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Street Of Shadows (1937 Film)
''Street of Shadows'' ( or ) is a 1937 French spy film directed by G. W. Pabst. An English-language version with exactly the same plot was filmed at the same time under the direction of Edmond T. Gréville, but with some changes in the cast. Dita Parlo remained as Mademoiselle Docteur, but Erich von Stroheim took over the part of the German spy chief. The English-language version was released in the United States under the title '' Under Secret Orders''. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Hubert and Serge Piménoff. Cast * Pierre Blanchar as Grégor Courdane * Dita Parlo as Mademoiselle Docteur * Pierre Fresnay as Le capitaine Georges Carrère * Roger Karl as Le colonel Bourget * Viviane Romance as Gaby * Jean-Louis Barrault as Le client fou * Marcel Lupovici as Alexandre * Gaston Modot as Le patron du café * Robert Manuel as Un invité au consulat * Ernest Ferny as Le capitaine Louvier * George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Von Cube
Irma von Cube (December 26, 1899, Hanover – July 25, 1977) was a German- American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938. Among her films are ''They Shall Have Music'' (1939), '' Johnny Belinda'' (1948), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and '' Song of Love'' (1947) co-starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker. She also directed one of five segments of the Italy-UK co-production anthology film ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951). She was the mother of Oscar-winning producer Konstantin Kalser. Filmography * ''Mädchenschicksale'' (dir. Richard Löwenbein, 1928) * '' What Price Love?'' (dir. E. W. Emo, 1929) * '' Farewell'' (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1930) * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1930) * '' The Stolen Face'' (dir. Philipp Lothar Mayring and Erich Schmidt, 1930) * '' No More Love'' (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1931) ** '' Calai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim, ; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film ''Greed (1924 film), Greed'' (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel ''McTeague'') is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the Auteur theory, auteur directors.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'', May 15, 1957, page 75. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and film noir, noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died of prostate cancer in Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Henley
Jacques Henley (born Jacques Dhote) was a French actor. Selected filmography * '' Our Masters, the Servants'' (1930) * '' The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) * '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932) * ''The Regiment's Champion'' (1932) *'' Colomba'' (1933) * '' Koenigsmark'' (1935) * '' Parisian Life'' (1936) * '' The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1936) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * '' Marthe Richard'' (1937) * ''Ultimatum'' (1938) * '' Return at Dawn'' (1938) * '' Serge Panine'' (1939) * '' The Five Cents of Lavarede'' (1939) * ''Entente cordiale'' (1939) * ''Place de la Concorde'' (1939) * '' Monsieur Hector'' (1940) * '' Threats'' (1940) * '' Return to Happiness'' (1942) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' Captain Blomet'' (1947) * '' False Identity'' (1947) *'' Judicial Error'' (1948) * '' Colomba'' (1948) * '' City of Hope'' (1948) * '' The Renegade'' (1948) * '' The Red Angel'' (1949) * ''Death Threat A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Péclet
Prosper Désiré "Georges" Péclet (27 July 1897 – 11 January 1974) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. Career Between 1919 and 1957, Péclet played in ninety-five films (including several short films). He was an assistant director in 1927 and then eventually began directing in 1928. He was a director of ten films in total, the last one being from 1963. He was also the writer of five of these movies and producer of one. Péclet is sometimes credited simply by his name, occasionally spelled without the accent: "Peclet". Selected filmography * '' The Man with the Hispano'' (1926) * '' The Martyrdom of Saint Maxence'' (1928) * '' Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * '' The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) * '' The Train of Suicides'' (1931) * '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931) * ''The Regiment's Champion'' (1932) * '' The Five Accursed Gentlemen'' (1932) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1932) * '' The Last Night'' (1934) * '' Princess Tam Tam'' (1935) * '' Wedding Night'' (1935) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Colin
Georges Colin (10 March 1880 – 14 January 1945) was a French actor. Selected filmography * '' The Kiddies in the Ruins'' (1918) * ''The Prosecutor Hallers'' (1930) * '' The Train of Suicides'' (1931) * '' The Eaglet'' (1931) * '' End of the World'' (1931) * ''The Imaginary Invalid'' (1934) * '' Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935) * '' Claudine at School'' (1937) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * '' The Call of Life'' (1937) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * ''Vautrin'' (1943) * ''The Man Who Sold His Soul'' (1943) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) * ''The Exile's Song ''The Exile's Song'' (French: ''Le chant de l'exilé'') is a 1943 French musical drama film directed by André Hugon and starring Tino Rossi, Ginette Leclerc and Aimé Clariond. https://www.unifrance.org/film/37505/le-chant-de-l-exile It was sho ...'' (1943) References External links * 1880 births 1945 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors Male actors from Paris 20th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Ferny
