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Renoir's Jeckyll and Hyde, The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1960) is also about a progression toward joy through the liberation inherent in total self-expression. But unlike the heroes in most Renoir films, Dr.Cordelier(Jean-Louis Barrault) goes about it incorrectly and fails dismally. Cordelier, inhibited and afraid, his sexual neuroses damaging his medical career, effects the classic Stevensonian chemical transformation and becomes hideous Monsieur Opale, a sadistic savage who cannot resist kicking the crutches out from under a cripple, or wrenching the baby from any passing mother. Predictably, Opale's appearances become progressively vicious during the first...
...Although Barrault's and Gabin's performances contribute, as does the magnificent photography (note how in French Cancan, Renoir recreates his father's Impressionist pastels), the real greatness of these two films is perhaps undefinable. As the characters move toward one or another stage of self-realization, Renoir's films take on an even larger, universal significance. His spirit, his ability to create characters through use of clear, almost divine, light give his films an aura of undeniable truth, as if he were a Biblical prophet, telling us the word...
Legend's End. Tickets for the six performances were sold out weeks in advance, and a glittering audience of the city's high society turned out for opening night. Jean-Louis Barrault, director of the Odeon Theater, declared in a precurtain speech that since the Odeon was flying the American flag that night, the theater was now the 51st state...
...Paris production had been a mess, Anouilh shrugged and explained: "Yes, I directed it." He prefers to work with unknown or even bad actors so that he can dictate their every gesture and intonation. In the Paris version of The Rehearsal, he broke this custom by casting Jean-Louis Barrault as the count, but soon he was saying to Barrault: "I don't know whether it's your fault or mine, but I'm bored." His humility may come from the memory of his own beginning years. The son of a poor Protestant tailor from Bordeaux, Anouilh...
...directors: Elmo Williams, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Among the advisers: General d'Armee Pierre Koenig, Lieut. General James Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy Sands and Fabian...