Jean Manse (1899–1967) was a French
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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[Klossner p.111] He was the brother of Henriette Manse, and brother-in-law of
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan ...
with whom he frequently collaborated. He was also a
lyricist
A lyricist is a songwriter who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment.
Royalties
A lyricist's income de ...
, working with composer
Henri Betti
Henri Betti, born Ange Betti (24 July 1917 – 7 July 2005), was a French composer and a pianist.
Pianist and composer of Maurice Chevalier from 1940 to 1945, Henri Betti is best known for composing the music of the songs '' C'est si bon'' (lyr ...
on the hit Christmas song ''
C'est Noël
"C'est Noël" is a French popular song composed in 1956 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Jean Manse.
Story
In 1956, Henri Betti composed the music for the film ''Honoré de Marseille'' in which he also composed the music of four songs with lyr ...
''.
Selected filmography
* ''
Ernest the Rebel'' (1938)
* ''
Berlingot and Company'' (1939)
* ''
St. Val's Mystery'' (1945)
* ''
Casimir
Casimir is classically an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are Casimira and Kazimiera. It means "proclaimer (from ''kazać'' to preach) of peace (''mir'')."
List of variations
*Belarusian: Казі ...
'' (1951)
* ''
The Sleepwalker'' (1951)
* ''
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden which God commands mankind not to eat. In the biblical story, Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and are exiled from Eden.
A ...
'' (1952)
* ''
Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955)
* ''
Honoré de Marseille
''Honoré de Marseille'' is a 1956 French comedy film by Maurice Régamey.
Plot
The story begins in 600 BC with the landing in a calque of a Phocéenne galley commanded by the warrior Honorius who, married by mistake the daughter of the Ligurian ...
'' (1956)
* ''
Don Juan
Don Juan (), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, ''El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'' ...
'' (1956)
* ''
The Lord's Vineyard'' (1958)
* ''
Cocagne'' (1961)
* ''
Dynamite Jack'' (1961)
* ''
The Changing of the Guard'' (1962)
* ''
The Trip to Biarritz'' (1963)
References
Bibliography
* Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland & Company, 2002.
External links
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1899 births
1967 deaths
20th-century French screenwriters
Mass media people from Marseille
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