Gabrielle Réjane

Compiled by The Museum of Modern Art Film Library in 1938, the film is a glimpse of the early 20th century’s finest stage performers— Gabrielle Réjane, Eleonora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt, and Minnie Maddern Fiske. The compliation contains excerpts from four films, adapted from four timeless stories: Madame Sans-Gêne (1911), Cenere (1916), La Dame aux Camélias (1912), and Vanity Fair (1915).

Chronique de la vie a Paris entre 1900 et 1914 realisee a l'aide de documents d'epoque et d'extraits de plus de sept cents films. Ce film est considere comme un modele de montage. Alain Resnais y travailla comme assistant. Prix Louis Delluc 1947.

Woman dances the polka.

French war propaganda in the form of a family drama in the German government. Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a French and a German. Directed by Henri Pouctal.

Directed by André Calmettes and Henri Desfontaines.

Lantier quitte Gervaise pour Virginie. Gervaise part au lavoir où elle fait l’objet des railleries de cette dernière. Les deux femmes se battent. Gervaise se remarie avec Coupeau, mais la haine de Virginie reste tenace…

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinder recordings. Many of these short films were also presented in hand-tinted color. The performances ranged from theatre (Coquelin the eldest, Gabrielle Réjane, Sarah Bernhardt, Félicia Mallet), opera & operetta (Mariette Sully, Emile Cossira, Jeanne Hatto, Mily-Meyer, Désiré Pougaud), to café concert & music hall variety (Footit et Chocolat, Mason and Forbes, Little Tich, Brunin, Polin, Jules Moy) and dance (Blanche and Louise Mante from the Paris Opera, Carlotta Zambelli, Michel Vasquez, Rosita Mauri, Jeanne Chasles, Achille Viscusi, Christine Kerf, Cléo de Mérode).