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The Brighton Twins
''The Brighton Twins'' (French: ''Les jumeaux de Brighton'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Raimu, Michel Simon and Suzy Prim.Crisp p.407 It is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Tristan Bernard and Robert Bresson worked on the screen adaptation. Synopsis Twins are separated at birth in 1890, with one being raised in the United States and the other in France. More than forty years later they encounter each other for the first time. Cast * Raimu as Alfred Beaugérard et les deux fils Achille * Michel Simon as Labrosse * Suzy Prim as Clémentine Beaugérard * Charlotte Lysès as Madame Tupin - La belle-mère * Pierre Finaly as L'avocat * Marcel Maupi as Le garde du corps * Jacques Bousquet as L'oncle d'Amérique * Georges Paulais as Le docteur Paulard * Mila Parély as Antoinette - La bonne de Nancy * Pierre Piérade as Le président du tribunal * Mansuelle as L'huissier * Lucienne Masset as La nourrice * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Heymann
Claude Heymann (13 November 1907 – 13 April 1994) was a French screenwriter and film director.Frey p.78 Selected filmography * ''American Love (film), American Love'' (1931) * ''Idylle au Caire'' (1933) * ''Disk 413'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * ''Widow's Island'' (1937) * ''Paris-New York'' (1940) * ''Jericho (1946 film), Jericho'' (1946) * ''Counter Investigation (1947 film), Counter Investigation'' (1947) * ''Crossroads of Passion'' (1948) * ''Victor (1951 film), Victor'' (1951) * ''The Beautiful Image'' (1951) * ''Farewell Paris'' (1952) * ''Darling Anatole'' (1954) References Bibliography * Frey, Hugo. ''Louis Malle''. Manchester University Press, 2004. External links * 1907 births 1994 deaths 20th-century French screenwriters Film directors from Paris {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Finaly
Pierre Finaly (1889–1937) was a French stage and film actor.Goble p.477 Finaly was born into a family with Hungarian Jewish roots and died in Paris. Selected filmography * ''The Darling of Paris'' (1931) * '' Maurin of the Moors'' (1932) * '' Companion Wanted'' (1932) * '' Billeting Order'' (1932) * '' No Women'' (1932) * '' Heart of Paris'' (1932) * ''Poliche'' (1934) * ''Gold in the Street'' (1934) * '' Jeanne'' (1934) * '' Paris Camargue'' (1935) * ''Antonia'' (1935) * '' The Scandalous Couple'' (1935) * '' Disk 413'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' The Tender Enemy'' (1936) * ''Wolves Between Them'' (1936) * '' Blanchette'' (1937) * '' Culprit'' (1937) * '' The Red Dancer'' (1937) * ''Widow's Island ''Widow's Island'' (French: ''L'île des veuves'') is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Pierre Renoir, Marcelle Chantal and Aimé Clariond.Bessy & Chirat p.135 A separate British version of the story ''A Roman ...'' (1937) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Malbert
Albert Malbert (1914–1972) was a French film actor.Goble p.66 Selected filmography * '' The Crisis is Over'' (1934) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * '' Bach the Detective'' (1936) * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Culprit'' (1937) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * ''Rasputin'' (1938) * '' The Fatted Calf'' (1939) * ''Threats'' (1940) * '' The Last of the Six'' (1941) * ''The Man Who Played with Fire'' (1942) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * ''Love Marriage A love marriage is one which is driven solely by the couple, with or without consent of their parents, as opposed to arranged marriage. While there is no clear definition of love marriage, the term was in common use globally during the Victorian ...'' (1942) * '' Private Life'' (1942) * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' The Stairs Without End '' (1943) * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Eternal Conflict'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Genevois
Émile Genevois (1 January 1918 – 19 September 1962) was a French film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ....Cardullo p.106 Genevois appeared in over ninety films and television programmes, generally in character roles. Selected filmography References Bibliography * Cardullo, Bert. ''Vittorio De Sica: Actor, Director, Auteur''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 84–85. External links * 1918 births 1962 deaths French male film actors 20th-century French male actors {{France-film-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Aussey
Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, 18 December 1909 in Paris – 15 March 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress who worked with, among others, René Clair, Julien Duvivier, Paul Fejos, Jean Grémillon, Marc Allégret, and Sacha Guitry. She was, from 1940-1945, married to circus impresario John Ringling North John Ringling North (August 14, 1903 – June 4, 1985) was the president and director of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937 to 1943 and again from 1947 to 1967. Life and career North was born on August 14, 1903, in Barabo .... The union ended in divorce. Selected filmography * '' The Train of Suicides'' (1931) * '' Here's Berlin'' (1932) * '' Rouletabille the Aviator'' (1932) * '' Bach the Millionaire'' (1933) * '' The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * '' Speak to Me of Love'' (1935) * '' Princesse Tam-Tam'' (1935) * '' Count Obligado'' (1935) * '' Beloved Imposter'' (1936) * '' The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Adventure in Paris'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Génin
Ren̩ G̩nin (25 January 1890 Р24 October 1967) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1965. Selected filmography * ''Vertigo'' (1935) * '' The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1936) * '' The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' 27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * '' Nights of Fire'' (1937) * '' The Red Dancer'' (1937) * '' Life Dances On'' (1937) * '' Francis the First'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * '' Port of Shadows'' (1938) * '' The Innocent'' (1938) * '' Ernest the Rebel'' (1938) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1938) * '' Ramuntcho'' (1938) * '' Girls in Distress'' (1939) * '' The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * '' The Master Valet'' (1941) * '' Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * '' The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock'' (1942) * '' Return to Happiness'' (1942) * ''Fever'' (1942) * '' The Law of Spring'' (1942) * ''Patricia'' (1942) * '' The Lucky Star'' (1943) * '' Pierre and Jean'' (1943) * '' The M̩nard Collection'' (1944) * '' A Cage of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tissier
Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmography * '' A Rare Bird'' (1935) * '' The Mascot'' (1935) * '' The Slipper Episode'' (1935) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * '' The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Great Refrain'' (1936) * '' The Bureaucrats'' (1936) * '' The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * '' Boulot the Aviator'' (1937) * '' Blanchette'' (1937) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) * '' The Two Schemers'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) * ''I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * '' Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * '' Case of Conscience'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * '' Night in December'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * '' Romance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Sorya
Geneviève Sorya (born Geneviève Marie Thérèse Durand; 23 June 1912 – 23 March 2008) was a French stage and film actress. She was also known as the mother of actress Anouk Aimée. Sorya performed in over 15 films, including ''The End of the Day'', and ''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) with Maurice Chevalier although she was primarily a stage actress in her native Paris. In 1981 she appeared in the film ''What Puts David'' with her daughter. Sorya was the daughter of André Hippolyte Durand and Émilie Marguerite Mélanie (''née'' Boussiron) Durand. She was married to French actor Henry Murray (born Henri Dreyfus), with whom she had a daughter, who became actress Anouk Aimée. Sorya studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. gw.geneanet.org; accessed 15 December 2015. Selected f ...
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Paul Velsa
Paul Isaac Welsa (known professionally as Paul Velsa; 29 December 1905 – 20 May 1944) was a French stage and film actor.Alpi p.346 He appeared in more than thirty films between 1928 and 1938. Biography Paul Isaac Welsa was born on at the maternity ward of the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to Maurice and Jeanne Welsa (''née'' Aronowitz), both of Polish-Jewish origin. His first known performance on stage was at the age of 17 at the Théâtre des Ternes in February 1923. He appeared onscreen, nine years later, as Corporal Bourrache in the silent film ''Tire-au-flanc''; a screen adaptation of the 1904 play of the same name by André Mouëzy-Éon, directed by Jean Renoir. After fifteen years spent on both theatre and film stages, his career ended during the German occupation of France in World War II. A victim of the anti-Jewish laws of the Vichy government, he was arrested shortly after his father's death and detained at Drancy internment camp from 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Milhaud
Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008) was a French actress and librettist. She was both cousin to and wife of composer Darius Milhaud. Biography Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris to Michel and Maria Milhaud. Her father was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels. She began acting at a young age, and had a long career as an actress and reciter. Madeleine married her cousin, Darius Milhaud, in 1925. The couple had one son, Daniel (1930–2014), a painter. Darius' piano suite ''La Muse Menagère'' (''The Household Muse'') is dedicated to her, and depicts their daily life together. She wrote the libretti for his operas ''Médée'', ''Bolivar'', and '' La Mère coupable''. The family fled France when the Germans were within range of Paris in May 1940. They reached Lisbon and from there sailed to America, where they and their 10-year-old son stayed for the remainder of the war. Darius taught at Mills College Mills College at Northeastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Piérade
Pierre Piérade (born Pierre Émile Gaston Adelgeist; 14 November 1884 – 1 August 1937) was a French comedian, music hall performer, and stage and film actor.Hardt p.242 Selected filmography * '' Little Lise'' (1930) * ''American Love'' (1931) * '' The Indictment'' (1931) * '' To the Polls, Citizens'' (1932) * '' Here's Berlin'' (1932) * ''Narcotics'' (1932) * '' F.P.1'' (1933) * ''Charlemagne'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * '' Rothchild'' (1934) * ''Night in May'' (1934) * '' A Man Has Been Stolen'' (1934) * '' At the End of the World'' (1934) * '' Dédé'' (1935) * '' My Heart Is Calling You'' (1934) * '' Baccara'' (1935) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1936) * ''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) * '' Jenny'' (1936) * '' The Brighton Twins'' (1936) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mila Parély
Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012), born Olga Colette Peszynski, was a French actress of Polish ancestry best known for the roles of Félicie, Belle's eldest sister, in Jean Cocteau's '' La Belle et la Bête'' (1946), and as Geneviève in '' La Règle du jeu'' (1939). She had a liaison with actor Jean Marais from 1942 to 1944, remaining lifelong friends, and in 1976 she was his business associate in a pottery shop. Marais was the long-term lover of Jean Cocteau and her co-star in the latter's 1946 film version of ''Beauty and the Beast''. She gave up acting in the late 1950s in order to take care of her racing car driving husband Taso Mathieson, who had been injured in an accident. She also worked with such notable directors as Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst. She returned to acting briefly in the late 1980s. Mila Parély died on 14 January 2012, aged 94, in Vichy, where she had spent the last fifty years of her life. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
