Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.
37 Facts About Jean Renoir
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Jean Renoir was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an auteur.
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Jean Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France.
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Jean Renoir was the uncle of Claude Renoir, the son of Pierre, a cinematographer who worked with Jean Renoir on several of his films.
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Jean Renoir was largely raised by Gabrielle Renard, his nanny and his mother's cousin, with whom he developed a strong bond.
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Jean Renoir introduced the young boy to the Guignol puppet shows in Montmartre, which influenced his later film career.
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At the outbreak of World War I, Jean Renoir was serving in the French cavalry.
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Jean Renoir was particularly inspired by Erich von Stroheim's work.
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In 1924, Jean Renoir directed Une Vie Sans Joie or Catherine, the first of his nine silent films, most of which starred his first wife, Catherine Hessling, who was his father's last model.
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Jean Renoir gradually sold paintings inherited from his father to finance them.
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Jean Renoir followed it with The Human Beast, a film noir and tragedy based on the novel by Emile Zola and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin.
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In 1939, able to co-finance his own films, Jean Renoir made The Rules of the Game, a satire on contemporary French society with an ensemble cast.
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Jean Renoir played the character Octave, who serves to connect characters from different social strata.
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Jean Renoir extensively reedited the work, but without success at the time.
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Jean Renoir was a known pacifist and supporter of the French Communist Party, which made him suspect in the tense weeks before the war began.
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Jean Renoir was sent back to Italy, to teach film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and resume work on Tosca.
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Jean Renoir abandoned the project to return to France and make himself available for military service in August 1939.
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In Hollywood, Jean Renoir had difficulty finding projects that suited him.
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Jean Renoir's first American film, Swamp Water, was a drama starring Dana Andrews and Walter Brennan.
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Jean Renoir co-produced and directed an anti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton.
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Jean Renoir was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for this work.
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In 1949 Jean Renoir traveled to India to shoot The River, his first color film.
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Jean Renoir wrote his own play, Orvet, and produced it in Paris featuring Leslie Caron.
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Jean Renoir made his next films with techniques adapted from live television.
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Jean Renoir's loving memoir of his father, Jean Renoir, My Father describes the profound influence his father had on him and his work.
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Jean Renoir published a novel, The Notebooks of Captain Georges, in 1966.
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Renoir's last film is Le Petit theatre de Jean Renoir, released in 1970.
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Unable to obtain financing for his films and suffering declining health, Jean Renoir spent his last years receiving friends at his home in Beverly Hills, and writing novels and his memoirs.
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In 1973 Jean Renoir was preparing a production of his stage play, Carola, with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer when he fell ill and was unable to direct.
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Jean Renoir wrote of the influence exercised by Gabrielle Renard, his nanny and his mother's cousin, with whom he developed a mutual lifelong bond.
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In 1975 Jean Renoir received a lifetime Academy Award for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
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Jean Renoir was married to Catherine Hessling, an actress and model.
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Jean Renoir died in Beverly Hills, California, on February 12,1979, of a heart attack.
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Jean Renoir's body was returned to France and buried beside his family in the cemetery at Essoyes, Aube, France.
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Jean Renoir has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6212 Hollywood Blvd.
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Jean Renoir is the greatest of directors, he justifies cinema.
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In Renoir, My Father and in his own autobiography, My Life and My Films, Jean clearly adopts his father's wish to float on life like a cork.