{{Short description|French playwright, screenwriter and film director}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Deval | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 27 June 1895 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = 19 December 1972 | death_place = Paris, France | other_names = Jacques Boularan {{citation needed|date=January 2024}} | occupation = Screenwriter, Director | years_active = 1923–1972 (film) }}
'''Jacques Deval''' (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.{{sfn|Crisp|1993|p=175}}
==Novels== *''Marie Galante'' (1931)
==Plays== *''Une faible femme''; a comedy in three acts (1920) *''Dans sa candeur naïve''; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as ''Her Cardboard Lover'' (1927) by Valerie Wyngate and P. G. Wodehouse *''Étienne''; a play in three acts (1930) *''Mademoiselle''; a comedy in three acts (1932) *''Tovarich''; a play in four acts (1933) *''Marie Galante''; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel ''Marie Galante''. Music by Kurt Weill (1934){{refn |group = note |name = "Note_Synopsis" |Synopsis of the musical-play, courtesy of the Kurt Weill Foundation: "Marie is kidnapped and taken to Panama by a lecherous sea captain, who abandons her when she will not give in to his desires. She becomes a prostitute in order to earn money to return to France; meanwhile, she is unwittingly involved in an espionage plot. She spends most of her money to care for a dying black man whom no one else will tend to. When she does finally save enough money for a steamer fare, she is murdered by a spy who fears discovery the night before the boat sails."<ref name="KWF_Synopsis">{{cite web |title = Marie Galante (1934) |publisher = The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music |url = https://www.kwf.org/pages/ww-marie-galante.html |website = kwf.org |at = Synopsis |access-date = 28 July 2020 }}</ref> }} *''Soubrette''; a comedy in three acts (1938) *''Oh, Brother!''; a comedy in three acts (1945) *''La Femme de ta jeunesse''; a play in three acts (1947) *''Le Rayon des jouets''; a comedy in three acts (1951) *''Il y a longtemps que je t'aime''; a play in two acts (1955) *''La Prétentaine''; a comedy in two acts (1957) *''Romancero''; a play in three acts (1958)
==Filmography== * ''The Cardboard Lover'', directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play ''Dans sa candeur naïve'') <!--2 September 1928--> * ''The Passionate Plumber'', directed by Edward Sedgwick (1932, based on the play ''Dans sa candeur naïve'') <!--February 6, 1932--> * ''A Weak Woman'', directed by Max de Vaucorbeil (France, 1933, based on the play ''Une faible femme'') <!--20 March 1933--> * ''Étienne'', directed by Jean Tarride (France, 1933, based on the play ''Étienne'') <!--15 December 1933--> * ''Journal of a Crime'', directed by William Keighley (1934, remake of the 1933 film ''Une vie perdue'') <!--10 March 1934--> * ''Marie Galante'', directed by Henry King (1934, based on the novel ''Marie Galante'') <!--26 October 1934--> * ''Tovaritch'', directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1935, based on the play ''Tovaritch'') <!--3 May 1935--> * ''Tovarich'', directed by Anatole Litvak (1937, based on the play ''Tovaritch'') <!--25 December 1937--> * ''Say It in French'', directed by Andrew L. Stone (1938, based on the play ''Soubrette'') <!--25 November 1938--> * ''Her Cardboard Lover'', directed by George Cukor (1942, based on the play ''Dans sa candeur naïve'') <!--16 July 1942--> * ''Una vírgen moderna'', directed by Joaquín Pardavé (Mexico, 1946, based on the play ''Mademoiselle'') <!--28 March 1946--> * ''Miss Tatlock's Millions'', directed by Richard Haydn (1948, based on the play ''Oh, Brother!'') <!--19 November 1948--> * ''Tuesday's Guest'', directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1950, based on the play ''La Femme de ta jeunesse'') <!--21 June 1950--> * ''Women's Club'', directed by Ralph Habib (France, 1956, remake of the 1936 film ''Women's Club'') <!--7 December 1956--> * ''{{Interlanguage link|La ragazza di mille mesi|it}}'', directed by Steno (Italy, 1961, based on the play ''Le Rayon des jouets'') <!--after 25 August 1961--> * ''Geliebte Hochstaplerin'', directed by Ákos Ráthonyi (West Germany, 1961, based on the play ''La Prétentaine'') <!--16 December 1961--> * ''L'altra metà del cielo'', directed by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1977, based on the play ''Romancero'') <!--4 March 1977-->
=== Screenwriter === * ''Le Mauvais Garçon'', directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1923) <!--9 February 1923--> * ''Jenny Lind'', directed by Arthur Robison (French, 1932) <!--February 12, 1932--> * ''Une vie perdue'', directed by Raymond Rouleau (France, 1933) * ''Women's Club'', directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1936) <!--20 June 1936--> * ''Cafe Metropole'', directed by Edward H. Griffith (1937) * ''Domenica'', directed by Maurice Cloche (France, 1952) <!--9 January 1952--> * ''When You Read This Letter'', directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1953) <!--26 July 1953-->
==Notes== {{reflist|group=note}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last = Crisp |first = Colin |year = 1993 |title = The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960 |edition = 1st |type = hardcover |location = Bloomington, IN |publisher = Indiana University Press |isbn = 978-0-253-31550-2 }} {{refend}}
==External links== *{{IBDB name|6574}} *{{IMDb name|0222164}}
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