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The History of French Cinema: 1957

18/1 -

Maria Schell signs to play the lead role in Alexandre Astruc’s adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Une Vie. [ADD]

19/2 -

Brigitte Bardot is threatened with a lawsuit for damages up to $50 million by Lutetia production company for consistently failing to show on the set of La Chatte (The Cat). [ADD]

22/4 -

The People’s Republic of China withdraws from the Cannes film festival upon hearing that Taiwan is also participating. [ADD]

12/5 -

Director, writer and actor Erich von Stroheim dies in his sleep at the Château de Maurepas in Seine-et-Oise at the age of 71. [ADD]

18/5 -

Claude Lelouch presents Vers une nouvelle technique (Towards a New Technique), three short 16mm experimental films, at the Maison des Lettres in Paris. [ADD]

7/6 -

The first escalators to be installed in a cinema are fitted at the Rex cinema in Paris and set in motion by Gary Cooper and Mylene Demongeot. [ADD]

8/7 -

While appearing in a French stage production of Tea and Sympathy in Paris, Ingrid Bergman is reunited with her daughter Pia Lindstrom, from whom she has been estranged since leaving Pia’s father Dr. Peter Lindstrom for Italian director Roberto Rossellini. [ADD]

24/7 -

Director Sacha Guitry dies in his sleep in Paris at the age of 72. [ADD]

4/12 -

Cahiers du Cinéma critic Claude Chabrol begins shooting Le Bleu Serge (Bitter Reunion), his first feature-length film.   Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy and Bernadette Lafont star. [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1957

The History of Cinema: 1957