Writing
Jacques Deval
Born June 27, 1895 · Paris, France
Died December 19, 1972 · aged 77
Jacques Deval was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Known For
L'altra metà del cielo · 1977L'altra metà del cielo
★ 5.81977
MovieComedyRomance
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
Şahane Züğürtler · 1964Şahane Züğürtler
★ 8.01964
MovieComedy
Fikret is a wealthy cotton merchant. He married his childhood sweetheart Leyla and built a happy home. The young couple's kindness touched many people around them. However, one day, things took a turn for the worse. Fikret's business failed. Yusuf, whom he had once saved from bankruptcy, refused to help him. He was acting out of resentment that Leyla had chosen Fikret over him. Fikret is an honorable man. He has been appointed guardian of the young son of his closest friend, who died in a traffic accident. The management of a large fortune has fallen to him. However, he prefers to work as a servant in Istanbul rather than touch the money. The couple builds a new life for themselves in Istanbul. But Yusuf's resentment shows no signs of abating.
Balalaika · 1939Balalaika
★ 5.31939
MovieRomanceMusic
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Tovarich · 1937Tovarich
★ 6.41937
MovieRomanceComedy
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Club of Women · 1956Club of Women
★ 5.01956
MovieDrama
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
Marie Galante · 1934Marie Galante
★ 4.91934
MovieThrillerDrama
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
The Passionate Plumber · 1932The Passionate Plumber
★ 6.01932
MovieComedy
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
New Moon · 1940New Moon
★ 6.91940
MovieRomanceAdventure
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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