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  • Filmmaker
· French · 1898–1981

René Clair

The wit of the French avant-garde — Paris qui dort froze the city from the Eiffel Tower, Entr'acte set Dada loose in a funeral procession, and the sound era got its first musicals from him.

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Details

Lived
1898–1981
Born
1898
Died
1981
Nationality
French
Roles
Filmmaker
Also known as
René-Lucien Chomette

People René Clair Knew

Relationships with other people, with sources for each connection.

Illustrated portrait of Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

  • Painter
  • Editor

Collaborated with · 1924

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — René Clair; The Museum of Modern Art — Entr'acte (collection record)

Illustrated portrait of Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

  • Singer
  • Actor
  • Dancer

Collaborated with · 1947

Clair directed Chevalier as the aging early-cinema filmmaker Émile Clément in Le Silence est d'or, one of Chevalier's strongest postwar roles.

— Maurice Chevalier; Chevalier (Maurice)

René Clair’s Places

The cataloged places connected to René Clair — through the books, and through the documented record.

Places you can enter today appear first, followed by addresses to see from outside and sites that have vanished.

The theater's pale stone-and-concrete front in daylight, gilded reliefs above the marquee and trees along the avenue

Theatre · Champs-Élysées

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

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Connections and Sources

René Clair’s connections to people, places, and works, with the sources behind each one.

Collaborated with · 1924

Francis Picabia

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — René Clair; The Museum of Modern Art — Entr'acte (collection record)

Collaborated with · 1947

Maurice Chevalier

Clair directed Chevalier as the aging early-cinema filmmaker Émile Clément in Le Silence est d'or, one of Chevalier's strongest postwar roles.

— Maurice Chevalier; Chevalier (Maurice)