Marc Allégret Biography
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in Paris, but while accompanying his lover André Gide on a trip in 1927 to the Congo in Africa, he recorded the trip on film, after which he chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. He is credited with helping develop the careers of Simone Simon, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danièle Delorme, Odette Joyeux, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jourdan, and Roger Vadim.
Allégret collaborated on the famous Dada Marcel Duchamp short film Anemic Cinema in 1926 and served as an *istant director to Robert Florey and Augusto Genina. In 1931 he directed his first feature film, Mam’zelle Nitouche. He received acclaim for his subsequent film Fanny and went on to a long career during which he wrote numerous scripts and directed more than fifty films.
Allégret died in 1973 and was interred in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
Filmography
- 1927:: Travels in the Congo (do*entary)
- 1930:: La Meilleure Bobonne: (short)
- 1931:: Mam'zelle Nitouche:
- 1931:: J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (short)
- 1931:: Attaque nocturne: (short)
- 1931:: The Lovers of Midnight
- 1931:: Black and White
- 1932:: La Pe*e Chocolatière
- 1932:: Fanny
- 1934:: Zouzou
- 1934:: Hotel Free Exchange
- 1934:: Lac aux dames:
- 1934:: Sans famille
- 1935:: Beautiful Days
- 1936:: Under Western Eyes
- 1936:: Adventure in Paris
- 1936:: The Terrible Lovers
- 1937:: Gribouille
- 1937:: Woman of Malacca
- 1937:: Another World (German-language version of Woman of Malacca)
- 1938:: Orage
- 1938:: Entrée des artistes
- 1939:: Le Corsaire
- 1941:: Parade en sept nuits
- 1942:: L'Arlésienne
- 1942:: The Beautiful Adventure
- 1943:: Les Deux timides
- 1944:: Les Pe*es du quai aux fleurs
- 1945:: Félicie Nanteuil
- 1946:: Lunegarde
- 1946:: Pétrus
- 1947:: Blanche Fury
- 1950:: Blackmailed
- 1950:: Maria Chapdelaine
- 1951:: Avec André Gide: (do*entary)
- 1952:: La Demoiselle et son revenant:
- 1953:: Julietta
- 1954:: Loves of Three Queens
- 1955:: School for Love
- 1955:: Lady Chatterley's Lover
- 1956:: En effeuillant la marguerite a.k.a. Plucking the Daisy a.k.a. Mademoiselle Striptease
- 1957:: Love Is at Stake
- 1958:: Be Beautiful But Shut Up
- 1958:: Sunday Encounter
- 1959:: Les Affreux:
- 1961:: Midnight Folly:
- 1962:: Tales of Paris
- 1963:: L'Abominable Homme des douanes:
- 1966:: Lumière (do*entary)
- 1970:: Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel
References
External links
- Marc Allégret at IMDb
- Marc Allegrét papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
