|
Lucienne Legrand
Lucienne Jeanne Marie Charlot, known by the name Lucienne Vigier and later Lucienne Legrand, (18 July 1920 – 19 October 2022) was a French actress. Filmography Film *' (1941) *' (1941) *''Romance of Paris'' (1941) *''Bolero'' (1942) *'' Miss Bonaparte'' (1942) *' (1942) *' (1944) *' (1944) *''Children of Paradise'' (1945) *''Women's Games'' (1946) *'' After Love'' (1948) *' (1949) *''Tuesday's Guest'' (1950) *''Rue de l'Estrapade'' (1953) *''The Three Musketeers'' (1953) *''At the Order of the Czar'' (1954) *''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) *''The Count of Bragelonne'' (1954) *''Frou-Frou'' (1955) * '' Lord Rogue'' (1955) *' (1957) *''Speaking of Murder'' (1957) *''Dear Louise'' (1972) *''César and Rosalie'' (1972) *' (1973) *' (1973) *''Shock Treatment'' (1973) *''A Slightly Pregnant Man'' (1973) *''Le Magnifique'' (1973) *''Forbidden Priests'' (1973) *''Hail the Artist'' (1973) *'' The Train'' (1973) *''Stavisky'' (1974) *'' Creezy'' (1974) *''Verdict'' (1974) *''Vincent, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douai
Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Douai is home to one of the region's most impressive belfries. History Its site probably corresponds to that of a 4th-century Roman fortress known as Duacum. From the 10th century, the town was a romance fiefdom of the counts of Flanders. The town became a flourishing textile market centre during the Middle Ages, historically known as Douay or Doway in English. In 1384, the county of Flanders passed into the domains of the Dukes of Burgundy and thence in 1477 into Habsburg possessions. In 1667, Douai was taken by the troops of Louis XIV of France, and by the 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the town was ceded to France. During successive sieges from 1710 to 1712, Douai was almost completely destroyed by the British Army. By 1713, the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaking Of Murder
''Speaking of Murder'' is a 1957 French crime film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin. The original French title is ''Le rouge est mis'', which means "the red light is on". The screenplay is based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton. Plot Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer. Cast * Jean Gabin as Louis Bertain / Louis le Blond * Paul Frankeur as Frédo * Marcel Bozzuffi as Pierre Bertain * Lino Ventura as Pepito * Annie Girardot as Hélène * Albert Dinan as Inspector Pluvier * Antonin Berval as Zé * Jean-Pierre Mocky Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula And Son
''Dracula and Son'' (french: Dracula père et fils) is a 1976 French comedy horror film directed and written by Édouard Molinaro. The film is about a vampire father and son. Christopher Lee reprises his role as Count Dracula from the Hammer Films ''Dracula'' film series (in total, this was the 9th and final time Lee played the role of Dracula on film). Plot With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Ménez) head abroad. The Prince of Darkness ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for Nicole, a French girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl. Cast * Christopher Lee as Count Dracula * Bernard Ménez as Ferdinand Poitevin * Marie-Hélène Breillat as Nicole Cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent, François, Paul And The Others
''Vincent, François, Paul and the Others'' (french: Vincent, François, Paul et les autres) is a 1974 French film directed by Claude Sautet based on the novel ''La grande Marrade'' by Claude Néron. Plot Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. Cast * Yves Montand as Vincent * Michel Piccoli as François * Serge Reggiani as Paul * Gérard Depardieu as Jean Lavallee * Stéphane Audran as Catherine * Marie Dubois as Lucie * Umberto Orsini as Jacques * Ludmila Mikaël as Marie * Antonella Lualdi as Julia * Catherine Allégret as Colette * Betty Beckers as Myriam * Yves Gabrielli as Michel * Jean Capel as Jamain * Mohamed Galoul as Jo Catano * Jacques Richard as Armand * David Tonelli as Marco * Nicolas Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdict (1974 Film)
''Verdict'' is a 1974 French-Italian drama film, directed by André Cayatte, starring Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin and Julien Bertheau. A French judge comes under intense personal pressure to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover. ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 7 May 2015. It was also released under the title ''Jury of One''. Plot The President of the Court Legun one evening, while he is at home alone with his wife Nicole, refuses to receive Mrs Teresa Léoni who would like to ask for mercy for her son André on trial for the rape and murder of Annie Chartier. Leguen, known for his severity, in fact conducts the first hearing with the usual drasticity. Then Teresa, widow of a bandit, convinced of her son's innocence, takes Mrs. Nicole hostage and blackmails h ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creezy (film)
''Creezy'' () is a 1974 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and starring Alain Delon. It is based on the novel ''Creezy'' by Félicien Marceau. It recorded admissions of 801,704 at the French box office. at Box Office Story Plot Julien Dandieu is a senior figure in the Unified Republican Party (PRU), which has a chance of political power in a conservative coalition after the forthcoming election. His wife and son need his support but his political ambitions come first. Then he and a beautiful model, the "Creezy" (= "crazy") of the title, fall in love, and she wants to come first in his attentions. After ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavisky
