Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon was a French film director, script-writer, playwright and author.
After studying law, he was made chief editor of the daily newspaper Sud-Est. He founded the journal Valence-Républicain.
His play "All in the Family", adapted by Victor Wolfson, was given its first performance at the Strand Theatre, London on 17 June 1959. It was directed by Norman Marshall and designed by Paul Mayo. The cast consisted of Maxine Audley, Donald Sinden, Andre Morell, Brian Oulton, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Michael Logan, Vanda Godsell, Pauline Knight, Virginia Maskell, Mary Powell, Douglas Malcom and Philip Ashley.Plays
- 1939 : L'Amant de paille
- 1945 : Au petit bonheur
- 1951 : Tapage nocturne
- 1953 : Treize à table
- 1953 : Adorable Julia, based on Guy Bolton's play Theatre, based on the novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
- 1979 : Je veux voir Mioussov by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Valentin Kataev, produced by Jacques Fabbri, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal and the Théâtre des Variétés in 1980
Selected filmography
- Happy Go Lucky, directed by Marcel L'Herbier
- The Straw Lover, directed by Gilles Grangier
- Tapage nocturne, directed by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
- Thirteen at the Table, directed by André Hunebelle
- Adorable Julia, directed by Alfred Weidenmann
Screenwriter
- Goodbye Darling, directed by Raymond Bernard
- The Sea Rose, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli
- Once is Enough, directed by Andrée Feix
- Impeccable Henri, directed by Charles-Félix Tavano
- Imperial Violets, directed by Richard Pottier
- Michel Strogoff, directed by Carmine Gallone
- Shéhérazade, directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit
- Your Turn, Darling, directed by Bernard Borderie
- Duck in Orange Sauce, directed by Luciano Salce
Director
- Bal Cupidon
- Le Roi
- My Friend Sainfoin
- Ma pomme
- Tapage nocturne
