#Danièle Delorme

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French actress Danièle Delorme on a vintage postcard

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Danièle Delorme as Joan of Arc in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, at the Théâtre Montparnasse-Gaston Baty, Paris, 1964. Photograph: Alamy

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2019: Bill Macy, nome vero Wolf Martin Garber, è stato un attore televisivo, cinematografico e teatrale americano, meglio conosciuto per il suo ruolo nella serie televisiva Maude. (n. 1922) 2017: Danielle Darrieux, all’anagrafe Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux, è stata un’attrice francese, attiva dagli anni trenta.  (n. 1917) 2015: Danièle Delorme, all’anagrafe Danièle Girard, è stata…

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Frank Villard and Danièle Delorme in Gigi (Jacqueline Audry, 1949)

Cast: Danièle Delorme, Yvonne de Bray, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Frank Villard, Paul Demange, Madeleine Rousset, Pierre Juvenet, Michel Flamme, Colette Georges, Yolande Laffon, Hélène Pépée. Screenplay: Pierre Laroche, based on a novel by Colette. Cinematography: Gérard Perrin. Set decoration: Raymond Druart. Film editing: Nathalie Petit-Roux. Music: Marcel Landowski.

The print I saw of Jacqueline Audry’s Gigi was not very good, the images having shifted into high contrast with little variation in the grays, so that the subtitles were often an unreadable white on white. But anyone familiar with either the Colette novella or the 1958 Lerner and Loewe musical version directed by Vincente Minnelli would have little trouble following the story. It’s a movie that retains much of the charm and a little of the bite of the original, and Danièle Delorme is a fetching Gigi, the girl raised to be a grande horizontale who wins the heart and hand of the wealthy Gaston Lachaille (Frank Villard). Delorme and Villard don’t erase memories of Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan in the musical, but they have their own contributions to make, especially Villard, who is particularly strong in the scenes in which Gaston comes to realize the true nature of his feelings for Gigi. You sense his rising queasiness when she accepts his proposal to become his mistress, especially in the scene in the private room at the restaurant where they are about to consummate their relationship. When she naively asks why the couches in the room have slipcovers and when she chooses his cigar by rolling it between her fingers as she has been taught, the full obscenity of the situation becomes apparent to him. It has been apparent to us from the moment at the beginning of the film when we meet his uncle, Honoré, whom Jean Tissier plays as far more a dirty old man than the elegant Maurice Chevalier did in the musical. Which is not to say that the movie’s moral stance is heavy-handed: Director Audry has a very light touch, the product of a close collaboration with Colette. There are some wonderful period touches throughout the film, including Gaston’s automobile, Aunt Alicia’s (Gaby Morlay) telephone, and the bathing machine that is pulled by a mule into the waves at Deauville. The movie also reminded me that Gigi is a nickname for Gilberte, which is also the name of Swann’s daughter and the narrator’s first infatuation in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. There’s also a scene in which Gigi plays hide-and-seek with other schoolgirls in the park, that echoes for me Albertine and her little band of girls in À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Proust was only two years older than Colette, and the Recherche and  Gigi very much share the same milieu.

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'58. Ah, boy. Took me a couple weeks of off-and-on watching to get through this one. Like, today when I realized I still had forty minutes left after the fall of the barricade, I thought to myself, "You know, I haven't bleached the shower enclosure yet this month. The cat room really could use a sweep. I need to feed out the old dubias." And I went and did all those things instead because they were more engaging of tasks than watching this film. I previously categorized Les Misérables adaptations as "good", "bad good", and "good bad", but now I'm gonna have to add an "indifferent bad" bucket. Unless you are hardcore invested in watching every available adaptation, I'd say this one's fine to skip. Really—I will not rewatch and I've seen BBC 2018 twice. A few thoughts:

The version I watched is a poorly done English dub, and as such I won't speak to the acting overall. Seems unfair. That being said, this is the butchest Marius—Giani Esposito brings to mind Michael Maguire's Enjolras.

The subtitles also have their troubles, which breathed a moment of comedy into the watching experience when the closed captioner misheard "Grantaire" as "Combeferre" and impugned the latter's honor, identifying him as the one getting drunk on the day of revolution. Somehow they also mishear "Mabeuf" as "Laroche"—I'm ninety percent certain this is their ears and not mine.

