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Mademoiselle Béatrice (film)
''Mademoiselle Béatrice'' is a 1943 French comedy film directed by Max de Vaucorbeil and starring Gaby Morlay, André Luguet and Louise Carletti.Bertin-Maghit p.175 The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Druart. Synopsis A student in Paris is in love with Jeanette, but her family seem to present an obstacle to marriage. Fortunately Aunt Béatrice steps in to assist and all eventually turns out happily. Cast * Gaby Morlay as Béatrice * André Luguet as Hubert de Sainte-Croix * Louise Carletti as Jeanette * Jacques Baumer as Maître Bergas * Germaine Charley as Madame de Malempré * Marguerite Deval as La vieille dame du banc * Louis Salou as Maurin-Gautier * Jean Périer as Le vieux monsieur du banc * Sinoël as Dagobert * Gabrielle Fontan as Angèle * Noëlle Norman as Virginie de Malempré * Génia Vaury as Madame Philippon * Jimmy Gaillard as Christian Bergas * Pierre Bertin as Archange References Bibliography * Bertin-Maghit, Jean Pierre. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max De Vaucorbeil
Max de Vaucorbeil (1901–1982) was a Belgian film director.Goble p.478 Selected filmography * ''The Road to Paradise'' (1930) * ''Captain Craddock'' (1932) * ''Princess, At Your Orders!'' (1931) * ''A Weak Woman'' (1933) * ''Mam'zelle Spahi'' (1934) * ''Alexis, Gentleman Chauffeur'' (1938) * ''Mademoiselle Béatrice (film), Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * ''The Marriage of Ramuntcho'' (1947) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1901 births 1982 deaths Belgian film directors Belgian emigrants to France Mass media people from Brussels {{Belgium-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Charley
Germaine Charley (1887–1959) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.50 Selected filmography * ''The Regiment's Champion'' (1932) * '' Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * ''The Uncle from Peking'' (1934) * ''Honeymoon'' (1935) * ''Barnabé'' (1938) * '' The New Rich'' (1938) * ''Sacred Woods ''Sacred Woods'' (French:'' Le bois sacré'') is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Elvire Popesco, Gaby Morlay and Victor Boucher.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.113 It was based on a play by Robert de Flers and Gaston Ar ...'' (1939) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1939) * '' Business Is Business'' (1942) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * '' Her Final Role'' (1946) * '' The Nude Woman'' (1949) * '' Virgile'' (1953) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1887 births 1959 deaths French film actresses Actresses from Paris {{france-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – '' The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and '' Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – '' Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and '' The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Comedy Films
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1940s French-language Films
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1943 Films
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – The film ''Casablanca'' is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. * February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films. * June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor Leslie Howard dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in ''Gone with the Wind'', Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. * December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theatre. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bertin
Pierre Victor Théophile Bertin (24 October 1891 – 13 May 1984) was a French stage and film actor. In 1948, he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under Sacha Guitry. He was the librettist of the opéra-comique ''La Gageure imprévue'' after Sedaine with music by Henri Sauguet, first performed at the Paris, Opéra-Comique in 1944, and for the radio opera ''Les Deux Rendez-vous'' (after Nerval) by Claude Arrieu first broadcast in 1951. accessed 6 December 2018. Pierre Bertin was born in and died in |
Jimmy Gaillard
Jimmy Gaillard (1916–1985) was a French actor.Flitterman-Lewis p.158 He began his film career in 1924 as a child actor. Selected filmography * '' The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower'' (1928) * '' Peach Skin'' (1929) * '' Heart of Paris'' (1932) * '' Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * ''Nightclub Hostess'' (1939) * ''Prince Charming'' (1942) * '' The Lover of Borneo'' (1942) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * ''Arlette and Love'' (1943) * ''Son of France'' (1946) * '' Gringalet'' (1946) * ''Vertigo'' (1947) * '' The White Night'' (1948) *''Judicial Error ''Judicial Error'' (French: ''Erreur judiciaire'') is a 1948 French drama film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Michèle Alfa, Jimmy Gaillard and Lucienne Le Marchand.Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français ...'' (1948) * '' Life Is a Game'' (1951) * '' Music in the Head'' (1951) * '' The Fighting Drummer'' (1953) References Bibliography * Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. ''To Desire Differently: Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Génia Vaury
Génia (stylized as GéNIA; born in Ukrainian SSR) is a London-based virtuoso concert pianist and composer. Génia was born in Ukraine into the Horowitz family of musicians and scientists. Her repertoire ranges from classical music to contemporary works and her own compositions. Education Génia started her studies at the age of four with her great-grandmother, the pianist and pedagogue Regina Horowitz (sister of pianist Vladimir Horowitz and wife of the Soviet economist Evsei Liberman). Génia continued her studies with pianist and teacher Sergei Yushkevitch at the Kharkov Institute of Arts. In 1999, Génia graduated from Guildhall School of Music earning the Premier Prix. She went on to graduate from Trinity College of Music in 2000, studying with Professor Joan Havill and Douglas Finch where she was runner-up in the TCM Associate Soloist Competition and awarded the Founders Prize for Excellence. In the same year she was awarded the Silver Medal Award from the Worshipful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noëlle Norman
Noëlle Norman (7 January 1921 – 11 January 1985) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films including '' On demande un assassin'' (1949).Goble p.452 Selected filmography * '' Immediate Call'' (1939) * ''Grandfather'' (1939) * '' It Always Ends That Way'' (1939) * '' Sins of Youth'' (1941) * '' Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * ''The Misfortunes of Sophie'' (1946) * ''Vertigo'' (1947) * '' The Adventures of Casanova'' (1947) * '' Emile the African'' (1949) * ''The Paris Waltz'' (1950) * '' Come Down, Someone Wants You'' (1951) * '' Love Is Just a Fairytale'' (1955) * '' Eighteen Hour Stopover'' (1955) * ''The Big Chief ''The Big Chief'' (French: ''Le grand chef'', Italian: ''Noi gangsters'') is a 1959 French-Italian comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Florence Blot.Rège p.1000 It is based on the short story '' Th ...'' (1959) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1929) * '' The Lighthouse Keepers'' (1929) * '' My Friend Victor'' (1931) * '' Make a Living'' (1931) * '' Coquecigrole'' (1931) * '' Dainah the Mulatto'' (1932) * '' Toto'' (1933) * '' Gold in the Street'' (1934) * ''Partie de campagne'' (1936) * '' Life Dances On'' (1937) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1937) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * ''Ramuntcho'' (1938) * '' The Time of the Cherries'' (1938) * '' The Fatted Calf'' (1939) * ''First Ball'' (1941) * '' Sins of Youth'' (1941) * '' Twisted Mistress'' (1942) * ''Eight Men in a Castle'' (1942) * '' The Stairs Without End'' (1943) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * '' Love Story'' (1943) * '' Picpus'' (1943) * '' The M� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
