Word: pagnol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French film officials had the answer: they asked her to be chief judge of the Cannes Festival. "I hesitated at first," recalled Sophia. "It wouldn't be easy running a group of well-known writers and thinkers like Marcel Achard, André Maurois, Marcel Pagnol and Peter Ustinov. But then I said to myself, 'Why not be a judge instead of an actress for once? After all, I do know something about the movies, don't I?' So I said...
Fanny was the big gamble of Merrick's career, and he stood to his bets with tremendous nerve and style. He made three trips to Europe before Marcel Pagnol agreed to sell the rights to his famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak...
...bachelor, Brassens lives on a deadend alley in Montparnasse with an aged couple, who befriended him in his lean years, and a menagerie of pets. Two members of the French Academy, Novelist Joseph Kessel and Film Maker Marcel Pagnol, have been promoting the initiation of Brassens into the august Academy as "one of the greatest contemporary poets, a modern troubadour who represents a new literary form...
...Like Money. Peter Sellers in a new film version of Marcel Pagnol's Topaze-a little slow, but fey and funny...
...Like Money. Peter Sellers in a new film version of Marcel Pagnol's Topaze-a little slow, but fey and funny...