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Occupe-toi D'Amélie!
''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'' is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris on 15 March 1908, and ran for 288 performances. After the author's death it was neglected until the 1940s, after which it has been frequently revived. The play was adapted into English in 1958 as ''Look After Lulu!''. Background and first production Feydeau had been established as Paris's leading writer of farces – which he referred to as "vaudevilles" – since the early 1890s. In 1907 the play he wrote immediately before ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'', ''La Puce à l'oreille'' (A Flea in Her Ear), had been enthusiastically received by critics and public, but the expected long run was curtailed after 86 performances when one of the leading actors died suddenly. ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'', like its predecessor, is a bedroom farce. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris on 15 March 1908, and ran there for 288 performances. After the run a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumps
MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for managing patient medical records and hospital laboratory information systems. MUMPS technology has since expanded as the predominant database for health information systems and electronic health records in the United States. MUMPS-based information systems, such as Epic Systems', provide health information services for over 78% of patients across the U.S. A unique feature of the MUMPS technology is its integrated Query language, database language, allowing direct, high-speed read-write access to permanent disk storage. History 1960s-1970s - Genesis MUMPS was developed by Neil Pappalardo, Robert A. Greenes, and Curt Marble in Dr. Octo Barnett's lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston during 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time (magazine), Time'' called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"."Noel Coward at 70" ''Time'', 26 December 1969, p. 46 Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as ''Hay Fever (play), Hay Fever'', ''Private Lives'', ''Design for Living'', ''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène De Fougerolles
Hélène Christine Marie Rigoine de Fougerolles (; born 25 February 1973) is a French people, French actress who was twice nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress (known as the French Academy Awards, Oscar) for Arthur Joffé's Let There Be Light (1998 film), ''Let There Be Light'' (1998) and Jacques Rivette's ''Va savoir'' (2001) for which she was also awarded the Prix Romy Schneider. de Fougerolles spent the first phase of her career in auteur cinema appearing in such films as Jean-Pierre Mocky's ''Le Mari de Léon'' (1992), Patrice Chéreau's La Reine Margot (1994 film), ''La Reine Margot'' (1994), Cédric Klapisch's ''Le Péril jeune'' (1994), Philippe Harel's The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed (film), ''The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed'' alongside Marion Cotillard, Mathieu Kassovitz's ''Assassin(s)'' (1997) or Baltasar Kormákur's The Sea (2002 film), ''The Sea'' (2002). She played Madame de Pompadour twice, in Fanfan la Tulipe (2003 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Gauthier
Jacqueline Gauthier (7 October 1921 – 18 September 1982) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.115 Selected filmography * '' Louise'' (1939) * ''The Woman I Loved Most'' (1942) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) * '' The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock'' (1942) * ''Eight Men in a Castle'' (1942) * '' Frederica'' (1942) * '' Shop Girls of Paris'' (1943) * ''Death No Longer Awaits'' (1944) * '' Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) * '' Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * '' The Murderer Is Not Guilty'' (1946) * '' The Husbands of Leontine'' (1947) * '' The Adventures of Casanova'' (1947) * '' One Night at the Tabarin'' (1947) * ''Forbidden to the Public'' (1949) * '' Eve and the Serpent'' (1949) * '' They Are Twenty'' (1950) * '' Extravagant Theodora'' (1950) * '' The Billionaire Tramp'' (1951) * '' The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'' (1951) * '' She and Me'' (1952) * ''The Terror with Women ''The Terror with Women'' (French: ''La terreur des dames'') is a 1956 comedy film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Planchon
Roger Planchon (; born 12 September 1931 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, died on 12 May 2009 in Paris), was a French playwright, director, and filmmaker. Biography Roger Planchon spent his childhood in the Ardèche, notably in Dornas. He found its inspiration from his rural origins and this issue was a recurring theme in his writings. He started on stage in 1949 after winning an amateur theater. In 1952, he founded the Théâtre de la Comédie, located in the rue des Marronniers, in Lyon. He was the director of the Théâtre de la Cité of Villeurbanne since 1957 (which became the Théâtre National Populaire in 1972). Roger Planchon transposed many works by Brecht, Molière, Shakespeare, and many works of contemporary authors, including Arthur Adamov and Michel Vinaver, but also opened the Théâtre National Populaire to Patrice Chéreau, then Georges Lavaudant. As films, he directed ''George Dandin ou le Mari confondu'' by Molière, '' Louis, enfant roi'', which was entered at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Charon
