Henri Meilhac was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's Manon.
Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach.
The history of French animation is one of the longest in the world, as France has created some of the earliest animated films dating back to the late 19th century, and invented many of the foundational technologies of early animation.
Francesca Bertini was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century.
James Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage actor and stage director.
Francis de Miomandre was a French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French.
Augusto Genina was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.
Gabriel Signoret was a French silent film actor.
Frou Frou, Frou-Frou, or Fru Fru may refer to:
Albert Capellani was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and another, film director Roger Capellani.
Berthe Jalabert was a French stage and film actress. She was the daughter of the actor, theatre director, and playwright Louis Péricaud (1835-1909).
Suzy Prim was a French actress.
Marie Du Fresnay, aka Maria du Fresnay, née Daminois, was a French writer who was born in 1809 and died in 1892.
Guido Trento was an Italian stage and film actor.
Ange Antoine Guy du Fresnay was knight of the Order of Carlos III of Spain and director of The Phoenix Companies in France.
Adolf Edgar Licho was a Russian-German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was born of Jewish parentage in Kremenchug which was then part of the Russian Empire, but emigrated to Germany to work in the theatre and then later in silent films. Following the Nazi Party's takeover in 1933 he went into exile, first in Austria and France and later in the United States. In Hollywood he played minor roles until his death in 1944.
Yvonne Garrick was a French stage actress.
Lucy Gérard, born Marie-Louise Philiberte Lucy Gérard, was a French actress on stage and in silent films; in her later career she was billed as Lucy Mareil.
The Phantom Carriage or The Phantom Wagon is a 1939 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell and Micheline Francey. It is based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Selma Lagerlöf, which had previously been adapted into the 1921 Swedish silent film The Phantom Carriage by Victor Sjöström.
The 1920 Algerian Political Rights Petition was the first petition to claim the political rights of Algerians within French Algeria following the 1919 Algerian municipal elections.
