French for Love

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French for Love
Genrelanguage instruction
Created byGerard Arthur
Sheila Arthur
Presented byGerard Arthur
Sheila Arthur
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
Production
ProducerDenyse Adam
Production locationMontreal
Original release
Network CBC Television
Release3 January 1965 (1965-01-03) –
10 July 1966 (1966-07-10)

French for Love was a Canadian French-language instructional television series which aired on CBC Television from 1965 to 1966.

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Premise

This Montreal-produced series taught English audiences how to speak in French. Initial hosts Gerard and Sheila Arthur, a married couple who also created the series, were previously featured on CBC Radio's Time For French series. The Arthurs performed sketches to demonstrate French conversation in a manner that could be explained to an English audience. Other features of the episodes included "What The Dictionaries Don't Tell" which described French nuances and idioms, plus "Pages choisies" where Gerard Arthur read a French passage then translated this to English.

New hosts, Felixe Fitzgerald and Paul Hebert, appeared from 28 February 1965 when Gerard Arthur left the series and Sheila Arthur focused on scriptwriting. The Arthurs reappeared in the 1966 season but left the performance of the instructional sketches to actors such as Raymond Cosgrove, Yvon Dufour, Lise Lasalle and Carol Zorro. [1]

Scheduling

The half-hour series was broadcast regionally on CBMT from 1962. Its first nationally broadcast episodes were aired Sundays at 2:00 p.m. from 3 January to 30 May 1965. The Time For French CBC Radio series was renamed to French For Love later that year. Episodes of the second network-wide season were broadcast Sundays at 3:30 p.m. from 3 April to 10 July 1966.

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References

  1. ↑ Corcelli, John (May 2005). "French for Love". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
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