Ernest Ferny (1886–1939) was a Swiss film actor.Goble p.411 Selected filmography * '' Tarakanova'' (1930) * ''Moscow Nights'' (1934) *''Fedora'' (1934) * '' The Lady of Lebanon'' (1934) * ''Light Cavalry'' (1935) * ''Taras Bulba ''Taras Bulba'' (; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at th ...'' (1936) * '' The Red Dancer'' (1937) * '' Boissière'' (1937) * '' The Silent Battle'' (1937) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * '' The Messenger'' (1937) * '' Marthe Richard'' (1937) * '' The Patriot'' (1938) * '' Stolen Life'' (1939) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1886 births 1939 deaths Swiss male film actors Male actors from Geneva {{Switzerland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Manuel (actor)
Robert Manuel (7 September 1916 – 8 December 1995) was a 20th-century French stage, television, and film actor, and film director. Filmography *1935: '' La Petite Sauvage'' (by Jean de Limur) *1937: '' Salonique, nid d'espions'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - un invité au consulat *1938: '' Orage'' (by Marc Allégret) - Gilbert *1938: ''La Marseillaise'' (by Jean Renoir) *1938: '' Le Drame de Shanghaï'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - Le client attaqué *1939: '' Jeunes filles en détresse'' (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - Robert (uncredited) *1946: '' The Captain'' (by Robert Vernay) - Le comte Hercule de Nesle *1946: '' Comédie avant Molière'' (by Jean Tedesco) (Short) *1950: ''The Paris Waltz'' (by Marcel Achard) - José Dupuis *1955: '' Le Fils de Caroline chérie'' (by Jean Devaivre) - Le Roi Joseph *1955: ''Napoléon'' (by Sacha Guitry) - Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited) *1955: ''Rififi'' (''Du rififi chez les hommes'') (by Jules Dassin) - Mario Ferrati *1955: '' Lord Rogue'' (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Modot
Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors. Biography Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th century where he met Picasso and Modigliani. In 1909 he started his career with Gaumont and for the following 20 years he covered all silent film genres. In 1917 he was the main actor in Abel Gance's '' Mater dolorosa''. He played in Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc's avant-garde films ''La fête espagnole'' (1919) and ''Fièvre'' (1921). With Max Linder, Modot played in Abel Gance's ''Au secours!'' (1924). Towards the end of the 1920s he performed in German-French co-productions. He is still famous for his role of The Man in Luis Buñuel's '' L'Âge d'Or'' (1930). He had his first role in a sound film with René Clair's '' Sous les toits de Paris'' (1930). He and Jean Gabin are main characters in Julien Duvivier's ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage. Biography Barrault was born in Le Vésinet in France in 1910. His father was 'a Burgundian pharmacist who died in the First World War.':87 He studied at the Lycée Chaptal, Collége Chaptal until 1930, when he began his studies at the École du Louvre.:87 Theatre From 1931 to 1935 Barrault studied and acted at Charles Dullin's ''L'Atelier''.:32 His first performance was a small role in Ben Jonson's ''Volpone''. At the time, Barrault was unable to afford rent and Dullin allowed him to sleep in the theatre on Volpone's bed.:16 It was at ''L'Atelier'' that he first met and studied under Étienne Decroux,:41 with whom he would create the pantomime ''La Vie Primitive'' in 1931.:87 He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, performing lead roles in William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' and Pierre Corne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Piménoff
Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232 Selected filmography * '' Nights of Princes'' (1930) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * '' Sailor's Song'' (1932) * ''Lilac'' (1932) * '' King of the Hotel'' (1932) * '' Rouletabille the Aviator'' (1932) * '' The Orderly'' (1933) * ''Variety'' (1935) * '' The Slipper Episode'' (1935) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Volga Boatman'' (1936) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * ''Return at Dawn'' (1938) * ''The Postmaster's Daughter'' (1938) * ''Savage Brigade'' (1939) * ''The Pavilion Burns'' (1941) * ''Colonel Pontcarral'' (1942) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * '' The London Man'' (1943) * ''Panic (Panique)'' (1946) * '' Farewell Mister Grock'' (1950) * '' Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * '' The Moment of Truth'' (1952) * '' Napoleon Road'' (1953) * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) * '' The Case of Doctor Laurent'' (1957) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hubert (art Director)
Robert Hubert ( – 27 October 1666) was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. Great Fire of London Between 2 and 6 September 1666, a major fire broke out in Pudding Lane in the City of London and proceeded to destroy around 80 percent of the old city. Confession Hubert’s confession, at first, was of starting a fire in Westminster. However, this story proved unsatisfactory, and his confession changed upon learning that the fire never reached Westminster. Having learned that the fire started at Pudding Lane in the house of the baker Thomas Farriner (or Farynor), he then claimed to have thrown a crude fire grenade through the open window of the Farriner bakery. He claimed to have acted with accomplices, who stopped the water cocks to sabotage the effort to put out the fire. Hubert's confessed motive was, apparently, that he was a French spy and an agent of the Pope. Trial and execution Hubert's c ... [...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] |
