Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 (image: Marie Dubois in the mammoth blockbuster 'La Grande Vadrouille') Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality of the '60s and the leading lady in one of France's biggest box-office hits in history, died Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at a nursing home in Lescar, a suburb of the southwestern French town of Pau, not far from the Spanish border. Dubois, who had been living in the Pau area since 2010, was 77. For decades she had been battling multiple sclerosis, which later in life had her confined to a wheelchair. Born Claudine Huzé (Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé according to some online sources) on January 12, 1937, in Paris, the blue-eyed, blonde Marie Dubois began her show business career on stage, being featured in plays such as Molière's The Misanthrope and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. François Truffaut discovery: 'Shoot the...
- 10/17/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
One of the interesting things about David Goodis’s career, Steve Seid mentioned by way of introduction to François Truffaut’s Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960), is that—even though Goodis’s first connection to filmmaking occurred in 1947 with Dark Passage and The Unfaithful—attempts to adapt his work have continued to the present day; Seid recently met someone working with Goodis’s 1951 novel Cassidy’s Girl. Along the way, going all the way back to 1954-1955, the French have been particularly attracted to Goodis’s novels and—of the twelve existing feature adaptations—eight have their roots in French filmmaking.
The earliest was Pierre Chenals’ Section des disparus made in Argentina during the mid-50s, continuing on with Henri Verneuil’s Le Casse (The Burglars, 1971), René Clement’s La Course du Lièvre à Travers Les Champs (And Hope To Die, 1972), Jean-Jacques Beineix’s La Lune Dans...
The earliest was Pierre Chenals’ Section des disparus made in Argentina during the mid-50s, continuing on with Henri Verneuil’s Le Casse (The Burglars, 1971), René Clement’s La Course du Lièvre à Travers Les Champs (And Hope To Die, 1972), Jean-Jacques Beineix’s La Lune Dans...
- 8/6/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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