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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
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André Breton
André Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide () (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
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Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANNI; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian-Jewish mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by Polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.
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Arno Breker
Arno Breker (July 19, 1900 – February 13, 1991) was a German sculptor, best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, which were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of so-called "degenerate art".
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Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 –27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.
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Barbette (performer)
Barbette (December 19, 1899 – August 5, 1973) was an American female impersonator, high wire performer and trapeze artist born in Texas on December 19, 1899. Barbette attained great popularity throughout the United States but his greatest fame came in Europe and especially Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Berthe Bovy
Berthe Bovy (6 January 1887 – 26 February 1977), sometimes known as Betty Bovy, was a Belgian actress who appeared in theatre, films and television programmes for over 60 years.
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Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on fashion was such that she was the only person in the couturier field to be named on .
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Colette
Colette was the surname of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel Gigi (upon which the stage and film musical comedies by Lerner & Loewe, of the same title, were based).
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Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once).
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Dudley Fitts
Dudley Fitts (April 28, 1903-July 10, 1968) was an American teacher, critic, poet, and
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E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as ee cummings (in the style of some of his poems), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.
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Edith Piaf
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Edwige Feuillère
Edwige Feuillère (29 October 1907, Vesoul, Haute-Saône – 13 November 1998, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) was a distinguished French stage and film actress.
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Erik Satie
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in genres including art song, solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Critic Claude Rostand, in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article, described Poulenc as "half monk, half delinquent" ("le moine et le voyou"), a tag that was to be attached to his name for the rest of his career.
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Francis Steegmuller
Francis Steegmuller (July 3, 1906 – October 20, 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar.
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Georges Auric
Georges Auric (15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions.
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Georges Franju
Georges Franju (12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre (19 April 1892 - 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers' group Les Six.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
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Henri Bernstein
Henri/Henry Bernstein, Henri/Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.
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Henri Sauguet
Henri Sauguet (18 May 1901 - 22 June 1989), was a French composer. Born Henri-Pierre Poupard in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as his pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949, 1955, 1971), concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music. Although he experimented with musique concrète and expanded tonality, he remained opposed to particular systems and his music evolved little: he developed tonal or modal ideas in smooth curves, producing an art of clarity, simplicity and restraint.
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Jacques Charon
Jacques Charon (27 February 1920-15 October 1975) was a French actor and film director.
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Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
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Jean Marais
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Jean Wiener
Jean Wiener (19 March 1896, Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer.
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont (5 January 1911 – 30 January 2001) was a French actor.
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973) was a French filmmaker. Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, he later adopted the pseudonym Melville during World War II as a tribute to his favorite American author, Herman Melville. and subsequently kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
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Josette Day
Josette Day (July 31, 1914 - June 27, 1978) was a French film actress.
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Julia Migenes
Julia Migenes (born March 13, 1949) is an American soprano working primarily in musical theatre repertoire. She was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a family of Greek and Irish-Puerto Rican descent. She is sometimes credited as Julia Migenes-Johnson.
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has directed 24 works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle", and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner", and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema. This influence is evident from films like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1972).
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Les six
Les six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled "" (Comoedia, 16 January 1920) to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse whose music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and impressionist music.
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Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the muses of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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Louis Durey
Louis Durey (27 May 18883 July 1979) was a French composer.
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Lucien Clergue
Lucien Clergue (born August 14, 1934) is a French photographer.
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Lucien Lelong
Lucien Lelong (11 October 1889-11 May 1958) was a French couturier who was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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Léon Bakst
Léon Samoilovitch Bakst () (May 10, 1866 – December 28, 1924) was a Russian jewish painter and scene- and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes
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Léonide Massine
Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Мясин), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979) was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.
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Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury (born October 29, 1939) is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works. Commemorative issues have been published by Ahabkal and Aabar Eshechhi Phirey magazines on Malay Roychoudhury. Prof Swati Banerjee has based her MPhil thesis on his poems' anti-establishment features. Gale Research, based in Ohio, United States, published an autobiography of Roy Choudhury (in CAAS vol. 14), and both the Bangla Academy and the Northwestern University (Illinois), have archives of Roy Choudhury's "Hungry Literary Generation" publications. The Little Magazine Library and Research Centre, Kolkata has a complete section devoted to Malay Roychoudhury's works. Prof B.Dey of Assam University has been awarded Ph D for his 350 page seminal work on Malay Roy Choudhury and The Hungryalist Movement.
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Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer.
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María Félix
María Félix (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican actress, one of the icons of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico. She was commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific La Doña.
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Maurice Delage
Maurice Delage (13 November 1879 – 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist.
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Max Jacob
Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
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Michel Bouquet
Michel Bouquet (born 6 November 1925) is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1947.
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Natalie Paley
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica'' (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ravel
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Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903—12 December 1923) was a French author whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes and writing style and tone.
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Red Cross
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Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (pronounced in French; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style.
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Roberto Rosselini
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Roland Petit
Roland Petit (born January 13, 1924) is a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
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Ronald Duncan
Ronald Duncan (6 August 1914 - 3 June 1982) was a writer, poet and playwright, now best known for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946.
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Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( / Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev ) (31 March 187219 August 1929), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
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Silvia Monfort
Silvia Monfort (born Silvia Favre-Bertin; 6 June 1923, Paris–30 March 1991, Paris) was a French actress and theatre director. Daughter of the sculptor Charles Favre-Bertin and wife of Pierre Gruneberg.
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Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top (1959). In her lifetime she also received a BAFTA, an Emmy, Golden Globe, Cannes Film Festival recognition and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
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Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Hampstead, England, she began teaching ballet professionally and would become recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance teaching organisation.
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Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav (or Vatslav) Nijinsky (French transcription; ; / Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskiy; March 12, 1890 - April 8, 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary. The choreographer Bronislava Nijinska was his sister.
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W.H. Auden
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World War I
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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Yvonne de Bray
Yvonne de Bray (12 May 1887 - 1 February 1954) was a French stage and film actress.
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Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (; 19 December 1915 – 11 October 1963), born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads. Among her songs are "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "l'Accordéoniste" (1955), and "Padam... Padam..." (1951).
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Cannes film festival
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Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
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Essonne
Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France. It is named after the Essonne River.
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France
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Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo (French: Monte-Carlo, Occitan: Montcarles, Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) is one of Monaco's administrative areas. The official capital is the city of Monaco, which is coterminous with the country itself.
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Red Cross
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Yvelines
Yvelines () is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.
