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Sacha Guitry
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French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)
OverviewAI-generated
Sacha Guitry, born Alexandre-Georges-Pierre Guitry in Saint Petersburg, was a French screenwriter, playwright, film director, and theatrical director. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and received the Knight, Officer, and Commander of the Legion of Honour. His works include *Théâtre*, *Le comédien*, *Villa for sale*, *18 avenue Élisée Reclus*, and *L'esprit*. He was married to Jacqueline Delubac, Charlotte Lysès, Yvonne Printemps, and Lana Marconi.
Guitry died in Paris of cancer in 1957 and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery. He was the son of Lucien Guitry and a relative of René de Pont-Jest.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1957
- Works
- 178
Top works
- Théâtre
- Le comédien
- Villa for sale
- 18 avenue Élisée Reclus
- L'esprit
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry (21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957), known as 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…
Known for
- A Night at the Opera2020
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)1978
- If Paris Were Told to Us — le narrateur et Louis XI1956
- Napoleon — Talleyrand1955
- The Virtuous Scoundrel — Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited)1953
- Royal Affairs in Versailles — Louis XIV (older)1953
- I Was It Three Times — Jean Renneval1952
- Deburau — Jean-Gaspard Deburau1951
- Tu m'as sauvé la vie — Le baron de Saint-Rambert1950
- The Treasure of Cantenac — Baron of Cantenac1950
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1885
- Active to
- 1957
Discography
- Mariette1929
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 146
- Total plays
- 831
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sacha+Guitry">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Estimating psychological networks and their accuracy: A tutorial paper
· 2017 · cited 4,684x
- <b>qgraph</b>: Network Visualizations of Relationships in Psychometric Data
· 2012 · cited 4,230x
- Pembrolizumab alone or with chemotherapy versus cetuximab with chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (KEYNOTE-048): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 study
· 2019 · cited 2,926x
- 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
· 2024 · cited 2,667x
- Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2019 · cited 2,657x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.”
- “You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.”
- “The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
- “When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.”
- “When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry ( French: [gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) 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 his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932.
Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have incidental music by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
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