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Marcel L'Herbier (French:; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total.
Marcel L'Herbier, né le 23 avril 1888 à Paris 10 e [1] et mort le 26 novembre 1979 à Paris 7 e [2], est un réalisateur français de la première avant-garde. Il fut aussi poète, juriste, théoricien du cinéma [ 3 ] , fondateur de l' IDHEC , acteur majeur de l'organisation du cinéma français au sein des syndicats de cinéma, et pionnier ...
- 26 novembre 1979 (à 91 ans)Paris 7e
- Français
- 23 avril 1888Paris 10e
- Marcel Charles Adrien L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier was born on 23 April 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Le bonheur (1934) and Sacrifice d'honneur (1935). He was married to Marcelle Pradot.
- January 1, 1
- Paris, France
- January 1, 1
- Paris, France
An in-depth biography of the film director and writer Marcel L'Herbier, and a complete list of the artist's films, with links to movie reviews.
He’s hardly a household name anywhere, yet there’s still a striking discrepancy between the profile of filmmaker Marcel L’Herbier (1890-1979) in France and everywhere else —- almost as if a “not for export” label had been stamped on his forehead.
In 1923, while seeking to recover his health after a bout of typhoid, and his fortunes following the collapse of his film adaptation of Résurrection, Marcel L'Herbier received a proposal from his old friend the opera singer Georgette Leblanc to make a film in which she would star and for which she would secure partial funding from American ...
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This ‘dossier’ is dedicated to Marcel L’Herbier, a seminal figure in twentieth-century French cinema who, although very prolific, remains little known outside France.
