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Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (play)
''Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (French: ''Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'') is a French comic play written by Paul Gavault and Robert Charvay which premiered in 1906. Numerous film adaptations have been made of it. The play was staged at the théâtre du Gymnase and presented as "a "situation comedy" in the manner of Scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...". It was a considerable commercial and critical success. References Bibliography * James L. Limbacher. ''Haven't I seen you somewhere before?: Remakes, sequels, and series in motion pictures and television, 1896-1978''. Pierian Press, 1979. French comedy plays 1906 plays French-language plays {{1900s-play-stub ...
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Comic Play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense Dante used the term in the title of his poem, the ''Divine Comedy'' (Italian: ''Divina Commedia''). The phenomena connected with laughter and that which provokes it have been carefully investigated by psychologists. The predominating characteristics are incongruity or contrast in the object, and shock or emotional seizure on the part of the subject. It has also been held that the feeling of superiority is an essential factor: thus Thomas Hobbes speaks of laughter as a "sudden glory." Modern investigators have paid much attention to the origin both of laughter and of smiling, as well as the development of the "play insti ...
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Paul Gavault
Paul Armand Marcel Gavault (1 September 1866 - 25 December 1951) was a French dramatist, playwright and former director of the théâtre de l'Odéon. Biography He enjoyed a hit with his 1906 comic play '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' which was co-authored by Robert Charvay. Paul Gavault was a screenwriter for the production company, working in particular for the films ''La Grande Bretèche'' (1909, after Balzac), ''Joseph vendu par ses frères'' (1909, codirected with Georges Berr), ''Le Luthier de Crémone'' (1909), ''Le Légataire universel'' (1909), ''Werther'' (1910, after Goethe), ''Madame de Langeais'' (1910, after Balzac), ''Carmen'' (1910, after Mérimée), ''Vitellius'' (1910), ''L'Héritière'' (1910), ''Jésus de Nazareth'' (1911) and ''L'Usurpateur'' (1911), '' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1914). He was named director of the théâtre de l'Odéon in 1914. Works * 1897 : ''Le Pompier de service'', with Victor de Cottens, Théâtre des Variétés ...
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Robert Charvay
Robert Charvay (5 March 1858 – 30 December 1925) is the pen name of Adrien Lefort, a French dramatist and journalist who worked for the daily '' Écho de Paris'', where he signed his papers with the nickname (). He was the son of Charlotte Jeanne Judlin (1820–1883) and the French lyrical singer Jules Lefort (1822–1898). His parents divorced in 1872. Works as dramatist * ''Le Fiancé de Thylda'', operetta buffa in 3 acts, written with Victor de Cottens, music by Louis Varney, 1900 ; remade under the title ''Le Voyage avant la noce'' * ''L'Enfant du miracle'', comedy buffa in 3 acts written with Paul Gavault, 1903 * ''Papa Mulot'', three acts dramatic comedy, 1904 * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'', four acts comedy written with Paul Gavault, 1906 * ''Monsieur Pickwick'', burlesque comedy in five acts, 1911 Screen adaptations His comedy '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' has been adapted four times on the screen: *'' Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme'' (1914) b ...
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Théâtre Du Gymnase Marie Bell
The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a theatre in Paris, at 38 Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle in the 10th arrondissement (métro : Bonne Nouvelle). History Inaugurated on December 23, 1820 by Delestre-Poirson, the théâtre du Gymnase came to serve as a training-theatre for students of the conservatoire, where they could appear solely in one-act plays or adaptations of longer plays into one-act plays. Poirson quickly added two-act plays to the theatre's repertoire, then 3-act plays, and drew up an exclusive contract with Eugène Scribe to supply them. He installed gas lighting in 1823 and in the following year, with the permission of the duchesse de Berry, the theatre was granted the title of ''théâtre de Madame''. Closed for renovation in 1830, the theatre reopened after the July Revolution under the name ''Gymnase Dramatique''. In 1844, Montigny took over as director of the theatre, and to attract a wider audience abandoned somewhat the moral and ...
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Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas and opéras-comiques. Born to a middle-class Parisian family, Scribe was intended for a legal career, but was drawn to the theatre, and began writing plays while still in his teens. His early years as a playwright were unsuccessful, but from 1815 onwards he prospered. Writing, usually with one or more collaborators, he produced several hundred stage works. He wrote to entertain the public rather than educate it. Many of his plays were written in a formulaic manner which aimed at neatness of plot and focus on dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterisation or intellectual substance. For this he was much criticised by intellectuals, but the "well-made play" remained established in the ...
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French Comedy Plays
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1906 Plays
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