Edmond T. Greville ( Fr. Edmond T. Gréville ; full name - Edmond Thonger Greville, Fr. Edmond Thonger Gréville ; June 20, 1906 , Nice , France [2] - May 26, 1966 , Nice , France [2] ) - French actor , film director and writer, author or co-author of the scripts for most of his films.
| Edmond T. Greville | |
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| fr. Edmond T. Gréville | |
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| Birth name | Edmond thonger gréville |
| Date of Birth | June 20, 1906 [1] |
| Place of Birth | Nice , France [2] |
| Date of death | May 26, 1966 [1] (59 years old) |
| Place of death | Nice , France [2] |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Profession | actor , director , screenwriter |
| Direction | drama , romance , comedy , thriller , film adaptation , musical film |
| Awards | silver medal at the 1938 Venice Biennale |
| IMDb | |
| edmond.greville.free.fr | |
Biography
Origin
Born in June 1906, Edmond was the youngest of seven children - the sisters Lucy, Florence, Lilia, Blanche, Ruth and brother William - in the family of a Protestant pastor from Birmingham ( England ), Richard Tonger Greville ( born Richard Thonger Greville , 1861— 1941), and a school teacher from Ardeche (France), Evodie Fili ( fr. Evodie Philit , 1865-1945) [3] .
There is evidence that he was the adoptive son of a French-British couple: a genetic test conducted in 2017 by his daughter and grandson at 23andme showed that he was in fact an Ashkenazi Jew originating from the Odessa region . The family also suggests that in 1905 his parents fled from the pogrom to France, to Marseille , where he was discovered in a nice hospital by his English father, then captain of the Salvation Army .
Journalist and writer
Greville begins his career in France with literary activity. He was an "unconditional admirer" of Girod and Aragon [4] . At the age of sixteen, he publishes a poem in the pamphlet entitled “Norma” in honor of the silent film actress Norma Talmaj . At eighteen, he writes his first novel, Supprimé par l'ascenseur, a short, frivolous story forbidden by censorship [3] . In 1930, he published his second novel, Chantegre-nouille, attracting the attention of top critics like Edmond Jaluet and Robert Brazilliak [4] . He is involved in journalism, then beginning to sign his articles in an Anglo-Saxon manner, and becomes France's youngest cinematic critic, collaborating with the newspapers Comoedia , L'intransigeant and Vu magazine. [3]
Movie Jobs
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At the same time, he tries himself as an actor in silent films, and in 1929 Rene Claire entrusted him with one of the main roles in his first sound picture Under the Roofs of Paris . He plays Louis, a friend of Albert ( Albert Prezhan ), with whom they take care of a beautiful Romanian ( Paul Illeri ). This film was destined to become his almost last acting experience.
He begins to master the skill of the director’s profession on the set of the monumental silent biopic Napoleon under the leadership of Abel Hans in the 1925-1926s. [6]
In 1927, commissioned by the founder of Vu Weekly, Lucien Vogel ( French: Lucien Vogel ), he made a short film about the magazine, Un grand journal illustré , with pure movie effects giving it an avant-garde aspect appreciated by connoisseurs. After several promotional films ( Martini sec , 24 heures de la vie d'un faux col ) filmed for the Dorland advertising agency, he leaves for England, where he becomes an assistant to the German director Ewald Andre Dupont in the Piccadilly film ( Eng. Piccadilly , 1929) whose visual storytelling methods he admired. Upon his return to France, he assists Jacques de Baronselli in Arlesianne ( Fr. L'Arlesienne , 1930), based on the story of Alfons Daudet “Arlesian”, Augusto Jenine in the drama Miss Europe - Prize for Beauty ( Fr. Miss Europa - Prix de beauté , 1930) with Louise Brooks and Abel Hans while making a film about the expectation of the utopian end of the world La fin du monde with Victor Fransan ( French Victor Francen ). [7]
Director
Since 1930, Greville has specialized in small comics with a specific sense of humor ( Séries des Marius et Moïse ). And in 1931, the producer asked him to make a film from recordings on old reels representing railway accidents. The result is his first major film, Suicide Train ( French: Le Train des suicidés , 1932) with Pedro Elviro ( Spanish Pedro Elviro ) and Vanda Vangen , who became his wife a few years later. The fantastic story of the death candidates in a comedy form with musical accompaniment by Chopin's “Mourning March” and Saint-Saens's “Dance of Death” in a jazz arrangement was poorly received by the public and marked the beginning of a misunderstanding that forms with his next film Whirlpool ( French Remous ) , quite bold for the cinema of those years, a psychopathological study of sexual impotence . [7]
