Jean Gabin

See also: Gabin

Jean Gabin , of his true name Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé , was a Acteur of Cinéma French and Chanteur of re-examined and Opérette, born the May 17th 1904 with Paris, Île-de-France, having grown with Mériel, having died the November 15th 1976 with Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine of a Leucémie.

Biography

  • 1904, the May 17th, it is born with Paris, with 23 boulevard Rochechouart, under the name of Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, of Ferdinand Joseph Moncorgé, tenant of coffee and actor of operetta under the name of scene of Joseph Gabin, and Helene Petit, singer of café concert. It has six elder brothers and sisters. It will pass its childhood and its adolescence to the countryside for which it will keep all its life a deep affection, in the small country borough of Mériel of the Val-d'Oise, far from the life Paris ienne of the spectacle of his/her parents, where it is raised by his Madeleine older sister, in a house at the edge of a railway.
  • 1914 at 10 years, a blow supported at the time of a combat of Boxe crushes the nose to him.
  • 1919 whereas it is 15 years old, his/her mother dies. He is bad pupil and forsakes the Lycée Janson-with-Sailly with Paris where he is registered and connects the small trades, boy of office to the Parisian company of electricity, cement-manufacturer at the station of the Vault, operates in a foundry, storekeeper with the stores of cars of Drancy, newsvendor. At 17 years he wants, like his maternal grandfather, to become conducting of Locomotive to vapor of which he can see the evolutions on the grill since his room. Bourru, it dared to complain of what displeased to him but its blue eye magic took part with his/her friends in the love of life.
  • 1922 at 18 years, his/her father forces it to enter the entertainment world initially to the Madness-Shepherdess like appear. The director, Fréjol, are a friend with him to which it would have said: " Hold, here my fiston. He would like to make theater. Can you help it? If you sometimes happen to draw something from it, you will have merit well. Me, I give up… " it; . It is placed under the benevolence of the comic troupier Charles-Joseph Pasquier, said Bach .
  • 1924 and 1925 it makes its Military service in the Navy, and during a permission of the beginning of the year 1925 it marries an admiror, the future actress Camille Basset, known as Gaby, with whom it will not have a child.
  • 1926 at 22 years, he becomes a true artist of Music-hall and singer of Opérette. He imitates Maurice Chevalier and successfully starts a song recital during two years in all the France and in South America.
  • 1928 he becomes partner of Mistinguett, which has just broken with Maurice Chevalier, to the Moulin-Rouge and with the Puff out-Parisian whose director is celebrates it author of the time Albert Willemetz.
  • 1928 arrived in Europe of the talking films.
  • 1929 it plays as from this year the young first in operettas like " Flossy " or " adventures of the King Pausole " , both on words of Albert Willemetz. He saw a passing fancy with Jacqueline Francell, his partner of " Flossy " , and he divorces Gaby.
  • 1930 it begins its career from actor in the film Each one its chance, one of first talking films about the French cinema, at the sides of sound ex Gaby woman (with which it will play also later in Touchez not with the grisbi, Gas-oil and Maigret tighten a trap).
  • 1933 the November 20th, it marries with Paris 16 {{E}} Jeanne Mauchain, driving of review and naked dancer of the Casino of Paris, known under the name of Doriane Mauchain (His/her father dies three days before its marriage).
  • 1936 he becomes a star of the Cinéma thanks to its exceptional charisma and to Julien Duvivier which offers to the main characters of the Beautiful Team and Pépé to him Moko. It incarnates with wonder the tragic and romantic heroes of popular origin. From there, it connects film on film at the top of the Box-office French throughout its long career, 95 on the whole (Filmographie).
  • 1938 it plays in Quai of the fogs of Marcel Carné where it meets Michele Morgan with which it murmurs “You ace of beautiful eyes you know” , which answers “embrace to me” .
  • 1939 the September 2nd, it is mobilized in the Navy with Cherbourg, during the Second world war. It obtains an exceptional permission to finish the film Remorques with Michele Morgan. They have short a idylle.
  • 1941 February 2nd, refusing to turn for the Nazi S during the occupation, it expatriate with Hollywood with the the United States where it will find the French Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier, Charles Boyer, Jean-Pierre Aumont… It makes two films, Moon tide and The impostor who will not pass to the posterity, and briefly meets Ginger Rogers then Marlène Dietrich during the summer 1941: they will remain lovers until February 1947.
  • 1943 the January 18th, it divorces his second wife Jeanne Mauchain and, already very famous, it engages in the free French Forces of the Général de Gaulle and takes part in the victory of allied like second Master chief of the tank the Blower of the Regiment armor-plated of the marine fusiliers of the 2 {{E}} dB of the general Leclerc. It is decorated with the Military decoration and the Military Cross. There will remain all its life very attached to the navy.
  • 1945 it is demobilized at the 41 years age and returns to the entertainment world. It has the grey hair.
  • 1949 it Marie with Christiane Fournier, known as Dominique, mannequin at the dressmaker Lanvin, which has already a Jacki son and with which he has three children: Florence Moncorgé-Gabin (1949), Valerie (1952) and Mathias (1956).
  • 1952 it progressively carries out one of its child's dreams by investing the remainder of its life all its fortune in the field of " Pichonnière " with Mill-the-Walk in the Flowering ash, in Normandy, on which it makes build " Moncorgerie " . It launches out in the breeding of almost 300 Bovin S and of a stable of about fifteen racehorses to appease its passion for the breeding of horses.
  • 1954 it joins again with success thanks to Touchez not with the grisbi Jacques Becker, the Air of Paris of Marcel Carné and French-cancan of Jean Renoir in 1955.
  • 1960 it is promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor on the plate where it turns the Old men of the old woman of Gilles Grangier.
  • 1962 in the night of the 27 to the July 28th, 700 farmers encircle his Norman family field of Pichonnière to protest against the centralization of the grounds, by requiring the hiring of some firm with young stockbreeders in difficulty. They make use of an open conflict with the famous actor for médiatiser their problems of the agricultural world. This situation deeply upset and wounded with life the interested party, who felt rejected by the country community Norman of which it had deeply taken in heart to form part.
  • 1963 it creates with Fernandel the production company Gafer for its film the Awkward age.
  • 1976 the November 15th, whereas it has just decided the sale of its Normand field of Pichonnière , it dies of a Leucémie (it had had an alarm in 1973 during the turning of Two men in the city of Jose Giovanni) at the 72 years age at the American hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Its ashes will be dispersed in the Mer of Iroise, according to its last wills, with twenty miles off the Breton coasts .
  • 1981 the Cinema world pays homage to him by creating the Prix Jean Gabin, reward decreed every year since with the best most promising young actors of the French Cinema.
  • 1987 César d' Honneur is given to him on a purely posthumous basis.
  • 1992 the commune of Mériel of the Val-d'Oise, the commune of its childhood, opened a museum which is dedicated to him.

