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Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France
Jean Gabin was more than just a star of iconic movies still screened in film festivals around the world. To many, he was France itself. During his 45-year career, he acted in 95 films, including Le Quai des Brumes, La Grande Illusion, Touchez Pas au Grisbi and French Cancan. From his start as a reluctant song and dance man at the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergere, Gabin became a first-magnitude actor under such directors as Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carne and Jean Renoir. This revealing biography traces his involvement in the realisme poetique and film noir movements of the 1930s and 1940s, his unhappy Hollywood years, his role in the World War II liberation of France, his tumultuous affairs with Michele Morgan and Marlene Dietrich and his real-life role as a Normandy gentleman farmer.
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: Feb 28th, 2023
- Pages: 326
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.83in - 1.02in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780813198750
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Film - History & Criticism• Entertainment & Performing Arts• Europe - France
About the Author
Harriss, Joseph: - Joseph Harriss's articles and columns from his posts in Paris, North Africa, Brussels and Washington have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Time, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and The American Spectator. He is the author of three previous books on France. He lives in Paris.
Praise for this book
"A thorough, well-researched biography"--Los Angeles Times; "fascinating and thoroughly researched.... This is the first full-length account of Gabin's colorful life in English and is likely to be the book of choice for film scholars and Anglophone French cinema fans for some time to come.... Harriss brings narrative skill and sweeping historical context to the Gabin saga.... Harris weaves the threads of Gabin's life into a coherent chronological story covering 72 years, from his birth in 1904 to his death in 1976. He avoids the star-struck tone of so many such biographies and lets the story tell itself. And the story is riveting."--Facts & Arts; "This beautifully written, fast-moving book is immaculately researched. One of the best film bios I have ever read, it will be a useful work of scholarship for many years to come."--Charles Zigman, Los Angeles based screenwriter and teacher of film studies