Word: pagnol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture, directed by Roger Richebe and with dialogue by Marcel Pagnol, is based on the novel "Les Demi Soide" by Georges Eparbes and deals with the efforts of the old soldiers of Napoleon to place L'Aiglon, Napoleon's son, on the throne of France. The cast includes Pierre Renoir as Colonel de Mentander. Constant Remy as Capitaine Deguereau. Debucourt as Lieutenant de Breuilly, and Annie Ducaux as Lise...
...particular interest are photographs of Marcel Pagnol, who wrote the French moving-picture "Marius" recently shown in the Geography Building, and of Andre Siegfried, who wrote "America Comes of Age." Other well-known authors represented are Andre Maurois, Jules Romains, and Jean Cocteau. Several Frenchwomen of letters are also shown, including Princess Bibesco and La Comptesse de Noailles...
...collaboration with the University Film Foundation, the French Talking Films Committee will present the third picture of the winter when "Marius" by Marel Pagnol will be shown Friday and Saturday at 2.30, 5.15 and 8.15 o'clock in the New Geography Building, 2 Divinity Avenue...
...first time in America, Marcel Pagnol's "Marius", hailed by French crities as the greatest French film of recent times, will be presented in the Geography Buildings, 2 Divinity Avenue, on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27. There will be three performances each day at 2.30, 5.15, and 8.15 o'clock. Beginning February 23, tickets may be obtained free of charge by Harvard and Radeliffe students at University B on presentation of bursar's card. There will be no admission without tickets...
Marseilles is a work of Marcel Pagnol (Topaze), originally titled Marius. One reason for the acclaim which the play received in Paris was the Provençal dialect of most of its actors. This effect, of course, is completely lacking in the U. S. production, somewhat limiting the power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana...