Marguerite Renoir

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Marguerite Renoir , born as Marguerite Houllé (* July 22, 1906 in Paris , † July 12, 1987 in Vigneux-sur-Seine ), was a French film editor whose work was closely connected to the work of Jean Renoir .

Life

Marguerite Houllé joined film at the age of 15 and received all-round training. At the Pathé company , she first started coloring films. When she in 1927 the average to Alberto Cavalcanti silent film La P'tite Lili explained, she met the director Jean Renoir know and love. The two became a couple, but never married. Nevertheless, Marguerite Houllé took on the name Renoir (quasi as a pseudonym) and from then on edited all of his films up to 1939. In her role as editor, she was also responsible for the success of Renoir's masterpieces The Great Illusion , Beast Man and The Rules of the Game . In Eine Landpartie , the star director gave her a small film role with the part of a waitress in 1936.

In 1939 the two paths parted. At this point, Jean Renoir had turned to another woman, the Brazilian Dido Freire, and after the German Wehrmacht invaded France, he left his home to seek exile in Hollywood. Marguerite Renoir kept her pseudonym and now worked with other directors, including regularly (until his death in 1960) with Jacques Becker , but also with Jean Grémillon , Roberto Rossellini , Luis Buñuel , Raymond Rouleau , Jean-Luc Godard and most recently (from 1961 to 1972) repeatedly with Jean-Pierre Mocky . In 1972 Marguerite Renoir withdrew from the film business into private life.

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SURNAME Renoir, Marguerite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houllé, Marguerite (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1987
Place of death Vigneux-sur-Seine