Guitry, SachaBiblio.com
(Cinema) Guitry, SachaBiblio.com
Napoléon; Film Conçu Écrit et Réalisé par Sacha Guitry. La Musique en est de Jean Françaix et c'est un Production Clément Duhour
1955207645Brussels: Cinéma Marivaux 1955. Slight surface soil; fine. 4to unpag. 66pp booklet in printed wrappers stapled and with decorative braided gold cord. Souvenir program from the premiere screening of Guitry's epic film the first such dramatic film about Napoléon since Abel Gance's 1927 silent classic. Guitry himself acted the part of Talleyrand in case star-studded cast that included Daniel Gelin and Raymond Pellegrin sharing the title role young and old and included Michèle Morgan Jean Marais O.W. Fischer Yves Montand Eric von Stroheim and Orson Welles. The gala permiere was held on March 17 1955 in Brussels -- a week prior to the much larger Paris premiere -- as a benefit for the Comité de Bruxelles de la Croix-Rouge de Belgique Brussels Committee of the Red Cross and the Comité des Dames de l'Entraide Française Ladies Committee of the French Mutual Aid. Although it recived a mixed critical reception Guitry's Napoléon was a tremendous popular success and oone of the top-grossing French films of 1955. Cinéma Marivaux unknown
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