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Sous Le Ciel De Paris
''Under the Sky of Paris'' (French: ''Sous le ciel de Paris'') is a 1951 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. The song of the same name, later recorded by Édith Piaf and others, was written for this film by Hubert Giraud (music) and Jean Dréjac (lyrics). In the film it was sung by Jean Bretonnière. Plot Under the sky of Paris, during a day, we see large and small events that occur in the lives of several people whose fates will intertwine. A poor old lady, after searching in vain all day to feed her cats, receives an unexpected reward from a mother whose daughter she had found. A young girl, dreaming of love, refuses the advances of her childhood friend to be stabbed to death by a sadistic sculptor. The latter is shot by a policeman who accidentally injured a worker who was returning home after the successful conclusion o ... [...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] |
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 supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelle Praince
Marcelle Praince (9 June 1882 – 26 October 1969) was a French actress. Praince was born Célestine Cardi in Vigeois, Corrèze, France and died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines. Praince acted in dozens of films and appeared in stage productions. As a young woman she was considered a fashionable stage beauty. During World War I, she was a member of the French Army Theater (''Theatre aux Armes)'', a troupe of performers who entertained French soldiers in villages close to the front; her "beauty has cheered many a man about to die, or brought him back from the clutch of death", wrote Maude Radford Warren, a Canadian reporter, in 1917. Praince performed in French productions in London, including the revue ''Plantons les capucines'' (1914). In 1921 she appeared in three Louis Verneuil plays on the London stage: ''Le traité d'Auteuil'', ''L'honneur de Letournel'', and ''La jeune fille au bain.'' She was in a French adaptation of '' Harvey'' at the Theatre Antoine in 1950. Sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-France (actress)
Marie-France (''Marie-France Plumer''; born 7 February 1943) is a French actress known mainly for her roles as a child. In 1959 she sang on an album with Maurice Chevalier. Selected filmography * '' Return to Life'' (1949) * '' Beautiful Love'' (1951) * '' Music in the Head'' (1951) * ''Her Last Christmas'' (1952) * ''Trial at the Vatican'' (1952) * ''Dortoir des grandes ''Dortoir des grandes'' , is a French crime drama film from 1953, directed by Henri Decoin, written by François Chalais, starring Jean Marais and Louis de Funès. The film is also known under the titles: "Girls' Dormitory" and "Inside a Girls' ...'' (1954) References External links * 1943 births Living people French child actresses French film actresses {{France-film-actor-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Clancy
Jacques Clancy (17 May 1920 - 19 May 2012) was a French actor, sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. Filmography * 1938 : ''Carrefour'' by Kurt Bernhardt * 1945 : '' A Friend Will Come Tonight'' by Raymond Bernard - ''Jacques Leroy'' * 1950 : '' Darling Caroline'' by Richard Pottier - ''Georges Berthier'' * 1950 : '' Sous le ciel de Paris'' by Julien Duvivier - ''Armand Maistre'' * 1951 : '' Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' by Jean Anouilh - ''André Delgrange'' * 1952 : ''The Green Glove'' by Rudolph Maté and Louis A. Pascal - ''Ivan'' * 1953 : ''The Lady of the Camellias'' by Raymond Bernard - ''Gaston Rieux'' * 1954 : ''The Red and the Black'' by Claude Autant-Lara * 1955 : '' Impasse des vertus'' by Pierre Méré - ''Le docteur Alain Delaunay'' * 1955 : ''Marguerite de la nuit'' de Claude Autant-Lara - ''Angelo'' * 1956 : '' Un matin comme les autres'' by Yannick Bellon - short film - ''Le commissaire'' * 1957 : ''In Case of Adversity'' by Claude Autant-Lara - ''Maî ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Destailles
Pierre Destailles (1909–1990) was a French film, stage and television actor. He was also a noted lyricist.Cenciarelli p.249 Selected filmography * '' Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) * '' The Spice of Life'' (1948) * '' Mission in Tangier'' (1949) * ''Suzanne and the Robbers'' (1949) * '' Brilliant Waltz'' (1949) * '' Branquignol'' (1949) * ''Millionaires for One Day'' (1949) * ''Women Are Crazy'' (1950) * ''The Atomic Monsieur Placido'' (1950) * '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950) * '' A Certain Mister'' (1950) * '' My Wife Is Formidable'' (1951) * '' Under the Sky of Paris'' (1951) * '' Great Man'' (1951) * ''The Voyage to America'' (1951) * '' Légère et court vêtue'' (1953) * '' The Knight of the Night'' (1953) * ''Cadet Rousselle "Cadet Rousselle" was a popular French song that satirized a French bailiff by the name of Guillaume (William) Rousselle, widely known as Cadet Rousselle. The man Guillaume Rousselle was born in Orgelet, Jura (department), Jura on April 30, 174 ...'' ( ... [...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] |
