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Jeanne Bérangère
Jeanne Bérangère (born Françoise Marie Charlotte Béraud; 9 June 1864 – 19 November 1928) was a French stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly forty years on the stage and in films during the silent film era. Early life Françoise Marie Charlotte Béraud was born on 9 June 1864 to Pierre and Appoline Béraud (''née'' Dumont), wealthy landowners in Ainay-le-Château, Auvergne, France. By the end of the 19th century she became a stage actress in Paris, billing herself as Mademoiselle Bérangère. She garnered a degree of national recognition by posing for series of postcards which helped spread her image across France. In 1909, she was chosen by French film director Michel Carré to appear in her first screen role in ''La peur'' (English title: ''Fear'') opposite Henri Desfontaines. Film career Following her appearance in ''La peur'', Bérangère was placed under contract by brothers Emile and Charles Pathé for their film production company Pathé where she appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainay-le-Château
Ainay-le-Château () is a commune in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Castelainaisiens'' or ''Castelainaisiennes''. Geography Ainay-le-Château is located some south-east of Bourges and south-west of Nevers. The northern border of the commune is the departmental boundary with Cher and the regional boundary with the Centre-Val de Loire region. Access to the commune is by D951 road from Thaumiers in the north which passes through the town and continues south to Cérilly. The D951 from Charenton-du-Cher in the north-west to Bessais-le-Fromental in the north-east passes through the north of the commune. The D28 comes from Braize in the south-west to the town then continues north to join the D951. The D64 goes east from the town to Valigny. There are several country roads in the commune linking the villages and hamlets inside. These include Le Castinerie, Salvert, La Bete, Saint-Benin, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Lion
Roger Lion (27 September 1882 – 27 October 1934) was a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography * 1912 : ''L'Agence Cacahouète'' * 1914 : ''La Petite Bretonne'' * 1915 : ''À qui la femme?'' * 1916 : ''Sacré Joseph'' * 1916 : ''L'Enlèvement de Vénus'' * 1916 : ''Dranem amoureux de Cléopâtre'' * 1916 : ''Français!... N'oubliez jamais!'' * 1916 : ''Erreur judiciaire'' * 1916 : ''Les Deux Gifles'' * 1917 : ''Quand Madelon'' * 1917 : ''Ma femme est folle'' * 1917 : ''Le Prince Plouf'' * 1918 : ''Pour faire plaisir'' * 1918 : ''La Flamme cachée'' * 1919 : ''Dagobert le fils à son père'' * 1921 : ''L'Éternel féminin'' * 1923 : '' A Sereia de Pedra'' * 1923 : ''Les Yeux de l'âme'' (''Os Olhos da Alma'') * 1924 : ''La Fontaine des amours'' * 1924 : '' Aventuras de Agapito'' * 1924 : ''I Have Killed'' * 1925 : ''La Clé de voûte'' * 1926 : '' Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs'' * 1926 : ''Les Fiançailles rouges'' * 1927 : '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1927) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice De Marsan
Maurice de Marsan (1852 in Bordeaux - 29 April 1929 in Paris) was a French poet, novelist, film director and screenwriter. entry in Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques. Filmography (selection) * 1909 : '' J'épouserai ma cousine'' * : ''Le Traquenard'' * 1921 : ''L’Asso ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Maudru
Charles Maudru (1859-1935) was a French film director of the silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh .... He was the father of the screenwriter Pierre Maudru.Goble p.351 Selected filmography * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * '' The King of Paris'' (1923) * '' The Loves of Rocambole'' (1924) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1859 births 1935 deaths French film directors {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Burguet
Charles Burguet (26 May 1878 – 9 June 1946) was a French director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s. He directed well over 30 films between 1912 and 1929. Selected filmography * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1922) * ''Montmartre'' (1925) * '' Barocco'' (1925) * ''Martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...'' (1927) * '' The Veil Dancer'' (1929) References Bibliography * External links * French film directors French silent film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 1878 births 1946 deaths 20th-century French male writers {{france-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serial Film
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed. Usually, each serial involves a single set of characters, protagonistic and antagonistic, involved in a single story. The film is edited into chapters, after the fashion of serial fiction, and the episodes should not be shown out of order, as individual chapters, or as part of a random collection of short subjects. Each chapter was screened at a movie theater for one week, and typically ended with a cliffhanger, in which characters found themselves in perilous situations with little apparent chance of escape. Viewers had to return each week to see the cliffhangers resolved and to follow the continuing story. Movie serials were especially popular with children, and for many youths in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Mercanton
