Jules Mary
Jules Mary | |
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| Born | 20 March 1851 |
| Died | 27 July 1922 (aged 71) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
Jules Mary (March 20, 1851 – July 27, 1922) was a French novelist. His melodramas were traditionally popular subjects for adaptation by filmmakers, and his best-known work Roger la Honte has been made into films five times.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born in 1851 in the Ardennes. His father, Pierre Mary, was a hosier and his mother, Anne Marie Julie Lacatte, had no occupation.[2] He went to school in his village, then to the minor seminary in Charleville. It was there that he met Arthur Rimbaud, with whom he formed a close.[3]
Selected works
[edit]- Roger la Honte (1886)
- La Pocharde (1898)
Filmography
[edit]- Roger la Honte, directed by Adrien Caillard (1913, short film, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- The Man of Shame, directed by Harry Myers (1915, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- Blessée au coeur (1917, based on the novel Blessée au coeur)
- Les Feuilles tombent, directed by Georges Monca (1917, based on the novel Les Feuilles tombent)
- La Pocharde, directed by Henri Étiévant (1921, based on the novel La Pocharde)
- Víctima del odio, directed by José Buchs (Spain, 1921, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- La Fille sauvage, directed by Henri Étiévant (1922, based on the novel La Fille sauvage)
- Roger la Honte, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (1922, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- The House of Mystery, directed by Alexandre Volkoff (1923, based on the novel La Maison du mystère)
- La Goutte de sang, directed by Jean Epstein and Maurice Mariaud (1924, based on the novel La Goutte de sang)
- Roger la Honte, directed by Gaston Roudès (1933, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- The House of Mystery, directed by Gaston Roudès (1933, based on the novel La Maison du mystère)
- The Drunkard, directed by Jean-Louis Bouquet and Jean Kemm (1937, based on the novel La Pocharde)
- Roger la Honte, directed by André Cayatte (1946, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- The Revenge of Roger, directed by André Cayatte (1946, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
- The Drunkard, directed by Georges Combret (1953, based on the novel La Pocharde)
- Trap for the Assassin, directed by Riccardo Freda (1966, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
References
[edit]- ↑ Goble p.311
- ↑ "Acte de naissance (image 98/632)". Archives départementales des Ardennes. Registre des actes d'état-civil de Launois 1848-1869.
- ↑ Jean-Jacques Lefrère, Arthur Rimbaud, Paris, Fayard, 2001, p. 59-60.
Bibliography
[edit]- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
[edit]- Jules Mary at IMDb
