Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 23, 1900
Died
Nov 03, 1973
Place of Birth
Bâle, Suisse
Credits
54 titles
Marc Allégret
Biography
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director. He was born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven. Later, Marc was to fall briefly under the spell of Cocteau, who Gide feared would "corrupt" him. Marc's father, Elie Allégret, had originally been hired by André Gide's mother to tutor André in light of his weak grades in school, after which he and his charge became fast friends. In 1895 Elie Allégret was best man at André Gide's wedding. After filming a 1927 trip to the Congo with André Gide, Marc Allégret chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. His relationship with Gide ended after that trip after having experiences with Congolese women. They nevertheless remained close friends until Gide's death in 1951. After working and training as an assistant director, in 1931 he directed his first feature Mam'zelle Nitouche, and the following year received much acclaim for his film, Fanny. He went on to a long career during which he wrote numerous scripts and directed more than fifty films. Marc Allégret is noted for discovering and developing new acting talent who went on to stardom including Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Philipe, Danièle Delorme, Louis Jourdan, and Roger Vadim who would become his directing assistant. He was married to Nadine Vogel. He was a married man who then felt he had an obligation to proclaim his homosexuality. He was, however, seen as a general liberator rather than a specialist defender of homosexual rights. He died in 1973 and was interred in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
Known For
Filmography
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Director
Lumière
Director
The Abominable Man of Customs
Director
Tales of Paris
Director
Demons at Midnight
Director
Blood and Roses
Judge Monteverdi
The Dreadful
Director
Sunday Encounter
Director
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Director
Love Is at Stake
Director
Plucking the Daisy
Director
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Director
School for Love
Writer
L'eterna femmina
Director
Loves of Three Queens
Director
The Fate of Two Queens
Director
Julietta
Director
La demoiselle et son revenant
Director
With André Gide
Director
Blackmailed
Director
The Naked Heart
Director
Blanche Fury
Director
Pétrus
Director
Lunegarde
Director
Twilight
Director
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Director
The Beautiful Adventure
Director
L'Arlésienne
Director
Parade in 7 Nights
Director
Jeunes filles de France
Director
The Curtain Rises
Director
Orage
Director
Andere Welt
Director
Woman of Malacca
Director
Heart of Paris
Director
Adventure in Paris
Director
The Terrible Lovers
Director
Under Western Eyes
Director
Happy Days
Director
Zouzou
Director
Without a Family
Director
The Free Trade Hotel
Director
Ladies Lake
Director
Fanny
Director
The Chocolate Girl
Director
Night attack
Director
The four legs
Director
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Director
The Necklace
Director
Black and White
Director