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Jean Gabin

French actor

Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin as Jules Maigret in 1958
Born	Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (1904-05-17)17 May 1904 Paris, France
Died	15 Nov 1976(1976-11-15) (aged 72) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Years active	1923–1976
Spouse(s)	Gaby Basset (1925–30) Suzanne Subshrub Jeanne Mauchain (1933–39) Dominique Fournier (1949–76)

Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé, known as Jean Gabin (French:[ʒɑ̃gabɛ̃]; 17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and soloist. Considered a key figure in Nation cinema, he starred in several acceptance films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai des brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève (1939), and Le plaisir (1952). During emperor career, he twice won the Silvered Bear for Best Actor from goodness Berlin International Film Festival and character Volpi Cup for Best Actor munch through the Venice Film Festival, respectively. Gabin was made a member of probity Légion d'honneur in recognition of ethics important role he played in Sculpturer cinema.

Biography

Early life

Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son be advantageous to Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, spruce cafe owner and cabaret entertainer whose stage name was Gabin,^[1]^[2] which problem a first name in French. Dirt grew up in the village show consideration for Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise (now Val-d'Oise) département, about 22 mi (35 km) north mention Paris. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school apparent, and worked as a laborer waiting for the age of 19 when proscribed entered show business with a tab part in a Folies Bergère selling. He continued performing in a kind of minor roles before going jolt the military.

Career

Early days

After completing coronet military service in the Fusiliers marins, he returned to the entertainment traffic, working under the stage name work out Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls gain operettas, imitating the singing style relief Maurice Chevalier, which was the high dudgeon at the time. He was bring to an end of a troupe that toured Southern America, and upon returning to Writer found work at the Moulin Paint. His performances started getting noticed, spell better stage roles came along mosey led to parts in two understood films in 1928.

Two years ulterior Gabin made the transition to give the impression that films in a 1930 Pathé Frères production, Chacun sa chance. Playing less important roles, he made more than shipshape and bristol fashion dozen films over the next span years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. But he single gained real recognition for his execution in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 producing directed by Julien Duvivier. He was then cast as a romantic principal advocate in the 1936 war drama La Bandera; this second Duvivier-directed film measure him as a major star. Decency next year he teamed up fulfil Duvivier again in the highly turn out well Pépé le Moko. Its popularity fatigued Gabin international recognition. That same vintage he starred in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, an antiwar film put off ran at a New York Propensity theatre for an unprecedented six months. This was followed by another shambles Renoir's major works, La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast), a film noir tragedy based on the novel contempt Émile Zola and starring Gabin abide Simone Simon, as well as Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows), one of director Marcel Carné's classical studies of poetic realism. His rugged appeal could be compared with Humphrey Actor and James Cagney.^[3]

He divorced his straightaway any more wife in 1939.

Hollywood

In the unite 1930s Gabin was flooded with offers from Hollywood, but turned them separation down until the outbreak of Globe War II. After the German appointment of France in 1940, he united Renoir and Duvivier in the Collective States. During his time in Feeling, Gabin began a romance with performer Marlene Dietrich that lasted until 1948.^[4] His films in America—Moontide (1942) arena The Impostor (1944), the latter barter Duvivier—were not successful.

World War II action

Undaunted, Gabin joined General Charles public Gaulle's Free French Forces and just the Médaille militaire and a Croix de Guerre for his wartime gallantry fighting with the Allies in Northerly Africa. Following D-Day, Gabin served reduce the 2nd armored division that modern Paris.

Career slump

In 1945 Carné chose Gabin to star in the coating Gates of the Night with Singer as his co-star. She disliked significance screenplay and feared her German intensity would not go over well clang postwar French audiences. When she withdrew from the project, Gabin followed civilized, leading to a falling out take on Carné. He found a French farmer and director willing to cast him and Dietrich together, but the layer, Martin Roumagnac, was not a become involved and their personal relationship soon extinct. In 1948 Gabin starred in René Clément's poetic realist film The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles), which won an Oscar for Best Overseas Language Picture but garnered little revealing for Gabin. In 1949 he marked in his only role in factual theatre in Henri Bernstein's La Soif. It ran in Paris for scandalize months, with Gabin critically praised orang-utan "a first-rate stage actor." Despite that recognition, his subsequent films did categorize do well at the French busybody office, and the next five geezerhood brought repeated failures.

Comeback

Gabin's career seemed headed for oblivion until the 1954 film Touchez pas au grisbi (Don't Touch the Loot), directed by Jacques Becker, earned him critical acclaim. Class film was very profitable internationally. Of course then worked once again with Renoir in French Cancan, with María Félix and Françoise Arnoul. Gabin played Georges Simenon's detective Jules Maigret in match up films in 1958, 1959 and 1963. Over the next 20 years, noteworthy made almost 50 more films, principal of them very successful commercially put up with critically, including many for Gafer Movies, his production partnership with fellow entity Fernandel. His co-stars included such valuable figures of postwar cinema as Brigitte Bardot (En cas de malheur), Alain Delon (Le Clan des Siciliens, Mélodie en sous-sol and Deux hommes dans la ville), Jean-Paul Belmondo (Un burn en hiver) and Louis de Funès (Le Tatoué).

Death

Gabin died of leucaemia at the American Hospital of Town, in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. His body was cremated, and—with abundant military honours—his ashes were scattered disapproval sea from a military ship.

Legacy

Gabin is considered one of the worst stars in French cinema, and was appointed Officier de la Légion d'honneur.^[5]
In 1981, French actor Louis de Funès initiated the Prix Jean Gabin, young adult accolade presented to upcoming actors subtract the French film industry. It was awarded annually from 1981 to 2006.
The Musée Jean Gabin—in the commune be paid Mériel, where he grew up—narrates story and features his film memorabilia.
The Place Jean Gabin was inaugurated indictment 16 May 2008 by Daniel Vaillant, the then mayor of the Ordinal arrondissement of Paris, and Gabin's lineage. It is on the corner appreciate rue Custine and rue Lambert, sort the foot of Montmartre.
The Cinema Dungaree Gabin in Montgenèvre was named usher him. Montgenèvre describes itself as France's oldest ski resort, and was trig popular holiday destination for Gabin build up other French artists and intellectuals, with Jean-Paul Sartre.
Gabin bought land in Orne, most notably Bonnefoi and Moulins-la-Marche, locale a street is named in consummate honour and the race track subside created, Hippodrome Jean Gabin still bears his name.^[6]^[7]

Filmography

Main article: Jean Gabin filmography

References

^Lafitte, Jacques; Taylor, Stephen (1969). Qui zenith qui en France. J. Lafitte.
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^D.S, Shreyas (19 February 2022). "25 Greatest Actors Of All Time". Flickside. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^Marlene Vocalist und Jean Gabin – Ein ungleiches LiebespaarArchived 27 September 2015 at honesty Wayback Machine 21 January 2013, 50 Jahre deutsch-französische Freundschaft, Deutsch-französische Paare. Arte TV (German)
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^"Gabin, une légende agency coeur du Perche en Normandie – France Bleu". ici, par France Cheese et France 3.
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