French film star Jean Gabin played the Everyman every woman wanted. From the early 1930s until his death in 1976, the bulky, sexy and brooding Gabin was one of France’s greatest movie heroes. Beloved ...

Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), known as Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in ...

Jean Gabin took his first steps in cinema in the 1930s and quickly rose to fame thanks to his striking naturalness. Having become a star, he made his mark in the most famous French films, first by ...

The most notable French actor of his day, Jean Gabin (1904-1976), is well known for his many film roles, and the multitude of actresses that he romanced, most famously Marlene Dietrich, but his ...

Now that the holiday season is over, it’s time to think of buying something for yourself, and two recent film books will be hard for cinephiles to resist. “Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France” by ...

From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during which the characters stand at a threshold knowing that a tragedy will ...

As far as the Belgian actress Cécile de France is concerned, her career is going very well, as shows the fact that she was chosen as the host for this year’s Cannes Film Festival as well as her roles ...