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Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Valérie Lemercier, André Dussollier, Sandrine Kiberlain, Sergio Castellitto
Synopsis: Philippe de Morannes has an agreement with his girlfriend, the well-known actress Paulette Nanteuil. Either one of them can sleep with someone else if they give their partner a day's notice. In the six years they have been living together, this agreement has not been an issue. Philippe is Read More
Crew: Play Author
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Fanny Ardant, Béatrice Dalle, Claude Rich
Synopsis: Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne. Set in Paris before the dawn of the Jazz Age and centers on the exploits of sexy, womanizing butler Désiré after he begins working for former actress and current mistress of Read More
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain
Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès
Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Magali Noël, Darry Cowl
Synopsis: Assassins et Voleurs (Killers and Thieves) was the penultimate offering from French filmmaker Sacha Guitry. Though seriously ill and confined to a wheelchair, Guitry was still able to invest a great deal of energy in the project. Surprised by a burglar (Michel Serrault), the doleful Philippe (Jean Poiret Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Sophie Desmarets, Darry Cowl, Philippe Nicaud
Synopsis: A film company on location happens to photograph a murder in progress. Ambitious police inspector Bernard (Michel Simon) hopes to advance his career by nabbing the culprit. Unfortunately for Bernard, the murderer closely resembles a set of identical twins! Once Simon finally figures out who's who Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Françoise Arnoul, Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Robert Lamoureux, Michèle Morgan
Synopsis: Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous Etait Conte (If Paris Were Told to Us). Guitry himself appears as the ghost of King Louis XI, who relates the story of Paris to a group of fascinated modern-day students. As Read More
Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle
Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Bernard Blier, Meg Lemonnier
Synopsis: Few American theatres in 1952 would have run Je T'ai ete Trois Fois under its highly suggestive original title, which translates as I Did it Three Times. The film was directed by the inimitable Sacha Guity, who also co-wrote the script and played the leading role of elderly actor Jean Renneval. A Read More
Actors: Marguerite Pierry, Michel Simon, Laurence Badie, Claude Gensac
Synopsis: La Vie d'un Honnette Homme was the sole 1953 contribution from indefatigable French filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who scripted and directed. Surprisingly, Guitry does not play the film's titular "honest man." Michel Simon essays that role -- or rather, "roles," since Simon plays twin brothers Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Pauline Carton
Synopsis: Sacha Guitry both wrote and directed the witty black comedy La Poison. This time, however, Guitry does not star in the film, relinquishing that honor to Michel Simon. Through a series of circumstances and plot twists too numerous to mention, an enterprising man (Simon) manages to get away with Read More
Actors: Fernandel, Lana Marconi, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sacha Guitry
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Marcel Simon, Pauline Carton
Synopsis: The second of Sacha Guitry's four 1950 offerings was Le Tresor de Cantenac. Once again, Guitry not only wrote and directed the film, but reserved himself a leading role, in this case Baron de Cantenac. Set in a rundown French village where everyone is related to everyone else (sometimes at the Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Robert Seller
Actors: Lana Marconi, Marguerite Pierry, Sacha Guitry, Robert Seller
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Mireille Perrey
Synopsis: As always, French filmmaker Sacha Guitry wore several hats during the making of Toa. Guitry directed the film, wrote the script (from his own stage play), and cast himself in the leading role of playwright Michel Desnoyers. When his jealous mistress leaves him, Desnoyers finds an emotional outlet Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jacques Varennes
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Marguerite Pierry, Pauline Carton
Synopsis: The Private Life of an Actor was the English-language title bestowed upon Sacha Guitry's first postwar feature, Le Comédien. The film recounts the life and loves of Guitry's actor/father Lucien, with Guitry playing both himself and his dad. Most of the story takes place either on-stage or in the Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Debucourt
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Aimé Clariond, Marguerite Moreno
Synopsis: Sacha Guitry starred in, and pseudonymously directed, the French romantic melodrama My Last Mistress. Guitry plays sculptor Francoise Bressoles, who falls madly in love with his model Catherine (portrayed by Guitry's real-life wive Genevieve). When his eyesight fails him, Bressoles begins to feel Read More
Actors: Gaby Morlay, Sacha Guitry, Jean-Louis Barrault
