1. Charles Spaak was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s.
11 Facts About Charles Spaak
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Charles Spaak was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak, and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnes Spaak.
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Charles Spaak was born in Brussels in 1903 into a prominent Belgian family.
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Charles Spaak worked as head of publicity for the production company Albatros.
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Charles Spaak went on to write the screenplays for Feyder's most important films of the 1930s: Le Grand Jeu, Pension Mimosas, and La Kermesse heroique.
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Charles Spaak collaborated with Jean Renoir on two of his major films, Les Bas Fonds and La Grande Illusion.
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Charles Spaak established himself, alongside Jacques Prevert and Henri Jeanson, as a leading screenwriter during one of the French cinema's richest periods.
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Charles Spaak undertook some of the literary adaptations which marked the 'quality cinema' of the 1950s, including Therese Raquin and Crime et Chatiment.
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In 1949 Charles Spaak made his only venture into directing with Le Mystere Barton, but the film met with little success.
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Charles Spaak continued working selectively on scenarios until the early 1970s, and he died in 1975 in Vence in the South of France.
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Charles Spaak wrote or contributed to more than 100 film screenplays, including the following:.