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In 1920, Gance developed his next project, La Roue, while recuperating in Nice from Spanish flu, and its progress was deeply affected by the knowledge that his companion Ida Danis was dying of tuberculosis; furthermore, his leading man and friend Séverin-Mars was also seriously ill (and died soon after completion of the film). Nevertheless ...
May 13, 2024 · Died: November 10, 1981, Paris (aged 92) Notable Works: “Napoléon”. Abel Gance (born October 25, 1889, Paris, France—died November 10, 1981, Paris) was an important director in the post-World War I revival of the French cinema who is best known for extravagant historical spectacles. Working in the cinema from 1909, Gance first gained ...
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French director Abel Gance was a true pioneer in filmmaking, and the final sequence of his big-budget epic was shot in a unique filming process known as a triptych, an early precursor to today’s IMAX that required shooting with three synchronized cameras. This allowed the right and left portions of the screen to at times present different ...
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Nov 11, 1981 · Abel Gance, the cinematic pioneer whose 1927 classic ''Napoleon'' is still acclaimed by audiences around the world, died tonight at his Paris apartment, friends of the family reported. He was...
Nov 22, 2023 · Gance is still hunting for a man to play Napoleon. His friend Albert Dieudonné is dieting on green beans to regain the body of a younger man. One evening he arrives in costume at Fontainebleau, where a stunned elderly attendant mistakes him for the Emperor’s ghost.
Although he recovered and worked on the film in stages, his wife did not - she died shortly before the film's release. Grieved by death of his wife and friend, actor Severin Mars, who starred in many of his films, he fled Europe and sailed to America.
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Abel Gance lived long enough to receive the acclaim that was duly his following the release of restored versions of Napoléon in the early 1980s. Not long after he received an honorary César, he died in Paris on 10th November 1981, aged 92.
