Word: rigaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annabelle and Georges Rigaud act with a finesse that we wish American actors would imitate. When they are meant to be healthy young animals, they are. "The rake," Raymond Cordy, handles one scene almost as expertly as Charles Chaplin; he is a drunk, one you would tolerate eternally in your drawing room if he were always as comical...
...first fame with a simple love story. Sous Les Toits de Paris, his second fame and third with brilliant satiric farragos, Le Million and A Nous La Liberté. July 14 is a simple love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night the taxi-driver's wanton, black...
...chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with the sliding, friendly black eyes, the temper that all his huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays in July 14 one of the funniest drunks ever seen. There are half...