Word: gabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlene Dietrich & Jean Gabin, dining together in Manhattan's El Morocco club, gave themselves over wholly to Marlene's expert schmaltz...
Moontide (20th Century-Fox) has what many a female cinemaddict would like to have: a rough, tough man, with romantic overtones, to take home and tame. He is seamy, sturdy, slow-burning Jean Gabin, onetime foundry worker, marine and music-hall comic, whose talent for acting natural and talking slang made him France's No. 1 male cinemactor...
...Free French regime, original arrangements for a discussion restricted to members of the College France Forever unit have been expanded to include a larger audience and movies in tonight's program. In addition a special showing will be presented next Wednesday of "Iis Etaient Cinq" with Jean Gabin, and the proceeds of this performance will go to buy a second ambulance for the American Field Service serving in Egypt...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...
French pictures are noted for their delicate handling of humor, leavened in with even the most pathetic tragedy. No smiles lurk here; only lines and lines of dead or grim Canadiens. French pictures, and those of Jean Gabin in particular, are almost unique in their unaffected and moving treatment of sorrow. No sorrow lingers here. The acting is ham-ish, and the story laughably obvious...