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Roger Blin
Roger Blin (22 March 1907 – 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's ''Waiting for Godot'' in 1953 and ''Endgame'' in 1957. Biography Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. As a teenager he was 'fascinated' by the Surrealists and their conception of revolutionary art.:35 He was initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives ''The Company of Five'' and ''The October Group''. In 1935 Blin served as Antonin Artaud's assistant director for his production of '' Les Cenci'' (''The Cenci'') at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935.:35 Following his work with Artaud, Blin focused on 'political street-theatre.':46 During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army. His extensive career as both director and actor in both film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the Bois de Boulogne, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. One of the most affluent areas of France, it is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent residential area in France. , it is the commune with the fourth highest median per capita income (€52,570 per year) in France. History Originally, Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Without A Name
''Street Without a Name'' (French: ''La Rue sans nom'') is a 1934 French drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Constant Rémy, Gabriel Gabrio and Paule Andral. It is based on the 1930 novel '' La Rue sans nom'' by Marcel Aymé.Goble p.936 Cast * Constant Rémy as Méhoul * Gabriel Gabrio as Fiocle * Paule Andral as Louise Johannieu * Paul Azaïs as Manu * René Bergeron as Schobre * René Blech * Roger Blin * Gérard Dagmar as La Jimbre * Max Dalban * Marcel Delaître as Johannieu * Georges Douking * Fréhel as La Méhoul * Enrico Glori as Cruseo * Pola Illéry as Noa * Marcel La Montagne as Le cordonnier * Pierre Labry as Minche * Pierre Larquey Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77. Selected filmography * ''P ... * Robert Le Vigan as Vanoël * Charles Lemontier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise (1939 Film)
''Louise'' is a 1939 French musical film directed by Abel Gance. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Described as "wonderfully atmospheric", the film is based on the opera of the same name by Gustave Charpentier. Charpentier remained on the set throughout the filming and personally coached Grace Moore, who played the title role. Both Georges Thill, who played Julien and André Pernet who played Louise's father, were famous exponents of those roles on the opera stage and had recorded them in 1935. The orchestra was directed by Louis Beydts. Cast * Grace Moore as Louise * Georges Thill as Julien * André Pernet as Le père de Louise * Suzanne Desprès as La mère de Louise * Robert Le Vigan as Gaston * Ginette Leclerc as Lucienne * Edmond Beauchamp as Le philosophe (as Beauchamp) * Jacqueline Gauthier as Alphonsine * Rivers Cadet * Pauline Carton Pauline Carton (; 4 July 1884 – 17 June 1974) was a French film actress. She appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Slave (1939 Film)
''The White Slave'' (French: ''L'esclave blanche'') is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marc Sorkin and starring Viviane Romance, John Lodge and Marcel Dalio. German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst acted as a supervisor on the production. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne, while the costumes were by Marcel Escoffier. It is a loose remake of the 1927 German silent film of the same title.Slavin p.93-94 Synopsis At the beginning of the twentieth century a Frenchwoman marries a westernised Turkish diplomat and travels with him to his homeland with romantic expectations of an Arabian Nights lifestyle. However she is shocked on getting there by the repressive attitude towards women. Worse her husband falls out of favour with the Sultan, who faces growing dissent from the Young Turk movement. Cast * Viviane Romance as Mireille * John Lodge as Vedad Bey * Marcel Dalio as Le sult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curtain Rises
''The Curtain Rises'' () is a 1938 French crime film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin and Odette Joyeux.Andrew p.144 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jacques Krauss and Alexandre Trauner. Cast * Louis Jouvet as Le professeur Lambertin * Claude Dauphin as François Polti * Odette Joyeux as Coecilia * Janine Darcey as Isabelle * André Brunot as Monsieur Grenaison * Madeleine Lambert as Élisabeth * Roger Blin as Dominique * Noël Roquevert as Pignolet * Julien Carette as Lurette * Marcel Dalio as le juge d'instruction * Bernard Blier as Pescani * Yves Brainville as Sylvestre * André Roussin as Giflard * Robert Pizani Robert Pizani (26 April 1896 – 17 June 1965) was a French stage and film actor whose 45-year career encompassed leading roles in numerous plays, revues and operettas as well as dozens of films. In operetta Pizani's roles in oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Lecouvreur (1938 Film)
''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' is a 1938 French-German biographical film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Junie Astor. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Anton Weber. Plot A famous actress and a Polish prince have an ill-fated love affair. Cast * Yvonne Printemps as Adrienne Lecouvreur * Pierre Fresnay as Maurice de Saxe * Junie Astor as the Duchess of Bouillon * André Lefaur as the Duke of Bouillon * Jaque Catelain as d'Argental * Madeleine Sologne as Flora * Pierre Larquey as Pitou * Thomy Bourdelle as Pauly * Jacqueline Pacaud as Fanchon * Gabrielle Robinne as la Duclos * Véra Pharès as little Adrienne * Michèle Alfa as Amour * Andrée Berty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lafarge Case
