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Marcel Achard, the Glossary

Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comediesGarzanti p. 3 maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.^[1]

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A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)

A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision.

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Académie Française

The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language.

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Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Marcel Achard and Alfred de Musset are members of the Académie Française.

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Alfred Lunt

Alfred David Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions.

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Auprès de ma blonde

"Auprès de ma blonde" (French for "Next to My Girl") or "Le Prisonnier de Hollande" ("The Prisoner of Holland") is a popular chanson dating to the 17th century.

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Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Booth Theatre

The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theater at 222 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Charles Dullin

Charles Dullin (8 May 1885 – 11 December 1949) was a French actor, theater manager and director.

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Cocoanut (film)

Cocoanut (French: Noix de coco) is a 1939 French-German comedy drama film adapted by Marcel Achard from his play of the same name.

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Columbina

Columbina (Italian: Colombina, meaning "little dove"; French and English: Colombine) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte.

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Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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Domino (1943 film)

Domino is a 1943 French drama film directed by Roger Richebé and starring Fernand Gravey, Simone Renant and Aimé Clariond.

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Garzanti

Garzanti s.r.l. is an Italian publishing company founded in Milan, Italy, in 1938.

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Harold Clurman

Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic.

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Harry Lachman

Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Jean Boyer (director)

Jean Boyer (26 June 1901 – 10 March 1965) was a French film director and songwriter. Marcel Achard and Jean Boyer (director) are 20th-century French screenwriters.

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Jean Choux

Jean Choux (1887–1946) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer born in Geneva.

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Jessie Royce Landis

Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress.

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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman.

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Julie Harris

Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925August 24, 2013) was an American actress.

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L'Idiote

L'Idiote (The Idiot) is a comic mystery play by Marcel Achard.

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Le Figaro

() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.

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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.

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Lynn Fontanne

Lynn Fontanne (6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was an English actress.

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Marc Allégret

Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director. Marcel Achard and Marc Allégret are 20th-century French screenwriters and French male screenwriters.

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Mayerling (1936 film)

Mayerling is a 1936 French historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Seymour Nebenzal from a screenplay by Marcel Achard, Joseph Kessel, and Irma von Cube, based on the 1930 novel Idyll's End by Claude Anet.

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Mistigri (film)

Mistigri is a 1931 French drama film adapted by Marcel Achard from his play of the same name.

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Nickname

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing.

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Orage (film)

Orage is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pétrus (film)

Petrus is a 1946 French comedy mystery crime film directed by Marc Allegret and starring Fernandel, Simone Simon, Marcel Dalio and Pierre Brasseur.

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Pen name

A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.

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Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. Marcel Achard and Pierre de Marivaux are members of the Académie Française.

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Pierrot

Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte, whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne.

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Playhouse Theatre

The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square, central London.

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Rhône (department)

Rhône (Rôno) is a department of east-central France, in the central-southeastern Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

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Robert Thomas (director)

Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 3 January 1989) was a French writer, actor and film director. Marcel Achard and Robert Thomas (director) are 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights.

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Rod La Rocque

Roderick Ross La Rocque (November 29, 1898 – October 15, 1969) was an American actor.

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Roger Richebé

Roger Richebé (3 December 1897 – 10 July 1989), born Roger Gustave Richebé, was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. Marcel Achard and Roger Richebé are 20th-century French screenwriters and French male screenwriters.

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S. N. Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker.

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Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon

Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (literally Sainte-Foy near Lyon) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Schamyl Bauman

Magnus Schamyl Bauman (4 December 1893 – 28 February 1966) was a Swedish film director (in 1931-57).

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Shubert Theatre (Broadway)

The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theater at 225 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Stephen Sondheim Theatre

The Stephen Sondheim Theatre, formerly Henry Miller's Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 124 West 43rd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Stock character

A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative (e.g. a novel, play, television show, or film) whom audiences recognize across many narratives or as part of a storytelling tradition or convention.

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Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke, February 13, 1932 – May 10, 1990) was an American actress, television director, aviator, and author.

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Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a theatre located at 21, rue du Vieux-Colombier, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

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The Beautiful Sailor

The Beautiful Sailor (La belle marinière) is a 1932 French drama film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Renaud and Jean Gabin.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Strange Monsieur Victor

The Strange Monsieur Victor (French: L'Étrange Monsieur Victor) is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Raimu, Pierre Blanchar and Madeleine Renaud.

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Theatre World Award

The Theatre World Award is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or Off-Broadway.

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Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins, April 29, 1909 – September 12, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer.

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Twilight (1944 film)

Twilight (France: Félicie Nanteuil) is a 1944 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Claude Dauphin, Micheline Presle and Louis Jourdan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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The Urban Community of Lyon (Communauté urbaine de Lyon), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former acronym COURLY, is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Lyon (France) and some of its suburbs.

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Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Achard

Also known as Achard, Marcel, Marcel Auguste Ferreol.

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Deaths from diabetes in France

People from Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon

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