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Cocteau, Jean Filmography
- Deux de la Vague (2009)
- Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)
- Callas assoluta (2007)
- Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires (2007)
- Le cinéma de Jean Giono (2004)
- Les parents terribles (2003)
- Les parents terribles (2003)
- Belo (2002)
- Kerstmatinee 2001 (2001)
- The Walled Garden (1999)
- J.M. Barrie, la vérité sur Peter Pan (1999)
- Mia foni... mia poli (1996)
- Drug-Taking and the Arts (1994)
- Le bel indifférent (1993)
- Edwige Feuillère en scène (1993)
- Oedipus Rex (1993)
- Merlín (1991)
- La voix humaine (1990)
- Carole Farley in 'The Telephone' and 'La Voix Humaine' (1990)
- Sarah (1988)
- Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un inconnu (1985)
- Steel Cathedrals (1985)
- Oedipus Rex (1984)
- Orphée (1983)
- Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (1982)
- Cher menteur (1982)
- Il mistero di Oberwald (1981)
- Les parents terribles (1980)
- La dame de Monte Carlo (1979)
- Le bel indifférent (1975)
- L'aigle à deux têtes (1975)
- Oedipus Rex (1972)
- I mostri sacri (1971)
- Le désordre à vingt ans (1967)
- Der schöne Gleichgültige (1967)
- De onverschillige (1967)
- The Human Voice (1966)
- La machine à écrire (1966)
- De tweekoppige adelaar (1966)
- Mahdottomat vanhemmat (1964)
- Thomas l'imposteur (1964)
- Thomas l'imposteur (1964)
- La machine infernale (1963)
- Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (1962)
- Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (1962)
- Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (1962)
- La princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Les gens de lettres (1960)
- Die geliebte Stimme (1960)
- Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (1960)
- Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (1960)
- Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (1960)
- Anna la bonne (1958)
- Musée Grévin (1958)
- Anna la bonne (1958)
- Le bel indifférent (1957)
- La cravate (1957)
- C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles (1957)
- Django Reinhardt (1957)
- 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
- 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
- Der schöne Gleichgültige (1956)
- Pantomimes (1954)
- Pantomimes (1954)
- Intimate Relations (1953)
- La villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
- La villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
- La corona negra (1951)
- Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951)
- Colette (1951)
- Les enfants terribles (1950)
- Orphée (1950)
- Coriolan (1950)
- Ce siècle a cinquante ans (1950)
- Ce siècle a cinquante ans (1950)
- Les enfants terribles (1950)
- Les enfants terribles (1950)
- Orphée (1950)
- Coriolan (1950)
- Orphée (1950)
- Désordre (1949)
- Les noces de sable (1949)
- Jean Cocteau (1949)
- Les parents terribles (1948)
- Les parents terribles (1948)
- Les parents terribles (1948)
- L'aigle à deux têtes (1948)
- L'amore (1948)
- L'aigle à deux têtes (1948)
- Ruy Blas (1948)
- Aller et retour (1948)
- Romantici a Venezia (1948)
- Les parents terribles (1948)
- La belle et la bête (1946)
- La belle et la bête (1946)
- La belle et la bête (1946)
- La belle et la bête (1946)
- La belle et la bête (1946)
- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
- La Malibran (1944)
- De Jeanne d'Arc à Philippe Pétain (1944)
- Le baron fantôme (1943)
- L'éternel retour (1943)
- Le baron fantôme (1943)
- L'éternel retour (1943)
- La comédie du bonheur (1940)
- La comédie du bonheur (1940)
- Le sang d'un poète (1930)
- Le sang d'un poète (1930)
- Le sang d'un poète (1930)
- Le sang d'un poète (1930)
- Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma (1925)
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of 'Sergei Diaghilev' (qv), and was active in many art movements, but always remained a poet at heart. His films reflect this fact. Cocteau was also a homosexual, and made no attempt to hide it. His favorite actor was his close friend 'Jean Marais' (qv), who appeared in almost every one of his films. Cocteau made about twelve films in his career, all rich with symbolism and surreal imagery. He is now regarded as one of the most important avant-garde directors in cinema.
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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau Part 1
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Jean Cocteau Documentary #1
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A Documentary about Jean Cocteau/ Un Documentaire sur Jean Cocteau. [1] :::::::::::With English Subtitles!::::::::::::::: Jean Cocteau : mensonges et vérités Un film de Noël Simsolo Romancier, dramaturge, essayiste, homme de théâtre et de cinéma, dessinateur et peintre, Jean Cocteau avait tous les talents. Le beau portrait brossé par Noël Simsolo met en valeur la personnalité éblouissante du poète ainsi que son indépendance d'esprit et ses différents engagements. Superbement documentée, cette évocation comprend en particulier les témoignages de Jean Marais et Jean-Luc Godard. Générique Auteur-Réalisateur : Simsolo (Noël) Production / Diffusion : FIT production, INA Entreprise, Sept ARTE (La) Distribution : FIT production, Ina. DDA. Direction commerciale Thématiques Artiste / Cinéma / Cocteau (Jean) / Écrivain / Littérature / Peinture / Poésie / Portrait www.film-documentaire.fr Interviews: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Marais, Claude Samuel, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Cyril Robichez, Jean Bahilée, Henri Alekan. ENJOY!
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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau Part 4
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Criterion Trailer 6: Beauty and the Beast
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www.criterionco.com / www.criteriondungeon.com - This is the trailer from the criterion release of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. The trailer is Narrated by Cocteau himself.
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Orphée, 1949, by Jean Cocteau
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Through the Looking-Glass.
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John Maus, Jean Cocteau
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John Maus 'And heaven turned to her weeping', Jean Cocteau 'The blood of a poet' (L'sang d'un poete)
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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau Part 7
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La Belle et La Bête
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first meeting
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The Blood of A Poet
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- Published: 21 Apr 2007
- Updated: 21 Feb 2012
A clip from 'Le Sang d'un Poete' by Jean Cocteau
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The Blood of a Poet (1930): Statues and Mirrors p.1
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Scene from Jean Cocteau's 1930 film Le Sang d'un Poete.
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Le sang d'un poète (1930, Jean Cocteau)
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The Blood of a Poet // Le sang d'un poète (1930) The Blood of a Poet (French: Le Sang d'un Poete) (1930) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau and financed by Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, and it also features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette.[1] It is the first part of the Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in Orphée (1950) and was concluded with Testament of Orpheus (1960). Director: Jean Cocteau Writer: Jean Cocteau Stars: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller and Pauline Carton www.imdb.com
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Blood of a Poet Trailer 1930
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Le sang d'un poète Jean Cocteau I believe this is beautiful.
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LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHEE - Jean Cocteau (1960) extrait
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En 1960, Jean Cocteau, artiste multiformes, réalise son dernier film et s'y met en scène au milieu de sa mythologie personnelle. Un film à clefs devenu un film-culte.
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Jean.Cocteau.&.Hans.Richter.-.8x8.A.Chess.Sonata
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3first minutes
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Jean Cocteau & The Group of six
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Jean Cocteau and the group of six - Excerpt from the Comic Operetta Les Maries De La Tour Eiffel. In 1920s Paris, the Group of Six were enjoying a certain amount of notoriety. They were an ensemble of talented musicians, responsible for many innovative and charismatic performances, particularly at La Salle Huyghens in Montparnasse. At least five of them got together with Jean Cocteau to create this spectacular. This sequence was put together from material salvaged from a clearout of the library at the Institute Francais in Glasgow some years ago.
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Jean Cocteau speaks about Edith Piaf
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radio 40's
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La Belle et La Bête (1/9)
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Part 1/9 re-uploaded here: www.youtube.com
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Beauty and the Beast~Disney/Jean Cocteau (La Belle et La Bete)
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Someone requested this a long time ago and I finally got around to creating it. Jean Cocteau's classic adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" with the theme song of the Disney adaptation. Enjoy. (NOTE-I made this in widescreen so the subtitles wouldn't appear and you wouldn't have to worry about those to bars on the side of the screen)
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VANESSA REDGRAVE on Jean Cocteau, Comedy & Tragedy
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VANESSA REDGRAVE of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" on the TV series, THEATER TALK, May 11, 2007.
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Le Sang d'Un Poete
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by jean Cocteau renoised & remixed with audio 100filmow
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Joy division - Atmosphere (Jean Cocteau's Orphée, 1950)
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A student exercise. Editing: Ana Lagator
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Trentemøller - The Very Last Resort (Jean Cocteau)
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Music video concept. Audio track by Trentemøller - The Very Last Resort. Video sequences by Jean Cocetau - Le Sang d'un poèt (The Blood of a Poet) Directed by Jean Cocetau (1930)
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La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast)
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"Once Upon a Time..." Thus begins Director Jean Cocteau's 1946 masterpiece of black and white cinematography, "La Belle et la Bête." Cocteau (1889-1963) was a writer, poet, and painter with ties to the surrealists. The entrancingly beautiful visual poetry of this film (for example, candelabra made of human hands and NO singing teacups, thank you very much), dreamlike imagery and painterly compositions have rarely been duplicated since. Please see this movie uncut if you want to experience one of the finest fantasy films of all time!
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It wasn't only through his films, or even through his advocacy on behalf of the art of the cinema, that Jean Cocteau was a crucial influence on the French New Wave. His diary of the making of "Beauty and the Beast" served the movie-mad youths of the Cinématheque as a glimpse behind the screen, the...(size: 2.8Kb)
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| Coordinates | 44°06′16″N39°04′38″N |
|---|---|
| name | Jean Cocteau |
| birth name | Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau |
| birth date | July 05, 1889 |
| birth place | Maisons-Laffitte, France |
| death date | October 11, 1963 |
| death place | Milly-la-Foret, France |
| partner | Panama Al Brown(?)Jean Marais (1937–1963) }} |
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf and Raymond Radiguet.
Early life
Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a small village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte; a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine. He left home at age fifteen. He published his first volume of poems, ''Aladdin's Lamp'', at nineteen. Cocteau soon became known in the Bohemian artistic circles as ''The Frivolous Prince'', the title of a volume he published at twenty-two. Edith Wharton described him as a man "to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City..."In his early twenties, Cocteau became associated with the writers Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Maurice Barrès. In 1912 he collaborated with Léon Bakst on Le Dieu bleu for the Ballets Russes; the principal dancers being Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky. During World War I Cocteau served in the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. This was the period in which he met the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, artists Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, and numerous other writers and artists with whom he later collaborated. Russian choreographer Sergei Diaghilev persuaded Cocteau to write a scenario for a ballet, which resulted in ''Parade'', in 1917. It was produced by Diaghilev, with sets by Picasso, the libretto by Apollinaire and the music by Erik Satie. The piece was later expanded into a full opera, with music by Satie, Poulenc and Ravel. "If it had not been for Apollinaire in uniform," wrote Cocteau, "with his skull shaved, the scar on his temple and the bandage around thumb|left|140px|Portrait of Jean Cocteau by Federico de Madrazo de Ochoahis head, women would have gouged our eyes out with hairpins." Cocteau denied being a Surrealist or being in any way attached to the movement.
An important exponent of avant-garde art, Cocteau had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composers known as Les six. In the early twenties, he and other members of Les six frequented a wildly popular bar named Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a name that Cocteau himself had a hand in picking. The popularity was due in no small measure to the presence of Cocteau and his friends.
Friendship with Raymond Radiguet
In 1918 he met the French poet Raymond Radiguet. They collaborated extensively, socialized, and undertook many journeys and vacations together. Cocteau also got Radiguet exempted from military service. In admiration of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and also arranged for the publication by Grasset of ''Le Diable au corps'' (a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the "Nouveau Monde" literary prize. Some contemporaries and later commentators thought there might have been a romantic component to their friendship. Cocteau himself was aware of this perception, and worked earnestly to dispel the notion that their relationship was sexual in nature.There is disagreement over Cocteau's reaction to Radiguet's sudden death in 1923, with some claiming that it left him stunned, despondent and prey to opium addiction. Opponents of that interpretation point out that he did not attend the funeral (he generally did not attend funerals) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance of ''Les noces'' (''The Wedding'') by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo. Cocteau himself much later characterised his reaction as one of "stupor and disgust." His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental, due to a chance meeting with Louis Laloy, the administrator of the Monte Carlo Opera. Cocteau's opium use and his efforts to stop profoundly changed his literary style. His most notable book, ''Les Enfants terribles'', was written in a week during a strenuous opium weaning. In ''Opium, Diary of an Addict'', he recounts the experience of his recovery from opium addiction in 1929. His account, which includes vivid pen-and-ink illustrations, alternates between his moment-to-moment experiences of drug withdrawal and his current thoughts about people and events in his world. Cocteau was supported throughout his recovery by his friend and correspondent philosopher Jacques Maritain. Under Maritain's influence Cocteau made a temporary return to the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
''The Human Voice''
Cocteau's experiments with the human voice peaked with his play ''La Voix humaine''. The story involves one woman on stage speaking on the telephone with her (invisible and inaudible) departing lover, who is leaving her to marry another woman. The telephone proved to be the perfect prop for Cocteau to explore his ideas, feelings, and "algebra" concerning human needs and realities in communication.Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer/director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents. ''La Voix humaine'' was written, in effect, as an extravagant aria for Madame Berthe Bovy. Before came ''Orphée'', later turned into one of his more successful films; after came ''La Machine infernale'', arguably his most fully realized work of art. ''La Voix humaine'' is deceptively simple—a woman alone on stage for almost one hour of non-stop theatre speaking on the telephone with her departing lover. It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's "La Voix humaine", part of his larger work ''Harmonies poétiques et religieuses'' and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana ("voix humaine"), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters (late 16th century) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.