This provocative melodrama with Francoise Rosay ( Fr. Françoise Rosay based on the novel “A Kiss in the Dark” by Peggy Thompson), belatedly released in France after her success in the UK in 1934, becomes an important stage in the work of the director. The maelstrom firmly established its baroque visual style, marked by mobile filming, unexpected transitions and a game with reflections in mirrors and puddles. [8]
She also demonstrated his passion for sexual themes and cost him a shortcut. of concern to producers of the intellectual director. The uneven continuation of his career was due in part to his desire for independence, and in part to the concessions he makes to commercial cinema. Greville returns to France, where he persists in his position as a marginal and exposes the poverty of French cinema of the 30s in the comedy Merchant of Love ( French Marchand d'amour , 1935), whose main character is performed by Erich von Stroheim . However, exhausted by criticism, he again continues his work abroad. [7]
After the failure of the Merchant of Love, Greville proceeds to more popular material in the comedy Princess Tam-Tam ( French Princesse Tam-Tam , 1935) with Josephine Baker in the title role [4] .
Drawing on British attention to the Maelstrom , in June 1935, Greville created his own London-based film company British Artistic Films, the only product of which was the musical comedy Gypsy Melody ( English Gypsy Melody , 1936) with Mexican star Lupe Veles and gypsy conductor Alfred Rod ( . Alfred Rode ). In subsequent British films, Gravil's susceptibility finds a more interesting expression. His ability to learn complex, sometimes erotic, relationships is bearing fruit in Brief Ecstasy (1937), a story about passion inflating outside of marriage, featuring Linden Travers, Paul Lucas and Hugh Williams, praised in a review by Graham Green for his sense of camera and the atmosphere of "unsatisfied sexuality." Gravil willingly works in the UK , but his ambitious Shakespeare film project cannot be promoted due to funding, and in 1938 he has to return to Europe . [eight]
In 1938, the Dutch government entrusted him with the creation of an official film for the anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina , Veertig jaren (1938), who received a silver medal at the Venice Biennale . Italy, in turn, opens Greville and invites him (at a time when neither the French director was known in Rome ) for the filming of three films, which, however, will never be completed due to the war . The director’s worldview and his concern about the international situation are realized in English productions of the time, such as: Secret Lives (1937), a visually brilliant anti-war film clothed in spy history, the heavier Mademoiselle Doctor ( French Mademoiselle Docteur , 1937) with Dita Parlo and John Loder ( eng. John Loder ), concerning ambiguous addictions and treacherous love, but especially - openly anti-Nazi film Threats ( Fr. Menaces , 1939), shot after the Munich agreements , with Mireille Balen and Erich von Stroheim. The latter plays an Austrian refugee who commits suicide after he learns on the radio about the Anschluss and the political disappearance of his country. Negatives and copies of this film were destroyed by order of Goebbels [3] . Wanted by the Gestapo , Greville, who was also accused of his English nationality [4] , takes refuge in Cagnes-sur-Mer , in the free zone in southeastern France under the pseudonym Max Montagut ( fr. Max Montagut ). In November 1940, he was happy to find work as an assistant to Abel Hans for the filming of Vénus aveugle . The drama The Woman in the Night ( Fr. Une femme dans la nuit ), shot in 1941 based on the novel by Zola, is released in 1943 without mentioning the director’s name in the credits [4] . Unable to work under the Vichy government , Greville returns to the movie camera only after the end of the occupation [3] .
After a light comedy by Dorothea in search of love ( Fr. Dorothée cherche l'amour , 1945) with Claude Dofen , Suzy Carrier ( Fr. Suzy Carrier ) and Jules Berry , he does personal work, overshadowed by eroticism, For a night of love ( Fr. Pour une nuit d'Amour , 1946) with Odette Zhuayo and Roger Blenom on the novel of the same name by Zola . [3]
The severe drama Le Diable souffle (1947) with Charles Vanel does not receive much success, probably due to a somewhat artificial scenario, and Greville was forced to resume his wanderings [4] .
