"number of treatments, including one by Dennis Potter in 1975 and by James Costigan in 1976, before Pinter's final draft. Actors considered for the role of Charles Smithson/Mike included Robert Redford and Richard Chamberlain, and Sarah/Anna included Francesca Annis, Charlotte Rampling, Gemma Jones, and Fowles's choice Helen Mirren. The award-winning music was composed by Carl Davis and performed by an unidentified orchestra and viola soloist Kenneth Essex. ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" holds a rating of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews. The French Lieutenant's Woman (film) The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed"
"La Dame de chez Maxim (play) La Dame de chez Maxim (English:The Lady from Maxim's, The Girl from Maxim's) is a comedy play by the French writer Georges Feydeau which premiered on 17 January 1899 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. After taking an innocent night out with his male friends, a respectable man becomes mixed up with a coquette. It was in the style of the writer's other stage farces and has been described as ""Feydeau's masterpiece"". The play has been adapted into film a number of times beginning with the 1912 silent film ""La dame de chez"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"change, events that are mirrored in the experiences of the actors portrayed in ""Day for Night"". There are a wealth of other movies that revolve around the film industry itself, even if not centering exclusively on one nested film. These include the darkly satirical classic ""Sunset Boulevard"" about an aging star and her parasitic victim, and the Coen Brothers' farce ""Hail, Caesar!"" The script to Karel Reisz's movie ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), written by Harold Pinter, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to the Victorian love story of the book, Pinter creates a present-day background"
"(1928) an American film starring Joan Crawford and ""Adrienne Lecouvreur"" (1938) a Franco-German co-production directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Yvonne Printemps. Adrienne Lecouvreur (play) Adrienne Lecouvreur is a French tragic play written by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It portrays the life of the leading French actress of the eighteenth century Adrienne Lecouvreur and her mysterious death. It was produced April 14, 1849. In 1902 the play was used as the basis for the libretto of the opera ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" by Francesco Cilea and Arturo Colautti. It was also the basis of the operetta ""Adrienne"" with music by Walter"
"Adrienne Lecouvreur (play) Adrienne Lecouvreur is a French tragic play written by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It portrays the life of the leading French actress of the eighteenth century Adrienne Lecouvreur and her mysterious death. It was produced April 14, 1849. In 1902 the play was used as the basis for the libretto of the opera ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" by Francesco Cilea and Arturo Colautti. It was also the basis of the operetta ""Adrienne"" with music by Walter W. Goetze, produced in Hamburg in 1926. There have been a number of film versions of the play including ""Dream of Love"""
"Une Femme ou Deux Une Femme ou Deux is a French comedy film released in 1985. It was directed by who was also the screenwriter along with Élisabeth Rappeneau. The cast includes Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Ruth Westheimer, Michel Aumont, Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Yann Babilée. It was produced by Michel Choquet, and the music score was composed by Kevin Mulligan, Evert Verhees, Janet Aldrich and Jean Thielemans. It was released in the U.S. under the name One Woman or Two, the literal English language translation of its French language title. Gérard Depardieu makes an archeological find of a two-million-year-old"
"of admission to ""8 Women""."" The film was released on 6 February 2002 in France and opened at #3 in 493 theaters, grossing $5,246,358 in the opening weekend. It grossed $18,991,866 in the domestic market. The film's international gross was in total $42,426,583. 8 Women 8 Women () is a 2002 French dark comedy musical film, written and directed by François Ozon. Based on the 1958 play by Robert Thomas, it features an ensemble cast of high-profile French actresses that includes Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard. Revolving around"
"Paul Gavault Paul Armand Marcel Gavault (1 September 1866 - 25 December 1951) was a French dramatist, playwright and former director of the théâtre de l'Odéon. He enjoyed a hit with his 1906 comic play ""Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman"" which was co-authored by Robert Charvay. Paul Gavault was a screenwriter for the production company, working in particular for the films ""La Grande Bretèche"" (1909, after Balzac), ""Joseph vendu par ses frères"" (1909, codirected with Georges Berr), ""Le Luthier de Crémone"" (1909), ""Le Légataire universel"" (1909), ""Werther"" (1910, after Goethe), ""Madame de Langeais"" (1910, after Balzac), ""Carmen"" (1910, after Mérimée), ""Vitellius"""
"charlady, recalls hearing her son has died in action. The general (Frank Bradley) remembers making an error of judgement that led to the death of his men. Denise (Marie Lorraine), the French governess to the general's grandchildren, relives the return of her war hero lover, Pierre (Campbell Copelin), from the front; Pierre could not forgive Denise for having a child to a German officer who had raped her. The general's butler, James (Leonard Stephens), recollects living as a beggar on the Thames embankment after the war and seeing the suicide of an ex-soldier. The play was written by Les Haylen,"
"8 Women 8 Women () is a 2002 French dark comedy musical film, written and directed by François Ozon. Based on the 1958 play by Robert Thomas, it features an ensemble cast of high-profile French actresses that includes Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard. Revolving around an eccentric family of women and their employees in the 1950s, the film follows eight women as they gather to celebrate Christmas in an isolated, snowbound cottage only to find Marcel, the family patriarch, dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in"
"French. During World War II, he served as a captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre. Jacques François Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions. In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in ""Letter from an Unknown Woman"" (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre"
"home. Apart from the five Albertines, the only other character who appears in the play is her sister Madeleine. The original production in 1984 starred Huguette Oligny, Gisèle Schmidt, Amulette Garneau, Rita Lafontaine, Muriel Dutil and Paule Marier, and was directed by André Brassard. The play was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1984 Governor General's Awards. The first English production, by Tarragon Theatre in 1985, starred Susan Coyne, Patricia Hamilton, Susan Wright, Clare Coulter, Joy Coghill and Doris Petrie. The original translation was done by Bill Glassco and John Van Burek. This"
"The French Lieutenant's Woman The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. It was his third published novel, after ""The Collector"" (1963) and ""The Magus"" (1965). The novel explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels. Following publication, the library magazine ""American Libraries,"" described the novel as one of the ""Notable Books of 1969"". Subsequent to"
"Paris in 2001. Details on selected works include: Jean Audureau Jean Audureau (1932–2001) was a French writer and playwright known for the whimsey of his work. Jean Audureau was born in Cholet, France. He wrote his first play ""La Réception"" in 1956, and began his career in earnest in 1966 with ""À Memphis il y a un homme d’une force prodigieuse"". He continued his success with ""Le Jeune Homme"" (1970), ""La Lève"" (1975) and ""Félicité"" (1983). More contemporary plays include ""Katherine Barker"" (1993), ""À l’image d’Hélène"" (1996) and ""L’Élégant Profil d’une Bugatti sous la lune"" (2002). Andureau was noted for"
"Médiathèque Marcelle Maurette. Two different birth years, 1903 and 1909, are given by people writing about Maurette. Marcelle Maurette Marcelle Maurette (1903-1972) was a French playwright and screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play ""Anastasia"" (1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various awards and was a prominent French literary figure. Marcelle Marie Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to"
"the second outing of ""Eight Women"" was far more successful as it won the Hachette Prix du Quai des Orfevres for Best Play in 1961. Thomas was a prolific actor, playwright and movie director. If he is best known for ""Eight Women"" it is probably because it was adapted into a movie musical by François Ozon in 2002 with a star-studded line-up that included Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart. Thomas’s plays were never fashionable and he was often dismissed by French critics but he was a popular dramatist. By the time he was 18, he claimed he had"
"highlighted with several musical recordings, including a piano version of ""India Song"". She is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ""Hiroshima mon amour"" (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Born in French Indochina, to two teachers (immigrants from France), her first sexual experiences were those of an impoverished, clever, French girl, growing up in Indochina. She was sent to France before World War II"
"Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ""Hiroshima mon amour"" (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Born in French Indochina, to two teachers (immigrants from France), her first sexual experiences were those of an impoverished, clever, French girl, growing up in Indochina. She was sent to France before World War II (to continue her education), and experienced that war as a young woman in occupied France. Her experience of"
"Alexandre Dumas fils Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel ""La Dame aux Camélias"" (""The Lady of the Camellias""), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""La traviata"" (""The Fallen Woman""), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled ""Camille"" in English-language versions. Dumas (French for 'son') was the son of Alexandre Dumas ('father'), also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as ""The Three Musketeers"". Dumas was admitted to the (French Academy) in 1874 and awarded the"
"as her personal bodyguard and that Josef write a birthday play. She tells René to keep his distance – until midnight. Meanwhile, René’s wife arrives, in search of her missing husband, and Louis XV wants to catch his mistress together with her lover. But clever Madame Pompadour is able to avoid detection, as she presents René’s wife as her sister. The first English adaptation, by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham (lyrics), which opened at Daly's Theatre in London in 1923, ran for a very successful 469 performances. It starred Bertram Wallis as Louis XV, Derek Oldham as René, Huntley Wright"
"Maxim's"". Other adaptations, in three different languages, include a 1923 Italian film and a 1933 British version ""The Girl from Maxim's"" directed by Alexander Korda. In 2013, a musical version of ""That Lady from Maxim's"", adapted by Bryan Williams was presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. La Dame de chez Maxim (play) La Dame de chez Maxim (English:The Lady from Maxim's, The Girl from Maxim's) is a comedy play by the French writer Georges Feydeau which premiered on 17 January 1899 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. After taking an innocent night out with his male friends,"
"1970s was Richard Adams's heroic fantasy ""Watership Down"" (1972). Evoking epic themes, it recounts the odyssey of a group of rabbits seeking to establish a new home. Another successful novel of the same era was John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), with a narrator who freely admits the fictive nature of his story, and its famous alternative endings. This was made into a film in 1981 with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Angela Carter (1940–92) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Her novels include, ""The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman"""
