Marcel Carné Net Worth

Marcel Carné was a French film director, writer, and miscellaneous crew member born in Paris in 1906. He began his career as an assistant to Jacques Feyder and directed his first movie, Jenny, at the age of 25. He is best known for his poetic realism style, which he developed in collaboration with writer Jacques Prévert, decorator Alexandre Trauner, musician and composer Maurice Jaubert, and actor Jean Gabin. His most famous work is Les enfants du paradis (1945), a clear anti-Nazi parable and all-time classic of French cinema. After being confronted with a purge trial, Carné continued to make films, but none of his later works matched the success of his earlier works.
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Who is it? Director, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew
Birth Day August 18, 1906
Birth Place  Paris, France, France
Marcel Carné age 114 YEARS OLD
Died On 31 October 1996(1996-10-31) (aged 90)\nClamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birth Sign Virgo
Years active 1936–1976

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

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Biography/Timeline

1929

Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming Editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in silent film as a camera assistant with Director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carné had already directed his first short film, Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929). He assisted Feyder (and René Clair) on several films through to La kermesse héroïque (1935).

1937

Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, for whom he made Knight Without Armour (1937), but made it possible for Carné to take over his project, Jenny (1936), as its Director. The film marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and Screenwriter Jacques Prévert. This collaborative relationship lasted for more than a dozen years, during which Carné and Prévert created their best remembered films. Together, they were involved in the poetic realism film movement of fatalistic tragedies.

1945

Under the German occupation of France during World War II, Carné worked in the Vichy zone where he subverted the regime's attempts to control art; several of his team were Jewish, including Joseph Kosma and set designer Alex Andre Trauner. Under difficult conditions they made Carné's most highly regarded film Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) released after the Liberation of France. In the late 1990s, the film was voted "Best French Film of the Century" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals. Post war, he and Prévert followed this triumph with what at the time was the most expensive production ever undertaken in the history of French film. But the result, titled Les Portes de la nuit, was panned by the critics and a box office failure and was their last completed film.

1950

By the 1950s, Carné's reputation was in eclipse. The critics of Cahiers du cinéma, who became the film makers of the New Wave, dismissed him and placed his film's merits solely with Prévert. Other than his 1958 hit Les Tricheurs, Carné's postwar films met with only uneven success and many were greeted by an almost unrelenting negative criticism from the press and within members of the film industry. In 1958, Carné was the Head of the Jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1971 film Law Breakers was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Carné made his last film in 1976.

1989

In 1989 a book was published by Edward Baron Turk as part of the Harvard Film Studies that told his story under the title Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema.

1996

Marcel Carné died in 1996 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre.