Jacques BECKER (1906-1960) filmmaker. Autograph manuscript, - Lot 32

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Jacques BECKER (1906-1960) filmmaker. Autograph manuscript, - Lot 32
Jacques BECKER (1906-1960) filmmaker. Autograph manuscript, [ca. 1946]; 12 1/2 pages in-8 (additions and corrections in pencil by P. Lhoste). His biography, written in the third person. Born in Paris on September 15, 1906, he was raised by his Irish maternal grandmother and learned English before French. His mother founded a fashion house (which inspired his film Falbalas), and, after scientific studies, as a young married man with a family, he felt attracted to directing: "knowing since childhood the filmmaker Jean Renoir, his elder by exactly 10 years (Jean Renoir was born on Sept. 15, 1896), he asked him to take him on as an assistant. This is how he participated in La Grande Illusion and La Bête humaine. During the war, Renoir left for Hollywood and Becker was taken prisoner. Released as a family man, he made three films between 1942 and 1944: "The first was Dernier Atout, an adventure film that was a great success and suddenly made his name famous. The second, Goupi-Mains Rouges, based on a peasant novel by Pierre Véry, and shot with Fernand Ledoux in the lead role, was a considerable success and received the "Grand Prix du Cinéma" [...] considered by French public opinion and the press to be the first authentic testimony of the cinema to peasant life in France. Then came Falbalas, about the Parisian haute couture world, which "was released in the spring of 1945 with considerable success. [...] At the time of the Liberation, his film Goupi was chosen to be sent to America" where Renoir was able to see it. "Jacques Becker has the reputation of stubbornly attaching himself to the exact depiction of the "milieu" in which he sets his films. He constantly seeks to be "close to life"...He adds that he is very fond of American cinema and that he has a friendship with King Vidor "whom he has known since 1928 and whose assistant he almost became at that time". He is a jazz fan (he has a collection of 4,000 records) and has been playing jazz piano himself for 20 years. His main hobby is trout fishing: "he is a purist, a "DRY-FLY-ONLY-MAN" (dry fly fisherman)" and he recently fished in Normandy with the American general Franck Ross...
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