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Word: frapie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention of U. S. cinemaddicts, was responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected his cast from slum children who had never acted or even learned to recite. Paulette Elambert, a rather ugly little girl with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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