Jacques Deval Biography

French playwright, screenwriter and film director

Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Novels

  • Marie Galante (1931)

Plays

  • Une faible femme; a comedy in three acts (1920)
  • Dans sa candeur naïve; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as Her Cardboard Lover (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse
  • Étienne; a play in three acts (1930)
  • Mademoiselle; a comedy in three acts (1932)
  • Tovarich; a play in four acts (1933)
  • Marie Galante; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel Marie Galante. Music by Kurt Weill (1934)
  • Soubrette; a comedy in three acts (1938)
  • Oh, Brother!; a comedy in three acts (1945)
  • La Femme de ta jeunesse; a play in three acts (1947)
  • Le Rayon des jouets; a comedy in three acts (1951)
  • Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; a play in two acts (1955)
  • La Prétentaine; a comedy in two acts (1957)
  • Romancero; a play in three acts (1958)

Filmography

  • The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
  • The P*ionate Plumber, directed by Edward Sedgwick (1932, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
  • A Weak Woman, directed by Max de Vaucorbeil (France, 1933, based on the play Une faible femme)
  • Étienne, directed by Jean Tarride (France, 1933, based on the play Étienne)
  • Journal of a Crime, directed by William Keighley (1934, remake of the 1933 film Une vie perdue)
  • Marie Galante, directed by Henry King (1934, based on the novel Marie Galante)
  • Tovaritch, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1935, based on the play Tovaritch)
  • Tovarich, directed by Anatole Litvak (1937, based on the play Tovaritch)
  • Say It in French, directed by Andrew L. Stone (1938, based on the play Soubrette)
  • Her Cardboard Lover, directed by George Cukor (1942, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
  • Una vírgen moderna, directed by Joaquín Pardavé (Mexico, 1946, based on the play Mademoiselle)
  • Miss Tatlock's Millions, directed by Richard Haydn (1948, based on the play Oh, Brother!)
  • Tuesday's Guest, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1950, based on the play La Femme de ta jeunesse)
  • Women's Club, directed by Ralph Habib (France, 1956, remake of the 1936 film Women's Club)
  • La ragazza di mille mesi:, directed by Steno (Italy, 1961, based on the play Le Rayon des jouets)
  • Geliebte Hochstaplerin, directed by Ákos Ráthonyi (West Germany, 1961, based on the play La Prétentaine)
  • L'altra metà del cielo, directed by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1977, based on the play Romancero)

Screenwriter

  • Le Mauvais Garçon, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1923)
  • Jenny Lind, directed by Arthur Robison (French, 1932)
  • Une vie perdue, directed by Raymond Rouleau (France, 1933)
  • Women's Club, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1936)
  • Cafe Metropole, directed by Edward H. Griffith (1937)
  • Domenica, directed by Maurice Cloche (France, 1952)
  • When You Read This Letter, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1953)

Notes

    References

      Sources

      • Crisp, Colin (1993). The Cl*ic French Cinema, 1930-1960 (hardcover) (1st:ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN:978-0-253-31550-2.

      External links

      • Jacques Deval at IMDb


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