Word: pagnol
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...Marcel Pagnol (Topaze, The Baker's Wife, Harvest) became the first cinema writer admitted to the august French Academy. At 52, he is a veritable child prodigy among the Academy's ancients. One of the ceremonial questions put to Pagnol, who makes his characters talk like characters: "Can you write French...
...Welldigger's Daughter (Siritzky International) is not the best movie the French ever turned out, but it was made by the same skilled hands (writer-director-producer Marcel Pagnol) and features a couple of the same players as the successful Baker's Wife...
...world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...
...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...