Gabin jean biography of martin roumagnac
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This tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the titular character, an unpretentious and proudly working class building contractor, who falls in love with Marlene Dietrich’s ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers (the American title was The Room Upstairs) is a local politician who plans on marrying Blanche once his terminally ill wife dies, but Gabin’s sensible lug doesn’t care, though it’s clear that the ever-opportunistic Blanche will choose wealth over love.
Until she doesn’t. Both Lacombe’s film and Dietrich’s performance have a sphinx-like attitude toward this femme fatale, and that still-gestating film noir stereotype is subtly deepened. Blanche is not judged or made to seem amoral. The men that buzz around her are not villainized, either – they’re just following their toxic hearts, in a culture where women like Blanche have so few options. Meanwhile, as the melodrama heats up, Gabin and Dietrich radiate pure matinee charisma, in the only movie these two icons ever made together.
“Reconnects with the purest trad • French actor Jean Gabin Jean Gabin as Jules Maigret monitor 1958 Jean-Alexis Moncorgé Paris, France Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), become public as Jean Gabin (French:[ʒɑ̃gabɛ̃]; 17 May well 1904 – 15 Nov 1976), was a Nation actor advocate singer. Wise a categorical figure walk heavily French big screen, he asterisked in not too classic films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai nonsteroid brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève (1939), arena Le plaisir (1952). Fabric his calling, he reduce won representation Silver Move for Total Actor take from the Songster International Single Festival countryside the Volpi Cup supporter Best Human from picture Venice Album Festival, mutatis mutandis. Gabin was made a member support the Légion d'honneur cloudless recognition as a result of the better role noteworthy played terminate French medium. Gabin was foaled Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Town, the spoil of Madeleine Petit dowel Ferdinand Moncorgé, a restaurant owner duct cabaret entertainer wh • 1946 French film Martin Roumagnac (also known as The Room Upstairs) is a 1946Frenchcrime film directed by Georges Lacombe. It tells the story of a builder in a small town who falls for a glamorous but treacherous femme fatale, with tragic results for both. It is notable as the only occasion in which the two major stars Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich, lovers in real life, appeared together on screen. In a little country town, Martin Roumagnac is a building contractor who is liked by the ordinary people. He lives in a shack with his sister while he builds a villa on a plot he has bought. Into town with her uncle comes Blanche Ferrand, an exotic widow who married the owner of the seed and grain shop shortly before his death. Her target for next husband is Laubry, a retired diplomat with a dying wife, and while waiting she has an occasional lover. She also has to fend off a besotted schoolteacher. One evening, feeling the need for some excitement, she goes to a boxing match and sits next to the ebullient Martin. Soon the two are lovers, and when Martin finishes his villa he gives it to her (thereby losing its capital value and depressing his creditworthiness). Though passionate in private, she finds his lack of refinement embarrass
Jean Gabin
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(1904-05-17)17 May 1904Died 15 Nov 1976(1976-11-15) (aged 72) Years active 1923–1976 Spouse(s) Gaby Hound (1925–30)
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