Louis Jouvet

Louis Jouvet born the December 24th 1887 with Crozon, Finistere and deceased the August 16th 1951 with Paris, was Acteur, Director, professor with the Conservatoire higher national of dramatic art and director of Théâtre.

Biography

Jules Eugene Louis Jouvet, was born in Brittany on December 24th, 1887. Orphan of father at 14 years, it leaves food with his mother in his uncle who is Apothicaire with Rethel in the the Ardennes. Studious and flexible pupil, his family obliges it to undertake studies to become Pharmacien. From 1904, he studies with the faculty of Paris, but spends all his spare time in the theaters amateurs of the time. In parallel, it is presented to the entrance examination to the Academy of Dramatic art of Paris, it will be readjusted three times (like Bernard Blier).

In 1912, its diploma for the occupation of pharmacist out of pocket, Louis Jouvet Marie with Else Collin, with which it will have 3 children. At that time it runs the seals and will thus make a short appearance in a film at the sides of Harry Baur.

In 1913, it is engaged with his/her friend Charles Dullin by Jacques Copeau directing of the Théâtre of the Old man-Dovecote. It is a true turning in its career, it is there manager, decorator, assistant and finally actor. It masks then its Bégaiement by a syncopated diction which will return it celebrates thereafter.

In 1914, the First World War bursts, Louis Jouvet is mobilized as ambulance man, then as auxiliary doctor. Demobilized in 1917, it finds the troop of the Colombier.
Old man

In 1922, it will be the rupture with Jacques Copeau, begins its career of director then, it installs his own troop with the Théâtre of the Fields-Élysées where it gains the following year its first great success with Knock or the triumph of medicine of Jules Romains, that it will play 1500 times. In 1927, it meets Jean Giraudoux of which it presents several parts. Starting from 1935, it directs the Athénée.

Gaston Baty, Charles Dullin and Georges Pitoëff and founds on July 6th, 1927 to him, an association of mutual aid, “Trust of the Four”, which will last until 1940. The objective: to make so that the theater creates a poetry which is clean for him, and to make play contemporary authors.

One proposes to him the direction of the Comédie-Française, but he refuses because he is occupied too much by his own theater of the Athenaeum. He triumphs there with works over Molière, those written by his friend Jean Giraudoux, and various other exits of the traditional repertory. He assumes June 1940 at June 1941 the control of the large national theaters, then share in round with his troop in Latin America, accompanied during a time by Charlotte Delbo. He will return to France only at the end of 1944 and will take again the direction of the theater of the Athenaeum which added since its name. July 30th, 1950, it receives the Legion of Honor. It also helps the new figures of the theaters, Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar in particular, and puts in scene the Devil and the Good god, part written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1951.

Jouvet and the cinema

The cinema, he plays in thirty-two films, whose some large chief-of works passed to the posterity. Quay of the Goldsmiths of Henri-Georges Clouzot, for much its best role, Hotel of North at the sides of Arletty and its famous “atmosphere, Funny atmosphere” and of drama , both carried out by Flesh-colored Marcel with also Michel Simon, famous for the counterpart: “odd, I have known as odd, as it is odd”. Knock or the triumph of medicine will be carried to the screen by the actor in 1933, then he will play in the version of Guy Lefranc in 1951, little before his death. In certified Copy , it holds the role of a chief of a band of robbers, and engages his double to be made clear. At the sides of Suzy Delair, Jouvet holds a double role. In 1948, he plays the Carrel inspector who inquires into the death of the gangster Vidauban, his double, in Between eleven hours and midnight of Henri Decoin. His/her friend and favorite dialogist, Henri Jeanson, puts in scene Lady Paname and reforms the duet Jouvet-Delair. Under the direction of Pierre Channel, it carries out a splendid face-to-face discussion with Erich Von Stroheim in the alibi . He plays in two films carried out by Jean Renoir: the hollows , with Jean Gabin, and the Marseillaise .

Louis Jouvet liked the theater more than the cinema. On the difference between the two, he answered: “theater one plays, cinema one played”. That will not prevent it from playing, with the cinema, of excellent theatrical adaptations: Volpone with Harry Baur and Charles Dullin, and Knock , by twice but at 17 years of interval. Faithful friend, it spontaneously agreed to play in a film whose Henri Jeanson had signed the dialogs, or required that there be place for his friends in films where it appeared (example with Charles Dullin in Volpone , and Quai of the Goldsmiths ). Its passion of the theater pushed it to play in Entrée of the artists of Marc Allégret, film where he plays his own part of professor of theater of the Academy, almost a report on the art of Jouvet, End of the day of Julien Duvivier where he is an actor of theater completely inhabited by his characters and who, confusing reality and fiction, dark in the madness, and Miquette and his/her mother of Clouzot, in which he is the director of a travelling theater company.

Catalog of films

See too

External bond

  • Paris seen by Louis Jouvet.

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