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Marcel Pagnol, مارسيل بانيول, 마르셀 파뇰, 마르셀 파놀
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Marcel Paul Pagnol (28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film. Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine. In July 1904, the family rented the Bastide Neuve, – a house in the sleepy Provençal village of La Treille – for the summer holidays, the first of many spent in the hilly countryside between Aubagne and Marseille. About the same time, Augustine's health, which had never been robust, began to noticeably decline and on 16 June 1910 she succumbed to a chest infection ("mal de poitrine") and died, aged 36. Joseph remarried in 1912. In 1913, at the age of 18, Marcel passed his baccalaureate in philosophy and started studying literature at the University in Aix-en-Provence. When World War I broke out, he was called up into the infantry at Nice but in January 1915 he was discharged because of his poor constitution ("faiblesse de constitution"). On 2 March 1916, he married Simone Colin in Marseille and in November graduated in English. He became an English teacher, teaching in various local colleges and at a lycée in Marseille. In 1922, he moved to Paris, where he taught English until 1927, when he decided instead to devote his life to playwriting. During this time, he belonged to a group of young writers, in collaboration with one of whom, Paul Nivoix, he wrote the play, Merchants of Glory, which was produced in 1924. This was followed, in 1928, by Topaze, a satire based on ambition. Exiled in Paris, he returned nostalgically to his Provençal roots, taking this as his setting for his play Marius, which later became the first of his works to be adapted into a film in 1931. Separated from Simone Collin since 1926 (though not divorced until 1941), he formed a relationship with the young English dancer Kitty Murphy. Their son Jacques Pagnol was born on 24 September 1930. (Jacques later became his father's assistant and subsequently a cameraman for France 3 Marseille.) In 1929, on a visit to London, Pagnol attended a screening of one of the first talking films and he was so impressed that he decided to devote his efforts to cinema. He contacted Paramount Picture studios and suggested adapting his play Marius for cinema. This was directed by Alexander Korda and released on 10 October 1931. It became one of the first successful French-language talking films. ... Source: Article "Marcel Pagnol" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1895-02-28
- event Death Date 1974-04-18
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 2
- info Birth Place Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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Marcel Pagnol
1968-01-01
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Les rois de la comédie
2023-01-01
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Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019-06-05
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978-09-24
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Jean de Florette
1986-08-27
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My Mother's Castle
1990-10-26
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My Father's Glory
1990-08-29
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The Time of Secrets
2022-03-23
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Harvest
1937-10-28
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The Baker's Wife
1938-09-07
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César
1936-01-01
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Angele
1934-10-26
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Manon of the Spring
1952-12-16
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The Baker's Wife
1938-09-07
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Ways of Love
1934-02-16
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The Pretty Miller Girl
1948-11-28
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Topaze
1951-01-25
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Heartbeat
1938-04-15
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Topaze
1951-01-25
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Le Curé de Cucugnan
1968-12-25
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Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law
1933-01-01
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Letters from My Windmill
1954-11-05
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
1940-12-20
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Tartarin of Tarascon
1934-11-10
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The Well Digger's Daughter
2011-04-20
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Cigalon
1935-12-11
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Merlusse
1935-12-06
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Al-modeer Al-Fanni
1965-02-03
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Pekař a kočka
1967-06-04
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Naïs
1945-11-17
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Port of Seven Seas
1938-07-01
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Flirtation in Spring
1949-04-12
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Carnival
1953-05-25
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Carnival
1953-05-25
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ياقوت
1934-03-23
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Fanny
1977-01-02
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Marius
1977-01-02
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César
1977-01-02
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Tartarin of Tarascon
1934-11-10
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Merlusse
1935-12-06
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Longing for the Sea
1931-11-12
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Topaze
1933-01-06
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Der schwarze Walfisch
1934-03-02
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Manon of the Spring
1952-12-16
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Manon of the Spring
1952-12-16
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Ugolin
1953-01-16
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Ugolin
1953-01-16
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Ugolin
1953-01-16
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Ugolin
1953-01-16
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Fanny
2008-11-01
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The Baker's Wife
1938-09-07
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Marius
1931-10-09
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Marius
1931-10-09
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Marius
1931-10-09
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The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol
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Fanny
1932-10-27
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Topaze
1951-01-25
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The Pretty Miller Girl
1948-11-28
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Topaze
1936-01-01
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Topaze
1936-01-01
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Jules et Marcel
2011-04-10
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Manon of the Spring
1986-11-19
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The Time of Love
2007-06-13
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The Time of Secrets
2007-06-12
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Topaze
1933-02-24
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Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law
1933-01-01
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L'Agonie des aigles
1933-11-24
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L'Agonie des aigles
1933-11-24
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Nagham Fi Hayaty
1975-08-25
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Topaze
1963-02-18
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L'île de lumière
1950-01-01
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Chansons de Marseille
1949-01-01
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
1940-12-20
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Marseille
1935-01-01
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Toni
1935-02-22
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Cigalon
1935-12-11
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Manon of the Spring
1952-12-16
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The Prize
1950-09-20
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Mr. Topaze
1961-04-04
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Harvest
1937-10-28
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Angele
1934-10-26
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Direct au coeur
1933-01-20
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Direct au coeur
1933-01-20
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La femme du boulanger
1999-06-07
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Ways of Love
1934-02-16
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Heartbeat
1938-04-15
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Marius
2013-07-09
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Fanny
1961-06-28
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Fanny
2013-07-10
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César
1936-01-01
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Fanny
1932-10-27
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Fanny
1932-10-27
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Fanny
1958-01-28
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La Prière aux étoiles
1941-01-01
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La Prière aux étoiles
1941-01-01
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La Prière aux étoiles
1941-01-01
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Ohnsorg Theater - Der goldene Anker
2001-11-18
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The Ways of Love
1950-12-13
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Alta comedia
1970-04-19
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La Trilogie marseillaise
2000-04-17
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La Trilogie marseillaise
2000-04-17