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Crainquebille
''Crainquebille'' is a 1922 French silent film directed by Jacques Feyder. The film was known as ''Bill'' in the US and as ''Old Bill of Paris'' and ''Coster Bill of Paris'' in the UK. The restored film is now known for its cinematic realism compared to many other films of the silent era . Plot Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing modest vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in Les Halles market in Paris for over 40 years. One day, whilst waiting for a customer to give him his change, he is hassled by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman. Following a farcical trial, the old man is sent to jail, where due to the poor quality of his past life he enjoys the benefits of the free shelter and food. On his release, however, his life continues to nose-dive: all of his past regular customers shun him, and, with no income, he turns to the bottle becoming an alcoholic. He is reduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatole France
(; born , ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's '' In Search of Lost Time''. Early years The son of a bookseller, France, a bibliophile, spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution and was frequented by many writers and scholars. France studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduation he helped his father by working in his bookstore. After several year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928. Career Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, he was educated at the École régimentaire in Nivelles, and was destined for a military career. At age twenty-five however he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film, adopting the name Jacques Feyder. He joined the Gaumont Film Company and in 1914 he became an assistant director with Gaston Ravel. He started directing films for Gaumont in 1916, but his career was interrupted by service with the Belgian army during 1917-1919. After the end of the war, he returned to filmmaking and quickly built a reputation as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice De Féraudy
Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 - died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter, stage and film director, and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy. Life and career He joined the Théâtre Français in 1880, the company in 1887, and became dean in 1929. The role of his life, which he played 1200 times in nearly thirty years and of which he had a monopoly, is that of Isidore Lechat in ''Business is business'' (French: ''Les affaires sont les affaires''), Octave Mirbeau (1903). As part of the Comedy Francaise he toured Quebec, Montreal and New York in 1922, showing two plays by Molière. He has been applauded in the use of comedy, his playing full of cheerfulness. Féraudy also wrote the lyrics of many songs for Paulette Darty, including the famous Fascination, taken up by later by Suzy Delair and Diane Dufresne. Selected filmography *1926 : '' The Clown'' as Circus director James Bunding *192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's '' Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ('' The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *'' At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *'' The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *'' The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay (; born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse,''Design'', Volume 9 1965 p. 24 and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Life and career Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of '' Salammbô'' by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in '' Castor et Pollux'' by Rameau and '' Thaïs'' by Massenet. Her first recorded film was ''Falstaff'' in 1911, and she began to work in Hollywood from 1929 onwards. In 1917, she married the director Jacques Feyder, with whom she remained until his death in 1948, having three sons. She appeared in sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Oudart
Félix Charles Oudart (1881–1956) was a French stage and film actor.Goble p.452 Selected filmography * ''Crainquebille'' (1922) * '' Abduct Me'' (1932) * ''Toto'' (1933) * '' George and Georgette'' (1934) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1934) * ''Merchant of Love'' (1935) * '' Excursion Train'' (1936) * '' Seven Men, One Woman'' (1936) * '' Miarka'' (1937) * '' Lights of Paris'' (1938) * ''I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Five Cents of Lavarede'' (1939) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1939) * ''Serenade'' (1940) * ''A Woman in the Night'' (1943) * ''Dorothy Looks for Love'' (1945) * '' Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) * ''Impeccable Henri'' (1948) * ''Emile the African'' (1949) * ''At the Grand Balcony'' (1949) * ''Eve and the Serpent'' (1949) * ''The Straw Lover'' (1951) * '' Atoll K'' (1951) * ''Life Is a Game ''Life Is a Game'' (French: ''La vie est un jeu'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Raymond Leboursier and starring Rellys, Jacqueline Delubac and Jimmy Gaillard. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonce-Henri Burel
Léonce-Henri Burel (23 November 1892 – 21 March 1977) was a French cinematographer whose career extended from the silent era until the early 1970s. He was the director of photography on more than 120 films, working almost exclusively in black-and-white."Léonce-Henri Burel", a''Ciné-Ressources'' etrieved 24 May 2015./ref> Career After studying at the University of Nantes, he initially worked as a photoengraver before becoming a camera operator. At the Film d'Art company in 1915 he was noticed by Abel Gance and began a collaboration with him which extended over 16 films, including '' J'accuse'', '' La Roue'', and ''Napoléon''. In the period of silent films he also worked on several productions with Jacques Feyder. During the 1930s he worked regularly with Jean Dréville and Henri Decoin. With '' Le Journal d'un curé de campagne'', for which he won the best cinematography award at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, Burel began another important collaboration with the dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Cheirel
Jeanne Cheirel (1869–1934) was a French film and stage actress. Greco p.189 She was in the original cast of two of Georges Feydeau's plays '' Tied by the Leg'' (1894) and ''The Turkey'' (1896). She made her screen debut in a 1909 short film and continued acting in cinema until her death in 1934. She was the aunt of the actress Micheline Cheirel. Selected filmography * '' Germinal'' (1913) * '' Flipotte'' (1920) * ''Crainquebille'' (1922) *'' My Aunt from Honfleur'' (1931) * ''Moonlight'' (1932) * ''Let's Touch Wood'' (1933) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * '' The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * ''The Secret of Polichinelle The Secret of Polichinelle may refer to: * ''The Secret of Polichinelle'' (play), a 1903 comedy play by Pierre Wolff * ''The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1923 film), a 1923 French silent comedy film * ''The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1936 film), ...'' (1934) * '' My Heart Is Calling You'' (1934) * '' Miquette'' (1934) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Jacques Feyder
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Paris
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Black-and-white Films
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
