Marcel L'Herbier

Activities : Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Dialogue Writer, Author of original work, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Narrator, Participant
Date of Birth : 23/04/1890
Date of decease : 26/11/1979

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Marcel L'Herbier

Marcel L'Herbier

Marcel L'Herbier

Marcel L'Herbier

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (53 films)

Le Père de Mademoiselle (1953) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Arletty, Suzy Carrier, André Luguet, Denise Grey, Jacques François... Associate production company : F.A.O. Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Le Père de Mademoiselle is all about a star-struck lass from rural France who takes a job as the secretary to a glamorous actress. When her parents come to the big city, the girl is beside herself: she's been claiming in her...

Sins of Pompeii (1948) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Marcel Herrand, Jaque-Catelain, Adriana Benetti... Associate production company : Universalia Film, Franco-London Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax,...

Stolen Affections (1948) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Josette Day, Victor Francen, Jacques Berthier, Jaque-Catelain, Sylvie... Associate production company : Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Fémina Genres : Fiction

Queen's Necklace (1945) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Viviane Romance, Maurice Escande, Jean Hebey, Pierre Dux, Jean-Louis Allibert... Associate production company : Ile-de-france films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a vehicle for the formidable Vivian Romance. The star plays an aristocrat in the court of Louis XVI, who...

Happy Go Lucky (1945) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Danielle Darrieux, François Périer, André Luguet, Jacques-Henry Duval, Paulette Dubost... Associate production company : Les Films Gibé Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Things aren't so happy at the outset, however, not with wealthy Alain Plessis, an ageing writer on the verge of suicide. Alain gets a second lease on life when he finds himself the nonplused host of Martine, who wants to make her...

La Vie de bohème (1943) Director : Marcel L'Herbier Actors : Maria Denis, Giselle Pascal, Suzy Delair, Louis Jourdan, Alfred Adam... Associate production company : Invicta Film Genres : Fiction Synopsis : La Vie de Bohème is adapted from Henri Murger's libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème with the Puccini music relegated to the background. Louis Jourdan plays Rudolphe, the "starving artist" who falls in love with the...