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102-Year-Old Former Movie Extra to Attend Author Slide's Lecture About Hollywood Extras, Bit Players and Stand-Ins
4 April 2013 12:39 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Author Slide to discuss the history of Hollywood extras at historical Lasky-DeMille Barn Film historian Anthony Slide, author of dozens of books on Hollywood history, will be discussing his most recent work, Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players and Stand-Ins, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, located at a Hollywood historical landmark: the Lasky-DeMille Barn, right across the street from the Hollywood Bowl. (Check out: "The History of Hollywood Extras, Bit Players and Stand-Ins: Interview with Author and Film Historian Anthony Slide.") Pictured Above are Olivia de Havilland and her The Charge of the Light Brigade stand-in, Ann Robinson, circa 1936. As per the Barn's press release, "Mr. Slide will discuss the lives and work of extras, including the harsh conditions, sexual harassment, scandals and tragedies." Besides, he'll also talk about Central Casting and the Hollywood Studio Club, the residence of a number of up-and-coming actresses, »
- Andre Soares
Cotillard in line for Diary of a Chambermaid
15 February 2013 8:08 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Star of La Vie En Rose set to play lead role in Benoit Jacquot's forthcoming remake of classic French tale
Marion Cotillard is in talks to play the lead in a forthcoming remake of the classic French tale Diary of a Chambermaid for director Benoit Jacquot, according to Variety.
Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel, a critique of bourgeois France's fondness for domestic servants, has been the basis of two films, a 1946 English-language version by director Jean Renoir that starred Paulette Goddard and relocated the story to Hollywood, and a 1964 French-Italian production from Luis Buñuel that featured Jeanne Moreau in the lead.
Cotillard is in line to play Celestine, an ambitious young chambermaid who struggles to cope with the eccentricities and perversions of her wealthy yet appalling employers. First published in serial form at the time of the famous Alfred Dreyfus affair, which crystallised liberal and rightwing attitudes in fin-de-siècle France, Mirbeau's »
- Ben Child
Marion Cotillard To Lead Diary Of A Chambermaid
14 February 2013 11:37 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Rust and Bone star Marion Cotillard, largely ignored by the Academy Awards, is now in talks to topline Benoit Jacquot‘s Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre), based on Octave Mirbeau‘s classic novel. Mirbeau’s erotic 19th century novel has been adapted before – in 1946, Jean Renoir directed Paulette Goddard in a Hollywood-set makeover; and in 1964, Luis Bunuel directed Jeanne Moreau in a French-Italian adaptation. Cotillard will take the lead role of Celestine a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families through whose eyes we see the perversions within France’s upper-class society at the turn of »
- Nick Martin
Marion Cotillard in talks for Diary Of A Chambermaid
14 February 2013 2:42 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Benoit Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) which is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic novel, has Marion Cotillard of The Dark Knight Rises and Rust & Bone in negotiations. Variety reports that Cotillard would play Celestine in the film set in 1890 to 1900, playing an ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid. Viewers will see the condition of house servants and the perversions of France's upper-crust through Celestine's eyes. The property has had two adaptations, the first in 1946 with Jean Renoir at the wheel and Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Hurd Hatfield starring, followed by 1964's Luis Buñuel film starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret. »
Marion Cotillard in talks for Diary Of A Chambermaid
14 February 2013 2:42 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Benoit Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) which is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic novel, has Marion Cotillard of The Dark Knight Rises and Rust & Bone in negotiations. Variety reports that Cotillard would play Celestine in the film set in 1890 to 1900, playing an ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid. Viewers will see the condition of house servants and the perversions of France's upper-crust through Celestine's eyes. The property has had two adaptations, the first in 1946 with Jean Renoir at the wheel and Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Hurd Hatfield starring, followed by 1964's Luis Buñuel film starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret. »
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