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Marcel Achard
Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.
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entertainment · French writer (1899–1974) · actor · screenwriter · playwright · writer · film director · director · also Marcel Achard, Achard
Born 5 July 1899 · Died 4 September 1974 · Q314990
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1974· 4 entries
Died 1974-09-04.
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“Zobacz też: artysta, kariera”
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“Mężczyźni nie potrafią poznać kobiet, ale wciąż próbują.”
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“Każdy autor sztuk komicznych wie, że większość widowni śmieje się, gdy kilku widzów zacznie rechotać… Cały problem sprowadza się zatem do tego, jak tych kilka osób zmusić do śmiechu…”
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1968).
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1959· 2 entries
Career landmark: seat 21 of the Académie française (1959–1974).
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That he was finally, at the age of 60, elected to the Académie française
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1958· 1 entry
And 1959 and had a similar role at the Venice Film Festival in 1960
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1922· 1 entry
And had a major success the following year when renowned actor-director Charles Dullin staged his play Voulez-vous jouer avec moâ
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1919· 1 entry
A few months after the end of the war, the 20-year-old aspiring writer arrived in Paris and found jobs as a prompter at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and as a journalist for various publications, including the major dai
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1916· 1 entry
In the midst of World War I, a village schoolteacher at the age of 17
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-07-05.
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