Vincent de Paul
Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was a Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.
In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys. Afte ...
, the 17th-century
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
and charity worker. It depicts his struggle to help the poor in the face of obstacles such as the
Black Death
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.
In 1949, it won an honorary
Academy Award
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as the best foreign language film released in the
United States
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Religion
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due to its thematic nature in 1995. Pierre Fresnay portrayed Vincent.
Cast
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Pierre Fresnay
Pierre Fresnay (4 April 1897 – 9 January 1975) was a French stage and film actor.
Biography
Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach, he was encouraged by his uncle, actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. He joined the company a ...
:
Vincent de Paul
Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was a Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.
In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys. Afte ...
, priest
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Aimé Clariond
Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor.
Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris.
Selected filmography
* ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff
* '' Amourous ...
Jean Debucourt
Jean Debucourt (19 January 1894 – 22 March 1958) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1920 and 1958.
Selected filmography
* '' The Little Thing'' (1923)
* ''Jean Chouan'' (1926)
* '' Madame Récam ...
Lise Delamare
Lise Delamare (born Jolyse Effrey Jeanne Delamare; 9 April 1913 – 25 July 2006) was a French stage and film actress.
Partial filmography
* '' George and Georgette'' (1934)
* ''Les précieuses ridicules'' (1934)
* ''Pension Mimosas'' (1935) - ...
: Françoise Marguerite de Silly, Madame de Gondi
*
Germaine Dermoz
Germaine Dermoz (born Germaine Deluermoz, 30 July 1888 – 6 November 1966) was a French film and theatre actress of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
She performed in over twenty theatre productions, frequently in the Théâtre Réjane.
H ...
: Queen
Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria (french: Anne d'Autriche, italic=no, es, Ana María Mauricia, italic=no; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 unt ...
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Gabrielle Dorziat
Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a French stage and film actress. Dorziat was a fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her.
Biography
...
: President Goussault
*
Pierre Dux
Pierre Dux (21 October 1908 – 1 December 1990) was a French stage director, stage actor, and film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990.
Filmography
References
External links
*
*
1908 births
1990 deaths
Burials ...
Louise de Marillac
Louise de Marillac , also Louise Le Gras, (August 12, 1591 – March 15, 1660) was the co-founder, with Vincent de Paul, of the Daughters of Charity. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church in the United S ...
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Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor.
Life and career
Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internatio ...
: Father Portail
* Michel Bouquet : Tuberculosis sufferer
*
Gabrielle Fontan
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959.
Selected filmography
* '' Misdeal'' (1928)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
* '' The La ...
: The elder deaf woman of the presbytery of Châtillon
*
Robert Murzeau
Robert Murzeau (1909–1990) was a French actor of stage, film and television.Goble p.91
Selected filmography
* '' Destiny Has Fun'' (1947)
* ''The Husbands of Leontine'' (1947)
* ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947)
* '' To the Eyes of Memory'' (1948)
* ...
: Monsieur Besnier
*
Gabriel Gobin
Gabriel Gobin (12 May 1903 – 9 February 1998) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 1990. He was born in Hacquegnies, Belgium and died in Brie-Comte-Robert, France.
Selected filmography
* ''Quai de ...
: A servant of Monsieur Besnier
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Claude Nicot
Claude Nicot (12 February 1925 – 17 November 2003) was a French film actor.Goble p.199
Selected filmography
* '' Great Man'' (1951)
* '' Mammy'' (1951)
* ''The Beauty of Cadiz'' (1953)
* '' The Lady of the Camellias'' (1953)
* ''Thirteen at the ...
: A page of M. Besnier
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Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès wa ...
: La Pogne, crippled former soldier
* Francette Vernillat : The little girl
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Georges Vitray
Georges Vitray (1888–1960) was a French film actor.Crisp p.155
Biography
Georges Victor Leporcher was born in Paris, France to Constant Leporcher and Victorine Victoire Bricier. Georges took the name Vitray as a stage name. Georges' mother ...
: The Count of Châtillon
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Véra Norman
Marguerite Trediakowski (28 December 1924 – 19 May 2023), better known as Véra Norman, was a French film actress.
Norman died in Saint-Arnoult, Calvados on 19 May 2023, at the age of 98.
Selected filmography
* ''The Sea Rose'' (1946)
* ''The ...
: Mademoiselle de Châtillon, the Count's daughter
*
Geneviève Morel
Geneviève Morel (1916–1989) was a French stage and film actress.Bessy & Chirat p.233
Selected filmography
* '' Beating Heart'' (1940)
* '' Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942)
* ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943)
* '' Secrets of a Ballerina'' (1943)
* ''Cec ...
