Claude Autant-Lara DEVIL IN THE FLESH LE DIABLE AU CORPS Collection of #152000

Description

Devil in the Flesh [Le diable au corps] (Collection of five original photographs from the set of the 1947 French film noir)
Author:
Claude Autant-Lara (director); Raymond Radiguet (novel); Raymond Voinquel (still photographer); Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost (screenwriter); Micheline Presle, Gerard Philipe, Denise Grey, Jean Debucourt (starring)
Title:
Devil in the Flesh [Le diable au corps] (Collection of five original photographs from the set of the 1947 French film noir)
Publication:
Paris: Transcontinental Films, Circa 1947
Description:
Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs, shot on location during the making of the 1947 French film noir. Included are: Michelene Presle revealing a French "Devil in the Flesh" street sign, a charming photograph of Gerard Philipe and Presle, Presle and Philipe posing with the cast, and two of the cast and crew celebrating with champagne. All with French annotations in holograph ink, a blue French legal stamp, a red stamp requesting the return to the French Embassy in Brussels (in French), and each with it's own corresponding stamped number ("3442," "3443," "3444," "3445," and "3447"), all on verso. Four with an additional red stamp also requesting return to French Embassy in Brussels (also in French), also on verso. Photographs presumably were released for the film's premiere at the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts in Brussels on June 15, 1947.
Based on the 1923 novel "Le Diable au corps" by Raymond Radiguet. Marthe, her husband Jacques on the front lines of World War I, begins a tempestuous affair with the sensitive 17-year old student Francois.
Shot on location in Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Bords de la Marne, and Val-de-Marne, France.
Four: 7.25 x 9.5 inches, One: 7.25 x 7.5 inches. Some very light creasing and edgewear, else Near Fine.
Selby France. Spicer France.
Seller ID:
152000
Subject:
Film Still Photographs, Films with Literary Sources, French Cinema, On the Set, Photographs, Romance, World War I
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