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René Rocher
René Rocher (5 August 1890, in Paris''Archives numérisées de l'état civil de Paris'', acte de naissance n° 9/1177/1890, avec mention marginale du décès, date et lieu indiqués: 24 juin 1970 in 7th arrondissement of Paris (accessdate 7 November 2012) – 24 June 1970) was a France stage actor and theater director. In 1923, René Rocher gave its name to the current Comédie-Caumartin. He was managing director of the Théâtre Antoine from 1928 to 1933, then the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier from 1935 to 1943, and the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1940 to 1944. Theatre Comedian * 1913: ''Les Femmes savantes'' by Molière, directe by Irénée Manget, Théâtre Hébertot, Théâtre des Arts * 1914: ''Le destin est maître'' by Paul Hervieu, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1917: ''Les Noces d'argent'' by Paul Géraldy, Comédie-Française * 1918: ''Lucrezia Borgia (play), Lucrezia Borgia'' by Victor Hugo, Comédie-Française * 1919: ''L'Hérodienne'' by Albert du Boi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernani (drama)
''Hernani'' (full title: ''Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan'') is a drama in rhyming alexandrines by the French romantic author Victor Hugo. Title origin The title originates from Hernani, a Spanish town in the Southern Basque Country, where Hugo's mother and her three children stopped on their way to General Hugo's place of residence. History The play was given its premiere on 25 February 1830 by the Comédie-Française in Paris. Today, it is more remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the first performance and for being the inspiration for Giuseppe Verdi's opera '' Ernani'' than it is for its own merits. Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognised the play as a direct attack on their values. In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Masque of the Red Death", ''Hernani'' is used to describe the magnitude and elegance of Prince Prospero's masquerade. Gill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhaïl Boulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The Master and Margarita'', published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel ''The White Guard'' and the plays '' Ivan Vasilievich'', ''Flight'' (also called ''The Run''), and ''The Days of the Turbins''. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.Bulgakov's biography on britannica subject of Bulgakov's works (main part of the text starts from the "novel Belaya gvardiya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Précieuses Ridicules
''Les Précieuses ridicules'' (, ''The Absurd Précieuses'' or ''The Affected Ladies'') is a one-act satire by Molière in prose. It takes aim at the ''précieuses'', the ultra-witty ladies who indulged in lively conversations, word games and, in a word, ''préciosité'' (preciousness). It was adapted into a lyric comedy and a film. ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' is a biting comedy of manners that brought Molière and his company to the attention of Parisians, after they had toured the provinces for years. The play received its Paris premiere on 18 November 1659 at the Théâtre du Petit-Bourbon. It seems not to have been staged before that in the provinces. It was highly successful and attracted the patronage of Louis XIV to Molière and company. ''Les Précieuses ridicules'' still plays well today. In the play, a man finds two eligible suitors for his daughter and his niece. The young women reject and ridicule them, because they view them as unrefined. In revenge, the men hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartuffe Ou L'Imposteur
''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; , ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. History Molière performed his first version of ''Tartuffe'' in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/''Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée''), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably under the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, the King's confessor and former tutor. While the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête: although it was found to be extremely diverting, the king recognized so much conformity between those that a true devotion leads on the path to heaven and those that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Sarment
Jean Sarment, real name Jean Bellemère, (13 January 1897 – 29 March 1976) was a French film and stage actor and a writer. He was nominated :Administrators of the Comédie-Française, administrator of the Comédie-Française in July 1944 although he won't occupy the position. Selected filmography * 1934 : ''Léopold le bien-aimé (film), Léopold le bien-aimé'', directed by Arno-Charles Brun (script, dialogue and main interpret) : Léopold * 1938 : ''Terre de feu (film), Terre de feu'', directed by Marcel L'Herbier (script) * 1939 : ', directed by Giorgio Ferroni and Marcel L'Herbier, Italian version of the latter (script) * 1941 : ''The Chain Breaker'', directed by Jacques Daniel-Norman * 1958 : ', directed by Günther Lüders * 1963 : ''The Trip to Biarritz'', directed by Gilles Grangier * 1971 : ' : ''Sur mon beau navire'' by Jean Sarment, directed by Jean-Laurent Cochet, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny Theatre Author * 1920 : ''La Couronne de carton' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Jeanson
