Jacques Deval

{{Short description|French playwright, screenwriter and film director}}

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| birth_date = 27 June 1895

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = 19 December 1972

| death_place = Paris, France

| othername = Jacques Boularan {{cn|date=January 2024}}

| occupation = Screenwriter, Director

| yearsactive = 1923–1972 (film)

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Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.{{sfn|Crisp|1993|p=175}}

Novels

Marie Galante (1931)

Plays

Une faible femme; a comedy in three acts (1920)
Dans sa candeur naïve; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as Her Cardboard Lover (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse
Étienne; a play in three acts (1930)
Mademoiselle; a comedy in three acts (1932)
Tovarich; a play in four acts (1933)
Marie Galante; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel Marie Galante. Music by Kurt Weill (1934){{refn |group = note |name = "Note_Synopsis" |Synopsis of the musical-play, courtesy of the Kurt Weill Foundation: "Marie is kidnapped and taken to Panama by a lecherous sea captain, who abandons her when she will not give in to his desires. She becomes a prostitute in order to earn money to return to France; meanwhile, she is unwittingly involved in an espionage plot. She spends most of her money to care for a dying black man whom no one else will tend to. When she does finally save enough money for a steamer fare, she is murdered by a spy who fears discovery the night before the boat sails."{{cite web

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Soubrette; a comedy in three acts (1938)
Oh, Brother!; a comedy in three acts (1945)
La Femme de ta jeunesse; a play in three acts (1947)
Le Rayon des jouets; a comedy in three acts (1951)
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; a play in two acts (1955)
La Prétentaine; a comedy in two acts (1957)
Romancero; a play in three acts (1958)

Filmography

The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
The Passionate Plumber, directed by Edward Sedgwick (1932, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
A Weak Woman, directed by Max de Vaucorbeil (France, 1933, based on the play Une faible femme)
Étienne, directed by Jean Tarride (France, 1933, based on the play Étienne)
Journal of a Crime, directed by William Keighley (1934, remake of the 1933 film Une vie perdue)
Marie Galante, directed by Henry King (1934, based on the novel Marie Galante)
Tovaritch, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1935, based on the play Tovaritch)
Tovarich, directed by Anatole Litvak (1937, based on the play Tovaritch)
Say It in French, directed by Andrew L. Stone (1938, based on the play Soubrette)
Her Cardboard Lover, directed by George Cukor (1942, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
Una vírgen moderna, directed by Joaquín Pardavé (Mexico, 1946, based on the play Mademoiselle)
Miss Tatlock's Millions, directed by Richard Haydn (1948, based on the play Oh, Brother!)
Tuesday's Guest, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1950, based on the play La Femme de ta jeunesse)
Women's Club, directed by Ralph Habib (France, 1956, remake of the 1936 film Women's Club)
{{Interlanguage link multi|La ragazza di mille mesi|it}}, directed by Steno (Italy, 1961, based on the play Le Rayon des jouets)
Geliebte Hochstaplerin, directed by Ákos Ráthonyi (West Germany, 1961, based on the play La Prétentaine)
L'altra metà del cielo, directed by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1977, based on the play Romancero)