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Jacques Deval

Jacques Deval was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

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Jacques Deval
Born(1895-06-27)27 June 1895
Died19 December 1972(1972-12-19) (aged 77)
Paris, France
Other nameJacques Boularan
OccupationsScreenwriter, Director
Years active1923–1972 (film)

Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.1

Novels

  • Marie Galante (1931)

Plays

  • Une faible femme; a comedy in three acts (1920)
  • Dans sa candeur naïve; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as Her Cardboard Lover (1927) by Valerie Wyngate and P. G. Wodehouse
  • Étienne; a play in three acts (1930)
  • Mademoiselle; a comedy in three acts (1932)
  • Tovarich; a play in four acts (1933)
  • Marie Galante; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel Marie Galante. Music by Kurt Weill (1934)note 1
  • Soubrette; a comedy in three acts (1938)
  • Oh, Brother!; a comedy in three acts (1945)
  • La Femme de ta jeunesse; a play in three acts (1947)
  • Le Rayon des jouets; a comedy in three acts (1951)
  • Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; a play in two acts (1955)
  • La Prétentaine; a comedy in two acts (1957)
  • Romancero; a play in three acts (1958)

Filmography

Screenwriter

Notes

Notes

  1. Synopsis of the musical-play, courtesy of the Kurt Weill Foundation: "Marie is kidnapped and taken to Panama by a lecherous sea captain, who abandons her when she will not give in to his desires. She becomes a prostitute in order to earn money to return to France; meanwhile, she is unwittingly involved in an espionage plot. She spends most of her money to care for a dying black man whom no one else will tend to. When she does finally save enough money for a steamer fare, she is murdered by a spy who fears discovery the night before the boat sails."2
References

References

  1. Crisp 1993, p. 175.
  2. "Marie Galante (1934)". kwf.org. The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Synopsis. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
Sources

Sources

  • Crisp, Colin (1993). The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960 (hardcover) (1st ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-31550-2.
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