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Luitz-Morat
Luitz-Morat (1884–1929) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director.Oscherwitz p.35 Selected filmography * '' A Roman Orgy'' (1911) * '' The City Destroyed'' (1924) * '' Surcouf'' (1925) * '' Jean Chouan'' (1926) * '' The Chocolate Girl'' (1927) * '' Odette'' (1928) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929) References Bibliography * Dayna Oscherwitz. ''Past Forward: French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage''. SIU Press, 2010. External links * 1884 births 1929 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters Film directors from Paris 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Destroyed
''The City Destroyed'' (French: ''La cité foudroyée'') is a 1924 French silent film directed by Luitz-Morat.Fanning, Jr. p.249 Synopsis In ''The City Destroyed'', a brilliant yet misunderstood young engineer harnesses the formidable power of lightning. With the capability to wield this natural force as a weapon, he issues a chilling ultimatum: pay a hefty ransom or witness the iconic city of Paris crumble under the devastating fury of controlled thunderbolts. As the city races against time, choices must be made — appease the engineer's demands or seek a way to thwart his electrifying scheme. Cast * Daniel Mendaille Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 – 17 May 1963) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years. Early life Born Daniel Henri Élie Mendaille in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Mendaille studied architecture at the Académi ... as Richard Gallée * Jane Maguenat as Huguette * Armand Morins as Baron de Vrécourt * Alexis Ghasne as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette (1928 Film)
''Odette'' () is a 1928 German silent drama film based upon the play by Victorien Sardou, directed by Luitz-Morat, and starring Francesca Bertini, Warwick Ward, and Simone Vaudry.Goble p. 408 Bertini would star in two other adaptations of the play, '' Odette'' (1916) and '' Odette'' (1934). The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...s Emil Hasler and Oscar Friedrich Werndorff. Cast * Francesca Bertini as Odette * Warwick Ward as Graf Georg de Clermont-Latour, ihr Mann * Simone Vaudry as Jacqueline, beider Tochter * Fred Solm as Marquis Gaston de Meyran * Fritz Kortner as Frontenac * Angelo Ferrari as Cardeilhan * Alfred Gerasch as Philippe La Hoche References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Foolish Maiden
''A Foolish Maiden'' (French: ''La vierge folle'') is a 1929 French silent comedy film directed by Luitz-Morat and starring Emmy Lynn, Jean Angelo and Suzy Vernon.Crisp p.121 The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild. It was remade in 1938 as a sound film '' A Foolish Maiden''. Cast * Emmy Lynn as Fanny Armaury * Jean Angelo as Armaury * Suzy Vernon as Diane de Charance * Maurice Schutz as Le duc de Charance * Pierre Fresnay as Gaston de Charance * Simone Judic as Kerty * Marguerite de Morlaye Marguerite de Morlaye (29 January 1870, Saint-Mandé –18 September 1957, Paris) was a French actress. Selected filmography * '' My Priest Among the Rich'' (1925) * ''Martyr'' (1927) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Day'' (1932) ... as La duchesse du Charance References Bibliography * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. External links * 1929 films 1929 comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surcouf (film)
''Surcouf'' is a 1924 French silent adventure film serial directed by Luitz-Morat and starring Jean Angelo, María Dalbaicín and Thomy Bourdelle. It is loosely based on the life of the eighteenth century privateer Robert Surcouf.Klossner p.365 Its initial release date was 13 February 1925. The film's sets were designed by the art director Louis Nalpas. Main cast * Jean Angelo as Robert Surcouf * María Dalbaicín as Madiana * Thomy Bourdelle as Marcof * Pierre Hot as Dutertre * Jacqueline Blanc as Marie-Catherine * Johanna Sutter as Tagore * Antonin Artaud as Jacques Morel, un traitre * Louis Monfils as Commodore Rewington * Daniel Mendaille Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 – 17 May 1963) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years. Early life Born Daniel Henri Élie Mendaille in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Mendaille studied architecture at the Académi ... as Bruce * Émilie Prévost as Madame Surcouf * Émile Keppens as Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Chouan (film)
''Jean Chouan'' is a 1926 French silent historical film directed by Luitz-Morat and starring René Navarre, Marthe Chaumont and Maurice Lagrenée.Oscherwitz p.35 It is set at the time of the French Revolution, when Jean Chouan took part in a counterrevolutionary uprising. Cast * René Navarre as Maxime Ardouin - le délégué aux armées de la République * Marthe Chaumont as Marie-Claire, La fille de Maxime aimée de Jacques * Maurice Lagrenée as Jacques Cottereau * Maurice Schutz as Jean Cottereau / Jean Chouan - un vieux Vendéen royaliste * Claude Mérelle as Maryse Fleurus * Elmire Vautier as La marquise de Thorigné * Anna Lefeuvrier as Marie-Victoire Lefranc * Jean-Paul de Baere as Nicolas Lefranc * Albert Decoeur as Guillaume Lefranc * Jean Debucourt as Maximilien de Robespierre * René Vignières as Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just * Daniel Mendaille as François Marceau * Thomy Bourdelle Thomy Charles Bourdelle (20 April 1891 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chocolate Girl (1927 Film)
''The Chocolate Girl'' (French: ''La petite chocolatière'') is a 1927 French silent film directed by René Hervil and starring Dolly Davis, Simone Mareuil and Luitz-Morat.Rège p.657 It is based on the play of the same name by Paul Gavault, which has been made into several films. Cast * Dolly Davis as Benjamine Lapistolle * Simone Mareuil as Rosette * Luitz-Morat as Félicien Bedarride * André Roanne as Paul Normand * André Nicolle as Lapistolle - un riche chocolatier * Madame Pawloff as Florise Mingassol * Nita Alvarez * Ernest Maupain Ernest Maupain (1869–1944) was a French film actor who appeared in many American films during the silent era. He played the role of Professor Moriarty in the 1916 Essanay Studios film ''Sherlock Holmes''.Kabatchnik p.167 Selected filmography * ' ... as Mingassol References Bibliography * Philippe Rège. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1927 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Roman Orgy
''A Roman Orgy'' (), also known as ''Heliogabalus'' (), is a 1911 French short historical drama film directed by Louis Feuillade for Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont. It features as the lecherous Emperor Elagabalus (Heliogabalus) who sets a pride of lions on an unfortunate slave. It also stars Louise Lagrange, Luitz-Morat, Renée Carl, Edmond Bréon, and Léonce Perret Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer.The Museum of Modern Art(retrieved 7 June 2007) He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avan .... The film was released on 24 November 1911. The Dutch Film Museum has a copy of the film. References External links * * 1911 films 1910s historical films 1911 short films Cultural depictions of Elagabalus Films directed by Louis Feuillade Films set in 3rd-century Roman Empire Films set in the Roman Empire French historical films French sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Births
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera '' Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates '' Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the '' Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Deaths
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Male Film Actors
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