Robert Vernay
{{Short description|French director and screenwriter}}
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Robert Vernay (May 30, 1907 in Paris – October 17, 1979 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter.
Career
In 1937, Vernay worked as assistant director to Julien Duvivier on Pépé le Moko.{{cite book |last1=Crisp |first1=Colin |title=French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939 |date=29 June 2015 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-01703-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WffjCQAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|144}}
In 1944, Vernay directed an adaptation of Balzac's Père Goriot, starring Pierre Renoir. It was released in 1945.{{cite book |last1=Heathcote |first1=Owen |last2=Watts |first2=Andrew |title=The Cambridge Companion to Balzac |date=2 February 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-06647-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6_DDQAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|162}} In the late 1950s, he directed a "tacky comedy" called Madame et son auto. It was a favourite film of René Magritte.{{cite book |last1=Levy |first1=Silvano |title=Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality |date=July 1997 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-5127-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-48DAAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|95}}
Selected filmography
- Prince of the Six Days (1936)
- Pépé le Moko (1937) as assistant director{{rp|144}}
- The Woman I Loved Most (1942)
- Arlette and Love (1943)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1943)
- Father Goriot (1945){{rp|162}}
- The Captain (1946)
- Emile the African (1949)
- Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949){{cite book |last1=Gaycken |first1=Oliver |title=Devices of Curiosity: Early Cinema and Popular Science |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-986070-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDH5BgAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|242}}
- Véronique (1950)
- Andalusia (1951)
- The Dream of Andalusia (1951)
- Love in the Vineyard (1952)
- Double or Quits (1953)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1954){{cite book |last1=McDonald |first1=Tamar Jeffers |last2=Lanckman |first2=Lies |title=Star Attractions: Twentieth-century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom |date=2019 |publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=978-1-60938-673-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rG8DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{rp|83}}
- Let's Be Daring, Madame (1957)
- Madame et son auto (1958){{rp|95}}
References
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External links
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Category:French film directors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French screenwriters
Category:20th-century French male writers
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