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Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier , 1842-81, American poet and musician, b. Macon, Ga., grad. Oglethorpe College 1860. His first work, the novel Tiger-Lilies (1867), was based on his experiences as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. An accomplished musician, Lanier was first flutist of the Peabody Orchestra, Bal... Read more
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motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922-, French virtuoso flutist. He has played in several chamber groups but is most celebrated as a soloist of great brilliance. ... Read more
Jean de Meun
Jean de Meun , d. 1305, French poet, also known as Jean Chopinel (or Clopinel) of Meung-sur-Loire. He wrote the second part of the Roman de la Rose and made translations from Latin, including the letters of Abelard to Heloise. Called by some the Voltaire of the Middle Ages, Jean de Meun was a man ... Read more
Jean Antoine de Baïf
Jean Antoine de Baïf , 1532-89, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad ). He wrote sonnets, didactic and satirical poems, and plays. ... Read more
Jean de Rotrou
Jean de Rotrou , 1609-50, French dramatist. One of the Cinq auteurs, five playwrights commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, Rotrou wrote many plays, including the noble and effective tragedies Saint-Genest (1646) and Venceslas (1647). He was a friend and rival of Corneille. ... Read more
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely , 1925-91, Swiss artist. Tinguely is best known for his "metamechanics," electromechanical sculptures that perform tasks such as painting or playing music. Most celebrated of these works is Homage to New York (1959), a machine that destroyed itself when set into motion. ... Read more
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer 1894-1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a collection of stories, poems, and sketches about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. ... Read more
Jean Cousin
Jean Cousin , c.1490-c.1560, celebrated French painter, designer, and sculptor. To him have been attributed the designs for the windows of various churches of Sens and Paris and a painting, Eva Prima Pandora (Louvre). He also designed tapestries for the Cathedral of Langres. Much of his work has b... Read more
Jean Eugène Robert Houdin
Jean Eugène Robert Houdin or Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin , 1805-71, French conjurer and magician. Originally a clockmaker, he was celebrated for his optical illusions and mechanical devices and for his attributing his "magic" to natural instead of supernatural means. Houdin was t... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Jean Gabin"

Jean Gabin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jean Gabin , 1904-76, French film actor, b. Paris; his original name was Alexis Moncourge. Gabin's work as a cabaret entertainer led to a career in films. He was one of...
Hédiard, Ferdinand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...has drawn the notice of the rich and famous, such as the writers Alexandre Dumas, Colette, and Jean Cocteau; performing artists such as Jean Gabin, Marlene Dietrich, and Charlie Chaplin; and a loyal following of princes, maharajas, and politicians...

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Gabin, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers GABIN, Jean Nationality: French. Born: Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris...orge and Morcorge; father a cafe entertainer who performed using the name Gabin. Military Service: Joined Free French, 1943; participated in Normandy...
Le Quai des Brumes
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...with Paul Bertrand; music: Maurice Jaubert. Cast: Jean Gabin (Jean ); Michèle Morgan (Nelly ); Michel Simon...Missiaen, Jean-Claude, and Jacques Siclier, Jean Gabin, Paris, 1977. Ellis, Jack C., A History of Film...
Le Jour se Lève
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...designer: Boris Bilinsky. Cast: Jean Gabin (François ); Jacqueline...Claude, and Jacques Siclier, Jean Gabin, Paris, 1977. Betti, Jean-Michel...Missouri, 1979. Milhaud, Sylvie, Jean Gabin, Paris, 1981. Rachline, Michel...
Pépé le Moko
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...and Mohamed Yguerbouchen. Cast: Jean Gabin (Pépé le Moko...Paris, 1977. Milhaud, Sylvie, Jean Gabin, Paris, 1981. Brunelin, Andre...March 1941. Duvillars, Pierre, "Jean Gabin's Instinctual Man," in Films...
La Bête Humaine
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Lourie; music: Joseph Kosma. Cast: Jean Gabin (Jacques Lantier ); Simone Simon...Lauvergne ); Berlioz (Grand Morin ); Jean Renoir (Cabuche ). Publications...make a film about trains" for Jean Gabin. Disappointed at the collapse of...
La Grande Illusion
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Stroheim (von Rauffenstein ); Jean Gabin (Maréchal ); Pierre...1986. Viry-Babel, Roger, Jean Renoir: Le Jeu et la rè...Brunelin, André, Gabin, Paris, 1987. Renoir, Jean, Renoir on Renoir, New York...
Le Diable au Corps
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...minutes. Released 1947. Screenplay: Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, from a...Presle (Marthe ); Denise Grey; Jean Debucourt. Publications Script...xE9;rard Philipe as the heir of Jean Gabin. But the limpid expressiveness of...
Hakim, Raymond and Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...colleagues (including Julien Duvivier and Jean Renoir) in fleeing to California...ve, with Henry Fonda replacing Jean Gabin, is notable, while the limp comedy...effectively ended the Hollywood career of Jean-Pierre Aumont. The youngest Hakim...
Simon, Simone
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Girls' Dormitory ; 1938—in French film with Jean Gabin, La Bête humaine ; on U.S. stage in Three...in Cinéma 90, November 1990. Douin, Jean-Luc, "Simone sort ses griffes," in Tél...

