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Feb 12, 2022 · Citizenship. France. Occupation. Film actress. Spouse (s) Abel Gance in 1922. Marguerite Gance (born Marguerite Danis; 20 June 1894 – 12 April 1986) was a French film actress of the silent film era. She was the wife of French film director Abel Gance whom she married in 1922.
Marguerite Gance. Actress: The Fall of the House of Usher. Marguerite Gance was born on 20 June 1894 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Napoleon (1927).
- Actress
- June 20, 1894
- Marguerite Gance
- April 12, 1986
Made from an amalgam of Edgar Allan Poe stories, including “The Oval Portrait” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Epstein’s film suspends time in the atmospheric tale of a painter whose actual wife fades as his portrait of her nears completion. It stars Marguerite Gance, wife of Abel Gance, whose La Roue Epstein revered.
Mar 3, 2002 · Roderick is played by Jean Debucourt, more convincing than many silent stars, who goes less for the demented madman effect and more for the aura of a man consumed by his fears. Madeline is played by Marguerite Gance, wife of the French director Abel Gance ("Napoleon"). Her task is to be an object.
Marguerite Gance as Madeline Usher; Abel Gance; Charles Lamy as the guest invited to the mansion; Fournez-Goffard; Luc Dartagnan; Production. The Fall of the House of Usher was written by Luis Buñuel and Jean Epstein. The film was Buñuel's second film credit, he having previously worked as an assistant director on Epstein's film Mauprat.
Box office. $2.5 million (1981 reissue) [1] Napoléon is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon 's early years. It is also the only film to use Polyvision (for the finale). On screen, the title is Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, meaning "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance".
Sep 13, 2006 · The world inside the house is no less frightening, a phantasmagoria of transmigrating vibes where Usher’s wife Madeleine (Marguerite Gance)—one in a long line of obscure objects of desire—travels in slow-motion torpor, caught by the camera at odd or oblique angles, like the shot of the woman glimpsed through the strings of a harp.
