Gerard Philippe
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Gérārd Philippe, a natural talent like few others, made his stage debut at the age of twenty and his film debut at twenty-one.
He trod the Parisian stages in contemporary roles (Giraudoux, Camus), while at the same time pursuing a minor film career (although he was with Resnais in 1945 for Schema d'une Identification).
A double consecration came in 1956 with Le Diable au Corp by
Claude Autant-Lara and in 1951 at the Theatre National Populaire rejuvenated by Jean Vilar. If the encounter with the great man of the theater established him as the most passionate and captivating actor, both for his qualities and for his diction, the many films he starred in confirmed his international stardom. The romantic young lieutenant in La Ronde (1950), directed by Max Ophuls, the cheerful, womanizing and adventurous knight of Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), directed by Christian-Jacque, the shy young musician who dreams of impossible erotic adventures in Les Belles de Nuit (1952), directed by Rene` Clair, the cynical, degenerate seducer of Monsieur Ripois (1953), directed by Rene' Clement, the romantic young lieutenant of the Belle Epoque in Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955), also by Clair, constitute a gallery of exuberant and sentimental young men who embody the frustrated enthusiasm of the postwar years, the latent desire to act and to be. Philippes role consists precisely in this: in idealizing youth in a period when everything seemed old and decaying.
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