Jean Guitton (29 March 1887 - 8 April 1973) was a French

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Filmography

*''Les Dévoyés'', directed by Henri Vorins (France, 1926, based on the play ''La Nuit du 3'') *', directed by

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and Roger Lion (France, 1926, based on the play ''Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs'') *', directed by Léo Joannon (France, 1934, based on the play ''On a trouvé une femme nue'') *', directed by

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(France, 1935, based on the play ''Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs'') *', directed by Maurice Cammage (France, 1937, based on the play ''Fallait pas m'écraser'') *'' Forty Little Mothers'', directed by

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(1940, remake of the 1936 film '' Forty Little Mothers'') *', directed by

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(France, 1949, based on the play ''Et la police n'en savait rien'') * ''

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'', directed by (Italy, 1952, remake of the 1936 film '' Forty Little Mothers'') * ''

The Priest of Saint-Amour ''The Priest of Saint-Amour'' (French: ''Le curé de Saint-Amour'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Émile Couzinet and starring Frédéric Duvallès, Pierre Larquey and Jeanne Fusier-Gir.https://www.unifrance.org/film/5086/le-cure-de-sa ...

'', directed by

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(France, 1952, based on the play ''Le Curé de Saint-Amour'') *', directed by

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(France, 1952, based on the play ''Je l'aimais trop'') *''

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'', directed by Jean Laviron (France, 1953, based on the play ''Elle attendait ça'') * ''

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'', directed by

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(France, 1953, loose remake of the 1936 film '' Forty Little Mothers'') *'' Légère et court vêtue'', directed by Jean Laviron (France, 1953, based on the play ''Un amour fou'') *', directed by

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(France, 1957, based on the operetta ''Une nuit aux Baléares'')

Screenwriter

* 1930: '' The Prosecutor Hallers'', by

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* 1931: '' The Man at Midnight'', by

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* 1932: ''Mise en plis'', by Jacques Desagneaux * 1932: ', by Léo Joannon * 1933: ''

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'' , by Georges Lacombe * 1934: '' Rothchild'', by

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* 1936: ''Les Gaîtés de la finance'', by Jack Forrester * 1936: '' Forty Little Mothers'', by

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* 1937: '' The Club of Aristocrats'', by

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* 1937: ''

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* 1937: ', by

* 1938: ''

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'', by Robert Péguy * 1938: ', by

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* 1941: '' The Acrobat'', by Jean Boyer * 1943: ', by Jacques Houssin * 1948:'' Woman Without a Past'', by

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* 1949: '' My Aunt from Honfleur'', by

* 1950: ', by

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* 1956: ', by

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* 1963: '' The Bamboo Stroke'', by Jean Boyer

Operettas

*1919: ''Chaste Suzy'' *1920: ''Clo-Clo'' *1928: ''L'Hostellerie de la vertu'' *1930: ''Six filles à marier'' *1931: ''Couss-Couss'' *1954: ''Une nuit aux Baléares''. Operetta (with Loulou Gasté and )

Plays

*1924 : ''On a trouvé une femme nue''. Comedy in three acts (with André Birabeau). Premiered in Paris at the

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*1924 : ''La Nuit du 3''. Drama in four acts. Premiered in Paris at the Eldorado *1926 : ''Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs''. Play in three acts *1935 : ''Fallait pas m'écraser''. Vaudeville in two acts. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Renaissance *1936 : ''Elle attendait ça''. Vaudeville in three acts. Premiered in Paris at the

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*1945 : ''Un amour fou''. Vaudeville in three acts *1949 : ''Et la police n'en savait rien''. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt *1951 : ''Je l'aimais trop''. Comedy in three acts. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre Saint-Georges *Before 1952 : ''Le Curé de Saint-Amour''. Play in three acts

References

External links

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Jean Guitton, librettiste
sur le site ''La Comédie musicale en France'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Guitton, Jean 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights French lyricists 20th-century French screenwriters 1887 births 1973 deaths