Returning to London , he shoots Noose (1948), populated by prostitutes in Soho and vice racketeers, an energetic comic drama based on a play by Richard Luellin , the English-Dutch film Niet tevergeefs / But Not Not in Vain about resistance and collaboration, and the film Romantic Time ( English The Romantic Age , 1949) with Petula Clark. [3]
In 1950, like ten years ago, he again turns out to be assistant director of Raoul Walsh , this time in a film about American pirates, but partially shot in France, Captain Horatio Hornblower . Only in 1953, Greville could resume his career in France in a new series of ten films (with the last invasion of England in 1960), unfortunately, of very different values. The best is called the first film of this series, The Flip Side of Paradise ( Fr. L'Envers du paradis ), where he again takes Stroheim. [four]
A big fan of American cinema, he refuses some of the techniques inherited from the avant-garde, for the sake of typical Hollywood classicism and shoots the Port of Desires ( French Le Port du désir , 1954), which portrays Jean Gabin as a captain, faced with an unscrupulous smuggler and tormented by his love to a young woman who also loves a man much younger than him. [7]
Greville repeatedly in his work uses the conditions of limited space, conducive to playing out passions; this is the central theme of the drama Island on the Edge of the World ( Fr. L'Ile du bout du monde , 1959) with three women performed by beautiful and famous actresses of the time: Magalie Noel , Dawn Addams and Rossana Podesta and one man, Christian Markan . [four]
In 1960, he makes a horror film , The Hands of Orlac ( Fr. Les Mains d'Orlac , 1960) with Mel Ferrer , after two previous versions. [eight]
In the drama Coquette ( fr. L'Aguicheuse / Beat Girl , 1960), he considers with some courage the relationship between father and daughter. The film was banned in France on charges of immorality. [3]
In the crime drama Liars ( French: Les Menteurs , 1961) based on the novel by Frederic Dara, he remains faithful to one of his favorite topics, erotica (which never becomes vulgar in his work). The last film, The Crash ( Fr. L'Accident 1963), also based on the novel by Frederic Dar with Magali Noel , turns out to be prophetic for him. [7]
He has no shortage of film projects, in particular: Patrouille de femmes , a Franco-Israeli co-production, as well as Le mur de verre , the story of a man who lives two lives, one wretched, the other luxurious, unable to separate the dream from reality . He begins to write his Memoirs and is going to spend several days in Israel to decide on full-scale shooting and conclude contracts. On May 20, 1966, on the way back, while driving his English Mercedes, he had an accident and died a few days later in a Nice hospital. [3]
With several friends from Nickel Odéon, the movie club that we founded and where we showed some of his best films, some copies from damage, destruction, just in case, we even paid for his grave so that he would not be thrown into the public. With a check from Rene Claire. [9]
Original text (Fr.)Avec quelques amis du Nickel Odéon, le ciné-club que nous avions fondé et où nous avions projeté certains de ses meilleurs films, sauvant in extremis certaines copies de la casse, de la destruction, nous avons même payé sa tombe, afin qu'il ne soit pas jeté à la fosse commune. Aidé par un chèque de René Clair.- Bertrand Tavernier
Other activities
As a journalist, he collaborates with La Tribune du Cinéma and together with Jean Georges Auriol ( Fr. Jean George Auriol ), Jean Levy ( Fr. Jean Lévy ), Andre Mauger ( Fr. André Maugé ) and Henri Janson, founded the literary magazine Jabiru . He writes novels (Supprimé par l'ascenseur, Chante-Grenoville) and plays for the theater. [7]
Family
In 1930, Edmond T. Greville met the English actress Vanda Vangen (1908-1997), who will play one of the roles in his film Le Train des suicidés . Their marriage, despite having a child, breaks up after the war. [ten]
Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | f | Napoleon | Napoléon | assistant director and actor |
