Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright

Playwright

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 associated with Boulevard theatre

Boulevard theatre

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The far-right royalist

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 Camelots du Roi youth organization of the Action française

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organized an anti-Semitic riot

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 against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During the Second World War, he fled to the United States

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 and lived in New York

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 at the Waldorf Astoria

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

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. Jean-Pierre Aumont

Jean-Pierre Aumont

-Early life:Aumont was born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons in Paris, the son of Suzanne and Alexandre Salomons, owner of La Maison du Blanc . His mother's uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr. His father was from a Dutch Jewish family and his mother's family were French Jews...

 relates in his work Le Soleil et les Ombres (Robert Laffont, 1976) the luxury in which he lived, as well as his general disinterest in the war.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris

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Works

• La rafale, Whirlwind, 1905
• La griffe, La Renaissance, 1906
• Samson, 1907
• Israël, 1912
• Le secret, 1913
• Judith, 1922
• Mélo
  Mélo
  Mélo is a 1929 play by Henri Bernstein.It was first filmed in 1932 by Paul Czinner.The better-known 1986 French film based on the play was directed by Alain Resnais, and starred Fanny Ardant, André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi...
  
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• Le messager, 1937
• Victor, 1951

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077056/
• http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=6211
• http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=315875