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La Fête à Henriette
''Holiday for Henrietta'' () is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, and Hildegard Knef. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location around Paris including at the Gaumont-Palace cinema. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. ''Holiday for Henrietta'' was remade in English as the 1964 film '' Paris When It Sizzles'', starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn,Crisp p.243 which also featured d'Eaubonne as art director. Synopsis While urgently trying to develop a screenplay for a new film, two screenwriters, the downbeat Crémieux and the optimist Seignier, create contradictory storylines as they argue, and as each takes turns in taking the narrative forward, they force the lead characters Henriette and Maurice into weird situations. The film switches back and forth between the writers at home and the film as it develops according to their ideas. Cast * Dany Robin as Henriette * Miche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ''Pépé le Moko'', ''Little World of Don Camillo'', ''Panic (1946 film), Panic (Panique)'', ''Voici le temps des assassins, Deadlier Than the Male'' and ''Marianne de ma jeunesse''. Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet". Early years It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began. In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier. In 1919 he directed his first film. In the 1920s several of his films had a religious concern: , ''The Abbot Constantine (1925 film), L'abbé Constantin'' and ''La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin'' � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont-Palace
The Gaumont-Palace was a Movie theater, cinema located on Rue Caulaincourt in the Montmartre district of Paris. Originally constructed between 1898 and 1900 as the Hippodrome de Montmartre for the 1900 ''Exposition Universelle (1900), Exposition Universelle'', It staged equestrian shows during its early and for a period was owned by Frank C. Bostock. Later, it became a skating rink. Originally built with a Paris architecture of the Belle Époque, Belle Époque facade, the building was acquired by Léon Gaumont in July 1910 and subsequently converted into a cinema. When opened on 30 September 1911, it was the largest movie theatre in the world with 3,400 seats, and was the first in France to boast automatic projection equipment. It remained part of the Gaumont Film Company empire throughout its history. In 1930–31, Gaumont spent 40 million French franc, francs rebuilding the cinema to a design by Henri Belloc, Art Deco exterior. The largest cinema in France, it was used to premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliane Maigné
Liliane Maigné (1 March 1928 – 20 December 2004) was a French actress. Biography Liliane Maigné was born 1 March 1928. Her father was André Maigné (1903–1936), her mother Madeleine Paroissien (1908–1983). She married Jean-Charles Tacchella in 1950. The couple had two children, and divorced 1956. Filmography * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * ''Cecile Is Dead'' (1944) * '' The Sinners'' (1949) * ''Nous sommes toutes des assassins'' (1952) * ''La fête à Henriette'' (1952) * ''Quintuplets in the Boarding School ''Quintuplets in the Boarding School'' (French: ''Des quintuplés au pensionnat'') is a 1953 French comedy film directed by René Jayet and starring Valentine Tessier, Armand Bernard and Maurice Escande.Rège p.534 It was shot at the Billancour ...'' (1953) Notes and references External links * 1928 births 2004 deaths French film actresses 20th-century French women {{France-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Batti
Jeannette Batti (1921–2011) was a French film actress. Partial filmography * ''Shop Girls of Paris'' (1943) - Une vendeuse (uncredited) * ''Le Roi des resquilleurs'' (1945) - Lulu * '' Back Streets of Paris'' (1946) - Mona * ''One Night at the Tabarin'' (1947) - Jeannette * '' Mademoiselle Has Fun'' (1948) - Fifi * '' Eternal Conflict'' (1948) - Janette * ''To the Eyes of Memory'' (1948) - Ketty * ''Jean de la Lune'' (1949) - Mlle Rolande * '' The Chocolate Girl'' (1949) - Rosette * ''Amédée'' (1950) - Jacqueline * ''Voyage for Three'' (1950) - Huguette * ''Moumou'' (1951) - Claudine * '' Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) - Claudia * ''Nous irons à Monte-Carlo'' (1951) - Marinette * '' Henriette'' (1952) - Gisèle * '' A Hundred Francs a Second'' (1953) - Louloute * ''L'étrange amazone'' (1953) - Olga * ''Une nuit à Megève'' (1953) - Georgette * ''Les détectives du dimanche'' (1953) - Isabelle * ''L'oeil en coulisses'' (1953) - Martine Cairolle * ''Soirs de Paris'' (1954) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette Laure
Odette Laure (born Odette Yvonne Marie Dhommée; 28 February 1917–10 June 2004) was a French actress and cabaret singer. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outst ... for '' Daddy Nostalgia'' (1990). She was born Odette Yvonne Marie Dhommée in Paris, where she died. Selected filmography References External links * * *Odette Laureat Evene.fr 1917 births 2004 deaths French film actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses {{France-film-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Ivernel