| 1929 | f | Piccadilly | Piccadilly | assistant director (uncredited) |
| 1929 | core | La naissance des heures | producer | |
| 1929 | core | Minuit | producer | |
| 1930 | core | Marius chasse le lion | producer | |
| 1930 | f | Beauty Prize (Miss Europe) | Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) | assistant director and editor |
| 1930 | f | Under the rooftops of Paris | Sous les toits de paris | Director assistant |
| 1930 | f | Arlesian | L'arlésienne | Director assistant |
| 1931 | core | Le mariage de sarah | producer | |
| 1931 | core | Un crime passionnel | producer | |
| 1931 | core | Moyse marchand d'habits | producer | |
| 1931 | core | Moyse et Cohen, businessmen | producer | |
| 1931 | core | Le testament de moyse | producer | |
| 1931 | core | La belle madame moyse | producer | |
| 1931 | core | Maître chez soi | producer | |
| 1931 | f | End of the world | La fin du monde | Director assistant |
| 1931 | f | Suicide Train | Le train des suicidés | director, editor and screenwriter |
| 1932 | core | La guerre des sauterelles | producer | |
| 1932 | f | Le triangle de feu | director (shared) | |
| 1933 | core | Vacances conjugales | director and screenwriter | |
| 1933 | dock | Dry martini | Martini sec | producer |
| 1933 | dock | 24 heures de la vie d'un faux col | producer | |
| 1933 | core | Je suis un homme perdu | producer | |
| 1933 | core | Berlingot | director and actor (parrot voice) | |
| 1933 | f | Le rayon des amours | producer | |
| 1934 | core | Monsieur le vagabond | producer | |
| 1934 | f | Plaisirs de paris | producer | |
| 1934 | core | La croix des cimes | director and screenwriter | |
| 1934 | f | Whirlpool | Remous | director and editor |
| 1935 | f | Love merchant | Marchand d'amour | director and screenwriter |
| 1935 | f | Princess Tam-Tam | Princesse Tam-Tam | producer |
| 1936 | core | L'agence security | producer | |
| 1936 | f | Gypsy melody | Gypsy melody | producer |
| 1937 | f | Secret lives | director and screenwriter | |
| 1937 | f | Brief ecstasy | producer | |
| 1937 | f | Mademoiselle Doctor | Mademoiselle Docteur / Under Secret Orders | producer |
| 1938 | f | Veertig jaren | producer | |
| 1938 | f | What a man! | producer | |
| 1940 | f | Threats | Menaces ... | director and screenwriter |
| 1941 | f | Venus aveugle | Director assistant | |
| 1943 | f | Une femme dans la nuit | producer | |
| 1945 | f | Dorothea in search of love | Dorothée cherche l'amour | producer |
| 1947 | f | For the night of love | Pour une nuit d'amour | director and screenwriter |
| 1947 | f | Le diable souffle | director and screenwriter | |
| 1948 | f | Noose | producer | |
| 1948 | tf | Niet tevergeefs / But Not in Vain | director and screenwriter | |
| 1949 | f | Romantic time | The romantic age | director and screenwriter |
| 1951 | f | Captain horatio hornblower | Captain Horatio Hornblower RN | Director assistant |
| 1951 | f | I'm banne der madonna | producer | |
| 1953 | f | The flip side of paradise | L'envers du paradis | director and screenwriter |
| 1955 | f | Wish Port | Port du désir | Director, actor and songwriter Port du Désir |
| 1955 | f | Tant qu'il y aura des femmes | producer | |
| 1956 | f | Je plaide non coupable | director and screenwriter (shared) | |
| 1958 | f | Quand sonnera midi | producer | |
| 1959 | f | Island on the edge of the world | L'île du bout du monde | director, screenwriter and producer |
| 1960 | f | Yoke | L'Aguicheuse / Beat Girl | producer |
| 1960 | f | Hands of Orlak | The hands of orlac | director, screenwriter, dialogs |
| 1961 | f | Liars | Les menteurs | producer |
| 1963 | f | Crash | L'accident | director and screenwriter |
| 1963 | f | Nuremberg Maiden | La Vierge de Nuremberg / La vergine di Norimberga | screenwriter (shared) |
| 1964 | tf | Peril paradis | producer |
Artwork
Books
- Edmond T. Gréville. Norma (Fr.) . - Paris: Editions de la Revue Litéraire et Artistique, 1926.
- Edmond T. Gréville. Supprimé par l'ascenseur (Fr.) . - Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française, 1927 .-- 99 p.
