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Apr 17, 2013 · The play Madame Sans-Gêne, about a real life lady whose life was considerably romanticized, had already been adapted twice on the silver screen before Gloria Swanson decided to star in Léonce Perret's version in 1924. The superstar wanted to get away from Hollywood's frivolous roles in which she felt her talent was under-used and she was ...
Madame Sans-Gêne is a historical comedy-drama by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, concerning incidents in the life of Catherine Hübscher, an outspoken 18th-century laundress who became the Duchess of Danzig. The play is described by its authors as "three acts with a prologue" ("Comédie en trois Actes, précédée d'un prologue").
Screenplay. Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated ...
Film Synopsis. I n 1792, Cathérine Hübscher is employed as a modest laundry maid in the rue Sainte-Anne in Paris. With the help of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, she saves an Austrian nobleman, Count Neipperg, from the militia. Nine years later, under the reign of Napoleon I, Lefebvre has become the Duke of Danzig and Cathérine his wife.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Synopsis: Catherine Hubscher (Sophia Loren) is a laundress whose energy and spirit have a direct impact on those fighting in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, including The Little General himself (Julien Bertheau). Kitty Cameo: Catherine, aka Madame Sans Gêne, falls for a sergeant named François-Joseph Lefebvre (Robert Hossein).
omment: In 1893, young playwright Émile Moreau approached the elder dramatist, Victorien Sardou, with a play he had written about Napoleon and Marie-Thérèse Figueur, a real-life woman known as Madame Sans-Gêne who had disguised herself as a soldier in the French army and participated in a number of Napoleon's campaigns.
Madame Sans-Gêne (1961) Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene ...
