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French Cancan
''French Cancan'' (also known as ''Only the French Can'') is a 1955 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul and María Félix. It marked Renoir's return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940. Where Renoir's previous film, '' The Golden Coach'' (1952), had celebrated the 18th-century Italian commedia dell'arte, this work is a homage to the Parisian café-concert of the 19th century, with its popular singers and dancers. Visually, the film evokes the paintings of Edgar Degas and the Impressionists, including Renoir's own father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Plot In Paris in the late 1880s, Henri Danglard owns a fashionable, but not very profitable, nightclub called Le Paravent Chinois, where the main attraction is a solo belly dance by his mistress Lola. One night, he accompanies a group of friends to La Reine Blanche, a simple dance hall in Montmartre, where he sees people doing the old-fashione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His '' La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and '' The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. In 2002, he was ranked fourth on the BFI's '' Sight & Sound'' poll of the greatest directors. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. With Claude, he made '' The River'' (1951), the first color film shot in India. A lifelong lover of theater, Renoir turned to the stage for '' The Golden Coach'' (1952) and '' French Cancan'' (1955). He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an '' auteur''; the critic Penelope Gilliatt said a Renoir shot could be identified "in a thousand miles of film." Pauline Kael wrote that "At his greatest, Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens to Antoine Watteau, Watteau." He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. Life Youth Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841. His father, Léonard Renoir, was a tailor of modest means, so, in 1844, Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects. The location of their home, in rue d'Argenteuil in central Paris, placed Renoir in proximity to the Louvre. Although the yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Roche
France Roche (2 April 1921 – 14 December 2013) was a French film actress, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. She appeared in 17 films between 1951 and 1979. She was a member of the jury at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * ''Adorables créatures'' (1952) * '' Follow That Man'' (1953) * '' Zoé'' (1954) * '' The Red Cloak'' (1955) * ''Pity for the Vamps'' (1956) * ''Amour de poche'' (1957) * ''Les Lions sont lâchés'' (1961; writer) * ''Nuit d'ivresse ''Nuit d'ivresse'' (''Night of drunkenness'') is a 1986 French cult comedy film which was directed by Bernard Nauer and starring Josiane Balasko and Thierry Lhermitte. It was adapted from the play of the same name, created in 1985 by Balasko and M ...'' (1986) References External links * 1921 births 2013 deaths French film actresses French women screenwriters French screenwriters People from Saint-Tropez Actresses from Provence-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Rémy
Albert Rémy (; 9 April 1915 – 26 January 1967) was a French actor best known for his supporting roles in François Truffaut's first two feature films. He played Antoine Doinel's father in ''The 400 Blows'' and Charlie Koller's (Charles Aznavour) brother in '' Shoot the Piano Player''. He also appeared in Marcel Carné's '' Les Enfants du Paradis'', John Frankenheimer's '' The Train'' and René Clément's '' Is Paris Burning?'' Selected filmography * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) - L'ivrogne (uncredited) * '' It Happened at the Inn'' (1943) - Jean des Goupi * ''Madame et le Mort'' (1943) - Henri * '' Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Le marchand d'oiseaux * '' Love Story'' (1943) - Le sacristain (uncredited) * '' The Woman Who Dared'' (1944) - Marcel * ''Children of Paradise'' (1945) - Scarpia Barrigni * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) - Pinte * ''La Boîte aux rêves'' (1945) * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Perrot * ''La part de l'ombre'' (1945) * ''La Fille du diable'' (1946) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Piccoli
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors, being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival. Life and career Piccoli was born in Paris to a musical family; his French mother was a pianist and his Swiss father was a violinist from the canton of Ticino. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster to Pope, in more than 170 movies. He appeared in six films directed by Luis Buñuel including '' Belle de Jour'' (1967) and '' The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), but also appeared as Brigitte Bardot's husband in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Contempt'' (1963) and as the main antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Topaz'' (1969). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Philippe
Michèle Philippe (17 January 1926 – 23 September 1972) was a French actress. She appeared in more than twenty films from 1945 to 1959. Selected filmography References External links * 1926 births 1972 deaths French film actresses 20th-century French women {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Parédès
