Marcel Dalio, born Israel Moshe Blauschild (17 July 1900 in Paris, France – 20 November 1983 in Paris), was a French Jewish character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game. After divorcing his first wife, he married 17-year old Madeleine LaBeau (Yvonne from Casablanca) in 1938.
In June of 1940, LaBeau and Dalio left Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. It took them two months to get visas to Chile. However, when their ship stopped in Mexico they were stranded (along with around 200 other passengers) because the visas they had purchased turned out to be forgeries. Eventually they were able to get temporary Canadian passports and come to the United States. Both of Dalio's parents would later die in Nazi concentration camps.
In Hollywood, Dalio was never able to rescale the heights of prominence that he had enjoyed in France. Dalio appeared in 19 movies in America during the Second World War....
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Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) is an acclaimed French comedy movie directed by Gérard Oury in 1973, starring Louis de Funès and Claude Giraud.Everything begins on a Friday afternoon and ends on Saturday afternoon.Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is one of the most loved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of the young David. On Friday, Rabbi Jacob boards a plane to leave America for his birthland of France after more than 30 years of American life. His young friend Rabbi Samuel comes with him.In Normandy, the rich businessman Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès) is also on his way; his daughter (Miou-Miou) will be married the next day. Pivert is a dreadful man--bad-tempered, rude and a bigot, with a well-honed racism against blacks, Jews, Belgians and Englishmen. He and his driver, Salomon (Henri Guybet), have a hilarious car accident in which Pivert's car (carrying a speed boat) flips...
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On the Riviera is a 1951 comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler.The film was the third version of the same story. The original was entitled Folies Bergere (1935) and starred Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon and Ann Sothern. The remake in 1941 was That Night in Rio and starred Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda.This version stars Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney and Corinne Calvet with Marcel Dalio, Henri Letondal and Sig Ruman....
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The Rules of the Game (original French title: La Règle du jeu) is a 1939 film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class French society just before the start of World War II. Renoir's film is in part an adaptation of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne, a popular 19th-century comedy of manners, and is now widely regarded to be Renoir's greatest film, and among the greatest works of cinema ever.
The film is an ensemble farce that turns into a tragedy in the final act. It is characterized by thematic elements common to much of Renoir's work, such as the moral relativism exhibited by its characters and an abhorrence of senseless death.
The film begins with the aviator André Jurieux landing at Le Bourget Airfield just outside Paris, France. He is greeted by his friend, Octave, who reveals that Christine, the woman André loves, has not come to the airfield to greet him. André is heartbroken. When a radio reporter comes to broadcast his first words upon landing, he explains his...,
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