Jacques Charon (27 February 1920 – 15 October 1975) was a French actor and film director. Born in Paris, Charon trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD) and made his début at the Comédie-Française in 1941. During his time there which lasted until his death, he played over 150 roles in the classical and modern repertoire. Charon directed the 1968 feature film '' A Flea in Her Ear'' and the 1973 television movie ''Monsieur Pompadour''. He played Spalanzani in the complete recording of ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (Decca, 1971). Charon was openly gay. He died in Paris and is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre. Selected filmography * '' Colonel Chabert'' (1943) * ''Jericho'' (1946) - Count Jacques de Saint-Leu * '' The Royalists'' (1947) - Lieutenant Merle * '' The Paris Waltz'' (''La Valse de Paris'', 1950) - Berthelier * '' Le Dindon'' (1951) - Pontagnac * '' The Red Inn'' (1951) - Rodolphe * ''Dakota 308 ''Dakota 308'' is a 1951 Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director, screenwriter, set designer and costume designer who worked in films for over 50 years. He made films characterised by bourgeois Realism (arts), realism, anti-clericalism and sexual frankness, often from literary sources. His career was frequently marked by controversy. Even though he was considered left-wing during most of his life, in his late 80s he was elected to the European Parliament as a member for the far-right National Rally, National Front: he stepped down two months later after making antisemitism, antisemitic statements. Early life Claude Autant-Lara was born on 5 August 1901 at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise. Édouard Autant, his father, was an architect, and his mother, Louise Lara, was an actress from the Comédie-Française. They were founders of the cultural group "Art et Action", which gave their son an early introduction to the theatre.Joël Magny"Autant-Lara, Claude (1901–2000)" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep An Eye On Amelia
''Keep an Eye on Amelia'' (French: ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'') is a 1949 French-Italian comedy film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Danielle Darrieux and Jean Desailly and Grégoire Aslan. It is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Georges Feydeau, set in Belle Époque Paris. It is one of several of film adaptations to be made of the story. Background One reviewer described it as a "lively adaptation of the popular Feydeau farce", "played with verve and charm by Danielle Darrieux", whose character is "an extremely personable young lady of not too difficult virtue".Peter Simmons. Paris : The Current Season. ''Sight and Sound'', March 1950, p13. Another critic rated it highly; with a screenplay by Autant-Lara's regular collaborators, Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, he saw it as "a tour de force of virtuosity: the old play - about a rising cocotte in the Paris of 1900, who deceives her rich admirer, agrees to a mock marriage ceremony with an engaging rake to help h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Desailly
Jean Desailly (24 August 1920 – 11 June 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, and later participated in about 90 movies. Life and career Desailly studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and the Conservatoire de Paris winning first prize, joining the Comédie-Française in 1942. In 1946 he became a leading member of the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud company at the Théâtre Marigny, playing in a wide repertoire from ''Les Fausses Confidences'', ''Bérénice'' and ''Le Songe d'une nuit d'été''. With the Renaud-Barrault at the Odéon-Théâtre de France he played both leading roles in '' le Mariage de Figaro'': Figaro on tour in the provinces and Count Almaviva in Paris. Desailly's second wife was the French actress Simone Valère, with whom he formed a theatre company which they directed successively at the Théâtre Hébertot and the Théâtre de la Madeleine. A wide repertoire was played at the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Renaud
Lucie Madeleine Renaud (; 21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including '' Remorques'' (''Stormy Waters'', 1941) and ''Lumière d'été'' (''Summer Light'', 1943). Personal life Renaud had a son, Jean-Pierre Granval (10 December 1923 – 28 May 1998), by her first marriage to Charles Granval. In 1940, Renaud married her second husband, actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage. Biography Barrault was born in Le Vésinet in France in 1910. His father was 'a Burgundi ... (born in 1910). The couple acted together and co-founded a number of theater companies, touring extensively throughout North and South America. Selected filmography * ''Vent debout'' (1923) * '' The Dying Land'' (1927) - Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
