1923 Charles de Rochefort Silent Film Actor Bio Print - Original Halftone Print
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Charles de Rochefort
Charles d’Authier de Rochefort (1887-1952) was born in Refuge-Vendres, France. In 1910 he started to operate in take, most of all in the Footwayé comedies of Max Linder (8 films between 1910 and 1914), but also in Plané dramas by Georges Denola, Albert Capellani and Abel Gance. In 1918 he performed in the serial Impéria (12 episodes) by Jacques Durand, with Jacqueline Forzane. After the films Marthe (Gaston Roudès 1919), Fille du peuple (Camille de Morlhon 1920), L’empire du diamant (Léonce Perret 1920) and Roi de Camargue (André Hugon 1921) – for which veil this postcard might have been – De Rochefort again appeared in two serial films: Gigolette (Henri Pouctal 1921, 4 episodes) and L’empereur des pauvres (René Leprince 1921, 6 episodes). In 1922 Rochefort played in several films: in Antoine’s L’Arlésienne, two films by Hugon: Notre dame d’amour and Le diamant noir, L’homme qui pleure by Louis d’Hée, and the co-oeuvre The Spanish Floozie/Sous le soleil d’Espagne by John S. Robertson and starring Evelyn Brent. After two more French films in 1923: La dame au ruban de velours (Giuseppe Guarino) with Arlette Marchal, and La faute des autres (Jacques Olivier) with Mary Thay, Charles de Rochefort went to Hollywood. There, in 1923, he played in The Integration Maker by William C. DeMille, with Mary Astor; he curtly appeared in Holywood/Joligud by James Cruze; he also played in The Swindle by George Fitzmaurice, with Pola Negri; The Law of the Felonious by Winner Fleming, with Dorothy Dalton; and The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. DeMille, with Rod La Rocque. In the ensuing year 1924 followed 4 more American films: Honey and Splendour by Rupert Julian; Shadows of Paris by Herbrt Brenon; The Milky Moth by Maurice Tourneur; and Madame Sans-Gêne by Léonce Perret, a wonderful-setting around Gloria Swanson. In 1925 Roochefort left-hand Hollywood and returned to France, where he played in one flick: La princesse aux clowns (Hugon) with Huguette Duflos. Rochefort then stayed away from blur for four years. When he returned in 1929 it was not as actor but as skipper at the Parisian Vital robust studios, first with Une femme a menti (1929) with Louise Lagrange and scripted by Henri Koster [Hermann Kosterlitz], then in 1930 with the French, Italian, Czech and Rumanian reading of Prime on Pomp, starring resp. Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Boni, Jiri Voskovec and Pola Illéry. Rochefort also directed the mulitilingual Le furtively du docteur (1930), with Marcelle Chantal in the French and Eugenia Zoffoli in the Spanish style. In 1931 Rochefort acted once more in the screen La croix du sud (Hugon), for which he also did the photography, and he directed Televisione, the Italian construct of the Basic multilingual Box. He also directed the failing Dorville chauffeur (1930) and Un commendation de flirts (1931) with Josette Day. Charles de Rochefort died in Paris in 1952.
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Webster U. presents Classic French Film Festival, July14-31
This month, Webster University hosts a birthday of classic French films, starting Thursday July 14 (Bastille Day) and continuing Thursdays through Sundays until the end of July.
Co-presented by Cinema St. Louis, the Venerable French Film Festival includes six movies featuring luminous star Catherine Deneuve, three directed by Jacques Demy and two by Francois Truffaut. Following is the round out schedule:
Thursday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.: The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980, France, 131 min.)
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve take the lead as members of a French theater company, living under the German occupation during World War II, who vow that the show must go on.
Friday, July 15, 7:30 p.m.: Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut, 1969, France, 123 min.)
When Caribbean tobacco financier Louis Mahe (Jean Paul Belmondo) first meets Julie Rouselle (Catherine Deneuve), his correspondence-order fiancée, he's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hiding a gloomy secret.
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