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Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout…
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entertainment · French actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (1885–1957) · screenwriter · playwright · film director · theatre director · librettist · stage actor · film actor · author · director · actor · also Sacha Guitry, Jacques Lorcey, s. guitry, Guitry
Born 21 February 1885 · Died 24 July 1957 · Q337276
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Sacha Guitry et ses femmes - Where to Watch
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2018· 3 entries
BroadwayWorld: SACHA GUITRY, MA FILLE ET MOI Returns To London For One Week Only At The Playground Theatre
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The Village Voice: Reintroducing Sacha Guitry, Master Detonator of Everyday Romance
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The Stage: Sacha Guitry, the ‘Gallic Noel Coward’, returns to London at last
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2011· 1 entry
An auction of Guitry memorabilia, including manuscripts, drawings, paintings and photographs, was held at the Drouot-Richelieu in Paris; with more than eight hundred items, it was considered the most important collection
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1957· 2 entries
Died 1957-07-24.
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“Ne faites jamais l'amour le samedi soir, car s'il pleut le dimanche, vous ne saurez plus quoi faire.”
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1953· 1 entry
Celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, Guitry starred at the Winter Garden in Ecoutez bien, messieurs, a comedy in which he played a voluble Frenchman reduced to baffled silence by an even more voluble Englishwoman,
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1948· 1 entry
When he returned to the Paris stage with Le Diable boiteux
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1947· 1 entry
Guitry married for the fifth and final time; he was sixty-two and his bride, Lana Marconi, was twenty-eight
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1944· 1 entry
Guitry's fourth wife left him
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1942· 1 entry
Guitry was named on a list of French collaborators with Germany to be killed during the war, or tried after it
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Saint-Charles (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
“re Telling Me, in which the author and Sir Seymour Hicks starred at a command performance and for a limited run after it. As the war approached, Guitry managed to do something which would be of far greater significance. On 16 August 1939, when visiting London, Guitry smuggled over a replica Enigma machine supplied by the Biuro Szyfrow and bound for Bletchley Park. His next play, Un Monde fou was his last to feature Delubac, who, in Morley”
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1938· 1 entry
Guitry wrote a one-act play, Dieu sauve le roi, to mark the state visit to Paris of George VI; the play was given in front of the king and queen at the Elysée Palace
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1936· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1936).
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Alone Guitry made five films and also wrote five plays
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1931· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1931).
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Guitry was awarded the Legion of Honour, and the following year he marked thirty years on the stage with a banquet, with dishes named after some of his greatest successes
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1923).
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1915· 2 entries
Guitry made his first cinema film, Ceux de chez nous ("Those of our home"), a short patriotic piece that celebrated great French men and women of the day, including Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Claude Monet, Pierre-A
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Met the young singer Yvonne Printemps, with whom he began an affair that led Charlotte to leave him and obtain a divorce
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-02-21.
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1883· 1 entry
And the other in 1887); the other surviving son, Jean (1884–1920) became an actor and journalist
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