Marcel PagnolFilmography

My Father's Glory

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard, Julien Ciamaca

Synopsis: This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). Together, the episodes present a portrait of an ordinary family with an extraordinary ability to love. Set in Provencal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the film first Read More

Manon of the Spring

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, also titled Jean de Florette. Manon (Emmanuelle Beart Read More

Jean de Florette

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna

Synopsis: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when Read More

Le Curé De Cucugnan

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernand Sardou

I Like Money

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Mr. Topaze was based on a play by Marcel Pagnol, previously filmed twice before with John Barrymore and Fernandel. Peter Sellers stars as a French college professor, known far and wide for his integrity. He refuses to improve a grade on the paper of one student, whose influential father sees to it Read More

Fanny

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni

Synopsis: Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving behind his lover Fanny and their son. Expanding upon the Read More

Playhouse 90: Topaze

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Ernie Kovacs, Carl Reiner, Richard Haydn, Sheree North, Roxanne Arlen

Synopsis: That zany video genius Ernie Kovacs plays it (sort of) straight in this Playhouse 90 adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage play Topaze. A man constitutionally incapable of being dishonest, Monsieur Topaze (Kovacs) loses his teaching position at a small provincial French private school when Read More

Les Lettres de Mon Moulin

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Crouzet, Robert Vattier, Henri Cremieux, Fernand Sardou, Rellys, Pierrette Bruno

Synopsis: Letters from My Windmill (Les Lettres De Mon Moulin) was adapted by French-filmmaker Marcel Pagnol from three short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The first, "The Three Low Masses," involves a clergyman whose taste for gourmet foods leads him to confrontation with Satan. "The Elixir of Father Read More

Manon des Sources

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Rellys, Henri Poupon, Robert Vattier

Synopsis: French novelist-turned-film director Marcel Pagnol made this black and white feature in 1953, He later wrote a novel based on his original script, which in turn was the source material for two much better known films made by director Claude Berri in 1986 - - Jean de Florette and Berri's own Read More

Carnival

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: An irate husband announces his wife's adulterous activities by placing a billboard a top his house in this comedy. He then begins to organize a society of cuckolded spouses. They design a float for the carnival parade and win first prize. In the end the errant wife returns and the husband makes a Read More

The Prize

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bourvil, Christian Lude, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Filmed in 1950 as Le Rosier de Madame Husson, The Prize was produced and scripted by Marcel Pagnol, of "The Marseilles Trilogy" fame. The plot is motivated by a contest, wherein a prize of 100,000 francs will be bestowed upon the most virtuous maiden in a tiny French village. Virtue being a scarce Read More

Topaze

Crew: Director, Play Author

Actors: Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Pierre Larquey, Sylvia Bataille, Jacques Morel

Synopsis: Previously filmed twice in 1933, Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage comedy Topaze was again adapted to the screen in 1936, this time with Pagnol himself as director (he would have directed the first version, but was contractually prohibited from doing so). This time around, Arnaudy stars as M. Read More

The Ways of Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More

La Belle Meuniere

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacqueline Pagnol, Raoul Marco, Tino Rossi

Synopsis: This little-known Marcel Pagnol production stars his wife Jacqueline as a miller's daughter. The film concerns her romance with the rich and powerful Schubert, played by Tino Rossi. However, the storyline of La Belle Meuniere is not as fascinating as the film's technical history. It was lensed in Read More

Nais

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Jacqueline Bouvier, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon, Arius

Synopsis: Marcel Pagnol adapted the screenplay of Nais from a novel by Emile Zola. The usually mirth-provoking Fernandel plays it relatively straight as a hunchbacked itinerant worker. He loves Jacqueline Pagnol from afar, but is prevented by his handicap from expressing his ardor. Thus he vicariously Read More

La Fille Du Puisatier

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Raimu, Josette Day, Fernandel, Fernand Charpin, Line Noro, Georges Grey

Synopsis: The Well-Digger's Daughter served to reunite star Raimu and writer/director Marcel Pagnol, who'd earlier scored an international hit with the "Marseilles trilogy" (Fanny, Marius, Cesar). The title character played by Josette Day, is impregnated by aviator George Gray. Her father, Raimu, orders Read More