Henri Jules Louis Jeanson (6 March 1900 – 6 November 1970) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on 6 March 1900 in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for ''La Bataille'', newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening stints as reporter, interviewer and film critic. He was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic. Jeanson worked for several papers including the ''Journal du peuple'', ''Hommes du Jour'' and the '' Canard enchaîné'', where he defended complete pacifism. He resigned from the '' Canard enchaîné'' in 1937, in solidarity with Jean Galtier-Bois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Marchand
Léopold Marchand (1891-1952) was a French playwright and screenwriter. A number of his stage works were adapted into films. In 1942 during the Vichy era his Jewish wife Misz Hertz committed suicide shortly before the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.Leteux p.109 Selected filmography * '' Fashions for Women'' (1927) * '' My Childish Father'' (1930) * '' Circulez!'' (1931) * '' The Nude Woman'' (1932) * ''Love Me Tonight'' (1932) * '' Topaze'' (1933) * '' We Are Not Children'' (1934) * '' The Fakir of the Grand Hotel'' (1934) * ''Fedora'' (1934) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''A Hen on a Wall'' (1936) * '' The Assault'' (1936) * ''Balthazar'' (1937) * ''Three Waltzes'' (1938) * '' Durand Jewellers'' (1938) * '' Mirages'' (1938) * ''Hangman's Noose'' (1940) * ''The Master Valet'' (1941) * '' Last Adventure'' (1942) * '' Business Is Business'' (1942) * '' Secret Documents'' (1945) * '' The Adventure of Cabassou'' (1946) * '' The Legend of Faust'' (1949) * ''Cartouche, King of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Deval
Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director. Novels *''Marie Galante'' (1931) Plays *''Une faible femme''; a comedy in three acts (1920) *''Dans sa candeur naïve''; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as ''Her Cardboard Lover'' (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse *''Étienne''; a play in three acts (1930) *''Mademoiselle''; a comedy in three acts (1932) *''Tovarich''; a play in four acts (1933) *''Marie Galante''; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel ''Marie Galante''. Music by Kurt Weill (1934) *''Soubrette''; a comedy in three acts (1938) *''Oh, Brother!''; a comedy in three acts (1945) *''La Femme de ta jeunesse''; a play in three acts (1947) *''Le Rayon des jouets''; a comedy in three acts (1951) *''Il y a longtemps que je t'aime''; a play in two acts (1955) *''La Prétentaine''; a comedy in two acts (1957) *''Romancero''; a play in three acts (1958) Filmography * ''The Card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Fauchois
René Fauchois (31 August 1882 – 10 February 1962) was a French dramatist, librettist and actor. Stagestruck from his youth, he moved from his native Rouen to Paris as a teenager to pursue a stage career. He had early success both as an actor and as a playwright. Among those with whom he collaborated as his career flourished were Sarah Bernhardt and Sacha Guitry. His career lasted for more than sixty years, and his output was prolific. As a librettist Fauchois is probably best known for writing the "''poème lyrique''" for Gabriel Fauré, Fauré's ''Pénélope'' (1913). His best-known play is ''Prenez garde à la peinture'' (1932), a comedy of bourgeois avarice, adapted for US and British stage and screen as ''The Late Christopher Bean''. His 1919 comedy ''Boudu sauvé des eaux'' has been filmed in both French and English. Life and career Fauchois was born in Rouen to a family of modest means. He was educated at the state schools of the city, the école maternelle, école commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Signoret
Gabriel Signoret (November 15, 1878 – March 16, 1937, in Paris, France) was a French silent film actor. He starred in some 70 films between 1910 and 1938. In 1920 he appeared in Guy du Fresnay's ''Flipotte''. His brother Jean Signoret (born 1886) was also an actor. See also * ''Infatuation (1918 film), Infatuation'' (1918) * ''Roger la Honte (1922 film), Roger la Honte'' (1922) * ''The Secret of Polichinelle (1923 film), The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1923) * ''The Bread Peddler (1923 film), The Bread Peddler'' (1923) * ''The Two Boys (1924 film), The Two Boys'' (1924) * ''Jocaste (film), Jocaste'' (1925) * ''Veille d'armes'' (1935) * ''27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * ''The New Men (film), The New Men'' (1936) * ''Let's Make a Dream'' (1936) * ''The Great Refrain'' (1936) * ''The Flame (1936 film), The Flame'' (1936) * ''Ménilmontant (1936 film), Ménilmontant'' (1936) * ''Nuits de feu'' (1937) * ''Arsene Lupin, Detective'' (1937) * ''Culprit (1937 film), Culprit'' (1937) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ferdinand
Roger Ferdinand (1898–1967) was a French playwright and screenwriter.Goble p.154 Selected filmography * '' Levy and Company'' (1930) * '' Chotard and Company'' (1933) * '' A Man of Gold'' (1934) * ''The Lady from Vittel'' (1937) * ''The New Rich'' (1938) * '' President Haudecoeur'' (1940) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * '' Distress'' (1946) * ''They Are Twenty ''They Are Twenty'' (French: ''Ils ont vingt ans'') is a 1950 French comedy film directed by René Delacroix and starring Jacqueline Gauthier, Philippe Lemaire and François Patrice. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Roger Bria ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * People from Saint-Lô Writers from Manche 1898 births 1967 deaths 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French screenwriters {{France-screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
