Serre Editeur
header-english
  nrdv Rechercher sur Nice-RendezVous
(Un seul mot • Utilisez la Recherche avancée pour retrouver une phrase ou plusieurs mots-clés.    
Rex Ingram (1892-1951) on the French Riviera Imprimer Envoyer
Celebrities on the French Riviera
Rex Ingram, of his true name Reginald Fitchcock, son of a minister, left Ireland for the United States in 1911 and, engaged by the MGM company, he became one of the most famous film directors of silent movies. He will later inspire Scott Fitzgerald for the hero of Tender is the night. With his first big success, the Four riders of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ), he launched as actors his wife Alice Terry ( 1901-1987 ) and Rudolf Valentino. His personality made of perfectionism, taste for technical innovations, realism, can be seen in his films, Eugénie Grandet, Zenda's prisoner, Scaramouche which revealed a new star, Ramon Novarro. In 1924, Ingram, suspicious towards the leaders of the Metro, whom he considered too keen on financial concerns to the detriment of art, came to Nice to film Mare nostrum . On this occasion , he took the control of the studios de la Victorine which he enlarged and modernized. Refusing to return to Hollywood, in spite of the reminders of his producers who blamed him for the excessive cost of his productions, he stayed in Nice where he filmed the Magician ( 1926 ), Allah's garden ( 1927 ), the Three passions ( 1928 ). At odds with the MGM which did not see out his contract, perturbed by the advent of the speaking movie which knocked down his conceptions centred on the visual effect, too much absorbed by his work to dedicate himself to the management of La Victorine, he met difficulties and abandoned the managemen of the studios. His last film, Fighting ( 1931 ) the leading part of which he interpreted was a failure. Converted to Islam, Ingram stayed a time in Egypt, then he went back to the United States where he did not film any more.

Prédal René : Rex Ingram, Anthologie du cinéma, Paris, 1971.

Ralph SCHOR

 

Search for hotels

In Nice, in France and everywhere in the world

 

Destination

 

Check-in date

 

Check-out date


Weather of Nice

nrdvAbonnez-vous à

La Lettre de
Nice RendezVous

Actualités, éphémérides,
recettes de cuisine,
photos, événements...

Pour vous inscrire :

QR Code de cette page

Suivez NRV sur

Café - Débat avec Jean Mus - Musée International de la Parfumerie #Grasse ce soir à 19h Architecte paysagiste Pape du jardin méditerranéen



Merci @Mar1e de #Cannes pour ce joyeux moment de grâce avec #Fremaux et #Lisnard #Cannes2012 @uCannesTweet #FIF



Parenthèse enchantée @uCannesTweet Festival de #Cannes Thierry #Fremaux & David #Lisnard face aux twittos http://t.co/MQzyjNWV #Cannes2012



http://t.co/MQzyjNWV - Fremaux et Lisnard face aux twittos à #Cannes



Comme ns l'avons déjà signale #Peillon a publié une dizaine de rapports "cachés" de l'ère Luc #Chatel http://t.co/UiQnnARP > @leLab_E1



RT @davidbartoli: Je me sens comme une porcelaine dans une réserve d'éléphants http://t.co/FApPv861 #Cannes2012 #FIF



 

tuto-iphone

| Accueil | Histoire de Nice | Culture & Traditions de Nice | Plan de Nice | Visite de la Ville de Nice | Agenda | Services |
| Actualités | Associations | Encyclopédie | Cuisine Niçoise | Réservation Hôtels Nice | Villes et Villages | Annuaire | Plan du Site


Sites partenaires :


Serre Editeur (Editeur niçois indépendant - Histoire de Nice - Bibliographie de Nice)
Email Gourmand (la première lettre numérique d’informations gastronomiques de la Côte d’Azur)
Nice-Panorama (Visite virtuelle de la Côte d'Azur avec des panoramas)
Fédération des Associations (Fédération des Associations du Comté de Nice)
Nice-Cooking (le site des cuisines niçoise et méditerranéenne)
Photos de Nice (photographies anciennes et actuelles de Nice et de son comté)
Lou Sourgentin (le site de la revue culturelle niçoise)


Mentions Légales