Jacques Deval Explained

Jacques Deval
Birth Date:	27 June 1895
Birth Place:	Paris, France
Death Date:	19 December 1972
Death Place:	Paris, France
Othername:	Jacques Boularan
Occupation:	Screenwriter, Director
Yearsactive:	1923–1972 (film)

Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Novels

• Marie Galante (1931)

Plays

• Une faible femme; a comedy in three acts (1920)
• Dans sa candeur naïve; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as Her Cardboard Lover (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse
• Étienne; a play in three acts (1930)
• Mademoiselle; a comedy in three acts (1932)
• Tovarich; a play in four acts (1933)
• Marie Galante; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel Marie Galante. Music by Kurt Weill (1934)
• Soubrette; a comedy in three acts (1938)
• Oh, Brother!; a comedy in three acts (1945)
• La Femme de ta jeunesse; a play in three acts (1947)
• Le Rayon des jouets; a comedy in three acts (1951)
• Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; a play in two acts (1955)
• La Prétentaine; a comedy in two acts (1957)
• Romancero; a play in three acts (1958)

Filmography

• The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
• The Passionate Plumber, directed by Edward Sedgwick (1932, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
• A Weak Woman, directed by Max de Vaucorbeil (France, 1933, based on the play Une faible femme)
• Étienne, directed by Jean Tarride (France, 1933, based on the play Étienne)
• Journal of a Crime, directed by William Keighley (1934, remake of the 1933 film Une vie perdue)
• Marie Galante, directed by Henry King (1934, based on the novel Marie Galante)
• Tovaritch, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1935, based on the play Tovaritch)
• Tovarich, directed by Anatole Litvak (1937, based on the play Tovaritch)
• Say It in French, directed by Andrew L. Stone (1938, based on the play Soubrette)
• Her Cardboard Lover, directed by George Cukor (1942, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
• Una vírgen moderna, directed by Joaquín Pardavé (Mexico, 1946, based on the play Mademoiselle)
• Miss Tatlock's Millions, directed by Richard Haydn (1948, based on the play Oh, Brother!)
• Tuesday's Guest, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1950, based on the play La Femme de ta jeunesse)
• Women's Club, directed by Ralph Habib (France, 1956, remake of the 1936 film Women's Club)
• , directed by Steno (Italy, 1961, based on the play Le Rayon des jouets)
• Geliebte Hochstaplerin, directed by Ákos Ráthonyi (West Germany, 1961, based on the play La Prétentaine)
• L'altra metà del cielo, directed by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1977, based on the play Romancero)

Screenwriter

• Le Mauvais Garçon, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1923)
• Jenny Lind, directed by Arthur Robison (French, 1932)
• Une vie perdue, directed by Raymond Rouleau (France, 1933)
• Women's Club, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1936)
• Cafe Metropole, directed by Edward H. Griffith (1937)
• Domenica, directed by Maurice Cloche (France, 1952)
• When You Read This Letter, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1953)

Sources

• Book: Crisp , Colin . 1993 . The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960 . 1st . hardcover . Bloomington, IN . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-31550-2 .