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Looking for reviews of films directed by Marc Allégret? Cinafilm has a total of 14 reviews across 2 movies directed by Marc Allégret.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 61%.
Fanny is Marc Allégret's highest rated movie, with a score of 63% based on 6 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Marc Allégret is Blanche Fury, with a score of 60% based on 8 reviews.
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director. He was born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven. Later, Marc was to fall briefly under the spell of Cocteau, who Gide feared would "corrupt" him.
Marc's father, Elie Allégret, had originally been hired by André Gide's mother to tutor André in light of his weak grades in school, after which he and his charge became fast friends. In 1895 Elie Allégre was best man at André Gide's wedding.
After filming a 1927 trip to the Congo with André Gide, Marc Allégret chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. His relationship with Gide ended after that trip after having experiences with Congolese women. They nevertheless remained close friends until Gide's death in 1951. After working and training as an assistant director, in 1931 he directed his first feature Mam'zelle Nitouche, and the following year received much acclaim for his film, Fanny. He went on to a long career during which he wrote numerous scripts and directed more than fifty films.
Marc Allégret is noted for discovering and developing new acting talent who went on to stardom including Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raimu, Gérard Philipe, Danièle Delorme, Louis Jourdan, and Roger Vadim who would become his directing assistant.
He was married to Nadine Vogel.
He was a married man who then felt he had an obligation to proclaim his homosexuaity. He was hoever seen as a general liberator rather than a specilist defender of homosexual rights.
He died in 1973 and was interred in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
Marc Allégret has directed films starring Michael Gough, Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson and Maurice Denham.
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