Synopsis: Released in 1942 as Les Destin Fabuleux de Desiree Clary, this Sacha Guitry production made it to America six years later as Mlle. Desiree. Based on the romance between Napoleon Bonaparte and merchant's daughter Desiree, the film is divided into two parts. In part one, the younger Napoleon Read More
Crew: Screen Story
Actors: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Spring Byington, Cecilia Loftus
Synopsis: Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald Colman) is an artist in New York's Greenwich Village. After he wishes good luck to passing ingenue Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers), she is immediately offered a beautiful Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Elvire Popesco, Marguerite Moreno, Max Dearly
Synopsis: Filmmaker Sacha Guitry's only cinematic contribution for 1939 was Ils Etaient Neuf Celibataires, released stateside as There Were Nine Bachelors. Set sometime in the past, the story gets under way when a new law calls for the expulsion of certain foreigners from Paris. Among those slated for Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson
Synopsis: The great Ernst Lubitsch directed this farce (written by Charles M. Brackett and Billy Wilder) about a free-wheeling millionaire, Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), who enjoys getting married but has a hard time staying married: he's had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Gaby Morlay, Pauline Carton
Actors: Jacqueline Delubac, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Lucien Baroux, Sacha Guitry, Mila Parély, Jeanne Boitel
Synopsis: Sacha Guitry not only wrote and directed Remontons les Champs-Elysses (Remounting the Champs Elysses), but also plays five roles, including Louis XV and Napoleon III. The film proposes to detail the history of the famous Parisian thoroughfare of the title, beginning with its inception under the Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Arletty, Pauline Carton
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Arletty, Raimu
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Arletty, Lyn Harding, Renée Saint-Cyr, Ermete Zacconi, Simone Renant, Enrico Glori
Synopsis: Originally titled Les Perles de Couronne, this Sacha Guitry historical extravaganza stars both Guitry and his wife Jacqueline Delubac. The plotline hinges on four valuable pearls, which pass from hand to hand over a period of several centuries, from the time of Britain's Henry VIII to the present. Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Pauline Carton, Charles Deschamps
Synopsis: The first of actor- writer-director Sacha Guitry's four 1936 productions was Nouveau Testament (New Testament), in which he wrote himself the meaty role of Jean Marcelin. Based on Guitry's own stage play, the story concerns a sanctimonious fellow who eventually is victimized by his own hypocrisy. Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Pierre Assy, Jacqueline Delubac, Rosine Derean, Serge Grave, Marguerite Moreno
Synopsis: The Story of a Cheat (Le Roman d'un Tricheur) is widely regarded as one of French writer/director Sacha Guitry's best and most personal films. Guitry himself stars as a charismatic cardsharp who survives solely through the auspices of Lady Luck. The story is told almost completely in pantomime; Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Perrier, Jose Squinquel
Synopsis: Pasteur was the first of filmmaker Sacha Guitry's "historicals," each of which offered highly personal glimpses of highly public figures. Writer-director Guitry heads the cast as famed bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who must endure the ridicule and condemnation of his colleagues before his ultimate Read More
Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Paul Bernard
Actors: Jacqueline Delubac, Pauline Carton, Sacha Guitry
Synopsis: "Renaissance man" filmmaker Sacha Guitry had only two films under his belt when he directed the capricious Bonne Chance (Good Luck). Guitry stars as Claude, an artist who splits a national lottery ticket with the gorgeous Marie (Jacqueline Delubac). Miracle of miracles, the couple wins a million Read More
Actors: Raimu, Fernandel, Pauline Carton
Synopsis: Sacha Guitry wrote the play on which Le Blanc et le Noir was based, but it was Hollywood-trained Robert Florey who officially handled the directorial reins. While vacationing in the mountains, child-hating Raimu leaves his wife Suzanne Dantes alone in their hotel room while he dallies with the Read More
Actors: Seymour Hicks, Edna Best, Lyn Harding, Marguerite Allan
Synopsis: In this British comedy, an early talkie, a philandering wife plays around with her lover while her equally philandering husband plays with his. When she and her lover decide to get physically involved, he takes her to his flat. Unfortunately, he accidentally gives her sleeping powder and she is Read More
Actors: Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Willard Louis, Pierre Gendron
Synopsis: Although this drama was based on the Sacha Guitry play Deburau (which starred Lionel Atwill on Broadway), Warner Bros. changed it around and threw in a bit of Camille for spice. Jean Gaspard Deburau (Monte Blue) is a clown for a Parisian pantomime theater. He falls in love with Marie Duplessis (Marie Prevost Read More
Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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