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Feb 12, 2022 · 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 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). She was married to Abel Gance. She died on 12 April 1986 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Actress
- June 20, 1894
- Marguerite Gance
- April 12, 1986
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.
Mar 3, 2002 · Madeline is played by Marguerite Gance, wife of the French director Abel Gance ("Napoleon"). Her task is to be an object. All attention and animation is concentrated in the two men, while Madeline poses for her painting and slowly sinks toward the grave. The visitor and narrator is Charles Lamy.
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.
- Jean Epstein
- Edgar Allan Poe
Marguerite Gance as Charlotte Corday; Yvette Dieudonné as Élisa Bonaparte; Philippe Hériat as Antoine Saliceti; Max Maxudian as Barras; Annabella as Violine Fleuri; Nicolas Koline as Tristan Fleuri; Maurice Schutz as Pasquale Paoli; Andrée Standart as Thérèse Tallien; Suzy Vernon as Madame Récamier; Petit Vidal as Phélippeaux; Francine ...
Oct 22, 2023 · His name is Roderick ( Jean Debucourt ), his wife is named Madeline ( Marguerite Gance ), and the Usher family curse dictates that the men will forever be doomed to be obsessed with painting...
