Word: jouvet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast of these two of his latest parts is really astonishing. As a sop to the earthy aesthetics of the masses, there is also a quite delectable blonde named Maleleine Ozeray who plays a quite unorthodox feminine lead to an antiquated lecher of the stage played by Louis Jouvet. The cast, as a whole, really carries the show. Their sensitivity to the ideas of author and director, combined with their own creativity, makes "End of a Day" deserve the recognition it has received...
...Louis Jouvet, Victor Francen, Madeleine Ozeray, Michel Simon; TIME, Sept...
...Louis Jouvet, Victor Francen, Madeleine Ozeray, Michel Simon; TIME, Sept...
...photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last bit, The End of a Day is a glowing and worthy tribute to its profession...
When aging Actor St. Clair (Jouvet) leaves his troupe after an unsuccessful tour, he says he is going to retire to his estates, but his companions know that he is really going to the Abbaye de St. Rivière, baven for indigent old actors. Greeted there as a hero, surrounded by old women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded...