Biography of Marcel Achard

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5 July 1889 4 September 1974 was born as Marcel Augustin Ferréol in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon on 5 July 1899. Early in his writing career, immediately after the first world war, he adopts the pseudonym "Marcel Achard. After a short experience in the field of journalism dedicated to Theater by seizing his first major success when Charles Dullin, in 1923, bring on the stage "Voulez-vous jouer avec moâ?", which remains perhaps his most original and significant. Brilliant author, modern exponent boulevard Theatre, Achard will often find the way to success with the public. Will also work in film as a screenwriter and wrote the lyrics to two musicals. The defining characteristic of dreamlike mood of melancholy lyrics of Achard's sentimental, stressed almost always entitled. Achard's greatest hits coming in the period between the two world wars when contemporary critics compare him to some renowned French predecessors such as Pierre de Marivaux or Alfred de Musset. After World War II, despite the criticism it receives, his literary output continues. "The idiots", it will be a work known in the United States to be the basis for the film "a shot in the dark". Four works by Achard are landing on Broadway. "A shot in the dark" boasts the largest number of representations: adapted by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Harold Clurman, raggiugerà the large number of 389 replicas; Starring: Julie Harris, Walter Matthau and William Shatner. The numerous participants of Achard are usually focused on historical events: these include "Mayerling" (1936), "Orage" (1938) and "Félicie Nanteuil" (1942).

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