Daniel Ivernel (3 June 1920 – 11 November 1999) was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1947 and 1981. Filmography References External links * 1920 births 1999 deaths French male film actors Actors from Versailles Male actors from Île-de-France Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 20th-century French male actors 1999 suicides Suicides in Paris {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Roux (actor)
Michel Roux (22 July 1929 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine - 2 February 2007 in Paris) was a French actor. He was also the French voice for many American and Italian actors, such as Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Tony Curtis. The main part of this actor's work was in theatre. Roux died of cardiac arrest at the age of 77 on February 2, 2007, in Paris. Filmography * Videography * 1950 : Alec Guinness dans ''Noblesse oblige'' * 1950 : Edgar Buchanan dans ''La porte du diable'' * 1952 : Ben Gazzara dans ''Autopsie d'un meurtre'' * 1954 : Adrian Hoven dans ''Les jeunes années d'une Reine'' * 1954 : John Forsythe dans ''Fort Bravo'' * 1954 : Keenan Wynn dans ''L'escadrille Panthère'' * 1954 : Robert Francis dans ''Ouragan sur le Caine'', ''The Caine Mutiny'' * 1955 : Alec Guinness dans ''Le cygne'' * 1955 : Cliff Robertson dans ''Picnic'' * 1956 : Bing Crosby dans ''Haute Société'' * 1956 : Claus Biederstaedt dans ''Feu d'artifice'' * 1956 : Dan Dailey dans ''Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Crémieux
Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896 – 10 May 1980) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1930 to 1980. Selected filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cremieux, Henri 1896 births 1980 deaths Male actors from Marseille French male film actors 20th-century French male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micheline Francey
Micheline Francey (19 October 1919 – 1 January 1969) was a French film actress.Hayward p.115 Selected filmography * ''The Chess Player'' (1938) * '' The President'' (1938) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * '' Monsieur La Souris'' (1942) * ''Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' Madly in Love'' (1943) * '' A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) * ''François Villon'' (1945) * ''Destiny'' (1946) * '' The Adventure of Cabassou'' (1946) * ''The Village of Wrath'' (1947) * ''Danger of Death'' (1947) * ''Vertigo'' (1947) * '' The Eleven O'Clock Woman'' (1948) * ''The Woman I Murdered'' (1948) * ''Marlene'' (1949) * ''Sending of Flowers'' (1950) * ''Quay of Grenelle'' (1950) * ''Holiday for Henrietta'' (1952) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * '' Little Jacques'' (1953) * ''Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( – ) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Seigner
Louis Seigner (23 June 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a French actor.He was born in Saint-Chef, Isère, France, the son of Louise (Monin) and Joseph Seigner, and died in Paris. He was the father of actress Françoise Seigner, with Marie Cazeaux, and the grandfather of Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathilde Seigner Mathilde Seigner (born 17 January 1968) is a French actress. Early life Seigner was born in Paris. She is the granddaughter of actor Louis Seigner (1903–1991). She is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner and a niece of Françoise Seigner. ... and Marie-Amélie Seigner. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seigner, Louis 1903 births 1991 deaths French male film actors French male stage actors Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française People from Isère Male actors from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 20th-century French male actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Burials at Ivry Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn ( Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema, inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, and is one of a few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards. Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, the UK, and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to the Netherlands. During the war, Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory, and by 1944 she was performing ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Holden
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film '' Stalag 17'' (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for '' The Blue Knight'' (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950), '' Sabrina'' (1954), ''Picnic'' (1955), '' The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), '' The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and '' Network'' (1976). He was named one of the " Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. Early life and education Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball), a schoolteacher, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