Danièle Delorme's Fantine is given room to be furious and bitter, spitting on Javert as well as Valjean, mocking the idea that she had easy access to the mayor to plead her case—it's the film's best moment, IMO.

Éponine has a nice lunch with Valjean and Cosette and is gifted a new dress in a sequence that brings to mind clumsily done but sweet Cosette/Éponine fanfics.

'58 makes several alterations that I am indifferent to (see: combining II.III.VIII-X and II.V.I-V) on the principle that every adaptation needs its room to breathe, but what the fuck is up with Javert being the Toulon warden's son, Thénardier being an actual sergeant, and Mabeuf a revolutionary? Those are backstory changes that have significant repercussions to understanding the characters—and they're not repercussions really played out by the film. Granted that Thénardier as a sergeant is played for laughs, so it has some function.

Javert asks Valjean "What made you save my life this morning?" and gets the merciless response "You really don't know why? I pitied you." Brutal. Don't blame the guy for jumping in the Seine. (More seriously: the film implies that Javert has had some kind of awakening here, seeing those he has previously ignored or persecuted, twitching when a poor man flees his presence—perhaps there's a flowering of pity—it's a breath away from being an interesting interpretation of the character.)

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"Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux" court-métrage d'Agnès Varda (1957) avec la voix-off de Danièle Delorme, février 2024.

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Mai MMXXIII

Films

Quand la Panthère rose s'emmêle (The Pink Panther Strikes Again) (1976) de Blake Edwards avec Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Leonard Rossiter, Colin Blakely, Lesley-Anne Down, André Maranne, Michael Robbins et Burt Kwouk

Le Dimanche de la vie (1967) de Jean Herman avec Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Olivier Hussenot, Françoise Arnoul, Berthe Bovy, Anne Doat, Hubert Deschamps et Jean Rochefort

Romance inachevée (The Glenn Miller Story) (1954) de Anthony Mann avec James Stewart, June Allyson, Henry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias et Barton MacLane

La Canonnière du Yang-Tsé (The Sand Pebbles) (1966) de Robert Wise avec Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane et Makoto Iwamatsu

Deux Heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982) de Jean Yanne avec Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Michel Auclair, Françoise Fabian, Mimi Coutelier et Darry Cowl

Le Dernier Voyage (2020) de Romain Quirot avec Hugo Becker, Paul Hamy, Lya Oussadit-Lessert, Jean Reno, Bruno Lochet et Émilie Gavois-Kahn

Le Dernier Métro (1980) de François Truffaut avec Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard et Maurice Risch

Les cadavres ne portent pas de costard (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid) (1982) de Carl Reiner avec Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes, Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant et Ingrid Bergman

Docteur Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964) de Stanley Kubrick avec Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull et Tracy Reed

Un homme est passé (Bad Day at Black Rock) (1955) de John Sturges avec Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine et Lee Marvin

Le Monde, la Chair et le Diable (The World, The Flesh and the Devil) (1959) de MacDougall avec Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens et Mel Ferrer

La Belle Saison (2015) de Catherine Corsini avec Izïa Higelin, Cécile de France, Noémie Lvovsky, Kévin Azaïs, Lætitia Dosch et Benjamin Bellecour

Le Grand Embouteillage (L'ingorgo) (1979) de Luigi Comencini avec Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Gianni Cavina, Harry Baer et Ángela Molina

Ariane (Love in the Afternoon) (1957) de Billy Wilder avec Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude, John McGiver et Lise Bourdin

Voici le temps des assassins (1956) de Julien Duvivier avec Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Germaine Kerjean, Gabrielle Fontan et Jean-Paul Roussillon

Séries

Castle Saison 1, 2

Des fleurs pour ta tombe - Jeunes Filles au père - Amis à la vie, à la mort - Sexe, Scandale et Politique - Calcul glacial - La Piste du vaudou - Crimes dans la haute - Mémoires d’outre-tombe - Où est Angela ? - Double face - La Mort à crédit - Quitte ou Double - L'Enfer de la mode - L'Escroc au cœur tendre - L'auteur qui m'aimait - Pour l'amour du sang - Dernières paroles

Coffre à Catch

#113 : Unforgiven 2008 : Matt Hardy will not die ! - #114 : Matt Hardy champion, les débuts de Jack Swagger ! - #115 : La ECW, c'est bien, mais avec Vianney c'est mieux ! - #116 : Maryse : Pourquoi es-tu si belle? - # 117 : All Star Main Event + Gérard Lenorman !

