Georges Van Parys

Georges Van Parys

1902-06-07
68 (1971-01-28)
Paris, France

Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique.

Paris, France

Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique.

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Diabolique 1955 (7.9)

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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L'Âge d'or 1930 (6.8)

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
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The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 (7.508)

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.