Louis Mercanton (4 May 1879 – 29 April 1932) was a Swiss people, Swiss film director, screenwriter and actor. Mercanton was born in Nyon, Vaud, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Partial filmography Director * ''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth'' (1912) co-director * ''Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913 film), Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (1913) co-director * ''Infatuation (1918 film), Infatuation'' aka ''Bouclette'' (1918) * ''Miarka (1920 film), Miarka'' (1920) * ''The Call of the Blood (1920 film), The Call of the Blood'' (1920) * ''Possession (1922 film), Possession'' (1922) * ''The Gardens of Murcia (1923 film), The Gardens of Murcia'' (1923) * ''Les Deux Gosses'' (1924) adaptation of the novel by Pierre Decourcelle * ''Monte Carlo (1925 film), Monte Carlo'' (1925) * ''The Maid at the Palace'' (1927) * ''Croquette (film), Croquette'' (1927) * ''Venus (1929 film), Venus'' (1929) * ''The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) * ''The Nipper'' (1930) * ''Chérie ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Ravel
Gaston Ravel (; 1878–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role .... He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. In 1929 he co-directed the historical film '' The Queen's Necklace''. He directed Musidora in various shorts. Jacques Feyder was his assistant director on ''Des pieds et des mains'' and ''Monsieur Pinson policier,'' in which he played'','' before directing his first feature ''L'Atlantide''. Selected filmography * '' The Knot'' (1921) * '' Ferragus'' (1923) * '' The Advocate'' (1925) * '' Jocaste'' (1925) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1926) * '' A Gentleman of the Ring'' (1926) * '' Madame Récamier'' (1928) * '' The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' Figaro'' (1929) * '' The Stranger'' (1931) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Hugon
André Hugon (17 December 1886 – 22 August 1960) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards, particularly of the 1920s and into sound. Hugon was born in Algiers in 1886 which at the time was French Algeria, part of France. He directed some 90 films between 1913 and 1952. Selected filmography * ''Flower of Paris'' (1916) * ''The Gold Chignon'' (1916) * ''The Jackals (1917 film), The Jackals'' (1917) * ''Anguish (1917 film), Anguish'' (1917) * ''Vertigo (1917 film), Vertigo'' (1917) * ''Sharks (1917 film), Sharks'' (1917) * ''A Crime Has Been Committed'' (1919) * ''Mademoiselle Chiffon'' (1919) * ''Jacques Landauze'' (1920) * ''Worthless Woman'' (1921) * ''The Fugitive (1920 film), The Fugitive'' (1920) * ''The Black Diamond (1922 film), The Black Diamond'' (1922) * ''King of the Camargue (1922 film), King of the Camargue'' (1922) * ''The Two Pigeons (film), The Two Pigeons'' (1922) * ''The Little Thing (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Bernard (filmmaker)
Raymond Bernard (10 October 1891 – 12 December 1977) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 40 years. He is best remembered for several large-scale historical productions, including the silent films ''Le Miracle des loups (1924 film), Le Miracle des loups'' (''The Miracle of the Wolves'') and ''The Chess Player, Le Joueur d'échecs'' (''The Chess Player'') and in the 1930s ''Wooden Crosses, Les Croix de bois'' (''Wooden Crosses'') and a highly regarded adaptation of ''Les Misérables (1934 film), Les Misérables''. Biography Raymond Bernard was born in Paris in 1891, the son of the author and humorist Tristan Bernard and younger brother of the playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard. He began his career as an actor appearing on stage in plays written by his father, including ''Jeanne Doré'' (1913) alongside Sarah Bernhardt (also filmed in 1916). In 1917, Bernard began to work behind the camera as assistant to Jacques Feyder at Gaumont and then contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (; 4 February (Old Style, O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and USSR, Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbek SSR (1944). Biography Born in the Vinokurov family estate to educated Russian parents, both of whom belonged to the Social estates in the Russian Empire, merchantry social class.:ru: Арлазоров, Михаил Саулович, Mikhail Arlazorov. ''Protazanov''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973, pp. 7—9 His father Alexander Savvich Protazanov came from a long generation of merchants and was a Social estates in the Russian Empire, hereditary distinguished citizen of Kiev (an inherited privilege first granted to Yakov's great-grandfather, a merchant also named Yakov Protazanov who moved with his family to Kiev from Bronnitsy). Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Tourjansky
Victor Tourjansky ( 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Biography Born into a family of artists in Kiev, Tourjansky moved to Moscow in 1911, where he spent a year studying under Konstantin Stanislavski. He became involved with silent film and, two years later, made his first productions as a screenwriter and director on the eve of World War I. When the October Revolution broke out, he left and stayed in Yalta, which had not yet been taken by the Bolsheviks. When the laws for the nationalisation of the cinema industry were applied to Crimea, he left with the Joseph N. Ermolieff, Ermoliev film company and its actors for France, via Constantinople, in February 1920. He was accompanied by his wife, the actress Nathalie Kovanko. On arriving in Paris, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
