Paris Underground (1945) AKA Madame Pimpernel
▻http://rarefilmm.com/2018/04/paris-underground-1945
Constance Bennett occupe une place impressionnante dans le développement du cinéma états-unien d’Hollywood et indépendant. Elle a réussi d’abord dans le cinéma muet. Sa carrière d’actrice a connu un développement sensationnel dans le cinéma sonore avec des comédies légères. En tant que businesswoman et productrice elle a été un exemple brillant du american dream . Elle a été la productrice de Paris Underground et y a joué le rôle principal.
C’est une comédie qui n’égale pas To Be or Not to Be d’Ernst Lubitsch, mais c’est une sophisticated comedy amusante portée par le sentiment de soulagement après la défaite de l’occupant allemand.
Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory.
Constance Bennett
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Bennett
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
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Shrewd investments had made her a wealthy woman, and she founded a cosmetics and clothing company.
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Personal life
Bennett and her daughters with painting (background) of her and her son, 1944
Bennett was married five times and had three children.
Chester Hirst Moorehead
On June 15, 1921, Bennett eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, a student at the University of Virginia[8] who was the son of oral surgeon, Frederick Moorehead.[9] They were married by a justice of the peace in Greenwich, Connecticut. Bennett was 16 at the time.
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Henri de la Falaise
In 1931, Bennett made headlines when she married one of Gloria Swanson’s former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise, a French nobleman and film director. She and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the Hollywood films shot in the two-strip Technicolor process, Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) filmed on location in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936), filmed in Indochina. The couple divorced in Reno, Nevada in 1940.
Bennett Pictures Corp. avec Henry de La Falaise
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_La_Falaise
Legong (1935) tourné à Bali
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong_(film)
Kilou the Killer Tiger / Kliou the Tiger (1936) tourné en Indochine
▻https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431202/mediaviewer/rm1184308737
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