Reviews varied at the time and since but whatever the critique, the play represents Cocteau's state of mind and feelings towards his actors at the time: on the one hand, he wanted to spoil and please them; on the other, he was fed up by their diva antics and was ready for revenge. It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera ''La Voix humaine'', Gian Carlo Menotti's "opera bouffa" ''The Telephone'' and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani ''L'Amore'' (1948). There has also been a long line of interpreters including Simone Signoret, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann (in the play) and Julia Migenes (in the opera).
According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write ''La Voix humaine'', he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein. "When, in 1930, the Comedie-Française produced his ''La Voix humaine''... Cocteau disavowed both literary right and literary left, as if to say, 'I'm standing as far right as Bernstein, in his very place, but it is an optical illusion: the avant-garde is spheroid and I've gone farther left than anyone else.'"
Maturity
In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the beautiful daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometimes actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong. She became pregnant. To Cocteau's distress and Paley's life-long regret, the fetus was aborted. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Edouard Dermithe, whom Cocteau formally adopted. Cocteau cast Marais in ''The Eternal Return'' (1943), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Ruy Blas'' (1947), and ''Orpheus'' (1949).During the Nazi occupation of France, Cocteau's friend Arno Breker convinced him that Adolf Hitler was a pacifist and patron of the arts with France's best interests in mind. In his diary, Cocteau accused France of disrespect towards Hitler and speculated on the Führer's sexuality. Cocteau effusively praised Breker's sculptures in an article entitled 'Salut à Breker' published in 1942. This piece caused him to be arraigned on charges of collaboration after the war, though he was cleared of any wrongdoing and had in fact used his contacts to attempt to save friends such as Max Jacob.
thumb|right|Éric Satie Parade, théme de Jean Cocteau|150pxIn 1940, ''Le Bel Indifférent'', Cocteau's play written for and starring Édith Piaf, was enormously successful. He also worked with Pablo Picasso on several projects and was friends with most of the European art community. Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing the avant-garde into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.
Cocteau is best known for his novel ''Les Enfants terribles'' (1929), and the films ''Blood of a Poet'' (1930), ''Les Parents terribles'' (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), and ''Orpheus'' (1949).
Cocteau died of a heart attack at his chateau in Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France, on 11 October 1963 at the age of 74. It is said that upon hearing of the death of his friend, the French singer Édith Piaf the same day, he choked so badly that his heart failed. He is buried beneath the floor of the Chapelle Saint Blaise Des Simples in Milly-la-Forêt. The epitaph on his gravestone set in the floor of the chapel reads: "I stay with you" ("Je reste avec vous").
Honours and awards
In 1955 Cocteau was made a member of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium.During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy (Berlin), American Academy, Mark Twain (U.S.A) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.
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| name | John Maus |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth date | February 23, 1980 |
| origin | Austin, Minnesota, United States |
| genre | Synthpop |
| occupation | Composer, Performer, Record Producer, Professor of Philosophy |
| years active | 1991–present |
| label | Upset The Rhythm, Human Ear Music, Mistletone, Demonstration Bootleg Ltd. |
| associated acts | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Panda Bear, Holy Shit!, R. Stevie Moore |
| website | }} |
Discography
Albums
Compilation Appearances
With Ariel Pink
Underground Releases
External links
1Fan Site ''Mausspace'' 2Maus' Myspace Page 3Upset The Rhythm 4Essay and Interview 5Excerpt, "Listening Music"
References
Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:American indie rock musicians
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| name | Le Sang |
| birth date | 1920 |
| birth place | Hanoi |
| death place | Ho Chi Minh City |
| occupation | Martial artist |
| children | }} |
Le Sang (1920 – September 27, 2010) was the President of the Vovinam Vietnamese Martial Arts World Federation, a position he had held from 1960 until his death.
Biography
Le Sang was born to Le Van Hien (also known as Duc Quang) (1887–1959) and Nguyen Thi Mui (1887–1993). He was ill as a child, which made it difficult for him to walk, and his mother advised him to study a martial art in order to strengthen his legs.In Hanoi he learned Vovinam at Nguyễn Lộc's Vovinam school. Soon Le Sang was a teacher himself and, together with Nguyễn Lộc, continued to develop Vovinam.
In 1954 Le Sang accompanied Nguyễn Lộc to Saigon to open a Vovinam class. He continued to open additional Vovinam schools and, as of 2007, was still teaching the higher-ranked students.
In 1960, Nguyễn Lộc passed the leadership of Vovinam to Le Sang.
He was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and died in Ho Chi Minh City.
See also
References
External links
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| name | Édith Piaf |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Édith Giovanna Gassion |
| alias | La Môme Piaf(''The Little Sparrow'') |
| born | December 19, 1915Belleville, Paris, France |
| died | Plascassier, France |
| instrument | Voice |
| genre | CabaretTorch songsChanson |
| occupation | Singer, songwriter, actress |
| years active | 1935–1963 |
| label | Pathé Records, Pathé-Marconi |
| associated acts | }} |
Édith Piaf (, ; ; 1915–1963), born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads. Among her songs are "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "l'Accordéoniste" (1955), and "Padam... Padam..." (1951).
Early life
Despite numerous biographies, much of Piaf's life is shrouded in mystery. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of ''Rue de Belleville 72'', but her birth certificate cites the Hôpital Tenon, the hospital for the 20th arrondissement of which Belleville is part.She was named Edith after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping French soldiers escape from German captivity. Piaf—an ''argot'' colloquialism for "sparrow"—was a nickname she would receive 20 years later.
Her mother, Annetta Giovanna Maillard (1895–1945), was of French descent on her father's side and of Italian and Berber origin on her mother's. She was a native of Livorno, a port city on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. She worked as a café singer under the name ''Line Marsa''.
Louis-Alphonse Gassion (1881–1944), Édith's father, was a Norman street acrobat with a past in the theatre. Édith's parents soon abandoned her, and she lived for a short time with her maternal grandmother, Emma (Aïcha) Saïd ben Mohammed (1876–1930). Before he enlisted with the French Army in 1916 to fight in World War I, her father took her to his mother, who ran a brothel in Normandy. There, prostitutes helped look after Piaf.
From the age of three to seven, Piaf was allegedly blind as a result of keratitis. According to one of her biographies, she recovered her sight after her grandmother's prostitutes pooled money to send her on a pilgrimage honoring ''Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux'', which the author claims resulted in a miraculous healing.
In 1929, at 14, she joined her father in his acrobatic street performances all over France, where she first sang in public.
She took a room at Grand Hôtel de Clermont (18 rue Veron, Paris 18ème) and separated from him, going her own way as a street singer in Pigalle, Ménilmontant, and the Paris suburbs (cf. the song "''Elle fréquentait la Rue Pigalle''").
She joined her friend Simone Berteaut ("Mômone") in this endeavor, and the two became lifelong partners in mischief. She was about 16 when she fell in love with Louis Dupont, a delivery boy.
At 17, she had her only child, a girl named Marcelle, who died of meningitis at age two. Like her mother, Piaf found it difficult to care for a child while living a life of the streets, so she often left Marcelle behind while she was away, and Dupont raised her until her death.
Singing career
In 1935 Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris by nightclub owner Louis Leplée, whose club ''Le Gerny'' off the Champs-Élysées was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike. He persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness, which, combined with her height of only , inspired him to give her the nickname that would stay with her for the rest of her life and serve as her stage name, ''La Môme Piaf'' (''Parigot'' translatable as "The Waif Sparrow", "The Little Sparrow", or "Kid Sparrow"). Leplée taught her the basics of stage presence and told her to wear a black dress, later to become her trademark apparel. Leplée ran an intense publicity campaign leading up to her opening night, attracting the presence of many celebrities, including actor Maurice Chevalier. Her nightclub gigs led to her first two records produced that same year, with one of them penned by Marguerite Monnot, a collaborator throughout Piaf's life.On 6 April 1936, Leplée was murdered and Piaf was questioned and accused as an accessory, but was acquitted. Leplée had been killed by mobsters with previous ties to Piaf. A barrage of negative media attention now threatened her career. To rehabilitate her image, she recruited Raymond Asso, with whom she would become romantically involved. He changed her stage name to "Édith Piaf", barred undesirable acquaintances from seeing her, and commissioned Monnot to write songs that reflected or alluded to Piaf's previous life on the streets.
In 1940, Édith co-starred in Jean Cocteau's successful one-act play ''Le Bel Indifférent''. She began forming friendships with prominent people, including Chevalier and poet Jacques Borgeat. She wrote the lyrics of many of her songs and collaborated with composers on the tunes. In 1944, she discovered Yves Montand in Paris, made him part of her act, and became his mentor and lover. Within a year, he became one of the most famous singers in France, and she broke off their relationship when he had become almost as popular as she was.
During this time she was in great demand and very successful in Paris as France's most popular entertainer. After the war, she became known internationally, touring Europe, the United States, and South America. In Paris, she gave Atahualpa Yupanqui (Héctor Roberto Chavero)—the most important Argentine musician of folklore—the opportunity to share the scene, making his debut in July 1950. She helped launch the career of Charles Aznavour in the early 1950s, taking him on tour with her in France and the United States and recording some of his songs. At first she met with little success with U.S. audiences, who regarded her as downcast. After a glowing review by a prominent New York critic, however, her popularity grew, to the point where she eventually appeared on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' eight times and at Carnegie Hall twice (1956 and 1957).
Édith Piaf's signature song "La vie en rose" was written in 1945 and was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998.
Bruno Coquatrix's famous Paris Olympia music hall is where Piaf achieved lasting fame, giving several series of concerts at the hall, the most famous venue in Paris, between January 1955 and October 1962. Excerpts from five of these concerts (1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) were issued on record and CD and have never been out of print. The 1961 concerts were promised by Piaf in an effort to save the venue from bankruptcy and where she debuted her song "Non, je ne regrette rien". In April 1963, Piaf recorded her last song, "L'homme de Berlin".
World War II
During World War II, she was a frequent performer at German Forces social gatherings in occupied France, and many considered her a traitor; following the war she stated that she had been working for the French Resistance. While there is no evidence of this, it does seem to be true that she was instrumental in helping a number of individuals (including at least one Jew) escape Nazi persecution. Throughout it all, she remained a national and international favorite. Piaf dated a Jewish pianist during this time and co-wrote a subtle protest song with Monnot. According to one story, singing for high-ranking Germans at the ''One Two Two Club'' earned Piaf the right to pose for photographs with French prisoners of war, to boost their morale. The Frenchmen were supposedly able to cut out their photos and use them as forged passport photos.
Personal life
The love of Piaf's life, the married boxer Marcel Cerdan, died in a plane crash in October 1949, while flying from Paris to New York City to meet her. Cerdan's Air France flight, flown on a Lockheed Constellation, went down in the Azores, killing everyone on board, including noted violinist Ginette Neveu. Piaf and Cerdan's affair made international headlines, as Cerdan was the former middleweight champion of the world and a legend in France in his own right.In 1951, Piaf was seriously injured in a car crash along with Charles Aznavour, breaking her arm and two ribs, and thereafter had serious difficulties arising from morphine and alcohol addictions. Two more near fatal car crashes exacerbated the situation. Jacques Pills, a singer, took her into rehabilitation on three different occasions to no avail.
Piaf married Jacques Pills in 1952 (her matron of honour was Marlene Dietrich) and divorced him in 1956. In 1962, she wed Théo Sarapo (Theophanis Lamboukas), a Greek hairdresser-turned-singer and actor who was 20 years her junior. The couple sang together in some of her last engagements.
Death and legacy
Piaf died of liver cancer aged 47 at Plascassier, on the French Riviera, on 11 October 1963 (according to some, 10 October in Paris). She had been drifting in and out of consciousness for several months. It is said that Sarapo drove her body back to Paris secretly so that fans would think she had died in her hometown. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris next to her daughter Marcelle, where her grave is among the most visited.Although she was denied a funeral mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris because of her lifestyle, her funeral procession drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans. Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time since the end of World War II that he saw Parisian traffic come to a complete stop.
In Paris, a two-room museum is dedicated to her, the Musée Édith Piaf (5 rue Crespin du Gast).
In popular culture
Films
The film ''Piaf'' (1974) depicted her early years, and starred Brigitte Ariel, with early Piaf songs performed by Betty Mars.Piaf's relationship with Cerdan was also depicted in film by Claude Lelouch in the movie ''Édith et Marcel'' (1983), with Marcel Cerdan Jr. in the role of his father and Évelyne Bouix portraying Piaf.
''Piaf...Her Story...Her Songs'' (2003) is a film starring Raquel Bitton in her performance tribute to Edith Piaf. Bitton performs Piaf's most famous songs and describes her tempestuous life. Woven into the filmed concert is a luncheon in Paris, hosted by Bitton, in which some of Piaf's composers, friends, lovers, and family share their memories. These include Michel Rivgauche and Francis Lai, two of Piaf's composers, as well as Marcel Cerdan, Jr., son of the boxing champion who was her greatest love.
''La Vie en rose'' (2007), a film about her life directed by Olivier Dahan, debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2007. Titled ''La Môme'' in France, the film stars Marion Cotillard in the role that won her the Academy Award for Best Actress (Oscar), as Piaf. Dahan's film follows Piaf's life from early childhood to her death in 1963. David Bret's 1988 biography, ''Piaf, A Passionate Life'', was re-released by JR Books to coincide with the film's release.
Plays
Other
The minor planet of 3772 Piaf, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1982, is named after her.
Songs
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Filmography
Theatre credit
Discography
The following titles are compilations of Édith Piaf's songs, and not reissues of the titles released while Édith Piaf was active.
There are in excess of 80 albums of Édith Piaf's songs available on online music stores.
Édith Piaf on DVD
Books on Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf in contemporary music and popular media
See also
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 44°06′16″N39°04′38″N |
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| name | Vanessa Redgrave |
| honorific suffix | CBE |
| birth date | January 30, 1937 |
| birth place | Greenwich, London, England |
| spouse | Tony Richardson(m. 1962–1967, divorced)Franco Nero (m. 2006–present) |
| children | Natasha Richardson (deceased)Joely RichardsonCarlo Gabriel Nero |
| parents | Michael Redgrave (deceased)Rachel Kempson (deceased) |
| relatives | Corin Redgrave(brother, deceased)Lynn Redgrave(sister, deceased) |
| years active | 1956–present |
| occupation | Actress }} |
She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in ''As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including ''Mary, Queen of Scots'', ''Isadora'', ''Julia'', ''The Bostonians'', '' Mission: Impossible'' and ''Atonement''. Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards. She was also the recipient of the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship "in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film."
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, the sister of the late Lynn Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave.
Personal life and family
Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of ''Hamlet'' at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes (played by Sir Michael) had a daughter. She was educated at The Alice Ottley School, Worcester & Queen's Gate School, London before "coming out" as a debutante. Her late siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors.Redgrave's daughters, Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) and Joely Richardson (b. 1965) from her 1962–67 marriage to film director Tony Richardson, also built respected acting careers. Redgrave's son Carlo Gabriel Nero (''né'' Carlo Sparanero), by Italian actor Franco Nero (né Francesco Sparanero), is a writer and film director. She met Franco while filming ''Camelot'' in 1967, the year she divorced her husband Tony Richardson, who left her for the French actress Jeanne Moreau. Redgrave and Nero married on 31 December 2006. She is also the grandmother of Michaél and Daniel Neeson, Daisy Bevan, and Raphael and Lilli Sparanero.
In 1967, Redgrave was made a Commander (CBE) of the Order of the British Empire. It was reported that she declined a damehood in 1999.
From 1971 to 1986, she had a long-term relationship with actor Timothy Dalton, with whom she had starred in the film ''Mary, Queen of Scots''.
Within 14 months in 2009-2010, she lost both a daughter and her two younger siblings. Her daughter Natasha Richardson died on 18 March 2009 from a traumatic brain injury caused by a skiing accident. On 6 April 2010, her brother Corin Redgrave died, and on 2 May 2010, her sister Lynn Redgrave died.
Career
Stage
Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954. She first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958.In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolt's ''The Tiger and the Horse'', in which she co-starred with her father. In 1962 she played Imogen in William Gaskill's production of ''Cymbeline'' for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1966 Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'', adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark. She won four Evening Standard Awards Best Actress Evening Standards Awards for Best Actress in four decades. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival in 1984 for ''The Aspern Papers''
In the nineties, her theatre work included Prospero in ''The Tempest'' at Shakespeare's Globe in London. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her "outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades." Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson, and Claire Bloom.
In 2007, Redgrave played Joan Didion in her Broadway stage adaptation of her 2005 book, ''The Year of Magical Thinking'', which played 144 regular performances in a 24-week limited engagement at the Booth Theatre. For this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the role at the Lyttelton Theatre at The Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews. She also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a special benefit at New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgrave's daughter Natasha. The proceeds for the benefit were donated to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Both charities work to provide help for the children of Gaza.
In October 2010 she starred in the Broadway premiere of ''Driving Miss Daisy'' starring in the title role opposite James Earl Jones. The show premiered on 25 October 2010 at the John Golden Theatre in New York City to rave reviews. The production was originally scheduled to run through 29 January 2011 but due to a successful response and high box office sales, was extended to 9 April 2011. In May 2011, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for the role of Daisy in ''Driving Miss Daisy''.
In a poll of "industry experts" and readers conducted by ''The Stage'' in 2010, Redgrave was ranked as the ninth greatest stage actor of all time.
Early film work
Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in ''Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's ''Blowup''; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in ''Isadora'' (for which she won a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes film festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in ''The Trojan Women'', to Mary, Queen of Scots in ''the film of the same name''. She also played the role of Guinevere in the film ''Camelot'' with Richard Harris and Franco Nero.
''Julia'' and related controversy
In 1977, Redgrave funded and narrated a documentary film on the Palestinian people and the activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. That same year she starred in the film ''Julia'', about a woman murdered by the Nazi regime in the years prior to World War II for her anti-Fascist activism. Her co-star in the film was Jane Fonda (playing narrator Lillian Hellman), who, in her 2005 autobiography, noted that:When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in ''Julia,'' members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.
Redgrave's performance in ''Julia'' garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In her acceptance speech, Redgrave announced that neither she nor the Academy would be intimidated by "a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums – whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world, and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression."
Later in the broadcast veteran screenwriter and Oscar presenter Paddy Chayefsky told the audience members that
In 1978, Rabbi Meir Kahane published a book entitled ''Listen Vanessa, I am a Zionist'', which was later renamed ''Listen World, Listen Jew'', in direct response to Redgrave's comments at the Academy Awards. To this day many rightwing Jewish groups, such as the Jewish Defense League, consider Redgrave an opponent and a supporter of terrorism, citing remarks she has made such as, "Zionism is a brutal, racist ideology. And it is a brutal racist regime."
In June 2005 Redgrave was asked on ''Larry King Live'': "Regardless of distinctions about policy, do you support Israel's right to exist?" Redgrave replied that she did.
Later film career
Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in ''The Bostonians'' (1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in ''Second Serve'' (1986); Mrs. Wilcox in ''Howards End'' (1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role); crime boss Max in ''Mission: Impossible'' (1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave; they then decided to go with the real thing); Oscar Wilde’s mother in ''Wilde'' (1997); Clarissa Dalloway in ''Mrs. Dalloway'' (1997); and Dr. Sonia Wick in ''Girl, Interrupted'' (1999). Many of these roles and others, garnered her various accolades.Her performance as a lesbian grieving the loss of her longtime partner in the HBO series ''If These Walls Could Talk 2'' earned her a Golden Globe for “Best TV Series Supporting Actress” in 2000, as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries. This same performance also led to an “Excellence in Media Award” by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). The award honours “a member of the entertainment community who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people”. In 2004, Redgrave joined the second season cast of the hit FX series ''Nip/Tuck'', portraying Dr. Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara, who is played by her real-life daughter Joely Richardson. She also made appearances in the third and sixth seasons. In 2006, Redgrave starred opposite Peter O'Toole in the acclaimed film ''Venus''. A year later, Redgrave starred in ''Evening'' and the acclaimed ''Atonement'', in which she garnered a Broadcast Film Critics Association award nomination for her performance that only took up seven minutes of screen time. In 2008, Redgrave appeared as a narrator in an Arts Alliance production, id – Identity of the Soul. In 2009, Redgrave starred in the BBC remake of ''The Day of the Triffids'', with her daughter Joely. In the midst of losing her daughter, Natasha Richardson, Redgrave signed on to play Eleanor of Aquitaine in Ridley Scott's version of ''Robin Hood'', which began filming shortly after Natasha's death. Redgrave later withdrew from the film for personal reasons. The part was given to her ''Evening'' co-star Eileen Atkins. She was next seen in ''Letters to Juliet'' opposite her husband Franco Nero.
She had small roles in ''Eva'', a Romanian drama film that premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as well as in Julian Schnabel's Palestinian drama, ''Miral'' that was screened at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and played the role of Winnie the Giant Tortoise in the 2010 environmental animated film ''Animals United''. She has a supporting role in the Bosnia-set political drama, ''The Whistleblower'', which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Both ''Miral'' and ''The Whistleblower'' are scheduled for US theatrical release in 2011. Redgrave also narrates Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional upcoming documentary, ''Robinson in Ruins''.
She has also filmed leading lady roles for two upcoming 2011 historical films. This includes, Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' in which Redgrave plays Volumnia; and Roland Emmerich's ''Anonymous'' in which Redgrave plays Queen Elizabeth I.
Political activism
In 1980, Redgrave made her American TV debut as concentration camp survivor Fania Fénelon in the Arthur Miller-scripted TV movie ''Playing for Time'', a part for which she won an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in 1981. The decision to cast Redgrave as Fénelon was, however, a source of controversy. In light of Redgrave's support for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), even Fénelon objected to her casting. Redgrave was perplexed by such hostility, stating in her 1991 autobiography her long-held belief that "the struggle against anti-Semitism and for the self-determination of the Palestinians form a single whole."In 1984, Redgrave sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra, claiming that the orchestra had fired her from a performance due to her support of the PLO. Lillian Hellman testified in court on Redgrave's behalf. Redgrave won on a count of breach of contract, but did not win on the claim that the Boston orchestra had violated her civil rights by firing her.
In 1995, Redgrave was elected to serve as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
In December 2002, Redgrave paid £50,000 bail for Chechen separatist Deputy Premier and special envoy Akhmed Zakayev, who had sought political asylum in the United Kingdom and was accused by the Russian government of aiding and abetting hostage-takings in the Moscow Hostage Crisis of 2002—in which 128 hostages lost their lives to the Chechen terrorists during a Russian special forces (OMON) action – and guerrilla warfare against Russia.
At a press conference Redgrave said she feared for Zakayev's safety if he were extradited to Russia on terrorism charges. He would "die of a heart attack" or some other mysterious explanation offered by Russia, she said. On 13 November 2003, a London court rejected the Russian government's request for Zakayev's extradition. Instead, the court accepted a plea by lawyers for Zakayev that he would not get a fair trial, and could even face torture, in Russia. "It would be unjust and oppressive to return Mr Zakayev to Russia," Judge Timothy Workman ruled.
In December 2003 it was revealed that Redgrave had declined the offer of being made a Dame from Tony Blair's New Labour government.
In 2004, Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin Redgrave launched the Peace and Progress Party, which campaigned against the Iraq War and for human rights. However, in June 2005 Redgrave left the party.
Redgrave has been an outspoken critic of the "war on terrorism". During a June 2005 interview on ''Larry King Live'', Redgrave was challenged on this criticism and on her political views. In response she questioned if there can be true democracy if the political leadership of the United States and Britain does not "uphold the values for which my father's generation fought the Nazis, [and] millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime. [Such sacrifice was made] because of democracy and what democracy meant: no torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial...[Such] techniques are not just alleged [against the governments of the U.S. and Britain], they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being 'far left'...to uphold the rule of law."
In March 2006, Redgrave remarked in an interview with US broadcast journalist Amy Goodman: “I don't know of a single government that actually abides by international human rights law, not one, including my own. In fact, [they] violate these laws in the most despicable and obscene way, I would say.”
Goodman’s interview with Redgrave took place in the actress’s West London home on the evening of 7 March, and covered a range of subjects, particularly the cancellation of the Alan Rickman production, ''My Name is Rachel Corrie'', by the New York Theater Workshop. Such a development, said Redgrave, was an "act of catastrophic cowardice" as "the essence of life and the essence of theatre is to communicate about lives, either lives that have ended or lives that are still alive, [and about] beliefs, and what is in those beliefs."
