''Quadrille'', Sacha Guitry * 1938: ''Remontons les Champs-Élysées'', Sacha Guitry * 1938: ''Nine Bachelors'', Sacha Guitry * 1940: ''Narcisse'', Ayres d'Aguiar * 1940: ''Monsieur Hector'', Maurice Cammage * 1940: ''Chambre 13'', André Hugon * 1940: ''Hangman's Noose'', Léon Mathot * 1940: '' The Well-Digger's Daughter'', Marcel Pagnol * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
