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Name
  
Francis Croisset


Role
  
Playwright

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Died
  
November 8, 1937, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Spouse
  
Marie-Therese Bischoffsheim (m. 1910)

Movies
  
A Woman's Face, Arsene Lupin, L'Epervier, The Marriage of Kitty, Etienne, Andere Welt

Children
  
Marie-Laure de Noailles, Philippe de Croisset, Germaine Wiener de Croisset

Grandchildren
  
Philippe de Montebello, Laure de Noailles, Nathalie de Noailles

Similar People
  
Robert de Flers, Reynaldo Hahn, Jules Massenet, Marie‑Laure de Noailles, Maurice Leblanc

Francis de Croisset ([fʁɑ̃sis də kʁwasɛ]; born Franz Wiener, January 28, 1877 – November 8, 1937) was a Belgian-born French playwright and opera librettist.

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His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin (1905), based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette (1923).

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He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné. They had two children, Philippe and Germaine de Croisset. By this marriage de Croisset had a stepdaughter, the arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles. The de Croissets' grandson Philippe de Montebello was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 until 2008.

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Filmography

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  • The Marriage of Kitty, directed by George Melford (1915, based on the play La Passerelle)
  • Arsène Lupin, directed by George Loane Tucker (UK, 1916, based on the play Arsène Lupin)
  • Arsène Lupin, directed by Paul Scardon (1917, based on the play Arsène Lupin)
  • The Hawk, directed by Paul Scardon (1917, based on the play L'Épervier)
  • L'Épervier, directed by Robert Boudrioz (France, 1925, based on the play L'Épervier)
  • Afraid to Love, directed by Edward H. Griffith (1927, based on the play La Passerelle)
  • The New Gentlemen, directed by Jacques Feyder (France, 1929, based on the play Les Nouveaux Messieurs)
  • Arsène Lupin, directed by Jack Conway (1932, based on the play Arsène Lupin)
  • Our Lord's Vineyard, directed by René Hervil (France, 1932, based on the play Les Vignes du Seigneur)
  • Il était une fois, directed by Léonce Perret (France, 1933, based on the play Il était une fois)
  • Ciboulette, directed by Claude Autant-Lara (France, 1933, based on the operetta Ciboulette)
  • L'Épervier, directed by Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1933, based on the play L'Épervier)
  • Le cœur dispose, directed by Georges Lacombe (France, 1936, based on the play Le Cœur dispose)
  • Take My Tip, directed by Herbert Mason (UK, 1937, based on the play La Livrée de M. Le Comte)
  • Head over Heels, directed by Sonnie Hale (UK, 1937, based on the play Pierre ou Jack?)
  • Woman of Malacca, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1937, based on the novel La Dame de Malacca)
  • Andere Welt, directed by Marc Allégret and Alfred Stöger (German, 1937, based on the novel La Dame de Malacca)
  • A Woman's Face, directed by Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1938, based on the play Il était une fois)
  • A Woman's Face, directed by George Cukor (1941, based on the play Il était une fois)
  • Les Vignes du Seigneur, directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1958, based on the play Les Vignes du Seigneur)
  • Le Maestro, directed by Claude Vital (France, 1977, based on the play Les Vignes du Seigneur)

    • References

    Francis de Croisset Wikipedia
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