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	Marcel Pagnol
		Pagnol learned to read at an early age, but until the age of six he was not allowed to open a book, "for fear of cerebral explosion," as his mother believed could happen.
		Pagnol wrote his first play for the local group when he was only 15.
		Pagnol saw cinema as a new minor art, stating in 1933 that the cinema "should confine itself to photographing theater." He also saw potentialities for the filming of a drama: "The art of theater is being revived in another form and will begin to enjoy an unprecedented success...
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pagnol.htm (1882 words)

	Marcel Pagnol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marcel Pagnol (February 28, 1895 - April 18, 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.
		Born February 28, 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône département, in southern France near Marseille, the son of school teacher Joseph Pagnol and seamstress Augustine Lansot, Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brother Paul, Rene, and younger sister Germaine.
		Marcel Pagnol was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcel_Pagnol (364 words)

	Marcel Pagnol / director / realisateur / films / biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marcel Pagnol was born in southern France in 1895, the son of a schoolmaster and a seamstress.
		Pagnol’s first major success as a writer was his 1925 play, Les Marchands de gloire, a satire on how opportunistic civilians profit from the heroism of soldiers during wartime.
		Pagnol’s most well-known films are the Marius-Fanny-César trilogy which capitalised on the success of his stage play, Marius, on which it was based.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_mpagnol.html (610 words)

	Topaze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With Fernandel, Hélène Predrière, Jacqueline Pagnol, Marcel Vallée, and Jacques Castelot.
		No one today registers the name of Marcel Pagnol's 1928 comedy Topaze, but it was a hit in its time, and it furnished the source material for no fewer than five movies.
		Pagnol's play is midway between a boulevard comedy and a satirical farce with Shavian overtones.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/02/03/TOPAZE.html (580 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Marius Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pagnol's story of a Marseilles fish seller, Fanny, who loves Marius, a bartender with his eye on a life at sea, and Cesar, Marius' stern father, is as simple and basically melodramatic a tale as the cinema has ever offered.
		Marcel Pagnol was a contrarian, a filmmaker who believed that the essence of the sound film was the human voice, and he made that voice rich, warm, and emphatically regional.
		Pagnol defied this trend, and in the process, made his Marseilles folk, their unique manners and speech, speak for all of France.
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/fnf02n4.html (602 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Cinema \| Marcel Pagnol: The Fanny Trilogy (Marius, Fanny, Cesar) / Kino DVD June 2004
		Bringing to the screen a fresh combination of unpretentious dialogue and a unique kind of romantic realism, Pagnol's cinema was seen during the 1930s as separate from the developing avant-garde French cinema, which experimented with sound, image and their possible connections with language and politics.
		But even if Pagnol once claimed that cinema was merely "the art of imprinting, fixing and diffusing theatre," he inadvertently dethroned the high-drama and high-class subject matters common to 1920s French cinema by introducing a fresh look at the everyday activities of the working class.
		Dramas of thwarted love and abandonment, with children born out of wedlock and marriages undertaken for convenience, were hardly new on the Paris stage; but audiences had never before heard them spoken in the gritty language of the south, or seen such good-hearted, workaday characters bungle their way into sorrow.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/releases/pagnol/fannytrildvd.html (1145 words)

	Les indépendants du 1er siècle - Biographie de Marcel PAGNOL
		Marcel Pagnol was born in Aubagne on February 28, 1895.
		Never did Pagnol write that the camera was a mode of expression inferior to the pen.
		Pagnol's films are an invitation to flee the ridicule of an artificial world, the hubbub of civilization.
	www.lips.org /bio_pagnol_gb.asp (333 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Fanny Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy, Marius, Fanny, and Cesar is an epic of the ordinary, an affectionate portrait of the big routines and little sadnesses that are the landmarks of working men and women everywhere.
		Ironically, they would reject Pagnol’s claim to membership in their pantheon of great directors, because his films, they said, were "filmed theater." Pagnol would have agreed, for he believed that the human voice, and the words it framed, were the very essence of drama, whether on the stage or on the screen.
		The pleasures of Pagnol’s script are in the foibles and eccentricities of the older characters—Charpin is skillful as Panisse, and Raimu is once again wonderful, hiding his feelings behind his brusque exterior, trying to run everyone else’s business while barely managing his own.
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/fnf02n12.html (1068 words)

	Topaze
		Pagnol's detailed visual imagination is demonstrated by the detailed description that indicates how the setting, a classroom, should look.
		Although Pagnol's first plays are modern and cynical (truth and virtue offer no advantage at all in a world full of rottenness and lies), the influence of the avant-garde is nowhere to be seen in it.
		Pagnol, although well versed in the avant-garde repertoire of his time, chose for easy, pleasantly written plays, recognizable for a large audience; 'la piÃ¨ce bien faite'.
	www.kb.nl /bc/koopman/1940-1950/c31-en.html (717 words)

