Jacques Théry (1881–1970) was a French

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and

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. He worked in

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during the 1940s. His collaborator

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considered him to be an "outspoken, hard-line

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".Brackett p.403

Selected filmography

* ''

A Precocious Girl ''A Precocious Girl'' (German title: ''Csibi, der Fratz'' aka ''Früchtchen'') is a 1934 Austrian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and Richard Eichberg and starring Franciska Gaal, Leopoldine Konstantin and Herbert Hübner. The film's sets we ...

'' (1934) * '' Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Farewell Waltz'' (1934) * ''

Song of Farewell ''Song of Farewell'' (French: ''La chanson de l'adieu'') is a 1934 historical musical drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Jean Servais, Janine Crispin and Lucienne Le Marchand.Mitchell p.51 It is based on ...

'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1934) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1938) * ''

Arise, My Love ''Arise, My Love'' is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Dennis O'Keefe. It was made by Paramount Pictures and written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques ...

'' (1940) * ''

Rhythm on the River ''Rhythm on the River'' is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin as ghostwriters whose songs are credited to a composer played by Basil Rathbone. Crosby and Martin sang " On ...

'' (1940) * ''

Joan of Paris ''Joan of Paris'' is a 1942 war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England. It stars Michèle Morgan and Paul Henreid, with Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cr ...

'' (1942) * '' The Heavenly Body'' (1944) * ''

Yolanda and the Thief ''Yolanda and the Thief'' is a 1945 American Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM musical film, musical-comedy film set in a fictional Latin American country. It stars Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, and Mildred Natwick, with music by ...

'' (1945) * '' To Each His Own'' (1946)

References

Bibliography

* Brackett, Charles. ''"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age''. Columbia University Press, 2014. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1881 births 1970 deaths Writers from Paris 20th-century French screenwriters French expatriates in the United States {{France-film-bio-stub