Word: rard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfan the Tulip (Filmsonor; Lopert Films) is a legendary French hero who, to judge from this picture, was a sort of combination Robin Hood and Roy Rogers. During the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) has enough romantic adventures for a couple of action movies: he makes love to the king's pretty daughter and to the voluptuous daughter of a recruiting sergeant, rescues the Marquise de Pompadour from highway robbers, escapes from the hangman's noose by the skin of his profile, brings about the surrender of France's enemies on the battle...
When the French Poet Gérard de Nerval was asked why he walked a lobster on a leash down a Paris boulevard one day in the 1840s, he replied: "He knows the secrets of the sea." Until very modern times, most of the sea's secrets have been known only to the sea's inhabitants, and they never tell. In the last two decades, however, a new species has joined the finny tribe: the men-fish, who, with flippers on their feet and an air tank on their backs, go down into the waters and come back to tell what...
Schumann: Dichterliebe: Wolf: Four Songs (Gérard Souzay; Jacqueline Bonneau, pianist; London). Souzay's melting baritone blends intimate crooning and masculine vigor in performances of firm conviction. Recording: mellow...