Charlotte Clasis | |
|---|---|
 A 1922 caricature. | |
| Born | 20 September 1891 |
| Died | 17 April 1974 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1925–1952 (film) |
Charlotte Clasis (1891–1974) was a French theatre and film actress. [1] [2] Early in her career she poses as a model for the artist Auguste Renoir and was later cast by his son Jean Renoir in two of his films the 1925 silent The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) and the poetic realist The Human Beast (1938). [3]
Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé, known as Jean Gabin, was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai des brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève (1939), and Le plaisir (1952). During his career, he twice won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival, respectively. Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema.
Pierre Renoir was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother.
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who emigrated to France.
Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures.
Michel Simon was a Swiss actor of German origin. He appeared in many notable French films, including La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Head (1959), and The Train (1964).
Nora Gregor was an Austrian stage and film actress.
La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French crime drama film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, and is loosely based on the 1890 novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola.
Georges Augustin Eugène Saillard was a French film actor. He starred in some 52 films between 1909 and 1950.
Sylvia Bataille was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.
Picnic on the Grass is a 1959 French comedy film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring Paul Meurisse, Fernand Sardou and Catherine Rouvel. It is known in the United Kingdom by its original title or in translation as Lunch on the Grass. A satire on contemporary science and politics, it revolves around a prominent biologist and politician who wants to replace sex with artificial insemination, but begins to reconsider when a picnic he organizes is interrupted by the forces of nature. The film brings up issues of modernity, human reproduction, youth and European integration. It ridicules rationalist idealism and celebrates a type of materialism it associates with classical mythology and ancient Greek philosophy.
The Whirlpool of Fate or The Girl of the Water is a 1925 French silent drama film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Catherine Hessling as its heroine.
Jean Galland (1887–1967) was a French film actor.
Jean Bachelet was a French cinematographer who started as a newsreel cameraman and whose numerous theatrical films include The Rules of the Game (1939) for Jean Renoir.
Marguerite Renoir was a French film editor who worked on more than 60 films during her career. For many years, she and director Jean Renoir were lovers, and she edited many of his films. Although she and Renoir never married, she took his surname. She was a supporter of the French Communist Party.
Alain Renoir was a French-American writer and literature professor, son of filmmaker Jean Renoir and actress Catherine Hessling, and grandson of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Pierre Lestringuez was a French screenwriter and film actor. He wrote the screenplays for several Jean Renoir silent films during the 1920s.
Robert Gys (1901–1977) was a French art director.
Pierre Stéphen (1890–1980) was a French film actor.
Sapho is a 1934 French drama film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Mary Marquet, Jean-Max and Marcelle Praince.
André Gabriello (1896–1975) was a French film actor. A character actor known for his supporting roles, notable appearances included Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne (1936) and Maurice Tourneur's Cecile Is Dead (1944). He was the father of the actress Suzanne Gabriello.
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