Alexandre Bisson
Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson ( born April 9, 1848 in Briouze, Orne, Basse -Normandie, † January 27, 1912 in Paris) was a French playwright and screenwriter in the late 19th century.
Bisson worked at famous Parisian theaters and later on Broadway.
His most famous play is La Femme X from 1908, which was especially in the United States a tremendous success. The story revolves around a woman of high society, which comes through an indiscretion into disrepute and sinks deeper and deeper and deeper. She leaves her husband and child, to be charged at the end of the murder and defended by own son. Madame X was repeatedly filmed, so in 1929 as a sound film with Ruth Chatterton and 1966 with Lana Turner in the lead role. 2006 in Chicago even a musical version listed.
Was also filmed several times his comedy The sleeping car inspector, as early as 1913 as a silent movie, 1935 by Richard Eichberg ( in a German and a French version) and in 1971 by Heinz Shirk in a television version of Herbert Asmodeus.