“I did not admit it”: when Jean Gabin elegantly defended his friend and close collaborator: entertainment

Jean Gabin was known for his loyalty in friendship and it was to continue to be able to work with his friend Louis Page that he left his historic producer.

Jean Gabin often wanted to work with the same technicians. In addition, some were even his friends, both for efficiency and good understanding. Similarly, In this rare interview of 1962. Furthermore. In addition, while on the set of Mélodie in the basement, Gabin confirms to his interlocutor that he separates from one of his producers out of loyalty to his values and to one of his technical friends:

“I love her very much”

“You said that I always liked “i did not admit it”: new to work with the same people and with the same – if I dare say – collaborators, and it continues. Consequently, This change [de producteur] “i did not admit it”: is linked to a sentimental question. Consequently. I had to go to a house where we did not want to take the operator with which I have been working for years. In addition, which is also one of my friends. “

And this man. of which Gabin will give the name. is a photo director with whom he has worked a lot:

“It is Louis Page, that I like it a lot. And as we could not take it. I preferred not to go to this house and go to another where, precisely, I will have page. Because it is a boy in whom I have a huge confidence for the photo. everything, then it is “i did not admit it”: new a very good gentleman, page. So, I did not admit that we say false things … because it was very false what was more false. Not going elsewhere, that’s all. “i did not admit it”: “

Faithful in friendship. in work

Gabin met Louis Page on the set of the Quai des Brumes de Marcel Carné. in 1938 then beyond the grids of René Clément in 1949. And from unimportant people (1956). page became the photo director of most Gabin films until 1964:

Red is put. Maigret tends a trap, disorder and night, the big families, Archimedes Le Corchard, Maigret and the Saint-Fiacre affair, rue des Prairies, the baron of the lock, the old old, the president, the cellar rebiffs, a monkey in winter, the gentleman of Epsom and melody in the basement, i.e. 14 films in total.

After Mélodie in the “i did not admit it”: new basement. page will still take care of Gabin on Maigret sees red and sir, before hanging up the camera. He will still work on the police comedy La Big Caisse (1965) with Bourvil. Paul Meurisse, “i did not admit it”: then will move away from the profession. He died in 1990, 14 years after his faithful friend, Jean Gabin.

Posted on July 13. Corentin Palanchini, Allociné

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