Victor jean gabin biography

Jean-Alexis Moncorgé started his career with 15 years at the theatre and debuted at the Moulin Rouge in Paris in 1929.
One of France's most celebrated actors, Jean Gabin was the tragic romantic hero of such pre-World War II dramas as Marie Chapdelaine (1934), Pépé le Moko (1937).
One of French cinema's greatest stars, a brilliant actor that grew to be a cultural monument, the leading man of that historic '38 Best Picture nominee.

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Jean Gabin

After several years of cabarets, notably at the Folies Bergères, Jean Gabin steps up to the silver screen. He is revealed by the film Pépé le Moko in 1937. Jean Gabin's career is launched and in just two years, he appears in films among the most famous of French cinema, such as Grand Illusion, Port of Shadows, La Bête humaine (1938)… During World War II, he takes refuge in the United States, refusing to act for the Germans. His return to French cinema is marked by two gangster films: Touchez pas au grisbi (1953) and Chnouf (1955). In 1955, Michel Audiard discovers his cheeky humour in shooting back carefully elaborated replies. Their collaboration is to span some twenty films. Gabin then surrounds himself with a faithful team with whom he works almost exclusively: Bernard Blier, Gilles Granier, Fernadel, Henri Verneuil… Towards the end of his life Gabin draws nearer to the new generation and shoots with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. He passes away in 1976 and with him, a mythical figure of French cinema.

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Les Misérables (1958 film)

1958 film

Les Misérables is a 1958 film adaptation of the 1862 Victor Hugonovel. Written by René Barjavel, the film was directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and stars Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean.^[2]

Adaptation

The bishop's background is briefly sketched rather than detailed as in the novel. Javert is a young boy, the son of a guard in the Toulon prison, when he sees Valjean as a convict. Fantine's body, instead of being thrown into a public grave unceremoniously after Javert arrested Jean Valjean, was still in her deathbed after Jean Valjean escaped jail, and he pays Sister Simplice to bury her properly. In a flashback to Mr. Thénardier's looting of valuables from the corpses of dead soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo and inadvertent rescue of Baron Pontmercy, he was an opportunistic deserter from within Napoleon's Grande Armée rather than a thief outside the ranks who completely fabricated his military service record after the war to cover up his looting, and Mrs. Thénardier was also present at Waterloo serving as a cantinière. Ja

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by Cláudio Alves

The 11th Academy Awards marked an important first in Oscar history. Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, a French drama about class hierarchies and political strife in World War I, received a Best Picture nomination. It became the first non-English language film to ever do so. As we all know, it'd take 81 years for one such picture to win Hollywood's most coveted trophy, but we're not here to talk about Parasite's glorious victory as tempting as that is. Instead, our subject matter is one of French cinema's greatest stars, a brilliant actor that grew to be a cultural monument, the leading man of that historic '38 Best Picture nominee. Jean Gabin was a divinity of the Silver Screen, as magnetic as he was devastating…

Before his golden collaborations with Renoir, Jean Gabin, born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, was already a star. He had humble beginnings as the laborer son of a café owner and a cabaret performer, starting his career in show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères variety revue. After a stint in the military, the aspi