Moguy, Léonide

(Léonide Moguilewsky / July 14, 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia-April 20, 1976, Paris, France)

   Born into a Jewish Ukrainian family, he graduated from the Odessa faculty of law. He made his film debut in 1918 at Dimitri Kirsanoff Studios. From 1923 to he was the director of the Ukrainian newsreel department at the studio in Kiev. Then he worked as a scientific cinema laboratory chief in Moscow. In he settled in France, where he became a film editor (1934 Le Scandale, Marcel L'Herbier; 1935 Le Bébé de l'Escadron, René Sti; Le Comte Obligado, Léon Mathot; Divine, Max Ophuls; Baccara, also assistant director, Yves Mirande) before turning a director. During the German occupation of France, he took refuge in the USA. Other credit (as co-screenwriter-producer): 1951 Cento piccole mamme (Giulio Morelli, Italy). He died of cancer.

 Filmography

1936 ◘ Baccara (co-director with Yves Mirande; also first assistant director, editor)

        ◘ Le Mioche / USA: 40 Girls and a Baby / Forty Little Mothers (also co-adapter)

1938 ◘ Prison sans Barreaux (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Conflit / USA: Affair Lafont / Conflict (also co-screenwriter)

1939 ◘ Je t'attendrai / Le Déserteur / USA: Three Hours

1941 ◘ L'Empreinte du Dieu / USA: Two Women (shot in 1939-1940)

        ◘ Paris After Dark (USA)

        ◘ Action in Arabia (USA)

        ◘ Whistle Stop (USA)

        ◘ Bethsabée

        ◘ Domani è troppo tardi / USA: Tomorrow Is Too Late (also co-screenwriter; Italy)

        ◘ Domani è un altro giorno (also co-screenwriter; Italy)

1953 ◘ Les Enfants de l'Amour / USA: Children of Love (also co-author of original novel, co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist)

1956 ◘ Le Long des Trottoirs / Lungo i marciapiedi / USA: Diary of a Bad Girl (also screenwriter; France / Italy)

1957 ◘ Donnez-moi ma Chance (also screenwriter, producer, uncredited actor)

1961 ◘ Les Hommes veulent vivre / Gli uomini vogliono vivere (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer; with Guy Lefranc as technical adviser; France / Italy)