Comments on: Busted http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/busted/ david cairns Sat, 25 May 2013 21:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/busted/#comment-55793 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:49:58 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20921#comment-55793 Everybody in the Casadesus family seems to be a great musician or a great actor, and they all live for like a hundred years.

]]> By: Gareth http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/busted/#comment-55792 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:45:52 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20921#comment-55792 This sounds absolutely fascinating. Jouvet acted with her uncle: they were both members of the French players who spent two years in New York in the late teens. The entire family seems to have been ridiculously talented.

I was watching another late Jouvet film the other day, and there’s a scene with his then-companion Monique Mélinand (who, amazingly, died this year) in which I could swear she’s laughing at him, the man, rather than in character. It’s very amusing.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/busted/#comment-55790 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:59:25 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20921#comment-55790 Thanks!

I believe the Comedie Francaise kept a tight grip on her, which is why she didn’t make any movies for ten years after L’Aventurier: just too busy.

I think she said that her father, a friend of Jouvet’s, had just died, and Jouvet couldn’t stop talking about it, which made it hard for her to play her scene with the right emotion as she was always on the verge of tears.

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