Lucien Carré

Lucien Carré (born March 19, 1904 in Paris , France , † after 1957 in France) was a French film architect .

Live and act

The son of the film and stage architect Sosthène 'Ben' Carré , who mainly worked in the USA, received his artistic training at the Paris École des Arts Appliqués. He gained practical experience during the silent film era in the late 1920s as an assistant to the production designers Serge Piménoff , Lucien Aguettand and Jean Perrier .

At the age of 21, he was allowed to help design the costumes for a film, and Carré has been a busy designer of film sets since the beginning of the sound film era. In addition to a large number of drafts for routine productions - in the 1950s especially for André Hunebelle - Carré was also involved in a few top productions in French cinema, above all Jean Cocteau's masterpiece Once Upon a Time (1946), for which he, together with the somewhat older colleague René Moulaert , designed a poetic and fantastic fairy tale world. After 1957 his track is lost.

Filmography

• 1926: The chess player (Le joueur d'échecs) (costumes)
• 1928: Le perroquet vert
• 1932: The Cry for Love (Poil de carotte)
• 1934: The Damned (Les Misérables)
• 1934: The Last Billionaire (Le Dernier Milliardaire)
• 1934: Tartarin de Tarascon
• 1935: Blood Brothers 1918 (L'équipage)
• 1936: Helene Willfür (Hélène)
• 1936: Avec le sourire
• 1937: La mort du cygne
• 1938: The Road of Love (Remontons les Champs-Elysées)
• 1943: Domino
• 1943: Un seul amour
• 1944: Florence is crazy (Florence est folle)
• 1945: Sylvia and the ghost (Sylvie et le fantôme)
• 1946: The Countess of Lunegarde (Lunegarde)
• 1946: Once upon a time (La Belle et la Bête)
• 1947: Le Beau Voyage
• 1947: La femme en rouge
• 1947: Death row inmates (Carrefour du crime)
• 1947: Suzanne et ses brigands
• 1948: Métier de fous
• 1948: Le père tranquille
• 1949: Millionaires for a Day (Millionnaires d'un jour)
• 1949: Mission à Tangier
• 1950: Dakota 308
• 1950: L'inconnue de Montréal
• 1950: The gallant adventurer (Méfiez-vous des blondes)
• 1951: Ma femme est formidable
• 1951: Adventure in Venice (Massacre en dentelles)
• 1951: Le passage de Vénus
• 1952: Monsieur Taxi
• 1953: Isn't this man wonderful? (Mon mari est merveilleux)
• 1953: hot goods for Marseille (Quai des blondes)
• 1953: Adventure of the Three Musketeers (Les trois mousquetaires)
• 1954: Who takes love seriously? (Cadet rousselle)
• 1955: Gangsters of Paris (Série noire)
• 1955: Memories of a detective inspector (Mémoires d'un flic)
• 1955: Thirteen at one table (Treize à table)
• 1956: Love, Women and Paris (Mannequins de Paris)
• 1957: Young roses in the wind (Les Collégiennes)
• 1957: A certain Monsieur Jo (Un certain Monsieur Jo)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 691.
• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers of Film. Vol. 2: France. Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1983. pp. 102 f.

Web links

• Lucien Carré in the Internet Movie Database (English)