Raymond Hermantier
Raymond Hermantier (13 January 1924 – 11 February 2005) was a French actor, born in Lyon, France as Raymond Maroutian. Raymond Hermantier aspired to become an actor from the age of 17, but his training was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Free French Forces until the liberation of Paris. After being decorated by General Charles de Gaulle, he resumed his acting career immediately after the end of the war. Supported by André Malraux and Albert Camus Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ..., he rose to fame at the Festival de Nîmes in France for his performance as Julius Caesar. After several successful movies and theater performances, he was offered the Directorship of the fledgling Senegalese National Theater by the King who envisioned a worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 – 27 October 1974) was a French actor who had a successful Hollywood career and appeared in films by Jacques Tati'','' such as ''Jour de fête'' and Luis Buñuel, including ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' and '' The Phantom of Liberty''). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur. Selected filmography * '' Portrait of Innocence'' (1941) - Le secrétaire du commissaire (uncredited) * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - Le premier bonimenteur * '' Fantastic Night'' (1942) - Le patron du bistrot * ''Le mariage de Chiffon'' (1942) - Le mécanicien de Max * ''Une étoile au soleil'' (1943) * ''Le voyageur de la Toussaint'' (1943) - (uncredited) * ''Madame et le mort'' (1943) * '' Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Edouuard - le cordonnier (uncredited) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) - Un réparateur de ligne * ''Children of Paradise'' (1945) - L'inspecteur de police * '' A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) - (uncredited) * '' Girl with Grey Eyes'' (1945) * '' Star Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bretonnière
Jean Bretonnière (; 22 October 1924 – 13 March 2001) was a French actor and singer.Goble p.36 He was married to the actress Geneviève Kervine. Selected filmography * '' Under the Sky of Paris'' (1951) * '' The Green Glove'' (1952) * ''It Happened in Aden'' (1954) * '' Naughty Girl'' (1956) * ''The Judge and the Assassin ''The Judge and the Assassin'' () is a 1976 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that stars Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Galabru, and Jean-Claude Brialy. Set in France in the 1890s, it shows the capture after a trail ...'' (1976) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1924 births 2001 deaths French male stage actors French male film actors Musicians from Tours, France 20th-century French male singers Actors from Tours, France {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dréjac
Jean Dréjac, stage name of Jean André Jacques Brun (3 June 1921, in Grenoble – 11 August 2003, in Paris) was a French singer and composer. He is noted for writing the songs " Ah! Le petit vin blanc", " Sous le ciel de Paris" and "La Chansonnette" (for Yves Montand) the French adaptations of " Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" for Édith Piaf and "Bleu, blanc, blond" for Marcel Amont, and various songs for Serge Reggiani (with Michel Legrand Michel Jean Legrand (; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to ma ... as composer). He was an adjoint secretary of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique from 1967 to 1969, and a vice-president from 1977 to 2002. He is the father of writer Frédéric Brun, born in 1960 in Paris. Honors * 2003: Commandeur de l'Ordre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Giraud (composer)
Hubert Yves Adrian Giraud (3 March 1920 – 16 January 2016) was a French composer and lyricist. Career Giraud began his career playing the harmonica with Django Reinhardt's jazz group, the Quintette du Hot Club de France. In 1941, he was recruited by Ray Ventura to play the guitar during Ventura's big-band tour of South America. Six years later, he joined Jacques Hélian's orchestra in scoring a series of post-war romantic comedy films, including Georges Combert's 1951 feature, ''Musique en tête''. His song " Dors, mon amour", performed by André Claveau, won the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. Giraud (with lyricist Pierre Cour) wrote the song "Gitans" ( "Les Gitans"). It was further translated into English by B. Guilgud (a.k.a. Guilgudo) and A. Gill and recorded by Corry Brokken. Sergio Franchi recorded an English and Italian version (Italian lyrics by Leo Chiosso) on his 1965 RCA album ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove.'' Giraud also wrote the music for the songs " Sous le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
