- Mirande, Yves
- (Charles Anatole Le Guerrec / March 8, 1876, Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine, France - March 17, 1957, Paris, France)A former journalist and subprefect, he started his artistic life writing musicals and operettas and soon became of the most famous boulevard playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s (Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's; La Merveilleuse Journée; La Grande Vie). From 1909 (Le Petit qui a Faim, Georges Denola) to 1954 (Le due orfanelle / Les Deux Orphelines, Giacomo Gentilomo, Italy / France), he collaborated as a screenwriter and often dialogist on more than eighty movies. Autobiography: 1952 Souvenirs (Arthème-Fayard).Filmography1932 ◘ La Merveilleuse Journée (co-director with Robert Wyler; also author of original play, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)1936 ◘ Baccara (also screenwriter, dialogist)◘ Le Grand Refrain (also screenwriter, dialogist; supervised by Robert Siodmak)◘ Sept Hommes . . . une Femme (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)◘ Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)◘ A nous Deux, Madame la Vie (co-director with René Guissart; also screenwriter, dialogist)◘ Café de Paris (co-director with Georges La-combe; also screenwriter, dialogist)◘ Derrière la Façade / 32 Rue de Montmartre (co-director with Georges Lacombe; also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)◘ Paris-New York (co-director with Claude Hey-mann; also screenwriter, dialogist)◘ Moulin Rouge (co-director with André Hugon; also co-screenwriter, dialogist)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.