Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in Paris, but while accompanying his lover André Gide on a trip in 1927 to the Congo in Africa, he recorded the trip on film,Marc Allégret. Encyclopaedia Britannica after which he chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. He is credited with helping develop the careers of Simone Simon, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danièle Delorme, Odette Joyeux, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jourdan, and Roger Vadim.
Allégret collaborated on the famous Dada Marcel Duchamp short film Anemic Cinema in 1926 and served as an assistant director to Robert Florey and Augusto Genina. In 1931 he directed his first feature film, Mam’zelle Nitouche. He received acclaim for his subsequent film Fanny and went on to a long career during which he wrote numerous scripts and directed more than fifty films.
Allégret died in 1973 and was interred in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
Filmography
1927 : Travels in the Congo (documentary) 1930 : (short) 1931 : 1931 : J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (short) 1931 : (short) 1931 : The Lovers of Midnight 1931 : Black and White 1932 : La Petite Chocolatière 1932 : Fanny 1934 : Zouzou 1934 : Hotel Free Exchange 1934 : 1934 : Sans famille 1935 : Beautiful Days 1936 : Under Western Eyes 1936 : Adventure in Paris 1936 : The Terrible Lovers 1937 : Gribouille 1937 : Woman of Malacca 1937 : Another World (German-language version of Woman of Malacca) 1938 : Orage 1938 : Entrée des artistes 1939 : Le Corsaire 1941 : Parade en sept nuits 1942 : L'Arlésienne 1942 : The Beautiful Adventure 1943 : Les Deux timides 1944 : Les Petites du quai aux fleurs 1945 : Félicie Nanteuil 1946 : Lunegarde 1946 : Pétrus 1947 : Blanche Fury 1950 : Blackmailed 1950 : Maria Chapdelaine 1951 : (documentary) 1952 : 1953 : Julietta 1954 : Loves of Three Queens 1955 : School for Love 1955 : Lady Chatterley's Lover 1956 : En effeuillant la marguerite a.k.a. Plucking the Daisy a.k.a. Mademoiselle Striptease 1957 : Love Is at Stake 1958 : Be Beautiful But Shut Up 1958 : Sunday Encounter 1959 : 1961 : 1962 : Tales of Paris 1963 : 1966 : Lumière (documentary) 1970 : Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel
References
External links
Marc Allegrét papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.