	Marcel Pagnol Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marcel Pagnol is often dismissed in film histories as an author of "canned theater" whose appeal is limited to a certain regional quaintness.
		Pagnol shared with the writer Jean Giono a profound respect for the region's people and traditions and an affinity for simple morality tales concerning family honor.
		Pagnol's first vocation was teaching, but even before he took his first job, he had published poems, written a play and founded the review FORTUNIO (which later became the prestigious CAHIERS DU SUD).
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196387 (946 words)

	‘My Father’s Glory’ (G)
		The first of two films about Pagnol's early years, this is sugar-spun nostalgia, a celebration of family and la belle Provence for those who crave their yesterdays with sprinkles on top.
		Pagnol, whose "Water of the Hills" became "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring," was the precocious child of a schoolteacher, Joseph (Philippe Caubere), and a seamstress, Augustine (Nathalie Roussel).
		Pagnol's prose, incorporated into a screenplay by Lucette Andrei, is wonderfully evocative in itself.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/myfathersglorygkempley_a0a16b.htm (401 words)

	Marcel PAGNOL : Biographie de Marcel PAGNOL - JeSuisMort.com
		Marcel Pagnol est né à Aubagne (Bouches du-Rhône) le 28 février 1895 ; il est mort à Paris le 18 avril 1974.
		Marcel Pagnol le savait et disait que son théâtre n'est pas un "théâtre de bibliothèque" ou d'avant-garde "mais le vrai, celui qui s'adresse au peuple, le théâtre théâtral".
		Marcel Pagnol y évoque la figure de ce père instituteur, qui disposait d'une culture étendue, savait communier avec la nature et possédait une haute conscience morale.
	www.jesuismort.com /biographie_celebrite_chercher/biographie-marcel_pagnol-919.php (1196 words)

	‘My Father’s Glory’ (G)
		Director Robert's awe at Pagnol -- from whose works "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring" were recently filmed -- is overwhelmingly evident.
		The off-screen narrator is Marcel, now grown-up, who recalls his youth around the turn of the century.
		The son of a school teacher (Philippe Caubere), the young Marcel is awed by his father's classes and learns to read at 4.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/myfathersgloryghowe_a0b30d.htm (488 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		PAGNOL, MARCEL [Pagnol, Marcel], 1895-1974, French dramatist and film director.
		Pagnol gained recognition for his trilogy of sentimental comedies set on the Marseilles waterfront— Marius (1929), Fanny (1931), and César (1936)—for which he wrote the screenplays (1931, 1932, 1934).
		In 1986, the two-part film Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, based on Pagnol's novel The Water of the Hills (1962), met great success.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Pagnol-M (132 words)

	This Writing Life: In Marcel Pagnol Country
		On the right, before the village, drop into the cemetery and stand awhile in homage by the grave of Marcel Pagnol.
		This is Pagnol country, marked by Pagnol routes, the area redolent for lovers of French literature with his sense of bucolic landscape and scheming villagers.
		The village is a constant ascent, past Pagnol's last home, and out along a path already steaming out scents of rosemary and thyme though February winds were chill.
	www.martingoodman.com /writing230203.htm (364 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Marius at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Historical Background: Marcel Pagnol was one of France's leading filmmakers in the thirties, but first made his mark as a playwright.
		Pagnol's approach to cinema was akin to René Clair's nightmare about what film would become after sound was introduced – an adjunct, in effect, to theater (see my review of Le Million for further discussion of Clair's viewpoint and how he set about ensuring that his worst fears would not be realized).
		Pagnol's strengths as a writer for stage and screen were mainly rich character development and witty, believable dialog.
	www.epinions.com /content_179332222596 (2505 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: My Mother's Castle (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His father is a schoolteacher, much admired, and his mother is a sweet and loving woman who is still quite young and girlish, although she does not seem that way, of course, to her son.
		Marcel's mother, Augustine, is terrified of dogs, and there comes a day when the dog and the caretaker frighten the family, and it us up to Joseph to somehow salvage his family's self-respect.
		It is likely that no one, not even Pagnol, had a childhood quite this perfect, and yet all happy childhoods grow happier in memory, and it is the nature of film that we can share some of Pagnol's happiness.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910913/REVIEWS/109130301/1023 (670 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - L'Esprit de France - Route 3 - Provence
		Pagnol was also a film maker and member of the Academie Francais, as Tony Hawks discovered when he went on the trail of Marcel Pagnol in the South of France
		Pagnol first visited the village for his annual holidays in 1904 at the age of nine.
		As well as the director, Claude Berri’s adaptation of the Marcel Pagnol novels, as is Jean De Florette and Manon des Sources.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/lespritdefrance_route3.shtml (764 words)

