Charles Méré
Auguste Charles Alexandre Méré ( born January 29, 1883 in Marseille, † October 2, 1970 in Paris) was a French playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
Life
Méré occurred after 1900 emerged as the author of a series of dramas, some of which are attributable to the genre of the Grand Guignol. Several of his pieces were filmed. He also wrote several opera libretti and in the 1940s and screenplays ( so Fevre and L'âge d'or, both 1942). In the films La Vénus de l'or (1937 ), Serge Panine (1939) and Fortuné de Marseille ( after his piece Un Homme du Nord ) he directed.
Some of his pieces were told multiple edits: Sun, Le Trois Masques was premiered in 1908 and formed in the same year the basis for Albert Capellanis silent film Le corso tragique. 1912, the piece as an opera by Isidore de Lara was performed at the Grand Théâtre in Marseille. A second silent film version turned 1921 Henry Krauss, and the film adaptation of André Hugon from 1929 was the first French-language sound film.
Between 1929 and 1944 Méré was intermittently president of the Société des Auteurs et Dramatiques Composers (SACD ).
Plays
- L' Hydre, 1905
- Les Hommes de proie, 1907
- Les Trois Masques, 1908
- Les Ruffians, 1909
- Le Festin du Roi, 1909
- L' ingénu, 1913
- Une nuit au bouge, 1919
- La Captive, 1920
- Les Conquerants, 1920
- Le Marquis de Sade, 1921
- La Flamme, 1922
- La Femme masquée, 1922
- Le Vertige, 1922
- Le Prince Jean, 1923
- La Danse de Minuit, 1924
- La Tentation, 1924
- Par la force, 1925
- Une nuit de Don Juan, 1925
- Le Lit nuptial, 1926
- Le Plaisir, 1926
- Berlioz, 1927
- Le Carnaval de l' amour, 1928
- Crime, 1928
- L' Homme nu, 1929
- Broadway, 1928
- Les Pantins du vice, 1929
- Music -hall, 1929
- Shangaï, 1929
- La Chair, 1930
- Hantise, 1931
- Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, 1931
- Le Roi Lear, 1932
- Le Masque au mort rouge, 1932
- Le Désir, 1933
- Un Homme du Nord, 1933
- Le Passage des Princes, 1933
- Zizippe, 1935
- Indiana, 1935
- Liberté, 1937
- Le Pavillon d' Asnières, 1943
- L' Affranchim 1943
Movies
- Le corso tragique ( Albert Capellani ), 1908
- Les trois masques (Henry Krauss ), 1921
- La flamme ( René Hervil ), 1925 ( original)
- The Masked Woman ( Silvano Balboni ), 1927
- Le vertige ( Sonja, Marcel L' Herbier ), 1927
- Le prince Jean ( René Hervil ), 1928
- Les trois masques ( André Hugon ), 1929
- La tentation ( René Barberis and René Leprince ), 1929
- Le prince Jean ( Jean de Marguenat ), 1934
- Le vertige (Paul Schiller ), 1936
- La flamme ( André Berthomieu ), 1936
- Fièvres (Jean Delannoy ), 1942
- L'âge d'or (Jean de Limur ), 1942
- L' homme qui VendIT son âme (Jean -Paul Paulin ), 1943
- Fortuné de Marseille ( Henri Lepage, Méré ), 1952
- Prisons de femmes ( Maurice Cloche ), 1958
Libretti
- Les Trois Masques ( Isidore de Lara ), UA 1912
- Angelo, tyran de Padoue by Victor Hugo (Alfred Bruneau ), UA 1928
- L' ingénu by Voltaire ( Xavier Leroux ), UA 1931
Pictures of Charles Méré
