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Robert Ancelin
Robert Ancelin (22 November 1898 - 25 January 1986) was a French actor and theater director. He was married with the soprano Fanély Revoil from 1937 to 1942 and directing manager of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin from 1940 to 1949. Filmography * 1930 : ''Hai-Tang'' by Richard Eichberg and Jean Kemm as Boris Ivanoff * 1931 : '' Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique'' by Roger Lion as Jean Larivière * 1931 : ''About an Inquest'' by Robert Siodmak and Henri Chomette as Klate * 1932 : '' Y'a erreur'' by Joseph Tzipine (short film) * 1932 : ''Love and Luck'' by Monty Banks as Jackson * 1932 : ''Clochard'' by Robert Péguy as Poum * 1932 : ''The Last Blow'' by Jacques de Baroncelli as Lucien * 1933 : ''La Poule'' by René Guissart as Paul Cellier * 1933 : ''Prince des Six Jours'' by Robert Vernay as Teddy, the barman * 1933 : ''Vilaine histoire'' by Christian-Jaque (short film) as the amateur detective * 1933 : ''L'Empreinte sanglante'' by Jean Mamy (short film) as the amate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglomeration has 130,853 inhabitants in 2016 and is the center of an urban area of 261,795 inhabitants. With more than 29,000 students, Poitiers has been a major university city since the creation of its university in 1431, having hosted René Descartes, Joachim du Bellay and François Rabelais, among others. A city of art and history, still known as "''Ville aux cent clochers''" the centre of town is picturesque and its streets include predominantly historical architecture and half-timbered houses, especially religious architecture, mostly from the Romanesque period ; including notably the Saint-Jean baptistery (4th century), the hypogeum of the Dunes (7th century), the Notre-Dame-la-Grande church (12th century), the Saint-Porchaire church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Mamy
Jean Mamy (8 July 1912, Chambéry, Savoie – 29 March 1949, Arcueil) was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and journalist, notable for directing the anti-Masonic propaganda film ''Forces occultes'' under the pseudonym "Paul Riche". He belonged to the inter-war left, acting in René Clair's 1924 Dada film '' Entr'acte'' and editing Jean Renoir's 1931 ''On purge bébé''. Subsequently, he directed a number of films in the series "''Une heure d'angoisse''" based on the novels written by Marcel Allain for the Éditions Ferenczi. On the fall of France he decided on collaboration. His last film was the anti-Masonic 1943 film ''Forces occultes'', which he directed (he had from 1931 to 1939 been Venerable of the Renan lodge of the Grand Orient de France, but had since parted company with Freemasonry). The film was commissioned in 1942 by the Propaganda Abteilung, a delegation of Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including '' Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), ''Madame du Barry'' (1954), and '' Nana'' (1955). Christian-Jaque's 1946 film ''A Lover's Return'' was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Best Director award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for his popular swashbuckler ''Fanfan la Tulipe''. At the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear award for the same film. In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Christian-Jaque began his motion picture career in the 1920s as an art director and production designer. By the early 1930s, he had moved into screenwriting and directing. He continued working into the mid-1980s, though from 1970 on, most of his work was done for television. In 1979, he was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Vernay
Robert Vernay (May 30, 1907 in Paris – October 17, 1979 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter. Career In 1937, Vernay worked as assistant director to Julien Duvivier on '' Pépé le Moko''. In 1944, Vernay directed an adaptation of Balzac's ''Père Goriot'', starring Pierre Renoir. It was released in 1945. In the late 1950s, he directed a "tacky comedy" called '' Madame et son auto''. It was a favourite film of René Magritte. Selected filmography * '' Pépé le Moko'' (1937) as assistant director * '' Arlette and Love'' (1943) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) * ''Father Goriot'' (1945) * '' The Captain'' (1946) * ''Emile the African'' (1949) * '' Fantomas Against Fantomas'' (1949) * ''The Dream of Andalusia'' (1951) * '' Double or Quits'' (1953) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Des Six Jours
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word ''prince'', from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". Historical background The Latin word (older Latin *prīsmo-kaps, literally "the one who takes the first lace/position), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the ''princeps senatus''. Emperor Augustus established the formal position of monarch on the basis of principate, not dominion. He also tasked his grandsons as summer rulers of the city when most of the government were on holiday in the country or attending religious rituals, and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Guissart (director)
René Guissart (24 October 1888 – 19 May 1960) was a French film director and cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the c .... During the 1920s and 1930s he worked as cinematographer on many British films many of them for British International Pictures. He also worked on MGM's 1925 epic ''Ben-Hur (1925 film), Ben-Hur''. From 1931 Guissart began directing and had made twenty eight films by 1939. Selected filmography Cinematographer * ''Ambition (1916 film), Ambition'' (1916) * ''Love and Hate (1916 film), Love and Hate'' (1916) * ''The Volunteer (1917 film), The Volunteer'' (1917) * ''Adventures of Carol'' (1917) * ''Love Aflame'' (1917) * ''Sister Against Sister'' (1917) * ''Little Women (1918 film), Little Women'' (1918) * ''Victory (1919 film), Victory'' (1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Poule (film, 1933)
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1933 In Film
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America. * Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code. * Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres. * Film industry takes eight week salary cut. * Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated. * John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager. * Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930. * Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. His older brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon, He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy. One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel ''La Femme et le pantin'' (1928) was filmed in the experimental Keller-Dorian color process. Selected filmography * '' Ramun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Blow
''The Last Blow'' (French: ''Le dernier choc'') is a 1932 French drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Jean Murat, Danièle Parola and Robert Ancelin.Crisp p.393 A separate Spanish-language version '' Fog'' was also made. Cast * Jean Murat as Captain Colbec * Danièle Parola as Marie * Robert Ancelin as Lucien * Nicolas Redelsperger as Guénot * Vanah Yami as Arlette * Henry Trévoux as Frémiet * Raymond Narlay as Ménard * Alexandre Arnaudy Alexandre Arnaudy was a French actor, born Marius Guarino on July 17, 1881 in Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital o ... as Vachot References Bibliography * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. External links * 1932 films 1932 drama films French drama films 1930s French-language films F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Péguy
Robert Péguy (14 December 1883 – 21 July 1968) was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s. He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s. Selected filmography * '' 600,000 Francs a Month'' (1926) * ''Croquette'' (1927) * '' Kiss Me'' (1929) * ''His Highness Love'' (1931) * '' Clochard'' (1932) * ''Jacques and Jacotte'' (1936) * ''The Mysterious Lady'' (1936) * ''My Little Marquise'' (1937) * ''Notre-Dame de la Mouise ''Notre-Dame de la Mouise'' ( nl, Notre Dame van de sloppen) is a 1941 Dutch- French film directed by Robert Péguy. Cast *Édouard Delmont ... Le père Didier (as Delmont) *François Rozet ... L'abbé *Georges Rollin ... Bibi *René Sarvil .. ...'' (1941) External links * French film directors Silent film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 1883 births 1968 deaths Writers from Paris 20th-century French male writers {{france-film-dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
