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Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) is a French film released in September 1942, black and white, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. The film concerns the life of Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseilles merchant, who became Queen of Sweden and the founder of a dynasty.
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French:; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry , and followed his father into the theatrical profession.
Jul 20, 1998 · Sacha Guitry (born February 21, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 24, 1957, Paris, France) was a prodigious French playwright, director, and screenwriter who often acted in his own productions. Sacha, the son of the actor Lucien Guitry, achieved his first theatrical success with Nono (1905).
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A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitry’s wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriend—to whom he plans to finally propose—is uncontrollably drawn to a handsome American movie star.
Apr 10, 2018 · Synopsis. Sacha Guitry has been referred to as the Gallic Noël Coward - a celebrated polymath who worked as a stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and as an acclaimed playwright. Four Films 1936-1938 brings together a quartet of 1930s features by Guitry, each based on his own, earlier works for the theatre.
Aug 23, 2017 · I know nothing of the latter two films of their collaboration — 1953’s The Virtuous Scandal and 1957’s Les trois font la paire — but I have just enjoyed their first, 1951’s La poison, which Criterion released this week on home video.
Jul 26, 2015 · The Story of a Cheat. Considered Sacha Guitry’s masterpiece, this fleet, witty picaresque about a gambler and petty thief is a whimsical delight. Guitry himself stars as the tricheur looking back fondly on a life of crime, which he narrates with an effervescence matched by that of the film's skillful editing and cinematography.