Le Schpountz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Robert Vattier, Fernand Charpin

Synopsis: Le Schpountz (Heartbeat) stars Fernandel as a feckless country boy named Saturnin. Convinced that he's a great lover (if only he could find someone to love), Saturnin is derisively labelled a "schpountz" by his friends and neighbors. He eventually proves that he's got a lot more compassion than Read More

The Baker's Wife

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Charles Moulin, Fernand Charpin, Robert Vattier, Maximilienne

Synopsis: The Baker's Wife (La Femme de Boulanger), though based on a novel by Jean Giono, was specially tailored by writer/director Marcel Pagnol for the talents of the incomparable Raimu. The star plays the new baker in the French community of Provence. One of Raimu's first customers is shepherd Charles Moulin Read More

Port of Seven Seas

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely young woman who lives in a seaside community, where she has fallen in love with Marius (John Beal), a sailor. Marius is called to duty and sets sail, shortly before Madelon Read More

Regain

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno, Gabriel Gabrio

Synopsis: Originally Regain, this Marcel Pagnol masterwork was distributed in the US in 1939, two years after its completion; the hold-up was due to complaints from the New York censors, who disapproved of the plotline's harmlessly adulterous undertones. Told in a simple, straightforward fashion, the film Read More

Cigalon

Crew: Director

Actors: Henri Poupon, Alida Rouffe

César

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, André Fouché, Milly Mathis

Synopsis: The final film in Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy (following Marius and Fanny), this drama follows Cesariot (Andre Fouche), an 18-year-old who has recently been led to believe that his father, Honore (Fernand Charpin), is not really his father at all. Honore dies without telling Cesariot about Read More

Topaze

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Marcel Vallee, Paul Pauley, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Heliard

Merlusse

Crew: Director

Actors: Henri Poupon, Thommeray

Synopsis: Merlusse, one of French writer/director Marcel Pagnol's two 1935 offerings, was released in the U.S. three years later in 1938. Henri Poupon plays the title character, an unpopular and incredibly homely boy's school teacher. Forever targeted for practical jokes for his hideous appearance and Read More

Angele

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Henri Poupon, Andrex

Synopsis: French writer/director Marcel Pagnol didn't do much editing when he transferred Jean Glono's excessively long novel Angele to film. Orane Demaziz plays the title role, an innocent country girl who becomes a Parisian streetwalker thanks to a smooth-talking pimp. Angele's father fetches her back to Read More

Jofroi

Crew: Director

Actors: Henri Poupon, Vincent Scotto, Charles Blavette

Topaze

Crew: Play Author

Actors: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, Reginald Mason

Synopsis: Producer David O. Selznick's adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical play Topaze stars John Barrymore, delivering a peerless comedy performance a full year before Howard Hawks allegedly "discovered" Barrymore's comic potential in Twentieth Century. Barrymore plays a French science teacher who is Read More

Le Gendre De Monsieur Poirier

Crew: Director

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Jean Debucourt, Maurice Escande

Zum Goldnen Anker

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Albert Basserman, Jacob Tiedtke, Lucie Hoeflich, Ursula Grabley

Synopsis: Zum Goldnen Anker (The Golden Anchor) was the German-language version of the Marcel Pagnol masterpiece Marius. Jakob Tiedtke steps into the central role of Marseilles tavernkeeper Cesare, the character immortalized in the French-language version by the great Raimu. Cesare's irresponsible son Read More

Fanny

Crew: Book Author, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe

Synopsis: In this sequel to Marcel Pagnol's Marius, which picks up roughly where the first film left off, sailor Marius (Pierre Fresney) has left for the sea, while his girlfriend Fanny (Orane Demazis) is pregnant with his child. Through she still loves Marius, Fanny bows to the pleas of her parents and Read More

Marius

Crew: Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Paul Dullac

Synopsis: In this touching romance, the first in Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy (the other two being Fanny and Cesar, Pierre Fresnay stars as Marius, a young man tending bar who dreams of a life at sea. Because he so desires to become a sailor, he cannot commit to marriage even though he loves Fanny (Orane Demazis Read More