Adolphe d'Ennery (; or Dennery; Adolphe Philippe; 17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist.

Life

Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ''Émile, ou le fils d'un pair de France'' (1831), a drama which was the first of a series of some two hundred pieces written alone or in collaboration with other dramatists. He died in Paris in 1899.

Works

Among the best of his works is a play about ''

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'' (1838) with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; ''Les Bohémiens de Paris'' (1842) with Eugène Grangé; with Julien de Mallian the play ''Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple'' (1845), in which Marie Dorval obtained a great success; a drama based on ''

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'' (1853) with Dumanoir; and '' The Two Orphans'' (1875), perhaps his best piece, with Eugène Cormon. The story was adapted in 1921 by D.W. Griffith as the film '' Orphans of the Storm.'' He wrote the

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he composed the libretto to Massenet's '' Le Cid'' (1885); and, again in collaboration with Cormon, the librettos of Auber's operas, '' Le premier jour de bonheur'' (1868) and ''Rêve d'amour'' (1869). Other opera librettos include ''La rose de Terone'' (1840), '' Si j'étais roi'' (1852), ''Le muletier de Tolède'' (1854) (on which Michael Balfe's '' The Rose of Castille'' (1857) was based), and ''À Clichy'' (1854) by

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, Massenet's early '' Don César de Bazan'' (1872) and Hervé's ''La nuit aux soufflets'' (1884) He prepared for the stage Balzac's posthumous comedy ''Mercadet ou le faiseur'', presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase in 1851. Reversing the usual order of procedure, d'Ennery adapted some of his plays to the form of novels.

Filmography

*'' A Celebrated Case'', directed by

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(1914, based on the play ''Une Cause célèbre'') *''Don Caesar de Bazan'', directed by

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(1915, based on the play ''Don César de Bazan'') *'' The Two Orphans'', directed by

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(1915, based on the play ''The Two Orphans'') *''Martyre'', directed by Camillo De Riso (Italy, 1917, based on the play ''Martyre!'') *'' Don Cesar, Count of Irun'', directed by Luise Kolm and

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(Austria, 1918, based on the play ''Don César de Bazan'') *''The Adventurer'', directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1920, based on the play ''Don César de Bazan'') *'' Belphegor the Mountebank'', directed by Bert Wynne (UK, 1921, based on the play ''Paillasse'') *'' Orphans of the Storm'', directed by D. W. Griffith (1921, based on the play ''The Two Orphans'') *'' Rosita'', directed by

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(1923, based on the play ''Don César de Bazan'') *'' The Spanish Dancer'', directed by

(1923, based on the play ''Don César de Bazan'') *''Martyre'', directed by Charles Burguet (France, 1927, based on the play ''Martyre!'') *'' The Two Orphans'', directed by

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(France, 1933, based on the play ''The Two Orphans'') *'' The Two Orphans'', directed by

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'', directed by

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(Italy, 1954, based on the play ''The Two Orphans'') *'' The Seventh Sword'', directed by

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(Spain, 1976, based on the play ''The Two Orphans'')

Notes

External links

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Adolphe d'Ennery at Internet Movie Database

Official Website of the Society of Friends of Adolphe d'Ennery
* {{DEFAULTSORT:D'Ennery, Adolphe 1811 births 1899 deaths Writers from Paris 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 19th-century French novelists Commanders of the Legion of Honour Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery