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Jacques Deval

French playwright, screenwriter and film director

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

01Plays

  • 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) by 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)

02Filmography

Screenwriter

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