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Too Late To Love
''Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?'' (also known as ''Why Do You Come So Late?'' or US title: ''Too Late to Love'') is a 1959 French drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Michèle Morgan and Henri Vidal. Plot Reporter-photographer Walter Hermelin meets Catherine Ferrer, a lawyer who must plead in a libel suit against a wine company. She asks Walter to help her get exhibits incriminating the wine merchants. The reporter agrees and takes frightening photographs showing how poor people are incited to drink. Cast * Michèle Morgan as Maître Catherine Ferrer * Henri Vidal as Walter Hermelin * Francis Blanche as Camille - le patron du bistrot * Marc Cassot as Le psychiatre de la clinique * Pierre-Louis as Le président du tribunal (as Pierre Louis) * Evelyne Aznavour as La secrétaire * Albert Médina as Joseph Ackermann (as Albert Medina) * Colette Richard as Julie - la patronne de l'hôtel de l'Espérance * Geymond Vital as Maître Augier - l'avocat général * Jean Claudio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Decoin
Henri Decoin (18 March 1890 – 4 July 1969) was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held the national record in the 500 m freestyle. He competed in the 400 m freestyle at the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the water polo tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Biography During World War I, Decoin served as a pilot. After that he worked as a sports journalist for '' L'Auto'', '' L'Intransigeant'' and '' Paris-Soir''. In 1926 he published his first book, influenced by Dadaism, the experimental and prize-winning ''Quinze Combats'' (''Fifteen Rounds''), in which a boxing match is seen subjectively by a boxer, and in 1933 directed his first film, ''Les requins du pétrole'' ('' The Oil Sharks''). He was known for tackling many genres; with adaptations of Georges Simenon as The Strangers in the House (1942) - featuring Raimu in one of his famous roles, and The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geymond Vital
Geymond Vital (24 January 1897 – 6 December 1987) was a French film, stage and television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ....Goble p.318 Filmography References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1897 births 1987 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors People from Isère {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films With Screenplays By Michel Audiard
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s French-language Films
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French Drama Films
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1959 Films
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with ''Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, '' Plunderers of Painted Flats''. *January 29 – Walt Disney's '' Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics. *April 30 – François Truffaut's '' The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, '' Sappy Bull Fighters''. * June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of French Films Of 1959
A list of films produced in France in 1959. See also * 1959 in France * 1959 in French television Notes External links French films of 1959at the Internet Movie DatabaseFrench films of 1959at Cinema-francais.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:French Films Of 1959 1959 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmospher ... Lists of 1959 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Dauphin (actor)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1930 and 1978. Biography He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole''. His elder brother was the writer Jean Nohain. Dauphin's debut on film came in ''La Vagabonde'' (1930). He debuted on stage in ''Chapeau Chinois'' (1930) in Paris. Private life Dauphin married three times: first to Rosine Derean, then to the actress Maria Mauban with whom he had a child, Jean-Claude Dauphin, also an actor. Eventually, in 1955, Dauphin married American actress Norma Eberhardt. The couple divided their time between Paris, Los Angeles, New York City and Ocean Township, New Jersey. They remained together until Dauphin's death in Paris in 1978. Selected filmography * ''A Tale of the Fox'' (1930) - Monkey (voice) * ''Tout s'arrang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903, in Celles-sur-Belle, Deux-Sèvres – 3 April 1987, in Paris) was a French actor. His work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars. Moreover, he was a fixture in French cinema for many decades. Selected filmography *1934: ''Gold in the Street'' (by Curtis Bernhardt) - L'homme à la gare (uncredited) *1937: ''Passeurs d'hommes'' *1939: '' Deuxième bureau contre Kommandantur'' (by René Jayet et Robert Bibal) - Un officier allemand *1945: ''Boule de suif'' by Christian-Jaque : Prussian man called Oskar *1945: ''The Last Judgment'' *1947: ''Quai des Orfèvres'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot : car thief Paulo *1947: ''Les jeux sont faits'' by Jean Delannoy : Georges' *1949: ''Berlin Express'' by Jacques Tourneur : chief of the French secret service' *1949: ''Manon'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot : hotel keeper *1949: ''The Walls of Malapaga'' by René Clément : mariner *1950: ''A Man Walks in the City'' by Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Claudio
Jean Claudio (28 March 1927 – 11 January 1992) was a French actor. Biography He began his acting career in the cinema at the age of ten, playing the role of the Tsarevich, son of Tsar Nicolas II in The Imperial Tragedy. In 1938, at the age of eleven, he played Mathieu Sorgue in Les Disparus de Saint-Agil by Christian-Jaque. He entered the Paris Conservatory, where, at fourteen, he was given the role of Chérubin in Le Mariage de Figaro. He has since had an international career, particularly in the United States. He wrote a collection of poems, Les faux joies (published in 1950), as well as several novels: The Hot Season, Les Torts Reciprocals, Monsieur Damoclès and L'inconnu de Genève Selected filmography * '' Rasputin'' (1938) - Le tsarevitch * ' (1938) - Boy * ''Boys' School'' (1938) - Mathieu Sorgue * '' Crossroads'' (1938) - Paul de Vétheuil * '' The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) - Un enfant * ''L'Enfer des anges'' (1941) - Le jeune Lucien * ''Andorra ou les Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Cassot
Marc Cassot (1923–2016) was a French film and television actor. Ince p.161 He was also a prominent voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in France. Selected filmography * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean'' (1947) * ''A Certain Mister'' (1950) * ''The Love of a Woman'' (1953) * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) * ''The Big Flag'' (1954) * '' The Game of Truth'' (1961) * ''Love Me Strangely'' (1971) * ''Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass id ...'' (2006) References Bibliography *Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek . ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. * Ince, Kate. ''Georges Franju''. Manchester University Press, 2019. External links * 1923 births 2016 deaths People from Paris French male film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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