Jacqueline Pagnol
Know for: Acting
Born: 1920-10-06
Place of birth: Malakoff, Seine, France
Also know as:
Manon of the Spring (1953)
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for...
The Pretty Miller Girl (1948)
Franz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An...
Topaze (1951)
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter,...
White Wings (1943)
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young...
Adieu Léonard (1943)
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the...
The House of the Seven Maidens (1942)
A widower is in trouble with money, and has seven daughters to marry. A creditor, a timid suitor, is unable to make up his mind.
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny (1951)
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head...
Naïs (1945)
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able...
Ugolin (1953)
Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and...
The Prize (1950)
Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a...
Carnival (1953)
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
The Terror with Women (1956)
Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he...
Night Shift (1944)
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.