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This week I'm sharing "The Life of Émile Zola" from 1937, starring Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, and Gale Sondergaard, directed by William Dieterle. The War...
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- Nate Washburn
181M subscribers. Subscribed. 117. Nominated for five Oscars and winner for Best Picture, this biographical drama stars Paul Muni ("I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang," "The Life of Louis...
The life of Emile Zola (1/2) 10th Academy Award for Best Picture (1937).Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry (2000).
The Life of Emile Zola: Directed by William Dieterle. With Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden. The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
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- Biography, Drama
- William Dieterle
Paris ca. 1870's, Third Republic, Nana (Erin O'Brien Moore) is among streetwalkers chased into a cafe where she meets Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff) and Zola (Paul Muni), whose breakthrough novel she will inspire, in The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.
A famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
After struggling to establish himself, author Émile Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy.
