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Young Mr. Lincoln, with Charles Levine's Bessie Smith, Thursday, October 3, 7:30; Marcel Pagnol's Ceasar, with a Chaplin short, Sunday, October...
John Ford's The Informer (1935) and a 30-minute short, The River, by Pare Lorentz. Thursday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m. Fanny, directed by Marc Allegret and written by Marcel Pagnol (1932), plus a Chaplin short. Sunday, Sept...
Died. Marcel Pagnol, 79, Provençal schoolteacher turned playwright (Topaze) and filmmaker (The Baker's Wife) whose tender stage-screen trilogy of life on the Marseille waterfront was the basis of the Broadway musical Fanny (1954-56); in Paris...
...practical joke," fumed Dramatist Marcel Pagnol, 75. "It is not serious," snapped Novelist Jules Remains, 85. "Déplacé, indecent and outrageous," sputtered Novelist Maurice Druon, 52. What shocked the "immortals" was the fact that a Frenchwoman had been accepted as a candidate for election to the all-male Academic Francaise for the first time since Cardinal Richelieu founded the pantheon of intellectuals 335 years...
...Born in Montreal, Geneviève went through the familiar Catholic training. "For twelve years I was in a convent school," she recalls. "Everything was very comme il faut, very strict, but I remained myself." Then she was caught by one of the sisters reading a proscribed volume, Marcel Pagnol's Fanny. On the school's insistence, Geneviève made her first big exit. Soon afterward she enrolled in the Province of Quebec Conservatory of Drama...