Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

344 • DUHOUR, CLÉMENT
Peindre ou faire l’Amour, also actor, Arnaud and Jean-
Marie Larrieu; Le Domaine perdu, Raoul Ruiz, France /
Italy / Romania / Spain; 2006 Cœurs / Cuori / US festival:
Private Fears in Public Places, Alain Resnais, France / Italy;
2007 La Maison, Manuel Poirier; Sans moi, Olivier Planchot;
2008 Made in Italy, Stéphane Giusti; La Femme
invisible, Agathe Teyssier), production assistant (1996
For Ever Mozart, Jean-Luc Godard), and director of an
unreleased feature fi lm.
Filmography
1994 Un Dimanche à Paris (unreleased)
Television Filmography
1996 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode
“Emmanuel Bove”)
DUHOUR, CLÉMENT (December 11, 1911, Anglet,
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France–January 3, 1983,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France)
The son of wealthy merchants, he was a fi rst-rate
sportsman and took part in the 1932 Los Angeles
Olympic Games. He started an artistic career under
the pseudonym of Guy Lormont as a music hall and
cabaret singer. A fi lm actor (and often producer)
(1942 L’Âge d’Or, Jean de Limur; Dernier Atout, Jacques
Becker; 1945 La Route du Bagne, Léon Mathot; 1947
La Colère des Dieux, Carl Lamac; 1948 Gli uomini sono
nemici / Le Carrefour des Passions / USA: Crossroads of
Passion, Ettore Giannini, Italy / France; 1951 Passion,
Georges Lampin; 1952 Paris chante toujours!, also
producer, Pierre Montazel; Promenades à Paris, thirteen-short
series, Stany Cordier; 1953 La Route du
Bonheur / Saluti e baci, also producer, Maurice Labro,
Giorgio C. Simonelli, France / Italy; Monsieur et Madame
Curie, short, Georges Franju; Embarquement pour
le Ciel, short, Jean Aurel; Le Chemin de l’Etoile, short,
Jean Mousselle; La Montagne au Bout du Monde, short,
Lionel Terray; Histoires de Bicyclettes, short, Emile
Roussel; 1954 Si Versailles m’était conté / UK: Fabulous
Versailles / USA: Royal Affairs in Versailles / Affairs in
Versailles, also producer; Sacha Guitry; 1956 Napoléon
/ Napoleone / Napoleone Bonaparte, also producer,
Sacha Guitry, France / Italy; Si Paris nous était conté,
also producer, Sacha Guitry; 1957 Assassins et Voleurs
/ USA: Lovers and Thieves, also producer, Sacha Guitry;
Le Naïf aux Quarante Enfants, also producer, Philippe
Agostini; 1960 Candide ou L’Optimisme au XXème Siècle
/ USA: Candide, Norbert Carbonnaux), in 1943 he
had married actress Viviane Romance (1912–1991),
with whom he created a production company, Izarra,
in 1949. After their divorce, he founded a new society,
La C.L.M. (Courts et Longs Métrages). He fi nanced
several of Sacha Guitry’s fi lms. In the early 1960s, he
gave up cinema to dedicate himself to catering. Other
credit (as producer): 1956 Le Pays d’où je viens (Marcel
Carné).
Filmography
1957 Les Trois font la Paire (co-director with Sacha
Guitry; also producer, actor)
1958 La Vie à Deux / UK: Life Together / USA: Life as
a couple (also producer)
1959 Vous n’avez rien à déclarer? (also producer,
actor)
DULAC, GERMAINE (Germaine Charlotte
Saisset-Schneider / November 17, 1882, Amiens,
Somme, France–July 20, 1942, Paris, France)
Born into a family of industrialists, she was raised
by her grandmother in Paris. After studying various
arts, including opera, dance, and music, she married
writer and journalist Marie-Louis-Albert Dulac in
1905. A militant suffragette, she collaborated on
Marguerite Durant’s feminist newspaper La Fronde
and to La Française (1906–1913), the organ of the
French suffragette movement in which she published
theater criticism. Her meeting with actress
Stacia Napierkowska led her to cinema in 1914. The
following year, she created a production company
run by her husband that successively was named
Krishna, Delia, and then D.H. Film. She co-produced
La Lumière du Coeur (Edmond Van Daële, 1916)
and supervised the shootings of Mon Paris (Albert
Guyot, 1927) and Le Picador (Lucien Jaquelux, 1932).
Her name remained linked to avant-garde cinema.
She was a fi lm theorist and the permanent secretary
of the French cine-club movement.
Filmography
1917 Les Sœurs ennemies
Dans l’Ouragan de la Vie / Venus Victrix
Géo le Mystérieux ou La Vraie Richesse
1918 Âmes de Fous (six episodes: “La Seconde Marquise
de Sombreuse,” “Le Château maudit,”
“Folie, L’Exilée,” “La Danseuse inconnue,”
“Hallucination et Réalité”; also screenwriter)
Le Bonheur des Autres
La Jeune Fille la plus méritante de France
1919 La Fête espagnole