Maurice Desvallières

Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières
Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières
Born	3 October 1857; Paris
Died	23 March 1926 (aged 68); Paris
Occupation	Playwright

Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th-20th-century French playwright.^[1]

Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academiciens Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé).

He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.

Works

1879: Le premier bal
1879: Amis d'enfance
1881: On demande un ministre !
1884: Prête-moi ta femme !
1888: Les Fiancés de Loches
1889: L'Affaire Édouard
1890: C'est une femme du monde !
1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville
1894: Le Ruban
1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange
1901: Le truc de Séraphin
1906: Le Fils à papa (adapted into Die keusche Susanne, 1910, and The Girl in the Taxi, 1912)
1920: Seine-Port et ses vieilles maisons
1959: Champignol malgré lui

Le Fils à papa, directed by Georges Monca and Charles Prince (France, 1913, short film, based on Le Fils à papa)
Champignol malgré lui (France, 1913, based on Champignol malgré lui)
L'Hôtel du libre échange, directed by Marcel Simon (France, 1916, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
The Girl in the Taxi, directed by Lloyd Ingraham (1921, based on Le Fils à papa)
Chaste Susanne, directed by Richard Eichberg (Germany, 1926, based on Le Fils à papa)
Champignol malgré lui, directed by Fred Ellis (France, 1933, based on Champignol malgré lui)
L'Hôtel du libre échange, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1934, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
Prête-moi ta femme, directed by Maurice Cammage (France, 1936, based on Prête-moi ta femme)
La Chaste Suzanne, directed by André Berthomieu (France, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa)
- The Girl in the Taxi, directed by André Berthomieu (UK, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa)
La Casta Susana, directed by Benito Perojo (Argentina, 1944, based on Le Fils à papa)
La Casta Susana, directed by Luis César Amadori (Spain, 1963, based on Le Fils à papa)
Äktenskapsbrottaren, directed by Hasse Ekman (Sweden, 1964, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)
Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville (UK, 1966, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)

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Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières
Born	3 October 1857 Paris
Died	23 March 1926(1926-03-23) (aged 68) Paris
Occupation	Playwright