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Jean de Limur

Born November 13, 1887 · Vouhé, Charente-Maritime, France

Died June 5, 1976 · aged 88

Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929). A French army officer and a designer, he first came to the United States with his parents, Count and Countess de Limur in September 1920; their destination was Burlingame, California, where lived Jean's broth…

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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate · 1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

MovieDramaRomance

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

The Letter

The Letter · 1930

The Legion of the Condemned

The Legion of the Condemned · 1928

The Legion of the Condemned

Finding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air Legion. Christine is later revealed to be the spy whom Price has been ordered to drop behind enemy lines. They are reconciled, are captured by the Germans, and are rescued by his unit.

L'âge d'or

L'âge d'or · 1942

Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has done bad business while his wife Juliette plays at the races and... loses ! So when it comes to paying their domestics wages, Dubelair gives them lottery tickets. Chance has it that one of them is winning...!

Circulate!

Circulate! · 1931

The Tomboy

The Tomboy · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.

Le père Lebonnard

Le père Lebonnard · 1939

Le père Lebonnard

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.

The Magnificent Flirt

The Magnificent Flirt · 1928

The Magnificent Flirt

Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems. Finally Count D'Estrange marries Mme. Florence Laverne. Both couples leave for a honeymoon in Venice

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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate · 1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

MovieDramaRomance

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

The Letter

The Letter · 1930

Original Film Writer

The Legion of the Condemned

The Legion of the Condemned · 1928

The Legion of the Condemned

Finding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air Legion. Christine is later revealed to be the spy whom Price has been ordered to drop behind enemy lines. They are reconciled, are captured by the Germans, and are rescued by his unit.

Writer

L'âge d'or

L'âge d'or · 1942

Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has done bad business while his wife Juliette plays at the races and... loses ! So when it comes to paying their domestics wages, Dubelair gives them lottery tickets. Chance has it that one of them is winning...!

Director

Circulate!

Circulate! · 1931

Director

The Tomboy

The Tomboy · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.

Director

Le père Lebonnard

Le père Lebonnard · 1939

Le père Lebonnard

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.

Director

The Magnificent Flirt

The Magnificent Flirt · 1928

The Magnificent Flirt

Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems. Finally Count D'Estrange marries Mme. Florence Laverne. Both couples leave for a honeymoon in Venice

Writer

The Three Must-Get-Theres

The Three Must-Get-Theres · 1922

The Three Must-Get-Theres

MovieRomanceComedy

In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".

Roquefort

La Bête aux sept manteaux

La Bête aux sept manteaux · 1937

La Bête aux sept manteaux

An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.

Director

Don Quixote

Don Quixote · 1933

MovieAdventureDrama

Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.

The Duke

Three Sinners

Three Sinners · 1928

A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.

Adaptation

Human Desires

Human Desires · 1924

In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.

Henri Regnier

The Letter

The Letter · 1929

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Director

L'Homme qui joue avec le feu

L'Homme qui joue avec le feu · 1942

L'Homme qui joue avec le feu

A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.

Director

Le coup de trois

Le coup de trois · 1936

Le coup de trois

Popolka takes advantage of the absence of his shrew of a wife to indulge in the delights of single life. His manager showers him with favors because he is in love with a young woman whom he believes to be Popolka's wife. When Madame Popolka returns, the situation becomes confused...

Director

Apparizione

Apparizione · 1943

MovieRomanceComedy

One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.

Director

The Arab

The Arab · 1924

Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.

Hossein

La Cité des lumières

La Cité des lumières · 1938

La Cité des lumières

The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.

Director

Mariage à responsabilité limitée

Mariage à responsabilité limitée · 1934

Mariage à responsabilité limitée

To come into possession of an inheritance, a young woman must marry a man she does not love and who does not love her either. But he falls in love and manages to conquer his wife by becoming a totally different character from the one he was at the time of the wedding.

Director

Le Voyage imprévu

Le Voyage imprévu · 1935

Le Voyage imprévu

MovieComedyRomance

A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.

Director

La brigade en jupons

La brigade en jupons · 1936

La brigade en jupons

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.

Director

My Kid of a Father

My Kid of a Father · 1930

My Kid of a Father

Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthrift young woman. Unable to keep up with his wife's expensive habits, Jérôme attempts to return to his former career as an architect, but he finds no real success. The couple faces looming financial disaster due to the wife's extravagant spending.

Director

Petite peste

Petite peste · 1939

Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.

Director