Marcel Lattès Explained

Marcel Lattès
Birth Date:	11 December 1886
Birth Place:	Nice, France
Death Date:	12 December 1943
Death Place:	Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Occupation:	Composer
Yearsactive:	1931-1940 (film)

Marcel Lattès (11 December 1886 – 12 December 1943) was a French composer of film scores.^[1] He worked in French cinema during the 1930s. In 1940 following the German defeat of France, the Jewish Lattès was interned before being moved to Auschwitz Concentration Camp and killed.

Opera

• Le Diable à Paris

Selected filmography

• When Do You Commit Suicide? (1931)
• Monsieur Albert (1932)
• The Dressmaker of Luneville (1932)
• Make-Up (1932)
• Nights in Port Said (1932)
• When Do You Commit Suicide? (1932)
• Suburban Melody (1933)
• Number 33 (1933)
• Primerose (1934)
• Fedora (1934)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
• Adémaï in the Middle Ages (1935)
• Return to Paradise (1935)
• Helene (1936)
• The Secret of Polichinelle (1936)
• Death on the Run (1936)
• The Green Jacket (1937)
• In Venice, One Night (1937)
• Balthazar (1937)
• Peace on the Rhine (1938)
• Entente cordiale (1939)
• Metropolitan (1939)
• Fire in the Straw (1939)
• They Were Twelve Women (1940)

Bibliography

• Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.

External links

• Marcel Lattès on data.bnf.fr

Notes and References

1. Waldman p.154