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Madame Sans-Gêne (1911 film)

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Madame Sans-Gêne
Directed byAndré Calmettes (?)
Henri Desfontaines (?)
Based onthe 1893 play Madame Sans-Gêne
by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau
StarringGabrielle Réjane
Edmond Duquesne
Georges Dorival
Jacques Volnys
Production
company
Pathé Frères (as Film d'Art)
Distributed byPathé Frères (France)
Franco-American Film Company (US)
Release date
  • November 10, 1911 (1911-11-10)
Running time
3 reels[1][2]
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

Madame Sans-Gêne is a 1911 silent French film set in the French Revolution and during Napoleon's reign. It is based on the 1893 play of the same name by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau.[1][3] Gabrielle Réjane and Edmond Duquesne reprised their roles in the play; Réjane played the title character, a laundress who marries a man who becomes one of Napoleon's field marshals (based on the real-life Catherine Hübscher), while Duquesne played Napoleon. Conflicting sources state the director was André Calmettes[1] or Henri Desfontaines.[3]

According to Richard Abel, Madame Sans-Gêne is "still extant."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Abel, Richard (1994). The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914. University of California Press. pp. 312–313. ISBN 9780520079359.
  2. ^ "Madame Sans-Gêne". silentera.com.
  3. ^ a b Wild, Jennifer (March 21, 2015). The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923. University of California Press. p. 140. ISBN 9780520279889.