Jacqueline Audry

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Jacqueline Audry (born September 25, 1908 in Orange , † June 18, 1977 Poissy ) was a French film director .

Life

Jacqueline Audry, sister of the writer Colette Audry , began her career in film as a script / continuity and assistant to directors such as Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Max Ophüls . She staged almost exclusively literary film adaptations , mainly based on the works of the writer Colette . She also found recognition for the film adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's drama Closed Society .

Jacqueline Audry was married to screenwriter Pierre Laroche , who wrote the dialogues for the majority of her films. In 1977 Audry died as a result of a traffic accident. Her work as a director includes 15 films and a series that were made between 1946 and 1967.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Lonely Sunday (Sombre Dimanche)
  • 1948: Gigi
  • 1950: The naive sinner (Minne, l'ingénue libertine)
  • 1950: Olivia
  • 1953: The blonde gypsy (La caraque blonde)
  • 1955: Closed society (Huis clos)
  • 1956: Mitsou and the Men (Mitsou)
  • 1957: Love is mine (La Garçonne)
  • 1959: The Tsarina's Favorite (Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon)
  • 1962: We ask for bed (Les Petits Matins)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 182.
personal data
SURNAME Audry, Jacqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange (Vaucluse)
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1977
Place of death Poissy