Famous counterparts

  • In Quay of the fogs , it murmurs “You ace of beautiful eyes you know! … " with Michele Morgan.
  • In the Pasha (dialogs of Michel Audiard), “When dough is spoken, starting from a certain figure everyone listens to” .
  • In the Gentleman of Epsom (dialogs of Michel Audiard), addressing to Marine Jacques, “We did not learn the horse in the same schools, while I was in Saumur you were in Vaugirard… Then let us break there want, Sir, each one in his sphere, and will please to more address the word, even by far me” .
  • In a monkey in winter of Henri Verneuil (dialogs of Michel Audiard): “the Yang Tsé Kiang is not a river, it is an avenue, an avenue of five thousand kilometers which tumbles down Tibet to finish in the Yellow Mer, with Jonque S and then Sampan S on each side. Worse in the medium has there, swirls of floating islands, with high Orchidée S like trees. The Yang Tsé Kiang, comrade, they is million cubic meters of gold and flowers which go down towards Nankin. And with, all the length, of city-let us bridge where one can all buy. Alcohol of rice, the religion, and worse of the bitchy girls, the Opium. Ch' can affirm you, tenancière, that the marine Fusilier was a long time the decorative element of the houses of The. In it time, one could laugh. It had been put on the straw, for a mackerel russet-red and pink, it was a Jew, he felt garlic, he had it, coming from Formosa, drawn from a brothel of Shanghai. ”
  • In undermines It rebiffe (dialogs of Michel Audiard), with the question of Bernard Blier which requires of him: " Would that leave Net how much to each one? " It answers: " 20 years of wall cupboard, the benefit that divides, the reclusion that is added ".
  • In the President of Henri Verneuil (dialogs of Michel Audiard), the former president of the Council Emile Beaufort called to the priest of his village, astonished by its invitation to being seen in its company: “ any anti-semite has his Jew, any anticlerical can have his priest well (...) ” and in Bernard Blier: “ one does not say anything to his wife when a bank was married! Ca treats to fortune, it is which is most expensive. ” And also, the dialog with a deputy: “ There are owners of left, I hold with you to learn it! - There are also flying fish, but which do not constitute the majority of the kind! ”
  • One can also quote some famous songs of Jean Gabin in particular When one walks at the edge of water sung in the film the Beautiful Team of Julien Duvivier.

Decorations

Rewards

  • the price Jean-Gabin is a reward allotted each year since 1981 to an actor, hope of the French and French-speaking cinema.

Selective catalog of films among 95 films and short films

Years 1930-1939

Years 1940-1949

Years 1950-1959

Years 1960-1969

Years 1970-1976

(Nb: some of its films were colorisés for televised versions and VHS: the Crossing of Paris , undermines It rebiffe , the Gentleman of Epsom …)

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