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Zaza (play)
''Zaza'' is a French language, French-language play written by playwrights Pierre Berton (playwright), Pierre Berton and , and staged for the first time at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, in May 1898.Johnson, Katie N. (2002). "Zaza: That "Obtruding Harlot" of the Stage." ''Theatre Journal''. Vol. 54, no. 2. pp. 223-243. Retrieved 2017-08-31 via ''Project MUSE'' database. . The title character is a prostitute who becomes a music hall entertainer and the mistress of a married man. The play is probably best known in the English-speaking world in the adaptation of the same title by David Belasco, which premiered at the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington, D.C., in December 1898, and subsequently opened at the Garrick Theatre (New York City), Garrick Theatre in New York City, in January 1899. It is also the source material for the 1900 opera ''Zazà'' by Ruggero Leoncavallo. A substantial difference between the two stagings is that in the original Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey; August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. Early life Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources state 1884 or 1885), the only child of Richard O. and Loretta C. Libbey. Her father worked as a yardmaster for the Old Colony Railroad before becoming a salesman. Her parents separated when she was a toddler and Frederick was raised primarily by her mother with whom she remained close for the remainder of her life (her parents divorced around 1897). As a girl, she was fascinated with show business, and determined early to place her goals in the direction of the theater. She studied acting, singing and dancing at Miss Blanchard's Finishing School in Boston where she later graduated. Her father, however, discouraged her ambitions to be an actress and encouraged her to become an elocution teacher. After pursuing a career as an actress, her fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Plays
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Plays By David Belasco
Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider * Xperia Play, an Android phone * Rakuten.co.uk (formerly Play.com), an online retailer * Backlash (engineering), or ''play'', non-reversible part of movement * Petroleum play, oil fields with same geological circumstances * Play symbol, in media control devices * Play (hacker group), a ransomware extortion group Concert residencies and tours * Play Tour, concert tour headlined by Spanish singer Aitana * Play (concert residency), 2022 Katy Perry concert residency Film * ''Play'' (2005 film), Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson * ''Play'', a 2009 short film directed by David Kaplan * ''Play'' (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund * ''Play!'', a Japanese film directed by Tomoyuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Gaveau
René Gaveau (1900–1972) was a French cinematographer and film director. Selected filmography Cinematographer * '' André Cornélis'' (1918) * '' My Uncle Benjamin'' (1924) * '' Mandrin'' (1924) * '' The Nude Woman'' (1926) * '' André Cornélis'' (1927) * ''Instinct'' (1930) * ''The Fortune'' (1931) * '' Passport 13.444'' (1931) * '' Kiss Me'' (1932) * '' Paris-Soleil'' (1933) * '' Odette'' (1934) * '' Count Obligado'' (1935) * ''Compliments of Mister Flow'' (1936) * ''Wolves Between Them'' (1936) * ''White Cargo'' (1937) * ''A Man to Kill'' (1937) * '' Chéri-Bibi'' (1938) * '' The Rebel'' (1938) * ''The Chess Player'' (1938) * '' The Spirit of Sidi-Brahim'' (1939) * ''Radio Surprises'' (1940) * '' President Haudecoeur'' (1940) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * '' The White Waltz'' (1943) * ''Home Port'' (1943) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Pamela'' (1945) * '' Bifur 3'' (1945) * ''The Last Metro'' (1945) * ''The Mysterious Monsieur Sylvain'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaza (1956 Film)
''Zaza'' is a 1956 French drama film directed by René Gaveau and starring Lilo, Maurice Teynac and Robert Dalban. It is an adaptation of the 1898 play ''Zaza'' by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon.Goble p.1027 The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It was distributed by the French subsidiary of Universal Pictures. Cast * Lilo as Zaza * Maurice Teynac as Bernard Dufresnes * Robert Dalban as Cascard * Albert Dinan as Malardot * Pauline Carton as Mme. Anaïs * Mag-Avril as Nathalie * Luce Aubertin as Floriane * Jim Gérald as Edouard Dubuisson * André Toscano as Bussy * Dominique Page as La bonne de Mme. Dufresne * Claude Godard as Orianne * Sophie Leclair Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophi ... as Miette * Mick Micheyl as Toto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda (born Ines Isabella Sampietro; 5 July 1905 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career. Biography Miranda was born Ines Isabella Sampietro in Milan, the daughter of a street car conductor. When she was 10 years old, she began working as an errand girl for a dressmaker. She later had jobs in a box factory and a handbag factory. When she was 15, she became a model, a job that provided enough income for her to learn bookkeeping and typing in night school. She worked as a typist while attending the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan and trained as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. She changed her name to Isa Miranda and success came with Max Ophüls' film '' La Signora di tutti'' (''Everybody's Woman''; 1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. This performance brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Castellani
Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 – 28 December 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Early life Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, at the time a hamlet of Final Pia, which became Finale Ligure ( Savona) in 1927, where his mother had returned from Argentina to give birth to his son. He spent his childhood in Argentina, in the city of Rosario. After 12 years, he returned to Liguria and resumed his studies in Genoa. He moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University in architecture. In Milan he met Livio Castiglioni and together they aired for GUF (Fascist University Group) ''L'ora radiofonica'' and ''La fontana malata'' by Aldo Palazzeschi, experimenting with new techniques for sound editing on radio. Career He began collaborating in 1936 as a military consultant for '' The Great Appeal'', a film by Mario Camerini. He worked as a film critic and worked - as a screenwriter or assistant director - with import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR, born Émilie "Lily" Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃/ show-shwan); September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway theater, Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of Sound film, talking pictures. Initially contracted to Paramount Pictures, Colbert became one of the few major actresses of the period who worked freelance; that is to say, independently of the studio system. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Colbert the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. With her Good American Speech, Mid-Atlantic accent, versatility, witty dialogues, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for light comedy and emotional drama, Colbert became one of the most popular stars of the 1930s and 1940s. In all, Colbert acted in more than 60 movies. Among her frequent co-stars were Fred MacMurray in seven films (1935–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor ( ; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and film producer, producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO Pictures, RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's head of production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including ''What Price Hollywood?'' (1932), ''A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film), A Bill of Divorcement'' (1932), ''Our Betters'' (1933), and ''Little Women (1933 film), Little Women'' (1933). When Selznick moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, Cukor followed and directed ''Dinner at Eight (1933 film), Dinner at Eight'' (1933) and ''David Copperfield (1935 film), David Copperfield'' (1935) for Selznick, and ''Romeo and Juliet (1936 film), Romeo and Juliet'' (1936) and ''Camille (1936 film), Camille'' (1936) for Irving Thalberg. He was replaced as one of the directors of ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), but he went on to dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaza (1939 Film)
''Zaza'' is a 1938 American romantic drama film made by Paramount Pictures, and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Zoë Akins, based on the play ''Zaza (play), Zaza''. The music score is by Frederick Hollander. The film stars Claudette Colbert (who had replaced Isa Miranda) and Herbert Marshall. The story was filmed by Paramount in a Zaza (1915 film), 1915 version with Pauline Frederick, and previously Zaza (1923 film), remade in 1923 with Gloria Swanson. Plot A glamorous female singer has an affair with a married man. Cast *Claudette Colbert as Zaza *Herbert Marshall as Dufresne *Bert Lahr as Cascart *Helen Westley as Anais *Constance Collier as Nathalie *Genevieve Tobin as Florianne *Walter Catlett as Marlardot *Ann E. Todd as Toto *Rex O'Malley as Bussy *Ernest Cossart as Marchand *Rex Evans as Michelin *Robert Fischer as Pierre *Janet Waldo as Simone *Dorothy Tree as Madame Dufresne *Duncan Renaldo as Animal trainer References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's ''Sunset Boulevard (film), Sunset Boulevard'', which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award. Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio. The 15-year-old Swanson was offered a brief walk-on for one film and eventually a stock-players contract, beginning her life's career in front of the cameras. Swanson left school, and was soon hired to work in California for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon. She was eventually recruited by Famous Players–Lasky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
