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Bretaigne Windust is a Director and Producer born on 20 january 1906 at Paris (France)
Ernest Bretaigne Windust (January 20, 1906 – March 19, 1960) was a US-based French-born theater, film, and television director.
Il parla d'abord allemand, puis français, puis anglais.
Sa famille déménagea à Londres à cause de la Première Guerre mondiale, et quand ses parents divorcèrent, il rejoignit New York avec sa mère.
En 1928, il cofonda les University Players of New Falmouth, qui comptaient dans leurs rangs Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, José Ferrer, Kent Smith, Myron McCormack, Mildred Natwick et Joshua Logan.
Il fut célébré pour ses mises en scène d'auteurs aussi divers que Ibsen, Tchekov, Shakespeare, Robert Sherwood, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse ou Eugene O'Neill.
Selon le New York Times, si sa carrière cinématographique fut moins substantielle, cela ne l'empêcha pas de réaliser l'une des meilleures comédies de la fin des années 40 (La Mariée du dimanche) et l'un des films les plus violents du début des années 50 (La Femme à abattre).
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Bretaigne Windust
Birth name Ernest Bretaigne Windust
Birth 20 january 1906 at Paris (France)
Death 18 march 1960 (at 54 years)
Birth 20 january 1906 at Paris (France)
Death 18 march 1960 (at 54 years)
Biography
Il est le fils du virtuose anglais Ernest Joseph Windust et d'Elizabeth Amory Day, chanteuse new-yorkaise.Il parla d'abord allemand, puis français, puis anglais.
Sa famille déménagea à Londres à cause de la Première Guerre mondiale, et quand ses parents divorcèrent, il rejoignit New York avec sa mère.
En 1928, il cofonda les University Players of New Falmouth, qui comptaient dans leurs rangs Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, José Ferrer, Kent Smith, Myron McCormack, Mildred Natwick et Joshua Logan.
Il fut célébré pour ses mises en scène d'auteurs aussi divers que Ibsen, Tchekov, Shakespeare, Robert Sherwood, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse ou Eugene O'Neill.
Selon le New York Times, si sa carrière cinématographique fut moins substantielle, cela ne l'empêcha pas de réaliser l'une des meilleures comédies de la fin des années 40 (La Mariée du dimanche) et l'un des films les plus violents du début des années 50 (La Femme à abattre).
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Filmography of Bretaigne Windust (8 films)
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
, 1h29Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Lori Nelson, Jim Backus, Joseph Sargent, Doodles Weaver
Rating57%
The Pied Piper (Van Johnson) is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune In the Hall of the Mountain King. Paul tells his best friend, the schoolteacher Truson (=true son), also played by Johnson, but Truson is skeptical.
Face to Face (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Bretaigne Windust, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Western
Actors James Mason, Michael Pate, Gene Lockhart, Robert Preston, Albert Sharpe, Marjorie Steele
Rating60%
The Enforcer (1951)
, 1h27Directed by Raoul Walsh, Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Don Beddoe, Roy Roberts
Rating72%
The action is set in an unnamed American city and is told mainly in flashback, and flashbacks within flashbacks.
Perfect Strangers (1950)
, 1h28Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore, Alan Reed, Paul Ford
Rating60%
Terry Scott (Ginger Rogers), who is separated from her husband, and unhappily married David Campbell (Dennis Morgan), the father of two children, meet when they are selected to serve on the jury of the Los Angeles trial of Ernest Craig (Ford Rainey). The defendant is charged with murdering his wife when she refused to grant him a divorce. While sequestered during the lengthy proceedings, Terry and David get to know each other and fall in love. Some dramatic tension is added to the plot by juror Isobel Bradford (Margalo Gillmore), a snobby socialite who tries to sway the panel to vote for the death penalty.
Pretty Baby (1950)
Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Frawley, Sheila MacRae
Rating64%
Patsy Douglas (Betsy Drake) comes up with an ingenious way to get a seat on the crowded New York subway: she pretends to have a baby, using a doll discarded by the advertising agency where she works. One day, however, her agency's primary client, short-tempered Cyrus Baxter (Edmund Gwenn), happens to be seated beside her. (His chauffeur had abruptly quit after Baxter berated him for getting stuck in a traffic jam.) He is delighted when he overhears that she named her "child" Cyrus after him. He becomes acquainted with her, letting her assume that he works for Baxter as a watchman.
Winter Meeting (1948)
, 1h44Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Jim Davis, Janis Paige, John Hoyt, Florence Bates, Walter Baldwin
Rating61%
Disenchanted poet Susan Grieve, escorted by her friend Stacy Grant, meets embittered World War II naval hero Lieutenant Slick Novak at a Manhattan restaurant where a dinner party is being held in his honor. He is more interested in Susan than his blind date Peggy Markham and offers to take her home at the end of the evening. The two become better acquainted over coffee in Susan's apartment, and she initially resists but then succumbs to his charms when he tries to kiss her.
June Bride (1948)
, 1h36Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Betty Lynn, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Jerome Cowan
Rating67%
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson returns to New York City when his newspaper's Vienna office is closed and is offered a job on a women's magazine called Home Life. He accepts the position only because it will put him in daily contact with editor Linda Gilman, whom he once loved. Linda is averse to the idea because of his leaving her three years earlier, but agrees to hire him if he will keep their relationship on a strictly professional level.
Producer
La femme à abattre (1993)
Directed by Guy Pinon
Origin France
Actors Aurélien Recoing, Marie Bunel, Valérie Vogt, Jacques Gamblin, Éric Prat, Philippe Girard
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Un policier découvre lors d'une affaire qu'il enquête sur lui-même. Sa femme a été témoin d'un attentat terroriste commis par son amant.