About Jean Grémillon
Jean Grémillon was a French film director. Jean Grémillon was born on October 3, 1901. He asked Grémillon to direct what would be his first full-length feature, Maldone (Misdeal), with a screenplay by the novelist and playwright Alexandre Arnoux. Grémillon's first sound films, La Petite Lise (1930) and Daïnah la métisse (1932), were not commercially successful despite their originality, and for the next few years he had to move abroad to find further work.
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