Gaston Baty, whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. His stage adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was presented in an English translation on Broadway in 1937. Constance Cummings played the title role. Baty is also the author of a play entitled Dulcinea, which has been filmed twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that takes its inspiration from Miguel de Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote and uses some of its characters. The second film version, made in 1963, starred Millie Perkins as Dulcinea, and was released in the U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha. He wrote Vie de l'art théatral, des origines a nos jours in 1932 with René Chavance.
Marie Glory was a French actress.
Jean d'Yd was the stage name of Jean Paul Félix Didier Perret. He was a French actor and comedian, and was born in Paris on the 17 May 1880. He died in Vernon, Eure, France on the 14 May 1964.
Théâtre Hébertot[te.ɑtʁ e.bɛʁ.to] is a theatre at 78, boulevard des Batignolles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The theatre, completed in 1838 and opening as the Théâtre des Batignolles, was later renamed Théâtre des Arts in 1907. It acquired its present name in 1940 after playwright and journalist Jacques Hébertot.
The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theatre at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
Julien Bertheau was a French actor.
Germaine Dermoz was a French film and theatre actress of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Christian-Gérard, real name Christian Gérard Mazas, was a French stage and film actor as well as theater director.
Michel Duran, pen name of Michel Joseph Durand, was a French actor, author, dialoguist and screenwriter. He was the son of Michel Jacques Durand and Marie Exbrayat.
Charles Dechamps was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. After he died in 1959, he was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Renée Passeur was a French actress and singer. Extravagant personality of the so-called Tout-Paris, Renée Passeur embodied eccentric characters in films. She was the spouse of author and screenwriter Steve Passeur (1899-1966).
Jean Sarment, real name Jean Bellemère, was a French film and stage actor and a writer. He was nominated administrator of the Comédie-Française in July 1944 although he won't occupy the position.
Jacques Erwin was a French film and stage actor.
The théâtre des Mathurins, also called Les Mathurins, is a Parisian theatre located 36, rue des Mathurins in the 8th arrondissement of Paris established in 1897.
Lucien Arnaud was a French film and stage actor.
Maxime Fabert, real name Robert Émile Jaillon, was a French stage and film actor. Maxime Fabergé was managing theater of the Comédie-Wagram from 1946 to 1962.
Marcelle Tassencourt was a French actress and theatre director.
Jean-Marie Serreau was a 20th-century French actor, theatre director and a former student of Charles Dullin.