"fille du tambour-major"", the very successful ""Madame Favart"" (1879), and ""The Blind Beggars"" (1882); for Robert Planquette's hit debut, ""Les cloches de Corneville"" (1878) and his ""Rip van Winkle"" (1882), ""Nell Gwynne"" (1884), ""Les voltigeurs de la 32ème (The Light Infantrymen of the 32nd Regiment)"" (1887), and ""Paul Jones"" (1889); for Edmond Audran's ""Olivette"" (1880; another hit), ""La mascotte"" (1881) and ""The Grand Mogul"" (1884, starring Florence St. John, Fred Leslie and Arthur Roberts); for Charles Lecocq's ""La fille de Madame Angot"" (1873); for Richard Genée's ""The Naval Cadets"" (1880); for Franz von Suppé's ""Boccaccio"" (1882); for Francis Chassaigne's ""Falka"""
"""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" starring Katharine Hepburn was produced based on the Maurice Valency translation of the play. The Madwoman of Chaillot The Madwoman of Chaillot () is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play is in two acts. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life. The original production was done with Giraudoux's frequent collaborator, actor and theater director Louis Jouvet, who played the Ragpicker. The celebrated French actress Marguerite"
"read every play published in French since 1900. Thomas died in 1989 in Paris. His most celebrated play may be overdue for re-evaluation. Robert Thomas (director) Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 3 January 1989) was a French writer, actor and film director. As a writer, almost from the beginning, he was fascinated by a curious genre that he helped invent: the comédie policière or comedy thriller, of which ""Eight Women"" is an example. In 1960, Thomas had a hit with ""Man Trap"", a humorous murder mystery which was an overnight success in Paris. Alfred Hitchcock bought"
"released in 1968. The film version of ""The Magus"" (1968) was generally considered awful; when Woody Allen was later asked whether he would make changes in his life if he had the opportunity to do it all over again, he jokingly replied he would do ""everything exactly the same, with the exception of watching ""The Magus""."" ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969) was released to critical and popular success. It was eventually translated into more than ten languages, and established Fowles' international reputation. It was adapted as a feature film in 1981 with a screenplay by the noted British playwright (and"
"English-language play and a French-American film. The play, Samuel A. Taylor's ""First Love"", opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on Christmas Day 1961 and closed on 13 January 1962, after 24 performances. In 1970, returning to its original title, it was adapted for the screen and directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri (then aged 49), who played Nina. Dassin, who was 59 years old at the time, chose to play Mosjoukine himself in the single scene that the character appears in the film. Ivan Mosjoukine Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin (; —18 January 1939), usually"
"his ""Most Hated Films"" list. Une Femme ou Deux Une Femme ou Deux is a French comedy film released in 1985. It was directed by who was also the screenwriter along with Élisabeth Rappeneau. The cast includes Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Ruth Westheimer, Michel Aumont, Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Yann Babilée. It was produced by Michel Choquet, and the music score was composed by Kevin Mulligan, Evert Verhees, Janet Aldrich and Jean Thielemans. It was released in the U.S. under the name One Woman or Two, the literal English language translation of its French language title. Gérard Depardieu makes an"
"Jean Audureau Jean Audureau (1932–2001) was a French writer and playwright known for the whimsey of his work. Jean Audureau was born in Cholet, France. He wrote his first play ""La Réception"" in 1956, and began his career in earnest in 1966 with ""À Memphis il y a un homme d’une force prodigieuse"". He continued his success with ""Le Jeune Homme"" (1970), ""La Lève"" (1975) and ""Félicité"" (1983). More contemporary plays include ""Katherine Barker"" (1993), ""À l’image d’Hélène"" (1996) and ""L’Élégant Profil d’une Bugatti sous la lune"" (2002). Andureau was noted for the quality of his composition. Audureau died in"
"by H. B. Farnie, opened at the Strand Theatre in London on 12 April 1879 starring Florence St. John in the title role, Claude Marius (1850–1896) as Favart, and Walter H. Fisher, then Henry Bracy (1846–1917) as Hector. The production famously ran for 502 performances, which was extraordinarily successful for the time. It is a fantasy plot built around the real-life celebrated French actress Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray (1727–1775), her playwright-manager husband Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792) and the actress-admiring general Maurice de Saxe (1696–1750), who also appears in the verismo opera ""Adriana Lecouvreur"". At an inn in Arras a coach arrives"
"Catherine Frot and Albert Dupontel, was followed by a screen adaptation of Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009), with, Michèle Laroque, Max von Sydow, Amira Casar and Mylène Demongeot in the lead roles. Schmitt is one of the most widely read and performed contemporary French-language authors in the world. His works have been translated into 45 languages and staged in over 50 countries. His plays are constantly being put on in new productions and revivals in both national and private theatres throughout the world and are now part of contemporary repertoire. In January 2012, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt announced that he"
"Marcelle Maurette Marcelle Maurette (1903-1972) was a French playwright and screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play ""Anastasia"" (1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various awards and was a prominent French literary figure. Marcelle Marie Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to General Georges Maurette and Marie-Louise Donbernard, on 14 November 1903. (See ‘Birthdate notes’ section lower down page.)"