Ginette Gaubert Ginette may refer to:
Music
* "Ginette", a song by Têtes Raides.
* "Ginette", a song by Beau Dommage.
People
* Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French actress
* Ginette Mathiot (born 1946), French chef
* Ginette Moulin, French billionaire heiress
...
: One of the lady benefactresses
*
Renée Thorel
Renée (without the accent in non-French speaking countries) is a French/Latin feminine given name.
Renée is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar. The name Renée is the French form of th ...
: One of the lady benefactresses
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Marcel Vallée
Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films.
Selected filmography
* '' ...
: The administrator of the hospices
* Paul Demange : A
sacristan
A sacristan is an officer charged with care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents.
In ancient times, many duties of the sacrist were performed by the doorkeepers ( ostiarii), and later by the treasurers and mansionarii. The Decreta ...
Paul Faivre
Paul Faivre (3 March 1886 – 5 March 1973) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The House Opposite'' (1937)
* ''Behind the Facade'' (1939)
* '' Vidocq'' (1939)
* ''Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942)
* ''The Count of Monte Crist ...
: A
sacristan
A sacristan is an officer charged with care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents.
In ancient times, many duties of the sacrist were performed by the doorkeepers ( ostiarii), and later by the treasurers and mansionarii. The Decreta ...
with foundling children
*
Guy Favières
Guy or GUY may refer to:
Personal names
* Guy (given name)
* Guy (surname)
* That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart
Places
* Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet
* Guy, Arkansas, US, a city
* Guy, Indiana, US, an uninco ...
: A bastard beggar / Poor man near the fireplace
* André Dumas : Cardinal Graziani
*
Jeanne Hardeyn
Jeanne Hardeyn (2 March 1915 in Levallois Perret - 14 February 1981 in Issy-les-Moulineaux
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: Madeleine, a
sister of charity
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* Joëlle Janin : Jeanne, the young novice sister
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Maurice Marceau
Maurice Marceau (1905-1979) was a French film actor.Vignaux p.242-46 A character actor he appeared in a number of small or supporting roles during the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s.
Selected filmography
* ''Moscow Nights'' (1934)
* '' A Rare Bird'' ...
: A poor man
* Maximilienne : A devotee to the church
*
Marthe Mellot
Marthe Mellot (16 February 1870 - 13 August 1947) was a French film actress.
Marthe Mellot was born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France, and died in Paris.
Selected filmography
* ''Feu Mathias Pascal'' (1925)
* ''The Red Robe'' (1933)
* ...
: The old woman who overeats
*
Alice Reichen
Alice may refer to:
* Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname
Literature
* Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll
* ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...
René Stern
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René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the femini ...
Yvonne Claudie
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* Jean Favre-Bertin
*
Harry-Max
Harry-Max (born Maxime Louis Charles Dichamp; 23 November 1901 – 13 March 1979) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1938 to 1975.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1901 births
1979 deaths
...
*
Robert Le Béal
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
*
Max Rogerys
Max or MAX may refer to:
Animals
* Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog
* Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE)
* Max (gorilla) (1 ...
Jean-Marc Tennberg
Jean-Marc Tennberg (1924–1971) was a French film, stage and television actor. He played a number of supporting roles in post-war French cinema. He was also a poet known for his television recitals.Andrew p.98
Selected filmography
* ''Cyrano de ...
*
Victor Vina
Victor Vina (1885–1961) was a French film actor.Goble p.331
He was born Victor Emanuel Jules Vinatieri in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France and died in Paris.
Selected filmography
* '' The Portrait'' (1923)
* '' Faces of Children'' (1925)
* '' C ...
Production
Guy Lefranc
Guy Lefranc (21 October 1919 - 1 February 1994) was a French director and screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenp ...
was assistant director on the movie.
Awards
* 1947 :
Pierre Fresnay
Pierre Fresnay (4 April 1897 – 9 January 1975) was a French stage and film actor.
Biography
Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach, he was encouraged by his uncle, actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. He joined the company a ...
wins
Volpi Cup
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for Best Actor at
Venice Film Festival
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Golden Lion
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for
Maurice Cloche Maurice Cloche (17 June 1907, Commercy, Meuse – 23 March 1990, Bordeaux, France) was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. Best known for his Oscar-winning film ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947) he won a 1948 Special Acad ...
British Academy Film Awards
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for best film
* 1949 : Prize for the best film awarded by the Belgian film press
* 1950 : Nominated at
Golden Globes
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