''The Lafarge Case'' (French: ''L'Affaire Lafarge'') is a 1938 French historical crime drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Pierre Renoir, Marcelle Chantal and Raymond Rouleau. It recalls a famous nineteenth century case, and is mostly portrayed in flashback.Andrew p.164 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Gys and Eugène Lourié. Synopsis In the 1840s Marie a young woman from Paris is married to Charles, a brutal, unpleasant ironmaster An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain. The ironmaster was usually a larg ... in provincial France. When he dies under mysterious circumstances she is accused of murdering him by his family and is put on trial. Cast References Bibliography * Andrews, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasputin (1938 Film)
''Rasputin'' ( French: ''La Tragédie impériale'') is a 1938 French historical film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal and Pierre Richard-Willm.Kennedy-Karpat p.204 It depicts the rise and fall of the Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the advisor to the Romanov royal family. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ... Guy de Gastyne. Cast References Bibliography * Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. ''Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s''. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013. External links * 1937 films 1930s historical drama films French historical drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alibi (1937 Film)
''The Alibi'' (French: ''L'Alibi'') is a 1937 French mystery film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean and Jany Holt. It has been described as a precursor to film noir. The film was shot at the Billancourt Studios and Epinay Studios in Paris. Location shooting took place at Trilport on the River Seine. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Eugène Lourié and Serge Piménoff The film was well received by critics on its release.Andrew p.134 It was released in the United States in April 1939 by Columbia Pictures. It was remade as the 1942 British film ''Alibi'' starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason. Synopsis Professor Winckler, a stage thought reader, encounters an old enemy and kills him. He pays one of the hostesses at the nightclub he performs at to give him an alibi. A police detective is convinced that Winckler is the murderer and sets out to break the alibi. Cast * Erich von Stroheim as Le professeur Winckler * Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Citadel Of Silence
''The Citadel of Silence'' (French: ''La citadelle du silence'') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Annabella, Pierre Renoir and Bernard Lancret.Driskell p.209 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne. Synopsis In Tsarist Russia before the First World War a young female revolutionary attempts to kill a senior official. It is her lover who is arrested however and to try and rescue him she becomes romantically close to the commander the fortress where he is imprisoned. Cast * Annabella as Viana * Pierre Renoir as Stepan * Bernard Lancret as César Birsky * Gilberte Géniat as Catherine * Pauline Carton as La logeuse * Pierre Larquey as Bartek * Paul Amiot as Vladorowsky * Robert Le Vigan as Granoff * Roger Blin as Officier * Pierre Alcover as Le gouverneur de Varsovie * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as La fille du majordome * Alexandre Rignault Alexandre Rignault (14 February 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beethoven's Great Love
''Beethoven's Great Love'' (French: ''Un grand amour de Beethoven'' is a 1936 French historical musical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt. It portrays the career of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Britain and the United States it was sometimes alternatively titled ''The Life and Loves of Beethoven''. It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. Plot In Vienna in the early 19th century, while Beethoven works as a musical tutor, two of Beethoven's pupils are in love with him. One ends up marrying a count instead while the other spends years of unrequited love as his fiancée. Beethoven moves to Heiligenstadt to dedicate himself to his music, and overcoming his growing deafness, composes a series of masterworks. Cast * Harry Baur as Ludwig van Beethoven * Annie Ducaux as Thérèse de Brunswick * Jany Holt as Juliette Guicciardi * Jean-Louis Barr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny (1936 Film)
''Jenny'' is a 1936 French drama film, the first full-length feature by Marcel Carné and the first of his successful collaborations with the dialogue writer Jacques Prévert and the composer Joseph Kosma. The screenplay is based on the novel ''La Prison de Velours'' by Louis Ribaud (1934). The leading roles are taken by Françoise Rosay, Albert Préjean, Charles Vanel, and Lisette Lanvin.Andrews p.355 It tells the story of a middle-aged woman in Paris who with underworld support has built up a smart night club, but her life starts falling apart when the young gangster she maintains as her lover falls in love with her daughter. At times the film moves into the realm of poetic realism, where the cinematography, music and dialogue infuse the lives and surroundings of ordinary people with poetry. Plot After years working in London, Jenny's daughter Danielle falls out with her boy friend and decides to go back to her mother in Paris. This throws Jenny into confusion, as she has t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |