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Colette (pronounced: [kɔ.lɛt]) was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.
Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie "Sido" Colette (nėe Landoy) in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, in the Burgundy Region of France. She studied piano as a child and received her primary school diploma with high marks in mathematics and dictation. In 1893, at age 20, she married Henry Gauthier-Villars, a famous wit known as "Willy", who was 15 years her senior. He was a writer, music critic, and described as a "literary charlatan and degenerate".
Her first books, the Claudine series, were published under her husband's pen name "Willy". Claudine still has the power to charm; in belle epoque France it was downright shocking, much to Willy's satisfaction and profit.
Actors: Rick Savage (actor), Patrick Devaney (actor), William Hellfire (miscellaneous crew), William Hellfire (actor), Jennifer Polansky (actress), Adam Ginsberg (actor), Adam Ginsberg (producer), Samantha Rivers Cole (actress), Heather Drew (actress), Joseph DiPietro (director), Joseph DiPietro (actor), Joseph DiPietro (writer), Joseph DiPietro (editor), Joseph DiPietro (producer), Howard Simon (actor),
Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Vincent Duvall (actor), Tyler Nimmons (editor), Tyler Nimmons (actor), Tyler Nimmons (producer), Tyler Nimmons (writer), Denise Dowse (actress), Rene Napoli (actor), Charlene Amoia (actress), Marian Zapico (actress), Sirena Irwin (actress), Derek Webster (actor), Julianna Pitt (actress), Stephen McCain (actor), Judith Scott (actress), Daniel Kash (actor),
Plot: Today is the day the Jones children change the course of their lives for better or worse. Raised by their mother Lydia Jones, a prominent black actress in the eighties with a knack for marriage, she's done it six times, has always told her children that 'you must take risks in life no matter what the consequence'. It not only makes for great art but for a great life'. Her daughter Lisa and her two adopted sons, Jack and Garret, find themselves up against the wall of change today with two options before them. They can either torch their past that has been guided by the family motto and start over. Or push through and break into the The Longer Day of Happiness.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Mike Nichols (actor), Soo-Won Lee (miscellaneous crew), Juliet Ladines (actress), Monique Phillips (actress), Louis Mercier (actor), Dawn Wilkinson (writer), Dawn Wilkinson (director), Dawn Wilkinson (producer), Trey Anthony (actress), Heather Salmon (actress), Nadine Ramkisson (actress), Melanie MacDonald (editor), Choclair (actor), Donald Carr (miscellaneous crew), Donald Carr (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Doug McClure (actor), Jack Lilley (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), Rex Linn (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Jack Kelly (actor), John Fleck (actor), Gene Barry (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), David Carradine (actor), Pete Antico (actor), Chuck Connors (actor), Brian Keith (actor), Don S. Davis (actor), Ray McKinnon (actor),
Plot: The Gambler Brady Hawkes is back and he's about to lose his primary means of livelihood, when a law banning gambling is about to be passed. But in honor of that there's going to be one last great poker game and all what one needs to join is one hundred thousand dollars. A madame named Burgundy Jones along with four other madames is willing to put up the money for Brady but first he has to compete against four other gamblers in the end it comes down to Brady and a man named Cantrell. Brady barely beats him. So he, and Burgundy, and an old friend of his, Ethan Cassidy sets for the game which is in San Francisco. But Cantrell's a sore loser and is following them hoping to get the money so that he can join the game. Also following them is a band of outlaws who were planning to steal the money but Brady left with it before they got there. And along the way they encounter and/or are aided by some famous individuals like Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman, Cheyenne Bodie, Diamond Jim Brady, Bat Masterson, Judge Roy Bean, and President Teddy Roosevelt. Brady is also feeling that he might not have what he has to win; it seems that some time ago in Europe he lost a big game to an Englishman, and by strange coincidence he is also at the game.
Keywords: alley-fight, ambush, bank-robbery, bar-shootout, based-on-song, bat-masterson, bolt-action-rifle, brawl, california, cameoActors: Adrián Ortega (actor), Millán Salcedo (actor), Millán Salcedo (actor), Millán Salcedo (actor), Juanjo Menéndez (actor), Antonio Ozores (actor), Millán Salcedo (actor), Valeriano Andrés (actor), Paco Catalá (actor), Millán Salcedo (actor), Blaki (actor), José Lifante (actor), Francisco Camoiras (actor), Emilio Fornet (actor), Josema Yuste (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Louise Chevalier (actress), Jenny Clève (actress), Jean Wiener (composer), Fernand Berset (actor), Hélène Dieudonné (actress), Jean Wiener (actor), Ronny Coutteure (actor), Bernard La Jarrige (actor), Paul Le Person (actor), Rémy Carpentier (actor), Serge Martel (actor), Yveline Ailhaud (actress), Michel Alban (actor), Alain Dhouailly (director), Claude Talpaert (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Nicolas Vogel (actor), Jacques Dhéry (actor), Maurice Travail (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Henri Coutet (actor), Carlo Nell (actor), Serge Reggiani (actor), Jacques Richard (actor), Umberto Orsini (actor), Yves Montand (actor), Robert Le Béal (actor), Daniel Lecourtois (actor), Pierre Maguelon (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Catherine Allégret (actress),
Plot: Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
Keywords: 1970s, accountant, adulterous-wife, anxiety, author, bankruptcy, based-on-novel, bistro, boxer, boxingActors: Jack Greenwood (producer), Russell Napier (actor), Wilfrid Brambell (actor), Edgar Lustgarten (actor), Kenneth J. Warren (actor), Jim O'Connolly (producer), James Eastwood (writer), John Serret (actor), John Moore (actor), Tommy Godfrey (actor), Peter Duffell (director), Howard Pays (actor), David Hawkins (editor), Michael Logan (actor), Rose Alba (actress),
Genres: Crime, Short,Actors: Jules Berry (actor), Gustave Gallet (actor), Pierre Moncorbier (actor), Paul Faivre (actor), Marcel Pérès (actor), Alexandre Rignault (actor), Jean Yatove (composer), Bernard Blier (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), Pierre Labry (actor), Julien Maffre (actor), Gaby André (actress), Yvette Lebon (actress), Jacques Daniel-Norman (director), Jacques Daniel-Norman (writer),
Plot: Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Jean Angelo (actor), Jean Angelo (actor), Eugénie Nau (actress), André Hugon (director), Paul Jorge (actor), Maxa (actress), Roger Pineau (actor), François Signerin (writer),
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