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  Max Linder by Thomas Staedeli
Max Linder, with his real name Gabriel Leuvielle, was born in Saint-Loubès in 1883.
Max Linder fell in love with a seventeen year old girl in 1923 and they got married.
Max Linder's influence on the development of the film comedy is recognized by many people, among them no less a person than Charles Chaplin (whose first movies point to a copy of the Max Linder figure).
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 Max Linder
Max Linder, one of the world's pioneering silent comedians, has finally been given a much-deserved DVD release that displays the skills that made him an early star.
With his star in rapid declination, the 41-year-old Linder and his wife made a suicide pact and were found dead in their Paris hotel room one night in 1925.
Linder's characters were also a great influence on many other silent comedians, most notably Charlie Chaplin, whose signature style obviously owes a great debt to the work of Max Linder.
www.boxofficeprophets.com /hyde/maxlinder.asp   (1366 words)

  
 Film in American Popular Culture
Max Linder was born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle on December 16th, 1883, in the small village of St. Loubes, Gironde, in Bordeaux, France.
Max was doing what he loved, but he longed for the spotlight, and a larger audience was necessary for his star to rise in the way he knew that it would.
Though Max was always impeccably dressed in the requisite tuxedo and tails, with a top hat and a cane, all clear signifiers of the aristocracy, his bumbling antics could interest anyone from a tramp to a duke.
www.americanpopularculture.com /archive/film/max_linder.htm   (1680 words)

  
 The Man in the Silk Hat and An Homage to Max Linder | Academy Events Calendar | AMPAS
Max Linder, the French silent film comedian who Charlie Chaplin called “The Professor,” began his screen career in 1905 and became the first internationally recognized film comedian, influencing the work of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd among others, until his career was cut short by his death in 1925 at the age of 42.
The Academy is pleased to offer a unique opportunity to return Max Linder to the silver screen with the additional benefit of biographical and critical commentary by his daughter.
“An Homage to Max Linder” is presented as part of The Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film series, which provides an opportunity for established filmmakers and historians to share their experiences and to discuss the specific challenges and delights of the comedy film genre.
www.oscars.org /events/past/2005/max_linder/index.html   (409 words)

  
 © Max Linder - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Today Max Linder is probably one of the least known silent comedy actors and filmmakers, but his influence upon the medium of film was profound.
Max Linder was born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Gironde, France on December 16th, 1883 to a wine growing family.
Max and Ninette Linder died on Halloween, October 31st, 1925 in Paris, France.
www.goldensilents.com /comedy/maxlinder.html   (721 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Laugh with Max Linder (1921) - Printable
French comedian Max Linder is practically forgotten today, but the diminuitive (5'2") and dapper mustachioed comic made a highly successful series of one-reelers in the years before World War I; before Chaplin shot his first Keystone comedy, Linder already had well over 150 starring pictures to his credit.
Max Takes a Picture (13m:08s) features Max at the seashore with a chunky bathing beauty; when she slips out of Max's sight while in the water, Max fears the worst and creates a ruckus trying to rescue a woman who's in no danger at all.
As the title implies, it involves the attempts of Linder to woo his sweatheart despite the interference of her Aunt Agatha, who acts as gatekeeper and is bound not to let Max through the gate.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=5250   (1051 words)

  
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Max Linder declared himself into the army early the following year, but was gassed three times and was sent home a half year later.
The fact is, that Max Linder had a little inactive period earlier, in early 1911, the public became worried.
Linder made some few more simple films in France before he went to Hollywood, where made three very funny short comedies, Max Comes Across (in UK known as Max Goes to America), Max Wants a Divorce and Max in a Taxi.
www.freewebs.com /gabriellelinder/thelatery19151924.htm   (722 words)

  
 Academy Events Pay Homage to French Silent Film Comedian
Beverly Hills, CA — Max Linder, the French silent film comedian who Charlie Chaplin referred to as “The Professor,” will be the focus of two programs at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on September 30 and October 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater.
Max Linder appeared in over 600 shorts and six features in a relatively short career, with only 80 of the shorts and three of the features known to survive today.
Linder created and refined a subtle and complicated style of character comedy while simultaneously reveling in the slapstick manner of the day.
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2005/05.09.13.html   (387 words)

  
 Film Scouts Reviews: Discovering Max Linder
DISCOVERING MAX LINDER, a giddy 90-minute compilation of some of Linder's precious film shorts, is, thus, a rare treat.
Even so Linder has managed to find seven shorts that are so hysterically funny and cleverly shot that they provide the perfect introduction to this gifted comic "auteur." In MAX AND HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW an understandably mad Max is forced to take his clinging, overweight mother-in-law on his honeymoon.
In one hilarious vignette Max tries to overcome his fear of the ocean by putting his toes in two water-filled dishes in his hotel suite.
www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=2755   (525 words)

