Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian–born British film director, producer, and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company.
Merle Oberon was a British actress who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). After her success in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). Oberon hid her mixed heritage out of fear of discrimination and the impact it would have had on her career.
Paul Henreid was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for two film roles: Victor Laszlo in Casablanca and Jerry Durrance in Now, Voyager, both released in 1942.
Aventure Malgache (1944) is a short British propaganda film in French directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. The title means Malagasy Adventure in English.
Lydia is a 1941 American drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Merle Oberon as Lydia MacMillan, a woman whose life is seen from her spoiled, immature youth through bitter and resentful middle years, until at last she is old and accepting. The supporting cast features Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver and George Reeves. The picture is a remake of Duvivier's Un carnet de bal (1937), which starred Marie Bell as the leading character.
Deep in My Heart is a 1954 American MGM biographical musical film about the life of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, who wrote the music for The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, among others. Leonard Spigelgass adapted the film from Elliott Arnold's 1949 biography of the same name. Roger Edens produced, Stanley Donen directed and Eugene Loring choreographed. José Ferrer played Romberg, with support from soprano Helen Traubel as a fictional character and Merle Oberon as actress, playwright, librettist, producer, and director Dorothy Donnelly.
"Pardon my French" is a common English-language expression.
The Broken Melody is a 1934 British musical drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon and Austin Trevor.
Ebb Tide is a 1932 British drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Dorothy Bouchier, Joan Barry, George Barraud, and Merle Oberon. It was shot at Elstree Studios and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Holmes Paul. It was produced and distributed by the British branch of Paramount Pictures as a quota quickie. It was based on the novel God Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson, which had previously been made into a 1926 American silent film of the same title.
Paul Bonifas was a French actor, born in Paris.
The Battle is a 1934 Franco–British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a 1909 French novel by Claude Farrère entitled La bataille.
Temptation is a 1946 American film noir thriller film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas. The film was based on Robert Smythe Hichens's 1909 novel Bella Donna. Other film adaptations of the novel were produced in 1915, 1923 and 1934.
Open Letter is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Alex Joffé and starring Robert Lamoureux, Geneviève Page and Jean-Marc Thibault. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Clavel. Location shooting took place around Paris.
Dans la vie tout s'arrange is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Cravenne and starring Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid and Jim Gérald. It is a French-language version of the 1951 film The Lady from Boston. The screenplay concerns an American woman who arrives in a small French town where she has inherited a chateau, only to discover it is already inhabited by squatters.
Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy film produced by Darryl Zanuck for 20th Century Films, directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon and Ann Southern. At the 8th Academy Awards, the “Straw Hat” number, choreographed by Dave Gould, won the short-lived Academy Award for Best Dance Direction, sharing the honor with “I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'” from Broadway Melody of 1936. The film, based on the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, is a story of mistaken identity, with Maurice Chevalier playing both a music-hall star and a business tycoon who resembles him. This was Chevalier’s last film in Hollywood for twenty years, and reprised familiar themes such as the straw hat and a rendering of the French song "Valentine". This is also the last film to be distributed by Twentieth Century Pictures before it merged with Fox Film in 1935 to form 20th Century Fox.
Last of the Buccaneers is a 1950 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Paul Henreid as Jean Lafitte.
Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman is a 1950 French comedy film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Odile Versois, Fernand Gravey and Robert Arnoux. It is based on the 1906 play of the same title by Robert Charvay and Paul Gavault which Berthomieu had previously made into a 1933 film Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman.
Monsieur Fabre is a 1951 French historical comedy film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Pierre Fresnay, Elina Labourdette and André Randall. It was produced by Diamant-Berger and Walter Futter. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. It was on 35mm film, in 1,37:1 format, with monophonic sound. It was released in France on 5 July 1951.
The Porter from Maxim's is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Maurice Cammage and starring Bach, Roger Tréville and Geneviève Callix. It is based on the 1923 play of the same name which has been made into several film adaptations.
Their Last Night is a 1953 French crime drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Jean Gabin, Madeleine Robinson and Robert Dalban. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq.
