Download or read book International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Actors and actresses written by Tom Pendergast and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over two thousand entries, arranged alphabetically within four volumes, that provide information about significant films, actors and actresses, directors, and writers and production artists in North American, British, and West European cinematic history. Includes photographs and indexes.
Download or read book Mais n te prom ne donc pas toute nue written by Georges Feydeau and published by Fayard/Mille et une nuits. This book was released on 2001-09-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avec Feydeau, au début du XXe siècle, le vaudeville retrouve toute sa vigueur. Il s'emploie à mettre en musique, selon une mécanique implacable de rebondissements comiques et grinçants, la bêtise et la muflerie du ménage désaccordé. Dans Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue !, Feydeau expose la joyeuse déconfiture du mariage, pour le plus grand bonheur du spectateur voyageur.
Download or read book Feu la m re de Madame written by Georges Feydeau and published by Fayard/Mille et une nuits. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucien rentre au domicile conjugal dans la nuit, passablement éméché après sa soirée au Bal des Quat’zarts, travesti en Louis XIV. Yvonne, son épouse, l’accable de reproches. Alors que la dispute bat son plein, un domestique, Joseph, vient annoncer le décès de la mère d’Yvonne. Évanouissement, pleurs et disputes renouvelées. On apprendra finalement que c’est la mère de la voisine qui est décédée, et que l’émissaire s’était trompé de porte... Il s’agit de la première pièce en un acte de Feydeau. La particularité et l’intérêt de celle-ci, par rapport aux vaudevilles en trois actes qui avaient fait jusque-là son succès, tient à une noirceur particulière du trait : le couple petit-bourgeois y est décrit comme un véritable enfer quotidien, où l’homme est exposé à toutes les humiliations. Édition établie par Jérôme Vérain.
Download or read book Le Dindon written by M. Georges Feydeau and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À Paris, chez Vatelin. Un salon élégant. Porte au fond. Deux portes à droite, deux à gauche. Mobilier ad libitum.Au lever du rideau, la scène reste vide un instant. On ne tarde pas à entendre des rumeurs au fond, et Lucienne, en tenue de sortie, son chapeau un peu de travers sur la tête, fait irruption comme une femme affolée.
Download or read book La Dame de chez Maxim written by Georges Feydeau and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2017-01-11T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandale! Au lendemain d’une nuit d’ivresse chez Maxim, la Môme Crevette, danseuse au Moulin-Rouge, se retrouve dans le lit de l’honorable docteur Petypon, peu habitué aux boissons fortes. Quand son oncle arrive à l’improviste et le surprend en si charmante compagnie, Petypon n’a d’autre choix que de faire passer la Môme pour sa propre femme. Mais comment la véritable Mme Petypon va-t-elle réagir? La Môme Crevette fera-t-elle longtemps illusion dans la haute société? La gouaille populaire et l’infatigable entrain de cette cocotte des faubourgs vont faire souffler un vent de tempête sur le grand monde... Pièce emblématique du génie comique de Feydeau, symbole de la vie parisienne, La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) dresse un portrait éclatant de Paris, capitale des plaisirs, avec ce je-ne-sais-quoi de sulfureux qui la rend irrésistible.
Download or read book Spatial Prepositions written by Claude Vandeloise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition "in" as it appears in the sentence "the ball is in the bag" postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as "the bulb is in the socket" and "the bottle is in the cap." The force exerted by the "landmark" (a conceptually fixed object) on the "target" (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition "in" than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differences—in French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.
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Download or read book Le Bourgeon written by Georges Feydeau and published by BnF collection ebooks. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BnF collection ebooks - "LE MARQUIS, paillard. Ce que j'en dis ?... hé !... je dis que c'est un beau brin de fille. LA COMTESSE : Oui ! Eh bien, justement c'est une des raisons pour lesquelles de l'éloigne... Je trouve qu'il n'est pas convenable que dans une maison où il y a un jeune homme de vingt ans, on ait des tendrons à son service. LE MARQUIS, ironique. Tu as peur que ton fils la détourne ?" BnF collection ebooks a pour vocation de faire découvrir en version numérique des textes classiques essentiels dans leur édition la plus remarquable, des perles méconnues de la littérature ou des auteurs souvent injustement oubliés. Tous les genres y sont représentés : morceaux choisis de la littérature, y compris romans policiers, romans noirs mais aussi livres d’histoire, récits de voyage, portraits et mémoires ou sélections pour la jeunesse.
Download or read book On purge b b written by Georges Feydeau and published by Fayard/Mille et une nuits. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un fabricant de pots de chambre rêve de décrocher le marché du siècle : fournir les armées ! Les stratagèmes pour conclure l'affaire lui réservent bien des surprises. Tout cela parce que bébé refuse d'aller sur le pot. On purge bébé ! (1910) est caractéristique de la dernière manière de Georges Feydeau, de ces pièces en un acte où le comique ne repose plus seulement sur les recettes classiques du vaudeville, mais aussi sur la peinture — au vitriol — des caractères : la médiocrité, la mesquinerie et l'hypocrisie petites-bourgeoises sont impitoyablement épinglées. Cette pièce, régulièrement montée au théâtre, est l'une des plus échevelées et des plus brillantes des « farces conjugales » de Feydeau.
Download or read book La main passe written by Georges Feydeau and published by BnF collection ebooks. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BnF collection ebooks - "CHANAL, redescendant vers elle et avec bonhomie. — Mais non, ma pauvre enfant ! Je sais très bien que tu n'as pas d'amant. FRANCINE, étonnée et légèrement vexée. — Ah ? CHANAL — Un amant, toi ? Ah ! je suis bien tranquille." BnF collection ebooks a pour vocation de faire découvrir en version numérique des textes classiques essentiels dans leur édition la plus remarquable, des perles méconnues de la littérature ou des auteurs souvent injustement oubliés. Tous les genres y sont représentés : morceaux choisis de la littérature, y compris romans policiers, romans noirs mais aussi livres d’histoire, récits de voyage, portraits et mémoires ou sélections pour la jeunesse.
Download or read book Better Late written by Georges Feydeau and published by Samuel French , Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucien returns from an Arts Ball at four o'clock in the morning and has to wake up his wife Yvonne, as he has forgotten his key. Things go from bad to worse as Lucien can say nothing right. Set in 1910.
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Download or read book Three Things About Elsie written by Joanna Cannon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she’s my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing…might take a bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie “breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals…a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an “amusing and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.
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