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The History of French Cinema: 1949

10/1 -

Yves Allégret starts shooting Manèges (Wanton) with Simone Signoret and Bernard Blier. [ADD]

19/1 -

The premiere is held in Paris of Yves Allégret’s Une Si jolie petite plage (Riptide), starring Gérard Philipe and Madeleine Robinson. [ADD]

25/2

The Éclair company launches the portable Camiflex 300, manufactured from Andre Coutant's patents. [ADD]

7/3 -

André Cayatte's Les Amants de Verone (The Lovers of Verona), an update of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet starring 16-year-old Anouk Aimée and Serge Reggiani, is released.   Pierre Brasseur and Martine Carol also star. [ADD]

9/3 -

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon, in which the story is updated from Prevost’s novel to contemporary France, is released. [ADD]

28/3 -

Jean Gabin marries Christine Fournier, otherwise known as Dominique.   She is the actor’s third wife. [ADD]

22/4 -

Swiss actor Howard Vernon stars as a German officer in Jean-Pierre Melville's first feature film Le Silence de la mer, an adaptation of the novel by Vercor. [ADD]

2/5 -

Jacques Tati's first feature film, Jour de fête, is finally released two years after it was filmed. The simple tale of a country postman attempting to emulate the high-speed US postal service contains echoes of the inventive visual comedy of silent film. [ADD]

27/5 -

Rita Hayworth marries Prince Ali Khan in Vallauris. [ADD]

3/9 -

Actress Micheline Presle marries American producer Bill Marshall, the former husband of Michèle Morgan, after a widely publicised affair. [ADD]

6/12 -

Jacques Becker's Rendezvous de juillet is released after Becker re-edits and reduces its length following mediocre reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in September.   The improvements are good enough for the film to win this year's Prix Louis Delluc  [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1949

The History of Cinema: 1949