Jean Parédès (1914–1998) was a French film actor.Hayward p.145 Selected filmography * '' Three from St Cyr'' (1939) - Bréval * '' The Fatted Calf'' (1939) - Albert - le garçon de café * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) - Un salutiste (uncredited) * ''Night in December'' (1940) - Un figurant * ''Les musiciens du ciel'' (1940) - (uncredited) * ''Premier rendez-vous'' (1941) - Max de Vatremont * ''Who Killed Santa Claus?'' (1941) - Kappel, le sacristain * '' Caprices'' (1942) - Constant * '' La Nuit fantastique'' (1942) - Cadet * ''Signé illisible'' (1942) - Robert Bigard * ''Love Letters'' (1942) - Désiré Ledru * '' The White Truck'' (1943) - Ernest * ''Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs'' (1944) - Zéphyr dit Le Ténor sans Voix * ''L'aventure est au coin de la rue'' (1944) - Paul Roulet * ''L'extravagante mission'' (1945) - Hipplyte Castrito * ''La Vie de Bohème'' (1945) - Le vicomte / Il visconte * '' 120, Gare Street'' (1946) - Marc Covet * ''Trente et quarante'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Jouanneau
Jacques Jouanneau (3 October 1926 – 19 July 2011) was a French actor. He was born in Angers, France. Filmography *1953: '' Capitaine Pantoufle'' - Le barman du Goéland (uncredited) *1954: '' Les Intrigantes'' - Le Reporter (uncredited) *1954: ''Ah! Les belles bacchantes'' - Joseph Delmar, le régisseur aux Folies-Méricourt *1954: '' One Step to Eternity'' - Le flic *1955: '' French Canacan'' - Bidon *1955: '' Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' - Henri - le chauffeur *1955: ''Les Grandes manœuvres'' - L'ordonnance de Félix *1956: '' The Road to Paradise'' - Robert *1956: '' Elena et les hommes'' - Eugène Martin-Michaud *1956: '' En effeuillant la marguerite'' - Edouard, friend of Daniel *1956: '' Paris, Palace Hôtel'' - Le laquais de l'entrée *1957: '' Le Colonel est de la revue'' - Van Molpen *1957: ''Let's Be Daring, Madame'' - Dédé la Matraque *1957: '' Comme un cheveu sur la soupe'' - Amédée *1957: '' Love Is at Stake'' - Damiano *1958: '' (Le Tombeur)'' - Edouard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giani Esposito
Giani Esposito (23 August 1930 – 1 January 1974) was a FrenchDeath certificate n° 7/1974 oGiani Esposito on French site Les Gens du Cinéma/ref> film actor and singer-songwriter. Esposito was born from the union of a French mother with an Italian father in Etterbeek (Belgium), and he died from viral hepatitis in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He appeared in 50 films between 1951 and 1973. As singer-songwriter, between 1958 and 1973, he recorded numerous albums marked with spirituality and poetry. His biggest success is ''The Clowns'' (''Les Clowns'', 1957), several covers by Raymond Devos, Jeanne-Marie Sens, Hervé Vilard and Bernard Lavilliers. He was married with the French actress Pascale Petit and they had a girl, Doushka Esposito (born in 1963), today singer, and younger, under the name of Douchka, she was ambassadress of Walt Disney's productions on the French television. Partial filmography * '' Skipper Next to God'' (1951) – Un passager juif (uncredited) * '' My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Doll
Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a French actress. Career Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English. She enrolled as an auditor at the Conservatoire in the course taught by Louis Jouvet who took a liking to her and chaperoned her stage debut.{{Web link, author= , title=Adieu Dora Doll: None of her partners could resist her! , url=http://www.francedimanche.fr/infos-people/cinema/adieu-dora-doll-aucune-de-ses-partenaires-ne-lui-resistait/ , date=November 24, 2015 , site= francedimanche.fr , accessed on=February 1, 2017. One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's ''Manon'' (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's ''Touchez pas au grisbi'' (1954) and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a "provocative, anarchising" French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré. Discography Studio albums * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon chante Jean-Roger Caussimon'' (1970) * ''À la Seine'' (1972) * ''Musique légère'' (1974) * ''Il fait soleil'' (1975) * ''Chanson de l'homme heureux'' (1977) * ''Papy rock'' (1979) Live albums * ''Au théâtre de la Ville'' (1978) Posthumous releases * ''En public à l'Olympia 74'' (1992) * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon au cabaret du Lapin Agile'' (2003) Selected filmography * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Le grand écolier * '' The Last Judgment'' (1945) * '' Pétrus'' (1946) - Milou * '' Destiny Has Fun'' (1946) - Marcel * '' Captain Blomet'' (1947) - Clodomir * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Le mannequin assassiné'' (1948) - Jérôme * '' Clochemerle'' (1948) - Samotras * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Amendola
Anna Amendola (23 December 1931 – 31 August 2019) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than ten films from 1952 to 1958. Amendola died in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ... on 31 August 2019, at the age of 87. Selected filmography References External links * 1931 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Italian actresses Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