  
 Movie Info for L'Homme Au Chapeau de Soie on MSN Movies
The early 20th-century film comedian Max Linder is the subject of this inspiring and touching documentary by his daughter Maud Linder.
Linder wrote, directed, and starred in over 500 films between 1905 and 1925, basing his comic character of a trouble-prone dandy in part on his own personality.
In one of the Linder scenes, he is an actor who tries to carry through with a tragic scene, all the while fighting to keep his wig on straight.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=7160   (149 words)

  
 Max Linder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linder made more than one hundred short films portraying "Max," a wealthy and dapper man-about-town frequently in hot water because of his penchant for beautiful women and the good life.
In the ensuing years, Linder was relegated to little more than a footnote in film history until 1963 when a Max Linder compilation film titled Laugh with Max Linder was released and in 1983 his daughter made a documentary film titled The Man in the Silk Hat.
In his honor, Lycée Max Linder, a public school in the city of Libourne in the Gironde département near his birthplace was given his name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Linder   (780 words)

  
 Max Linder Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Linder starred in and directed some 360 one-reel comedies over the next eight years, with such self-explanatory titles as "Max Takes a Bath", "Max's Duel", "Max on Skis" and "Max and His Dog".
The Linder comedies, unlike the frenetic slapstick of Sennett and Chaplin, were clever, well-plotted and often moving little playlets, with a French daring and often incorporating experimental camera techniques.
Linder enlisted early, and was seriously wounded three times.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/193704   (402 words)

  
 Max Linder
Adding to it, of course, Max and his mother in law making the honeymoon a hysterical venture.
This was one of the few times Max has been outshone by the person (man?) who plays the in law, with the skiing stunts and prat falls.
The techniques of characterizations and communicating thru broad gestures are funny and effective and Max has a very pronounced character: brash, outgoing, upper class but still bourgoise so that anyone and everyone can identify.
grapevinevideo.com /Max_Linder.htm   (381 words)

  
 Silent Era : People : Actors : Max Linder
Max Linder began his film career in 1905 after years as a stage actor.
Linder starred in and directed more than 100 films, before coming to the United States to make films.
In 1925, in declining health and rising depression, Linder committed suicide in a death pact with his recent wife of two years.
www.silentera.com /people/actors/Linder-Max.html   (137 words)

  
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Max Linder is, very unfortunately, one of the least known of the great silent film comedians today, but his influence in the medium is enormous.
Richard Onner, director of The Omen, Superman and the three Lethal Weapon--films once said that Linder is one of the funniest men he has ever seen, and Robert Bengini, best remembered from Oscar-winner Life Is Wonderful, has also shown admiration of his work.
Linder was discovered by Pathé - if not oposite, that Linder discovered Pathé - in the spring of 1905, and made his debut on the silver screen in July the same year.
www.freewebs.com /gabriellelinder/biography.htm   (289 words)

  
 Sutton,Dr. Max Linder MD,Sutton providing LASIK for Lincoln,Nebraska and vision correction, eyecare and eye care
Max Linder, a Lincoln native, was raised in Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Linder has clinics and performs surgery in Lincoln, Syracuse, Tecumseh, Nebraska City and Crete.
Linder is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, American Medical Association, Nebraska Medical Association, Lancaster County Medical Society and Nebraska Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons.
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 A unique journalism?
Max Linder, pseudonym of Gabriel Leuvielle, made this film in 1910, at the age of 27, when his fame had already brought him to sign a contract with Pathé Frères of a million french francs a year for the realization of one reel of slapstick per week.
The film, two reels long, is part of a group of works that Max Linder realized on the Alps, more exactly at Chamonix: Max fait du Ski, Max asthmatique, Max et sa belle-mère, Max émule de Tartarin.
The copy recently acquired by the National Museum of the Mountain of Turin, that will be shown for the first time as one of the major events of the Breuil-Cervinia Festival, is a complete document, in its original version and in an excellent state of preservation.
www.promocinema.org /cervinofilmfestival/2002/emax.htm   (201 words)

  
 The Biscuit Report
I danced, the other day, with Ari, to a new CD of folk music that Max bought for him.
My blood pressure is still all over the place, and low, much of the time.
Max went to Super 88, a Chinese supermarket nearby, and bought me some MSG.
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 Max Linder (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder...
Max et Jane veulent faire du théâtre (1912) (co-director)
Max et Jane en voyage de noces (1911) (scenario)
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 Silent Era : DVD : Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921) Review
Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921), color-toned fl and white, 117 minutes total, not rated.
Video producer David Shepard has released this DVD collection of Max Linder comedies including a complete presentation of Seven Years’ Bad Luck (1921), the French shorts Troubles of a Grasswidower (1908), Love’s Surprises, Max Takes a Picture and Max Sets the Style, and exerpts from Be My Wife (1921).
The disc features small-orchestra musical accompaniment compiled and conducted by Robert Israel, and performed on period instruments in surround sound.
www.silentera.com /DVD/laughwithMaxLinderDVD.html   (234 words)

  
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 Linder, Max movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
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