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Jean Wiener
Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer. Life Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked with Erik Satie. He then embarked on a career as concert impresario, composer and pianist. He was the house pianist at the ''Gaya'' bar, and later at '' Le Boeuf sur le Toit''. In 1924, a chance encounter with Clement Doucet (who succeeded him at Le Boeuf) brought him into the world of popular music. Already a jazz enthusiast, Wiener found fame with Doucet in the music hall s of Europe as a piano duo,Jean-Pierre Thiollet, ''88 notes pour piano solo'', « Solo de duo », Neva Editions, 2015, p.97. under the name ''"Wiener et Doucet"'' in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz. The two friends recorded many duos between 1925 and 1937. After the end of the war in 1945, Wiener devoted himself fully to composition, notably film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man With The Hispano (1933 Film)
''The Man with the Hispano'' (French: ''L'homme à l'Hispano'') is a 1933 French drama film directed by Jean Epstein and starring Jean Murat, Marie Bell and Joan Helda.Goble p.168 The title refers to a luxury Hispano-Suiza car. It was based on a novel of the same title by Pierre Frondaie and had previously been made as a silent film '' The Man with the Hispano'' in 1926. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Cast * Jean Murat as Gaston Dewalter * Marie Bell as Stéphane Oswill * Joan Helda as Mme Deléone * Gaston Mauger as M. Deléone * Louis Gauthier as Maître Montnormand * Blanche Beaume as La gouvernante * George Grossmith Jr. George Grossmith Jr. (11 May 1874 – 6 June 1935) was an English actor, theatre producer and Actor-manager, manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies. Grossmith was also a ... as Lord Oswill References Bibliography * Gobl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Of The Hour
''The Man of the Hour'' (French: ''L'homme du jour'') is a 1937 French musical film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Maurice Chevalier, Elvire Popesco and Josette Day.Mazdon & Wheatley p.35 The film was shot at the Joinville Studios, with sets designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. Synopsis An ordinary man saves the life of a great actress by giving blood, and she in turns decides to promote him as a singing star. Partial cast * Maurice Chevalier as Alfred Boulard / Himself * Elvire Popesco as Mona Thalia * Josette Day as Suzanne Petit * Raymond Aimos as Le vieux cabot * André Alerme as François-Théophile Cormier de la Creuse * Marguerite Deval as Mme Christoforo * Marcelle Géniat as Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'Alfred * Paulette Élambert as La petite soeur de Suzanne * Robert Lynen as Milot - l'apprenti électricien * Marcelle Praince as Mme Pinchon - une pensionnaire * Robert Pizani as Le poète efféminé * Pierre Sergeol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lower Depths (1936 Film)
''The Lower Depths'' () is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim and Louis Jouvet. It is based on the 1902 play of the same title by Maxim Gorky. Its scenes contrast the life of the upper and lower classes to comedic effect. It was shot at the Epinay Studios of Eclair and on location between Epinay and Saint-Denis on the Seine. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Lourié. It received the first Louis Delluc Prize in 1937. The National Board of Review in the United States considered it a Top Ten Foreign Film for 1937. Plot A wealthy baron (Jouvet) becomes bankrupt through gambling. Contemplating suicide, he finds his gun missing and confronts the thief Pépel (Gabin) who plans to rob him. Instead they share "a drink between colleagues" in a scene played as light comedy and become friends. The baron allows Pépel to leave with a bronze sculpture. Creditors seize the baron's household furnishings. The Baron tell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose (1936 Film)
''Rose'' is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Raymond Rouleau and starring Jean Servais, Lisette Lanvin and Henri Guisol.Bessy & Chirat p.102 It was distributed by the Gaumont Film Company. Synopsis In Saint Tropez a young bus driver falls in love with a holidaymaker, although she is engaged to another man. Meanwhile, he faces competition from a new coach company. Cast * Jean Servais as Jean Sergent * Lisette Lanvin as Madeleine * Henri Guisol as Antonin * Sylvia Bataille as Lucienne * Georges Jamin as Georges * Tania Balachova * Émile Genevois Émile Genevois (1 January 1918 – 19 September 1962) was a French film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditi ... References Bibliography * Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939''. Pygmalion, 1986. * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Garçonne (1936 Film)
''La Garçonne'' (''The Bachelor Girl'' or ''The Flapper'') is a 1936 French black-and-white film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte. It was directed by Jean de Limur and starred Marie Bell (in the title role), Arletty and Edith Piaf. Plot The eponymous ''garçonne'' or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse character (played by Edith Piaf), ensuring the film became a succès de scandale. Another actress in the film, Arletty, said of it: Cast * Marie Bell : Monique Lerbier * Arletty : Niquette * Henri Rollan : Régis Boisselot * Maurice Escande : Lucien Vigneret * Jaque Catelain : Georges Blanchet * Pierre Etchepare : Plombino * Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange
''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'' ( ) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. Imbued with the spirit of the communist/socialist Popular Front, which would score a major political victory in 1936, the film is an idyllic picture of a socialist France and is both a social commentary and a romance. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It was distributed by the French subsidiary of Warner Brothers. Plot M. Lange is a mild-mannered writer of Western stories for a publishing company. Batala, the salacious owner of the company, flees his creditors. When his train crashes, he takes the opportunity to fake his own death. The abandoned workers, with the help of an eccentric creditor, form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim, whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. At the same time, Lange and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Midnight Strikes
''When Midnight Strikes'' (French: ''Quand minuit sonnera'') is a 1936 French-Dutch crime drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir and Roger Karl. It was adapted by Alfred Machard from his own novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. A separate Dutch-language version ''Klokslag twaalf'' was also produced.Rège p.537 Cast * Marie Bell as Mattia * Pierre Renoir as Jean Verdier * Roger Karl as Rouque * René Bergeron as Le capitaine * Simone Barillier as Régine * Thomy Bourdelle as Eric Schutz * Lucien Callamand as Le maître d'hôtel * Marcel Dalio * Edith Gallia * Enrico Glori * Charles Lemontier Charles Lemontier (1894–1965) was a French film actor.Aping p.76 Selected filmography * ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) * ''Judex'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * '' Rigolboche'' (1936) * '' School for Journalists'' (1936) * '' Wh ... References Bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crew (1935 Film)
''The Crew'' (French: ''L'Équipage'') is a 1935 French war drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location at an airfield in Mourmelon-le-Petit. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Lucien Carré. It is also known by the alternative title ''Flight Into Darkness''. The film is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel, which had previously been made into a 1928 French silent film '' The Crew''. Litvak remade his own film as '' The Woman I Love'' for his first Hollywood production in 1937.Goble p.258 Synopsis In 1918 during the First World War, a French pilot has an affair with a married woman without realising that she is the wife of one of his colleagues from his new squadron. Cast * Annabella as Hélène / Denise * Charles Vanel as Le lieutenant Maury * Jean Murat as Le capitaine Thélis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bandera (film)
''La Bandera'' (released in the United States as ''Escape from Yesterday'') is a 1935 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Annabella, Jean Gabin and Robert Le Vigan. It was based on the 1931 novel '' La Bandera'' by Pierre Mac Orlan. After committing a brutal murder in Paris, a Frenchman flees to Barcelona where he enlists in the Spanish Foreign Legion. He is sent to fight in Morocco where he unexpectedly bonds with his comrades and marries a local woman before his past begins to catch up with him. Like Duvivier's other works of the period, the film is infused with poetic realism. The film was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris with sets designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. Location shooting took place in Barcelona and at barracks in Tetuán in Spanish Morocco. Plot Curfew bells are ringing at night in Paris, while a man and his drunken girlfriend Jacqueline walk down the street. Pierre Gilieth comes out of house #25 looking very frightened, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slipper Episode
''The Slipper Episode'' (French: ''Le voyage imprévu'') is a 1935 French-Swiss romantic comedy film directed by Jean de Limur and starring Betty Stockfeld, Roger Tréville and Claude Dauphin. It was based on a 1928 novel by Tristan Bernard. It was shot at the Cité Elgé in Paris and on location around Locarno and the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff. A British version '' Runaway Ladies'' was released in 1938. ''The Slipper Episode'' was partially censored in New York state, despite being similar in content to several Hollywood films.Goodman Synopsis A woman in Switzerland with her jealous husband remembers that she has left an item of clothing at her lover's house in Paris, which her husband is now demanding to see. She asks her friend Béatrice to pick it up and bring to her, but has a number of delays and a romantic encounter as she does so. Cast * Betty Stockfeld as Béatrice * Roger Tréville as Georges * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bux The Clown
''Bux the Clown'' (French: ''Le clown Bux'') is a 1935 French drama film directed by Jacques Natanson and starring Henri Rollan, Pierre Larquey and Suzy Vernon.Crisp p.403 It was based on the novel ''Bux '' by Hans Mahner-Mons, later adapted for the 1937 British film ''Make-Up''. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. Cast * Henri Rollan as Pierre Buxeuil alias le clown Bux * Pierre Larquey as Le clown Boum * Suzy Vernon as Nicole de Prastelny * Lilian Greuze as Monique Daumier * Jean Debucourt as Brissac * Gaston Modot as Benson * Hélène Robert as Nelly * Sylvia Nancey as La maîtresse de Vegas * Camille Bert as Monsieur de Prastelny * Max Maxudian as Djambie * Joan Warner as La danseuse nue * Joë Hamman as Rancho - un cow boy * Joe Alex as Tom * Jérôme Goulven as Vegas * Jean Fay as Lorenzo * Jacques Mattler as Le juge français * Louis Gauthier Louis Gauthier (12 April 1916 – 6 August 2005) was a French racing cyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
