Charles Méré
Auguste Charles Alexandre Méré (born January 29, 1883 in Marseille , † October 2, 1970 in Paris ) was a French playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
Life
Méré emerged after 1900 as the author of a number of dramas, some of which can be assigned to the genre of Grand-Guignol . Several of his plays were filmed. He also wrote some opera libretti and in the 1940s also screenplays (such as Févre and L'âge d'or , both in 1942). He directed the films La Vénus de l'or (1937), Serge Panine (1939) and Fortuné de Marseille (based on his play Un Homme du Nord ).
Some of his pieces have been adapted several times: Le Trois Masques was premiered in 1908 and in the same year formed the basis for Albert Capellani's silent film Le corso tragique . In 1912 the piece was performed as an opera by Isidore de Lara at the Grand Théâtre in Marseille. Henry Krauss turned a second silent film version in 1921 , and the 1929 film adaptation of André Hugon was the first French-language sound film.
Between 1929 and 1944 Méré was intermittently president of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD).
Plays
- L'Hydre , 1905
- Les Hommes de proie , 1907
- Les Trois Masques , 1908
- Les Ruffians , 1909
- Le Festin du Roi , 1909
- L'Ingénu , 1913
- Une nuit au bouge , 1919
- La Captive , 1920
- Les Conquérants , 1920
- Le Marquis de Sade , 1921
- La Flamme , 1922
- La femme masquée , 1922
- Le Vertige , 1922
- Le Prince Jean , 1923
- La Danse de minuit , 1924
- La Tentation , 1924
- Par la force , 1925
- Une nuit de Don Juan , 1925
- Le lit nuptial , 1926
- Le Plaisir , 1926
- Berlioz , 1927
- Le Carnaval de l'amour , 1928
- Crime , 1928
- L'Homme nu , 1929
- Broadway , 1928
- Les Pantins du vice , 1929
- Music hall , 1929
- Shangaï , 1929
- La Chair , 1930
- Hantise , 1931
- Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine , 1931
- Le Roi Lear , 1932
- Le Masque au mort rouge , 1932
- Le Désir , 1933
- Un Homme du Nord , 1933
- Le Passage des Princes , 1933
- Zizippe , 1935
- Indiana , 1935
- Liberté , 1937
- Le Pavillon d'Asnières , 1943
- L'Affranchi m 1943
Movies
- 1908: Le corso tragique
- 1921: Les trois masques
- 1926: La Flamme (original)
- 1927: The Masked Woman
- 1927: Sonja (Le Vertige)
- 1928: Le Prince Jean
- 1929: Les Trois Masques
- 1929: La Tentation
- 1934: Le Prince Jean
- 1935: Le Vertige (original)
- 1936: La Flamme
- 1942: Fiévres
- 1942: L'Âge d'or (screenplay, production)
- 1943: A Fatal Family (Goupi Mains Rouges) (Production)
- 1943: L'Homme qui vendit son âme (screenplay)
- 1952: Fortuné de Marseille (screenplay)
- 1958: Women's Prison (Prisons de femmes) (screenplay)
Libretti
- Les Trois Masques (Isidore de Lara), WP 1912
- Angelo, tyran de Padoue after Victor Hugo ( Alfred Bruneau ), premiered in 1928
- L'Ingénu after Voltaire , ( Xavier Leroux ), UA 1931
Web links
- Charles Méré in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Méré, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Méré, Auguste Charles Alexandre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 1970 |
| Place of death | Paris |