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Word: brasseur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enfants affords U.S. moviegoers a good, long look at several of France's outstanding actors: Jean-Louis Barrault (a graceful, desperate-faced pantomimist currently playing on the Paris stage in André Gide's translation of Hamlet), bouncy Pierre Brasseur and Arletty, a sort of healthy, worldly Mona Lisa who exudes a mature type of sex appeal that Hollywood has always ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revival in France | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...lousy fight," admitted Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Thirteen thousand fight fans, gathered in Boston's Garden, heartily agreed. They had come to see Joe Louis defend his title against Al McCoy (real name: Florien La Brasseur). They knew it would be one-sided. McCoy, a local oldtimer who had been crouching around New England for ten years, had been licked by young Billy Conn only a few weeks before. But the crowd was hardly prepared for the sham battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sham Battle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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