Word: pagnol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Boyer, back in French country life, was passing his time playing petanque (bowling) and drinking pale pastis (an absinthe imitation). One day, weary-eyed Marcel Pagnol came over for cocktails and referred to Boyer as "I'Américain." Charles didn't like Marcel's tone of voice. He socked him and they had it out right there, with screams from the girls. But it all ended in a reconciliation scene: the rivals embraced and sat down together to a wonderful bouillabaisse...
Four in One. Two brothers, Armand and Lucien Roux, both opticians, have spent 17 years at the process, working in their fifth-floor laboratory in a drab building on the Left Bank. Fortnight ago they invited famed Writer-Producer Marcel Pagnol to see some test shots. Greatly excited by what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot...
Fanny (French). Marcel Pagnol on unmarried pregnancy, paternal love and the power of money and family. An old one (1937), presumably imported for admirers of the late Raimu. Slow, wordy, subtly complacent, yet often deeply perceptive and moving...
Topaze (adapted from the French of Marcel Pagnol by Benn W. Levy; produced by Yolanda Mero-Irion & the New Opera Company) triumphed on Broadway just 18 years ago. Returning last week, it looked like a genuine theatrical relic. It still had traces of gay cynicism, Gallic sprightliness and wit. But it wheezed, wobbled, and seemed all the sadder for trying to look jaunty...
Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...