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Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then changed its name to Opéra Night in 1979 in the movies, 1979 after one of its two scenes became a disco before the whole place definitively closed down in July 1987. Répertoire * 1945 : ''Au petit bonheur'' by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, directed by Alfred Pasquali, with Jean Marchat, Sophie Desmarets, Gérard Philipe * 1945 : ''La Fugue de Caroline'' by Alfred Adam, directed by Pierre Dux * 1946 : ''Le Revolver de Venise'' by Pierre Grève and Victor Camarat, directed by Jean Vernier (director), Jean Vernier * 1946 : ''Our Town'' by Thornton Wilder, directed by Claude Maritz * 1946 : ''Plainte contre inconnu'' by Georges Neveux, directed by Jean Mercure * 1947 : ''Monsieur Providence'' by Albert Husson * 1948 : ''La Ligne de chance'' by Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Arrondissement Of Paris
The 2nd arrondissement of Paris (''IIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as ''deuxième'' (second/the second). It is governed locally together with the 1st, 3rd and 4th arrondissement, with which it forms the 1st sector of Paris. Also known as Bourse, this arrondissement is located on the right bank of the River Seine. The 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses the city's most dense concentration of business activities. The arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and several banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique's theatre, the Salle Favart. The 2nd arrondissement is the home of Grand Rex, the largest movie theater in Paris. The 2nd arrondissement is also the home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Thiébaut
Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian striker * Marcel (footballer, born 1983), Marcel Silva Cardoso, Brazilian left back * Marcel (footballer, born 1992), Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (singer), American country music singer * Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of merchants of Paris * Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher, Christian existentialist and playwright * Jean Marcel (died 1980), Madagascan Anglican bishop * Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931–2014), French football player * Rosie Marcel (born 1977), English actor * Sylvain Marcel (born 1974), Canadian actor * Terry Marcel (born 1942), British film director * Claude Marcel (1793-1876), French diplomat and applied linguist Other uses * Marcel (''Friends''), a fictional m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Velle
Louis Velle (29 May 1926 – 2 February 2023) was a French actor. He appeared in numerous films including ''Stopover in Orly'', '' The Impossible Mr. Pipelet'', and '' Kings for a Day''. Personal Louis Velle was married since 1949 to writer, director, actress and novelist Frédérique Hébrard Frédérique Hébrard (7 June 1927 – 7 September 2023) was a French screenwriter and actress. She was born Frédérique Chamson. Her parents were academician André Chamson and Lucie Mazauric, both historians and museum curators. In the film Th ..., with whom he lived for over 70 years and with whom he has three children, Catherine, Nicolas and François, director and screenwriter. He died on 2 February 2023 at the age of 96. Filmography Feature films 1951: Marriage agency of Jean-Paul Le Chanois 1953: The Three Musketeers by André Hunebelle 1953: A boy's life by Jean Boyer 1954: The Eye behind the scenes by André Berthomieu 1954: I had seven daughters by Jean Boyer 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ''Man and Superman'' (1902), ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' (1913) and ''Saint Joan (play), Saint Joan'' (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, in 1876 Shaw moved to London, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the Gradualism (politics), gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Douking
Georges Douking (born Georges Ladoubée; 6 August 1902 – 20 October 1987) was a French stage, film, and television actor. He also directed stage plays such as the premier presentation of Jean Giraudoux's ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' at the Théâtre Hébertot in 1943. He is perhaps best known for his role in the surreal 1972 comedy ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''. He was one of the favorite actors of the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal. Douking appeared in more than 75 films between 1934 and 1981.filmography of Georges Douking at Partial filmography *1934: '' |
Steve Passeur
Steve Passeur (24 September 1899 – 12 October 1966), pen name of Étienne Morin, was a French dramatist and screenwriter. His plays with scathing replies often depicted cynical characters. Prior to 1940, Passeur was considered as a writer of the avant-garde, whose works were staged and played by Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff. He was married to the comedian Renée Passeur. Theatre ;Dramatist *1925: ''La Maison ouverte'', three-act play *1925: ''La Traversée de Paris à la nage'', Paris, Maison de l'Œuvre *1925: ''Un bout de fil coupé en deux'' *1927: ''Pas encore'', Paris, Atelier *1927: ''Le Nord-Sud de 10h12'' *1928: ''À quoi penses-tu ?'', Atelier *1928: ''Le Refuge du prophète'' *1928: ''Tranquillité'' *1929: ''Suzanne'', 3 acts comedy, mise-en-scène Louis Jouvet, Comédie des Champs-Élysées *1930: ''L'Acheteuse'' *1931: ''La Chaine'', three-act play *1931: ''Défense d'afficher'' *1932: ''Les Tricheurs'', three-act play, Théà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1944) in New York City. It was the first of a string of successes, including ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1947), ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1955), ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' (1959), and ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' and Arthur Miller's ''Death of a Salesman''. Much of Williams's most acclaimed wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Tattoo
''The Rose Tattoo'' is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1949 and 1950; after its Chicago premiere on December 29, 1950, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2, 1951, and its publication by New Directions the following month. A film adaptation was released in 1955. ''The Rose Tattoo'' tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. The setting is a place in proximity to Biloxi. Jacob Adler stated that the story is disconnected from the culture of the Southern United States as the plot "has almost no Southern connections". Background People originating in Sicily in real life became involved in the fruit industry in the area around New Orleans in the late 1800s, and according to Robert Rea, the playwright had a friend named Marion Black Vaccaro and that the playwright "likely" was aware of how the Vaccaro brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Valde
Pierre Valde, real name Pierre Duchemin, (25 November 1907 – 26 February 1977) was a French stage actor and theatre director. Ha was a dramaturge at the Théâtre de l'Atelier managed by Charles Dullin from 1933 to 1937 then established his own company, the ''Théâtre du Temps'' which was awarded the first prize of young companies for ''Œdipe'' by Georges Sonnier. Filmography * 1969 : ' by René Lucot, episode: '' Maigret in Exile'', as the judge Forlacroix * 1976 : ''Les Mystères de Loudun'' by Gérard Vergez, as Laubardemont * 1977 : ' * 1977 : ''La Question'' by Laurent Heynemann, as the assassinated president * 1977 : ''Bergeval père et fils'', as Leversin * 1977 : '' Spoiled Children'' by Bertrand Tavernier * 1977 : ''Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret'', épisode : ' by Marcel Cravenne Theatre Comedian * 1943 : ''The Imaginary Invalid'' by Molière, mise en scène Pierre Valde, Théâtre du Temps * 1947 : ''Les Amants de Noël'' by Pierre Barillet, mise e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Carco
Francis Carco (born François Carcopino-Tusoli) (3 July 1886 – 26 May 1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the ''Fantaisiste'' school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for ''L'Homme libre'' and ''Gil Blas''. During World War I he became an aviation pilot at Étampes, after studying at the aviation school there. His works are picturesque, painting as they do the street life of Montmartre, and often being written in the ''argot'' of Paris. He has been called the "romancier des apaches." His memoir, ''The Last Bohemia: From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter'', contains reminiscences of bohemian life in Paris during the early years of the 20th century. He had an affair with the short story writer Katherine Mansfield in February 1915. The narrator Raoul Duquette of her story '' Je ne parle pas français'' (who has a cynical attitude to love and sex) is partly based on him, and her story '' An Indiscreet Journey'' is based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan De Hartog
Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Early life In 1914, Jan de Hartog was born to a Dutch Calvinist minister and professor of theology, Arnold Hendrik, and his wife, Lucretia de Hartog, who was a lecturer in medieval mysticism. He was raised in Haarlem in the Netherlands. When he was 10 year old, de Hartog ran away to become a cabin boy on board a Dutch fishing boat. Despite his father having returned de Hartog home, when he was 12 years old, de Hartog ran away to a steamer in the Baltic. At 16, he attended the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart in Amsterdam, a training college for the Dutch merchant marine. De Hartog shoveled coal at night with the Amsterdam Harbour Police until 1932. While employed as skipper of a tour boat on the Amsterdam Canals, he wrote mysteries featuring Inspector Gregor Boyarski of the Amsterdam Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
