Maurice Desvallières
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| Born | 3 October 1857 Paris, France |
| Died | 23 March 1926 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Playwright |
Ernest George Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th–20th-century French playwright.[1][2]
Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academicians Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé).[citation needed]
He studied at lycée Condorcet.[citation needed]
He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.[3]
Works[edit]
- 1879: Le premier bal
- 1879: Amis d'enfance
- 1881: On demande un ministre !
- 1884: Prête-moi ta femme !
- 1888: Les Fiancés de Loches
- 1889: L'Affaire Édouard
- 1890: C'est une femme du monde !
- 1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville
- 1894: Le Ruban
- 1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange
- 1901: Le truc de Séraphin
- 1906: Le Fils à papa (adapted into Die keusche Susanne, 1910, and The Girl in the Taxi, 1912)
- 1920: Seine-Port et ses vieilles maisons
- 1959: Champignol malgré lui
Filmography[edit]
- Le Fils à papa, directed by Georges Monca and Charles Prince (France, 1913, short film, based on Le Fils à papa)
- Champignol malgré lui (France, 1913, based on Champignol malgré lui)
- L'Hôtel du libre échange, directed by Marcel Simon (France, 1916, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
- The Girl in the Taxi, directed by Lloyd Ingraham (1921, based on Le Fils à papa)
- Chaste Susanne, directed by Richard Eichberg (Germany, 1926, based on Le Fils à papa)
- Champignol malgré lui, directed by Fred Ellis (France, 1933, based on the play of the same name)
- L'Hôtel du libre échange, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1934, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
- Prête-moi ta femme, directed by Maurice Cammage (France, 1936, based on Prête-moi ta femme)
- La Chaste Suzanne, directed by André Berthomieu (France, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa)
- The Girl in the Taxi, directed by André Berthomieu (UK, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa)
- La Casta Susana, directed by Benito Perojo (Argentina, 1944, based on Le Fils à papa)
- La Casta Susana, directed by Luis César Amadori (Spain, 1963, based on Le Fils à papa)
- Äktenskapsbrottaren, directed by Hasse Ekman (Sweden, 1964, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
- Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville (UK, 1966, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
References and sources[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Larousse
- ^ "Maurice Desvallières", Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 29 July 2020
- ^ Pronko, pp. 205–209
Sources[edit]
- Pronko, Leonard Cabell (1975). Georges Feydeau. New York: Ungar. ISBN 978-0-8044-2700-5.
External links[edit]
- Maurice Desvallières on data.bnf.fr
- Maurice Desvallières on Musée de Seine Port
- Maurice Desvallières on Art Lyrique
- Maurice Desvallières at IMDb
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