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- Patron
Charles de Noailles
The vicomte who bankrolled the avant-garde's boldest year of cinema — L'Âge d'Or and The Blood of a Poet, both 1930, both paid for as a birthday present to his wife Marie-Laure.
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- 1891–1981
- 1891
- 1981
- French
- Patron
- Vicomte de Noailles
In the credits
People they knew
Jean Cocteau
- Poet
- Playwright
- Illustrator
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Patron of
The couple's film patronage extended to Cocteau: the Pompidou archive lists Le Sang d'un poète among the projects Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles financed.
Man Ray
- Photographer
- Painter
- Filmmaker
Patron of
Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles financed Les Mystères du château de Dé, shot at their modernist villa in Hyères — the Pompidou archive dates the shoot 1928 and the film 1929 — one of several film projects the couple paid for together.
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Patron of
Jean Cocteau
The couple's film patronage extended to Cocteau: the Pompidou archive lists Le Sang d'un poète among the projects Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles financed.
Patron of
Man Ray
Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles financed Les Mystères du château de Dé, shot at their modernist villa in Hyères — the Pompidou archive dates the shoot 1928 and the film 1929 — one of several film projects the couple paid for together.