Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Nick Zedd, founder of the Cinema of Transgression, is currently raising funds for his latest feature film, Love Spasm, a drama about wayward young adults trying to get by in Berlin.
For the past few years, Zedd had been focusing on his public access superhero show The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer and working on his painting career. So, this is a highly anticipated return to longform filmmaking. If you’d like to contribute, please visit the Love Spasm fundraising page on Kickstarter.
Zedd describes the film as being primarily about an artist named Eric who is involved in a variety of unfulfilling sexual relationships with women. Eric’s main squeeze is a heroin-addicted peep show worker, but he also regularly visits several other lovers.
The way Zedd describes the film is particularly interesting as it seems, in part, to channel his one-time mentor, Jack Smith, especially in the...
For the past few years, Zedd had been focusing on his public access superhero show The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer and working on his painting career. So, this is a highly anticipated return to longform filmmaking. If you’d like to contribute, please visit the Love Spasm fundraising page on Kickstarter.
Zedd describes the film as being primarily about an artist named Eric who is involved in a variety of unfulfilling sexual relationships with women. Eric’s main squeeze is a heroin-addicted peep show worker, but he also regularly visits several other lovers.
The way Zedd describes the film is particularly interesting as it seems, in part, to channel his one-time mentor, Jack Smith, especially in the...
- 10/5/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The fate of Mary Pickford's 1930 Oscar for best actress soon will be in the hands of a Los Angeles jury as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences heads to court Monday to stop the sale of the statuette.
The Oscar was awarded to "America's sweetheart" for her performance in 1929's "Coquette," the first best actress honor given for a performance in a "talkie." The statuette is in possession of the estate of Beverly Rogers, the second wife of Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who was married to Pickford for 40 years until her death in 1979.
When Buddy Rogers died in 1999, Beverly Rogers inherited his estate, which included the 1930 Oscar as well as an honorary Academy Award given to Pickford in 1976 and Buddy Rogers' 1986 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
At the center of the dispute is a handwritten will ordering that the 1930 statuette be auctioned off, with proceeds donated to charity...
The Oscar was awarded to "America's sweetheart" for her performance in 1929's "Coquette," the first best actress honor given for a performance in a "talkie." The statuette is in possession of the estate of Beverly Rogers, the second wife of Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who was married to Pickford for 40 years until her death in 1979.
When Buddy Rogers died in 1999, Beverly Rogers inherited his estate, which included the 1930 Oscar as well as an honorary Academy Award given to Pickford in 1976 and Buddy Rogers' 1986 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
At the center of the dispute is a handwritten will ordering that the 1930 statuette be auctioned off, with proceeds donated to charity...
- 11/30/2008
- by By Leslie Simmons
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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