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Robert Vernay

Robert Vernay

French director and screenwriter

Robert Vernay (May 30, 1907 in Paris – October 17, 1979 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter.

Robert Vernay in 1972

Career

In 1937, Vernay worked as assistant director to Julien Duvivier on Pépé le Moko.[1]: 144 

In 1944, Vernay directed an adaptation of Balzac's Père Goriot, starring Pierre Renoir. It was released in 1945.[2]: 162  In the late 1950s, he directed a "tacky comedy" called Madame et son auto. It was a favourite film of René Magritte.[3]: 95 

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    Crisp, Colin (29 June 2015). French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01703-1.
  2. [2]
    Heathcote, Owen; Watts, Andrew (2 February 2017). The Cambridge Companion to Balzac. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-06647-2.
  3. [3]
    Levy, Silvano (July 1997). Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5127-5.
  4. [4]
    Gaycken, Oliver (2015). Devices of Curiosity: Early Cinema and Popular Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-986070-8.
  5. [5]
    McDonald, Tamar Jeffers; Lanckman, Lies (2019). Star Attractions: Twentieth-century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-60938-673-3.


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