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He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (Oscar, Hibernatus), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although ...
Dec 9, 2013 · Edouard Molinaro, who received an Oscar nomination for directing the 1978 French film “La Cage aux Folles,” which was remade in the United States as “The Birdcage” and as a Broadway musical,...
May 24, 2016 · Two time Academy Award-nominee film director and screenwriter Édouard Molinaro (1928-2013), the man behind the internationally acclaimed French-language film classic "La cage aux folles" (1978), remade in the U.S. by Mike Nichols as "The Birdcage" (1996) with Robin Williams and Gene Hackman, was one of France's leading film directors, and is ...
Dec 8, 2013 · Among Molinaro's numerous other films were Oscar (1967) with de Funes and My Uncle Benjamin (1969), which starred the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. He was nominated for an Oscar...
In 1980, Molinaro directed a sequel, La Cage Aux Folles II, while his Oscar-nominated screenplay for the first instalment was acknowledged in the The Birdcage, the 1996 adaptation starring...
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Dec 7, 2013 · Édouard Molinaro, the prolific French director who helmed and co-wrote 1978’s La Cage Aux Folles, has died in Paris. He was 85. The Bordeaux-born filmmaker died of lung failure, reports the BBC.
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A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro’s La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there’s nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie.
