Marc Allégret
Directing
Born 1900-12-23
Died 1973-11-03
Bâle, Suisse
54 credits
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Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director. He was born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven. Later, Marc was to fall briefly under the spell of Cocteau, who Gide feared would "corrupt" him.
Marc's father, Elie Allégret, had originally been hired by André Gide's mother to tutor André in light of his weak grades in school, after which he and his charge became fast friends. In 1895 Elie Allégret was best man at André Gide's wedding.
After filming a 1927 trip to the Congo with André Gide, Marc Allégret chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. His relationship with Gide ended after that trip after having experiences with Congolese women. They nevertheless remained close friends until Gide's death in 1951. After working and training as an assistant director, in 1931 he directed his first feature Mam'zelle Nitouche, and the following year received much acclaim for his film, Fanny. He went on to a long career during which he wrote numerous scripts and directed more than fifty films.
Marc Allégret is noted for discovering and developing new acting talent who went on to stardom including Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Philipe, Danièle Delorme, Louis Jourdan, and Roger Vadim who would become his directing assistant.
He was married to Nadine Vogel.
He was a married man who then felt he had an obligation to proclaim his homosexuality. He was, however, seen as a general liberator rather than a specialist defender of homosexual rights.
He died in 1973 and was interred in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
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Filmography
Directing
52 credits
L'Arlésienne
Twilight
The Dreadful
Pétrus
Night attack
Without a Family
The Chocolate Girl
Heart of Paris
The Necklace
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Tales of Paris
Loves of Three Queens
Plucking the Daisy
Fanny
Lumière
Adventure in Paris
The Lovers of Midnight
Zouzou
Orage
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
With André Gide
Ladies Lake
Julietta
Blanche Fury
The Free Trade Hotel
The Curtain Rises
Under Western Eyes
The Naked Heart
Sunday Encounter
Woman of Malacca
The Fate of Two Queens
Parade in 7 Nights
Black and White
The four legs
The best hostess
Demons at Midnight
Lunegarde
Happy Days
The Beautiful Adventure
Voyage au Congo
Blackmailed
Jeunes filles de France
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Love Is at Stake
La demoiselle et son revenant
Mam'zelle Nitouche
The Abominable Man of Customs
The Terrible Lovers
Andere Welt
Fernandel 3 films
L'eterna femmina
Writing
11 credits
The Dreadful
School for Love
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Loves of Three Queens
Plucking the Daisy
The Free Trade Hotel
The Curtain Rises
The Naked Heart
Voyage au Congo
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Acting
4 credits
Other credits
1 credit
Producing
1 credit
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