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The rules of the Game; a film By Jean Renoir

RENOIR JEANABAA

Original Typed Letter Signed by French Film Director Jean Renoir to Belgian Screenwriter Charles Spaak Regarding Renoirâ€™s Classic Film Grand Illusion

195022755E3 pages 7 1/2â€ x 9 3/4â€ 1950â€™s. Original Typed Letter Signed by French film director Jean Renoir to Belgian screenwriter Charles Spaak regarding the restoration and re-release of Renoirâ€™s classic film Grand Illusion the the screenplay for which was written by Spaak. For many years the original nitrate film negative of the film was thought to have been lost in an Allied air raid in 1942 that destroyed a leading laboratory outside Paris. Prints of the film were rediscovered in 1958 and restored and re-released during the early 1960s. Text in French. Fine condition with a few minor creases from folding. In translation the letter begins: â€œDear Charles I hope your scenario is moving ahead that Claudie is enjoying the beautiful weather in Ischia and that you are both very happy.â€ Renoir goes on to offer suggestions and information for both the narrative and various administrative / distribution issues with mentions of editor Renee Lichtig and producer Ginette Doynel. The letter concludes: â€œForgive this long letter. I must include in it both whatâ€™s mandatory and whatâ€™s useless. You will no doubt do the same when you are in Paris writing to me in America. We are training to become â€˜businessmen.â€™ Dido his wife and I send kisses to the both of you.â€ Signed â€œJeanâ€ with JEAN RENOIR typed beneath. The son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Jean Renoir 1894 - 1979 made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. La Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game 1939 are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. In 1975 he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for this contribution to the motion picture industry. Grand Illusion was released in the U.S. on September 12 1938 starring Jean Gabin Dita Parlo Pierre Fresnay Erich von Stroheim and Julien Carette. The film tells the story of two French soldiers during WWI who are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp from which they are determined to escape. Grand Illusion received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture - the first foreign language film to be honored in this way. Charles Spaak is also known for the films Le Grand Jeu 1934 Le Mystere Barton 1949 - the only film he directed and Avant le Deluge 1954. He also worked with Jean Renoir on another of his major films Le Bas Fonds 1936. Spaak established himself alongside Jacques Prevert and Henri Jeanson as a leading screenwriter during one of the French cinema's richest periods. 3 pages, 7 1/2â€ x 9 3/4â€ unknown books

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