In June 2006, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Transilvania International Film Festival, one of whose sponsors is a mining company named Gabriel Resources. She dedicated the award to a community organisation from Roşia Montană, Romania, which is campaigning against a gold mine that Gabriel Resources is seeking to build near the village. Gabriel Resources placed an "open letter" in ''The Guardian'' on 23 June 2006, attacking Redgrave, arguing the case for the mine, and exhibiting support for it among the inhabitants: the open letter is signed by 77 villagers.
In December 2007, Redgrave was named as one of the possible suretors who paid the £50,000 bail for Jamil al-Banna, one of three British residents arrested after landing back in the UK following four years' captivity at Guantanamo Bay. Redgrave has declined to be specific about her financial involvement but said she was "very happy" to be of "some small assistance for Jamil and his wife", adding, "It is a profound honour and I am glad to be alive to be able to do this. Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) is a concentration camp."
Filmography
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
| 1958 | Pamela Gray | ||
| 1966 | Leonie Delt | ||
| 1966 | Anne Boleyn | ||
| 1966 | ''Blowup'' | Unnamed | |
| 1967 | Guinevere | ||
| 1968 | '''' | Mrs. Clarissa Morris | |
| 1968 | '''' | Nina | |
| 1968 | ''Isadora'' | Isadora Duncan | |
| 1969 | ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
| 1969 | '''' | Flavia | |
| 1970 | Mary | ||
| 1970 | '''' | ||
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | ||
| 1971 | '''' | Sister Jeanne | |
| 1971 | Immacolata Meneghelli | ||
| 1971 | '''' | Andromache | |
| 1973 | '''' | Katherine Mansfield | Television film |
| 1974 | Mary Debenham | ||
| 1975 | Ann | ||
| 1976 | '''' | Lola Deveraux | |
| 1977 | Julia | ||
| 1979 | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1979 | ''Yanks'' | Helen | |
| 1979 | Heddi Lindguist | ||
| 1981 | Fania Fenelon | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | |
| 1982 | ''My Body, My Child'' | Leenie Cabrezi | Television film |
| 1983 | Queen | ||
| 1983 | Cosima Wagner | Television miniseries | |
| 1984 | '''' | Olive Chancellor | |
| 1985 | Jean Travers | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress | |
| 1985 | ''Three Sovereigns for Sarah'' | Sarah Cloyce | |
| 1985 | Nancy | ||
| 1986 | ''Comrades'' | Mrs. Carlyle | |
| 1986 | Sophia | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | |
| 1986 | ''Second Serve'' | Richard Radley / Renee Richards | |
| 1987 | ''Prick Up Your Ears'' | Peggy Ramsay | |
| 1988 | ''Consuming Passions'' | Mrs. Garza | |
| 1988 | '''' | Lady Alice More | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |
| 1990 | ''Romeo.Juliet'' | ||
| 1990 | Sister Crucifix | ||
| 1990 | ''Pokhorony Stalina'' | English journalist | |
| 1990 | Lady Torrance | Television film | |
| 1991 | '''' | Miss Amelia | |
| 1991 | ''Young Catherine'' | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | |
| 1991 | Blanche Hudson | Television film | |
| 1992 | Ruth Wilcox | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1993 | '''' | Kate Benson | |
| 1993 | '''' | Nivea del Valle | |
| 1993 | Sister Agata | ||
| 1993 | ''Great Moments in Aviation'' | Dr. Angela Bead | |
| 1993 | Florence Latimer | ||
| 1994 | ''Mother's Boys'' | Lydia Madigan | |
| 1994 | ''Little Odessa'' | Irina Shapira | Volpi Cup |
| 1995 | '''' | Miss Bentley | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1995 | ''The Wind in the Willows'' | Narrator | Television Film |
| 1996 | Max | ||
| 1996 | ''Two Mothers for Zachary'' | Nancy Shaffell | Television film |
| 1997 | Elsa Lubing | ||
| 1997 | Lady Speranza Wilde | ||
| 1997 | ''Mrs. Dalloway'' | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | |
| 1997 | Skelly | ||
| 1997 | ''Bella Mafia'' | Graziella Luciano | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |
| 1998 | Robin Lerner | ||
| 1998 | ''Lulu on the Bridge'' | Catherine Moore | |
| 1999 | ''Cradle Will Rock'' | Countess Constance LaGrange | |
| 1999 | Mrs. Ruttenburn | ||
| 1999 | Dr. Sonia Wick | ||
| 2000 | ''If These Walls Could Talk 2'' | Edith Tress (segment "1961") | |
| 2000 | Kalsan | ||
| 2000 | '''' | Maddy Bennett | |
| 2001 | '''' | Annalise Hansen | |
| 2001 | ''Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story'' | Countess Wilhelmina/Narrator | |
| 2002 | '''' | Clementine Churchill | |
| 2002 | Rodian's Mother | ||
| 2002 | ''Searching for Debra Winger'' | Herself | Documentary |
| 2002 | '''' | Esther Huish | Television film |
| 2003 | ''Byron'' | Lady Melbourne | Television film |
| 2003 | ''Good Boy!'' | ||
| 2004 | '''' | Woman | Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2004–2009 | ''Nip/Tuck'' | Dr. Erica Noughton | Television series; 10 episodes |
| 2005 | '''' | ||
| 2005 | ''Short Order'' | Marianne | |
| 2005 | '''' | Vera Belinskya | |
| 2006 | '''' | Sister Antonia | |
| 2006 | Valerie | ||
| 2006 | '''' | Penelope Keeling | Television film |
| 2007 | '''' | Roberta Elliot | |
| 2007 | Georgia Platts | ||
| 2007 | Ann Lord | ||
| 2007 | Older Briony Tallis | ||
| 2008 | Sky News Reader | ||
| 2008 | ''Ein Job'' | Hannah Silbergrau | Television film |
| 2008 | ''Gud, lukt och henne'' | ||
| 2009 | Eva | ||
| 2009 | '''' | Durrant | Television miniseries |
| 2010 | ''Letters to Juliet'' | Claire Smith-Wyman | |
| 2010 | '''' | Madeleine Rees | |
| 2010 | ''Miral'' | Bertha Spafford | |
| 2010 | Winnie | English version | |
| 2011 | |||
| 2011 | ''Cars 2'' | Mama Topolino | |
| 2011 | ''post-production'' | ||
| 2012 | ''Song for Marion'' | Marion | ''Filming'' |
References
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