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Jean Gabin: a French screen legend remade.(ARTS & CULTURE)(FROM THE VAULTS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/25/2003; 700+ words ; ...act adjustment that flattered Jean Gabin. Although still a formidable...the latter part of the 1930s by Gabin collaborations with Jean Renoir and Marcel Carne. The...than classic or indispensable. Jean Gabin returned to France in 1944 as...
Jean Gabin rocks the Casbah in `Pepe Le Moko'.(Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 8/9/2002; ; 560 words ; ...Sunday. four stars (out of four) Jean Gabin was the ORIGINAL International Man...Casablanca" and "To Have and Have Not," Gabin starred in "Pepe Le Moko," the...whether they love him or hate him. Gabin's mix of dock-worker ruggedness...
Jean Gabin Ushers in Era of Dark French Gangster Films
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 9/3/2003; ; 542 words ; ...for Jules Dassin's Rififi (1955) and Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur...Pas au Grisbi marked Popular Front icon Jean Cabin's post-World War II comeback...have everyone and the camera dote upon Gabin, a congenital loner whose bluff features...
Carne, Gabin: Melodrama masters; 'Quai,' 'Le Jour' show evolution.(ARTS & CULTURE)(FROM THE VAULTS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/14/2004; 700+ words ; ...1939. Both movies starred Jean Gabin as doomed protagonists: an army deserter named Jean who falls in love with...Shadows" had ended with Mr. Gabin's character gunned down...instant infatuation of Jean and Nelly, who meet in...
'BANDITS': AN HOMAGE TO GABIN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/28/1989; ; 627 words ; ...succumbed. It's an homage as well to Jean Gabin, the stoical and archetypally fatalistic...day Gabin dies in 1976. "Without Gabin, gangster movies are sunk," says Simon (Jean Yanne), Lelouch's Gabin figure. Suave, worldly, cool, experienced...
Renoir All Over Again.(new print of Jean Renoir's 'Grand Illusion')
Magazine article from: The Nation; 8/23/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...this superfluity: A fresh print of Jean Renoir's masterpiece is now making...against the plastered wall that was Jean Gabin's mug. In short, Grand Illusion...working-class Lieutenant Marechal (Gabin) fall into German hands-specifically...
Jean Delannoy
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 8/14/2008; ; 693 words ; ...ihn im "Salle des ftes Polyvalente Jean Delannoy", dem Festsaal des Rathauses...Wie verlorene Hunde" (1955) mit Jean Gabin um; ",Chiens perdus sans collier...durch seinen Lieblingsschauspieler Jean Gabin die Figur des Kommissar Maigret wieder...
Obituary: Jean Sablon
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/3/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...famous Resistants' song. Jean, too, studied music and...appearance, alongside Jean Gabin, at the Theatre des Bouffes...film role, again with Gabin, in Chacun sa chance...On his return to Paris, Jean Sablon became an habitue...
OBITUARY:Jean-Patrick Manchette
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/13/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...manchettes means handcuffs. So it is a sweet irony that Jean-Patrick Manchette was a leading French crime writer...stereotype familiar to whodunnit fans from the films of Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo - displaying the usual production...
Obituary: Jean-Pierre Aumont
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...in the Swiss director Jean Choux' Jean de la Lune, playing opposite the...peasant opposite Madeleine Renaud and Jean Gabin. Aumont appeared in 1935 as a timid...Simenon's Quartier negre (1936) to Jean Giraudoux' fantasy version of history...