	French culture \| cinema: Three Wednesdays in Provence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Provence is also the land of Marcel Pagnol (Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), first seen with Pagnol's adaptation of The Baker's Wife, then with director Yves Robert's adaptation of Pagnol's autobiographical stories of his childhood in the hills of Provence, My Mother's Castle and My Father's Glory.
		Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of Jean Giono's beloved novel is a classic of pre-war French cinema, with a superb performance by Raimu as Amiable, the village baker whose wife leaves him for the shepherd Dominique.
		Writer Marcel Pagnol's intimate and nostalgic stories of his childhood in the hills of Provence chronicle with love and tenderness the life of his schoolteacher father Joseph (Philippe Caubere) and his loving mother, the paragon of domestic virtue Augustine (Nathalie Roussel).
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/festival/programs/0101provence.html (592 words)

	World of Reading: Manon des Sources
		The original version directed by Marcel Pagnol tells the story of Manon, a girl living in the mountains, who decides to block the spring supplying the water to the village.
		Manon wants to have revenge on the inhabitants of the village that ignored her father when he was killing himself to find precious water for his own land.
		Pagnol uses a very less dramatic way to tell that poignant story although some scenes are, like Manon confronting Ugolin and the villagers after the sermon.
	www.wor.com /catalog/4508.asp (221 words)

	Movie Info for My Father's Glory on MSN Movies
		This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974).
		Astonished, Joseph (Philippe Caubère) writes a sentence on the flboard and asks, "What does that say?" Marcel, reading the words, says, "The father is proud of his little boy." This little scene establishes the tone and meaning of the film.
		Besides Marcel and his father, the vacationers include his mother, Augustine (Nathalie Roussel), a beautiful and kindly homemaker; Marcel's little brother Paul (Victorien Delamare); and his Uncle Jules (Didier Pain) and Aunt Rose (Thérèse Liotard).
	entertainment.msn.com /Movies/Movie.aspx?m=61531 (477 words)

	Amazon.ca: La Gloire de mon père: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marcel's family, along with his Uncle Jules and Aunt Rose, vacation in the South of France, and his father wins a hunting contest.
		Marcel admires his mother as well, who is a nurturing and caring soul.
		The film shows Pagnol's appreciation for his parents, and how their good qualities played such a significant role in the man he would later be.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792842650 (1107 words)

	My Father's Glory
		It is the story of 11-year old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) who spends his summer vacation with his family in the south of France and comes away with a deeper understanding of nature and a stronger bond with Joseph (Phillippe Caubere), his intelligent and funny schoolteacher father.
		Marcel's relationship with his father is warm and loving but takes on an added dimension when he sees his father shoot down two rare partridges during a hunting trip and show them off to the village.
		Marcel soon develops a friendship with Lili des Bellons (Joris Molinas), a local boy of his own age who comes to his rescue when he is lost in the woods trying to keep up with the hunters.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsMyFather.html (493 words)

	Coeur de Provence Marcel Pagnol ses souvenirs d'enfance
		La Provence de Marcel Pagnol, d’Aubagne au Garlaban, de la gloire de mon père au château de ma mère.
		Ecouter Marcel Pagnol lire le château de ma mère
		Pagnol en tant qu’écrivain, cinéaste, homme de théatre, inventeur et Marseillais d’Aubagne.
	www.coeur-de-provence.org (1234 words)

	My Mother's Castle
		Marcel goes back to the house in the country and once again finds his little friend of his own age, whose nickname is ______________.
		Marcel meets a little girl who is the same age as he is. She is lost and he helps her find her way home.
		Marcel is taken with the little girl and quite enjoys playing her games.
	www.de2.psu.edu /Programs/trips2001/paris/fr_139/quizzes/my_mothers_castle.html (1453 words)

	Marius - Marcel Pagnol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The plots of French playwright Marcel Pagnol are simply summarized.
		When Pagnol began writing, in the 1920s, boulevard comedies were all the rage.
		Pagnol’s fortune was made and the unforgettable characters of Fanny, her mother, Honorine, the rich older suitor Panisse, Marius, the young sea-obsessed lover and, especially, his gruff, lovable father Cesar, took on mythic proportions on both sides of the Atlantic.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater9/Marius.htm (517 words)

	Pagnol, Marcel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		SHORT BREAKS: 48 hours in Marseilles; Sip pastis in the Vieux-Port, watch the boats bob in the autumn sun, and imagine that you are a character in a Pagnol novel...
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