James May : Notre Homme au Japon

Allez ! - Chou farci - Déodorant - Salut Bim ! - Le garçon de la pêche - Prune salée

Friends Saison 8

Celui qui venait de dire oui - Celui qui avait un sweat rouge - Celui qui découvrait sa paternité - Celui qui avait une vidéo - Celui qui draguait Rachel - Celui qui perturbait Halloween - Celui qui voulait garder Rachel - Celui qui engageait une strip-teaseuse - Celui qui avait fait courir la rumeur - Celui qui défendait sa sœur - Celui qui ne voulait pas aller plus loin - Celui qui passait une soirée avec Rachel - Celui qui découvrait les joies du bain - Celui qui découvrait le placard secret - Celui qui visionnait la vidéo de l'accouchement - Celui qui avouait tout à Rachel - Celui qui voyait dans les feuilles de thé - Celui qui était trop positif

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 8

Un cri dans la nuit - Les Régates de la vengeance - Requiem pour une orchidée - Pari mortel - Double vue - Le Saut de la délivrance - L'assassin est un fin gourmet - Rhapsodie macabre

L'agence tous risques Saison 4, 5

Qui est qui ? - Cowboy George - La roue de la fortune - Services en tous genres - Club privé - Harry a des ennuis - Un monde de fou - La mission de la paix - Les orages du souvenir - Un témoin capital : 1re partie - Condamnation : 2e partie - Exécution : 3e partie - Match au sommet - Théorie de la révolution - Mort sur ordonnance - Une vieille amitié

Columbo Saison 2

Rançon pour un homme mort - Requiem pour une star

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare - Meurtres du troisième type

Affaires Sensibles

Algues vertes : le danger qui empoisonne la Bretagne - James Jesus Angleton : paranoïa à la CIA - THE GRIM SLEEPER : Le faucheur en embuscade 1985-2007 - La création du festival de Cannes - 2000, les Jeux paralympiques de Sydney : la fraude des basketteurs espagnols

Bardot

Une enfant sage - B.B - La Madrague - Le papillon - Bébé - La vérité

Les Enquêtes de Morse saison 9

Mascarade - Prélude - Sorties de scène

James May's Cars of the People Saison 1, 2

Transports et totalitarisme - Rien n'arrête les nouilles - Les voitures qui nous ont toujours fait rêver - La puissance de la vapeur - 4x4 - Boom (et effondrement) d'après-guerre

The Grand Tour Saison 4, 3, 1, 2

The Grand Tour présente… Seamen - The Grand Tour présente… La Chasse au trésor - Eaux salées et eaux douces - The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick - Virée à l’Italienne - Spéciale Colombie : Première partie - Spéciale Colombie ; Deuxième partie - Oh, Canada - Coup de vieux

Livres

Orage de chaleur de Richard Castle

Cinq Gars pour Singapour de Jean Bruce

Lucky Luke, tome 27 : Le 20ème de cavalerie de Morris et René Goscinny

Garôden de Jirô Taniguchi et Baku Yumemakura

Une enquête du commissaire Dupin : Etrange printemps aux Glénan de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Détective Conan, tome 9 de Gôshô Aoyama

Il était une fois… Le cinéma, Tome 1 : Des frères Lumière à Charlie Chaplin de Jean-Pierre Georges et Dentiblu

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Absences répétées (Guy Gilles, 1972)

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Voici le temps des assassins (AKA Deadlier Than the Male) | Julien Duvivier | 1956

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Tout d'un coup ma destinée m'apparût, comment dire… absconse.

Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (Nous irons tous au paradis), Yves Robert (1977)

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Danièle Delorme, 1950. Photo : Henri Cartier-Bresson

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miquette et sa mère (fr, clouzot 50)

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2019: Bill Macy, nome vero Wolf Martin Garber, è stato un attore televisivo, cinematografico e teatrale americano, meglio conosciuto per il suo ruolo nella serie televisiva Maude. (n. 1922) 2017: Danielle Darrieux, all’anagrafe Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux, è stata un’attrice francese, attiva dagli anni trenta.  (n. 1917) 2015: Danièle Delorme, all’anagrafe Danièle Girard, è stata…