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French playwright
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Male
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Birth:
5 March 1858(Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France)
Death:
1925(Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Robert Charvay, (5 March 1858 - 1925) is the pen name of Adrien Lefort, a French dramatist and journalist who worked for the daily Écho de Paris, where he signed his papers with the nickname « The Yellow Dwarf ».
His comedy Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman has been adapted four times on the screen:
- Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1914) by André Liabel
- Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1926) by Gaston Ravel
- Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1933) by André Berthomieu
- Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1951) by André Berthomieu
Dramatist
- Le Fiancé de Thylda, operetta buffa in 3 acts, written with Victor de Cottens, music by Louis Varney, 1900 ; remade under the title Le Voyage avant la noce
- L'Enfant du miracle, comedy buffa in 3 acts written with Paul Gavault, 1903
- Papa Mulot, three acts dramatic comedy, 1904
- Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman, four acts comedy written with Paul Gavault, 1906
- Monsieur Pickwick, burlesque comedy in five acts, 1911