''La Reine Margot'' (French: ''Queen Margot'') is a 1954 French-Italian
adventure
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historical drama film
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directed by
Jean Dréville
Jean Dréville (20 September 1906 – 5 March 1997) was a French film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1969.
Selected filmography
* '' Autour de L'Argent'' (1928)
* ''A Man of Gold'' (1934)
* ''The Chess Player'' ( ...
, scripted by
Abel Gance from the 1845 novel ''
La Reine Margot'' by
Alexandre Dumas.
[Klossner p.317] It stars
Jeanne Moreau,
Armando Francioli
Armando Francioli (21 October 1919 – 6 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 50 films since 1942.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1919 births
2020 deaths
Male actors from Rome
Italian centenaria ...
and
Françoise Rosay. The film is also known under the
alternative title
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''A Woman of Evil''.
It was made as a
co-production between the French and Italian branches of
Lux Film
Lux Film was an Italian film distribution (and later production) company founded by Riccardo Gualino in 1934.
Gualino was an anti-fascist businessman who had clashed with the regime of Mussolini in 1931 and had been forced into internal exile on ...
. It was made at the
Epinay Studios
The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures. The earliest was built in 1902 by Eclair Film. A second studio was controlled by the French subsidia ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Maurice Colasson Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
* Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and L ...
. It was shot in
Eastmancolor
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Eastmancolor, introduced in 1950, was on ...
.
Cast
*
Jeanne Moreau as
Margaret of Valois
Margaret of Valois (french: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France ...
*
Armando Francioli
Armando Francioli (21 October 1919 – 6 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 50 films since 1942.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1919 births
2020 deaths
Male actors from Rome
Italian centenaria ...
as
Joseph Boniface de La Môle Joseph Boniface de La Môle (c. 1526 – 30 April 1574) was a French nobleman. He was the son of Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, of Marseille.
Life
La Môle was the Provençal lover of Marguerite de Valois, among others, ...
*
Henri Génès as Hannibal de Coconas
*
Robert Porte as
Charles IX
*
André Versini as
Henri de Navarre
*
Françoise Rosay as
Catherine de' Medici
*
Vittorio Sanipoli
Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980.
Life and career
Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 ...
as Maurevel
*
Fiorella Mari as
Henriette de Nevers
*
Patrizia Lari
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* Patrizia (singer), Italian-Canadian dramatic coloratura soprano who performs operatic rock
* Patrizia von Brandenstein (born 1943), American produ ...
as Charlotte de Sauve
*
Daniel Ceccaldi
Daniel Ceccaldi (25 July 1927 – 27 March 2003) was a French actor.
He was born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France. The mild-mannered Daniel Ceccaldi is famous as Claude Jade's father ''Lucien Darbon'' in François Truffaut's movies ''Stolen Kis ...
as
Henri d'Anjou
*
Louis de Funès
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in fil ...
(uncredited) as René Bianchi
*
Jacques Eyser as Caboche
*
Guy Kerner as
duc Henri de Guise
*
Louis Arbessier
Louis Arbessier (9 April 190723 March 1998) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.122 He played Napoleon III in the 1952 musical film '' Imperial Violets.'' Amongst his television roles was that of Maigret.
Arbessier was married and di ...
as
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
*
Nicole Riche as Gilonne
*
Jean Temerson
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People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* Jea ...
as aubergiste de La Belle Étoile
*
Robert Moor as procureur
*
Olivier Mathot
Olivier is the French form of the given name Oliver. It may refer to:
* Olivier (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Olivier (surname), a list of people
* Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery
*Olivier, Louisiana, a rural popul ...
as Pierre
See also
*
''La Reine Margot'' (1994 film)
References
Bibliography
* Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland & Company, 2002.
External links
*
*
La Reine Margot' at the Films de France
1954 films
French adventure films
Italian adventure films
Italian historical drama films
French historical drama films
1950s historical drama films
Films set in the 16th century
1950s French-language films
Films based on works by Alexandre Dumas
Films directed by Jean Dréville
Films set in France
Cultural depictions of Catherine de' Medici
Cultural depictions of Henry I, Duke of Guise
Cultural depictions of Henry III of France
Lux Film films
Films shot at Epinay Studios
1950s French films
1950s Italian films
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