- Edmond T. Gréville. Norma Talmadge (Fr.) . - Paris: Jean-Pascal, 1927 .-- 64 p.
- Edmond T. Gréville. Chantegrenouille (Fr.) . - Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1930 .-- 264 p.
- Edmond T. Gréville. L'envers du Paradis (Fr.) . - Givors, A. Martel, 1953.- 215 p.
- Edmond T. Gréville. La fille peinte (Fr.) . - Paris: Éditions Karolus, 1962 .-- 251 p.
- Edmond T. Gréville. La Corde raide (French) .
- Edmond T. Gréville. Trente-cinq ans dans la jungle du cinéma (French) . - Lyon / Arles: Institut Lumière / Actes Sud, 1995 .-- 383 p. - (Coédition Institut Lumière-Actes Sud). - ISBN 2-7427-0179-6 .
Pieces
- Edmond T. Gréville. Oiseaux des Saxophones (Fr.) . - 1927.
- Edmond T. Gréville. Collin-Maillard (Fr.) . - 1942.
- Edmond T. Gréville. 1 et 1 font 3 (French) . - 1957.
Publications
- Gréville, Edmond T. Une femme dans chaque pore: [ fr. ] // Cinégraph. - 1930.
- Gréville, Edmond T. L'homme que vous aimerez haïr: [ fr. ] // L'Écran français 25. - December 1945.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Gréville, Edmond T. (Fr.) . open data platform (13-12-2006). Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Record # 123590620 (German) . German National Library, Berlin State Library, Bavarian State Library, etc. Date of access August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sébastien Jouve. Biographie (Fr.) . edmond.greville.free.fr (2006-2007). Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Collectif. Le Cinéma: Grande histoire illustrée du 7e art . Edmond T. Gréville et Pierre Chenal deux cinéastes méconnus (Fr.) . Editions Atlas (1982) . Date of treatment August 12, 2017.
- ↑ Edmond T. Gréville (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 23, 2018. Archived July 19, 2017.
- ↑ Caroline Hanotte. Edmond T. Gréville (Fr.) . CinéArtistes.com (2006—2015). Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Edmond T. Gréville (Fr.) . Ciné-Ressources. Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Geoff Brown, Bryony Dixon. Gréville, Edmond T (1906-66 ) . BFI Screenonline. Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
- ↑ Bertrand Tavernier. Pour Edmond T. Gréville (Fr.) . Positif (November 1998). Date of treatment August 12, 2017.
- ↑ 532: Vanda Greville (Fr.) . d'autres étoiles filantes - unBlog.fr. Date of treatment August 11, 2017.
Literature
Books
- Philippe Roger. L'Enfer du paradis (Fr.) . - Lyon: Editions du Cosmogone, 2001 .-- 202 p. - (Un cinéaste en mots-clefs). - ISBN 2-914238-00-2 .
- Paul Vecchiali. L'Encinéclopédie. Cinéastes français des années 1930 et leur œuvre (French) . - Montreuil: Éditions de l'Œil, 2010 .-- T. 2 .-- 738 p. - ISBN 978-2-35137-095-7 .
Publications
- Vous Ne Verrez Janais Ces Films: [ fr. ] // Match. - March 1939.
- L'érotisme au cinéma: [ fr. ] // Positif. - 1964. - No. 61–63.
- Legrand, Gérard. Edmond T. Gréville 1906-1966: [ fr. ] // Anthologie du cinéma. - 1970. - No. 56.
- Anthologie du cinéma, n ° 56, Juin 1970
- Collectif. Edmond T. Gréville et Pierre Chenal deux cinéastes méconnus : [ fr. ] . - Editions Atlas. - 1982. - (Le Cinéma: Grande histoire illustrée du 7e art).
- Logette, Lucien. Prélude à Gréville: [ fr. ] // Jeune Cinéma. - October-November 1990. - No. 203.
- Logette, Lucien. Prélude à Gréville: [ fr. ] // Jeune Cinéma. - January-February 1991. - No. 205.
- Tavernier, Bertrand. Voix off . - In: Pour Edmond T. Gréville: [ fr. ] // Positif. - November 1998. - No. 453.
Links
- Greville, Edmond T. on the Internet Movie Database
- Official site of Edmond T. Greville (fr.)