''Stavisky...'' is a 1974 French biographical drama film based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime ministers and a change of government. The film was directed by Alain Resnais and featured Jean-Paul Belmondo as Stavisky and Anny Duperey as his wife, Arlette. Stephen Sondheim wrote the film's musical score. Plot The core narrative of the film portrays the last months in the life of Serge Alexandre (Stavisky), from late 1933 to January 1934. We see glimpses of his operations as a "financial consultant", setting up a mysterious company to deal in international bonds, his 'laundering' of stolen jewellery, and his juggling of funds to stave off the discovery of fraudulent bonds that he has sold through the Crédit Municipal in Bayonne (municipal pawnbrokers); we see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Train (1973 Film)
The Train may refer to: Films * ''The Train'' (1964 film), an American war film starring Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield * ''The Train'' (1970 film), an Indian Hindi suspense film * ''The Train'' (1973 film), a Franco–Italian war film * ''The Train'' (2007 film), an Indian Hindi thriller * ''The Train'' (2011 film), an Indian Malayalam thriller Games * '' The Train: Escape to Normandy'', a 1988 action video game based on the 1964 film (see above) * '' The Train Game'', a 1983 train simulation video game Literature * "The Train" (short story), a 1947 story by Flannery O'Connor * ''The Train'' (Russian: ''Sputniki'', Fellow Travellers), novel by Vera Panova Music * "The Train" (song), a song by OutKast * "The Train", a song by Ray Charles, the B-side of " Let's Go Get Stoned" * "The Train", a song by Frankie Miller from '' Double Trouble'' * "The Train", a song by Irving Berlin * "The Train", a 1969 song by 1910 Fruitgum Company The 1910 Fruitgum Company is an Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hail The Artist
''Hail the Artist'' (french: Salut l'artiste, it, L'idolo della città) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Yves Robert. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni as Nicolas Montei * Françoise Fabian as Peggy * Jean Rochefort as Clément * Carla Gravina as Elisabeth Montei * Evelyne Buyle as Bérénice * Henri-Jacques Huet as The director * Lise Delamare as Lady Rosemond * Sylvie Joly as The photographer's wife * Hélène Vallier as The script * Simone Paris as The theater director * Maurice Barrier as Al Capone * Dominique De Keuchel as Rodrigue * Gérard Jugnot as The camera operator (uncredited) * Bernadette Robert * Betty Beckers * Claire Nadeau Claire Nadeau (born 1 June 1945) is a French actress. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadeau, Claire French film actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Actresses from P ... * Lucienne Legrand * Elizabeth Teissier (as Elisabeth Teissier) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Priests
''Forbidden Priests'' (''Prêtres interdits'') is a French film directed by Denys de La Patellière in 1973 starring Robert Hossein and Claude Jade. Synopsis This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a rare couple: Priest Jean (Robert Hossein), who falls in love with a young woman, the 17-year-old girl Françoise (Claude Jade was 25 during the shooting), has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. That happens during World War II. Some years later Françoise waits for her majority to get her child out from the orphanage and Jean becomes a communist. Cast * Robert Hossein - Jean Rastaud * Claude Jade - Françoise Bernardeau * Claude Piéplu - Father Grégoire Ancely * Pierre Mondy - Paul Lacoussade * Louis Seigner - Bishop * Germaine Delbat - Jean's mother * Michèle Watrin - Françoise's cousin * Lucienne Legrand - Françoise's mother * Georges Audoubert Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Magnifique
''Le Magnifique'' (literally ''The Magnificent''; also known as The Man from Acapulco) is a French/Italian international co-production released in 1973, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset and Vittorio Caprioli that was directed by Philippe de Broca. ''Le Magnifique'' is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage films and novels and the men who write them. Synopsis François Merlin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy "''Bob Sinclar''" (The name of the character is never seen written in the film, while some people write his name "Saint-Clair" the way it is pronounced in French sounds like Sinclar; in the English dubbed soundtrack the surname is "St. Cloud".) Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a sociology student who lives in François' building and is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination she becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slightly Pregnant Man
''A Slightly Pregnant Man'' (french: L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune, lit=The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon; it, Niente di grave, suo marito è incinto, lit=No Big Deal, Your Husband Is Pregnant) is a 1973 comedy film written and directed by Jacques Demy. Plot Marco is a driving instructor who is engaged to single mother Irène, a hairdresser. After eating a chicken dinner, he complains to his housekeeper that she cooks chicken too frequently. He begins to feel bloated and tired and sees a doctor. The doctor determines that he is pregnant, and an expert concludes that the hormones in chicken have made him sufficiently feminine to carry a child. With his permission, the doctors publicize this event, and he becomes a model for a maternity clothing company creating a new line of paternity clothes. The majority of the film covers Marco revealing his pregnancy to his friends and family including his ex-wife and their reactio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
