Description Jean Gabin was more than just a star of iconic movies still screened in film festivals around the world.
He lives in Paris..
He is the author of three previous books on France.
About the author Joseph Harriss\'s articles and columns from his posts in Paris, North Africa, Brussels and Washington have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Time, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and The American Spectator.
This revealing biography traces his involvement in the r alisme po tique and film noir movements of the 1930s and 1940s, his unhappy Hollywood years, his role in the World War II liberation of France, his tumultuous affairs with Mich le Morgan and Marlene Dietrich and his real-life role as a Normandy gentleman farmer.
From his start as a reluctant song and dance man at the Moulin Rouge and Folies Berg re, Gabin became a first-magnitude Actor under such directors as Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carn and Jean Renoir.
During his 45-year career, he acted in 95 films, including Le Quai des Brumes, La Grande Illusion, Touchez Pas au Grisbi and French Cancan.
To many, he was France itself.
Description Jean Gabin was more than just a star of iconic movies still screened in film festivals around the world
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