Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

974 • TUAL, DENISE
1970 L’Enfant sauvage / UK: The Wild Boy / USA: The
Wild Child (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
producer, actor)
Domicile conjugal / Non drammatizziamo . . . è solo
questione di corna! / UK: Bed and Board / Canada
and USA: Bed & Board (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, producer; France / Italy)
1971 Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent / Les Deux
Anglaises / UK: Anne and Muriel / Canada and
USA: Two English Girls (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer)
1972 Une Belle Fille comme moi / UK: A Gorgeous Bird
Like Me / USA: Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
producer)
1973 La Nuit américaine / Effetto notte / USA: Day
for Night (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
producer, actor; France / Italy)
1975 L’Histoire d’Adèle H / USA: The Story of Adele H
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer)
1976 L’Argent de Poche / USA: Small Change (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1977 L’Homme qui aimait les Femmes / USA: The
Man Who Loved Women (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1978 La Chambre verte / USA: The Green Room / The
Vanishing Fiancée (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, producer, actor)
1979 L’Amour en Fuite / Canada and USA: Love on
the Run (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
producer)
1980 Le Dernier Métro / UK and USA: The Last Metro
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer)
1981 La Femme d’à Côté / UK and USA: The Woman
Next Door (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
producer)
1983 Vivement Dimanche! / UK: Finally, Sunday / USA:
Confi dentially Yours (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, producer)
TUAL, DENISE (Denise Piazza / May 15, 1906,
Paris, France–2000, France)
The daughter of an art publisher father and a musician
mother, she grew up among artists (composer Claude
Debussy was a friend of the family) and learned musical
notation with Pablo Casals. She entered fi lms as an
assistant director and editor under the name of Denise
Batcheff (1930 Le Blanc et le Noir, Robert Florey; 1931
L’Amour à l’Américaine / USA: American Love, Claude
Heymann; La Chienne, as sound editor, Jean Renoir; 1932
La Dame de chez Maxim’s, Alexander Korda; Fantômas,
Paul Fejos; 1934 L’Hôtel du Libre-Echange, Marc Allégret;
Lac aux Dames / USA: Ladies Lake, Marc Allégret; Zouzou,
Marc Allégret; 1935 Les Beaux Jours, Marc Allégret). She
married Roland Tual, with whom she created a production
company in 1936, La Société Synops. Later she
founded another society, SEPIC. She notably produced
with her husband: 1937 Drôle de Drame / USA: Bizarre
Bizarre (as co-producer, Marcel Carné); 1938 Mollenard
/ USA: Hatred (as production director, Robert Siodmak);
La Bête humaine / UK: Judas Was a Woman / USA:
The Human Beast (as production manager, Jean Renoir);
1939 La Loi du Nord / La Piste du Nord (as producer,
Jacques Feyder); 1941 Remorques / USA: Stormy Waters
(Jean Grémillon, shot in 1939–1940); Le Pavillon brûle
(Jacques de Baroncelli); 1942 Le Lit à Colonnes (Roland
Tual); 1943 Lettres d’Amour / USA: Love Letters (Claude
Autant-Lara); Les Anges du Péché / UK and USA: Angels
of the Streets (Robert Bresson); 1944 Bonsoir Mesdames,
Bonsoir Messieurs (Roland Tual); 1945 L’Espoir / Espoir—
Sierra de Teruel / UK and USA: Days of Hope / Man’s
Hope (as production manager, André Malraux); 1947
Voyage Surprise (Pierre Prévert). She also produced
alone: 1966 Un Choix d’Assassins (Philippe Fourastié,
France / Italy); Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard); 1968
L’Ecume des Jours (Charles Belmont); Phèdre (Pierre
Jourdan). She also worked as an associate producer
on The Ambassador’s Daughter (Norman Krasna, USA,
1956) and collaborated as an art director on Jean de
la Lune (Marcel Achard, 1949). She authored several
books (1980 Le Temps dévoré, Fayard; 1987 Au Coeur du
Temps, Carrère). Her fi rst husband was actor Pierre
Batcheff (1907–1932).
Filmography
1950 Ce Siècle a Cinquante Ans / Hallo, die grosse
Weltrevue / Die letzten 60 Jahren / USA: Days
of Our Years (documentary; co-director with
Werner Malbran, Roland Tual; France / West
Germany)
TUAL, ROLAND (November 10, 1904, Quimper,
Finistère, France–September 15, 1956, Paris, France)
A former journalist and member of surrealist group,
he managed the Pathé and Billancourt studios (1930–
1936). He created a production company with his
wife, Denise Tual (cf her entry).
Filmography
1942 Le Lit à Colonnes
1944 Bonsoir Mesdames, Bonsoir Messieurs