André Birabeau

André Birabeau
Born	(1890-12-06)6 December 1890 Paris, France
Died	1 October 1974(1974-10-01) (aged 83) Monaco
Occupation(s)	Novelist, playwright and screenwriter

André Birabeau (6 December 1890 – 1 October 1974) was a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Novels and short stories

• La débauche (1924), English trans. Revelation (1930). Cited as the first novel about a homosexual man from the mother's point of view
• Voyage d'agrément, became 1935 movie
• Chfr. 35 (short story, 1928), became 1942 French movie À vos ordres, Madame
• Le jardin aux vingt-cinq allées (1928)
• Désirable (1949)
• La belle égarée (1965)
• Rendez-vous avec l'amour (1972)
• L'amour naît où il veut (1974)

Plays

• Le coeur sur la main (1919)
• La peau (with Nicolas Nancey, 1919)
• Le bébé barbu (1920)
• La Femme fatale (1920), became 1946 movie
• Une sacrée petite blonde (with Pierre Woolf, 1921)
• Est-ce possible? (1923)
• Un jour de folie (1923)
• On a trouvé une femme nue (with Jean Guitton, 1923), became 1934 movie
• La fleur d'oranger (with Georges Dolley, 1924), became 1944 movie Fiori d'arancio
• Un petit nez retroussé (with Nicolas Nancey, 1924)
• Le chemin des écoliers (1924)
• Mon vieux (with Henri Bataille, 1924)
• Le petit péché (1924)
• Chifforton (1925)
• Un déjeuner de soleil (1925), became 1927 musical Lovely Lady, 1927 movie Breakfast at Sunrise, 1937 French movie A Picnic on the Grass, 1939 Italian movie At Your Orders, Madame
• L'eunuque (with Henri Duvernois, 1927)
• La fille et le garçon (with Georges Dolley, 1927)
• Le chemin des écoliers (1927)
• Un déjeuner d'amoureux (1927)
• Votre sourire (1928), became 1934 movie
• Côte d'Azur (with Georges Dolley, 1931), became 1932 movie
• Baisers perdus (1932), translated by Phyllis Roberts as Lost Kisses, became 1945 movie Lost Kisses
• Ma sœur de luxe (1933)
• Tempête sur les côtes (1933)
• Dame Nature (1935), English adaptation by Patricia Collinge 1939, became 1953 movie L'età dell'amore
• Fiston (1936), became 1937 movie My Son the Minister
• La Chaleur du sein (1937) aka Mother Love, became 1938 movie
• Pamplemousse (1937), became Theresa Helburn's Little Dark Horse (1941)
• Le nid (1938)
• Plaire (1941)
• Le séducteur (1945)
• El ojo de Moscú (written in Spanish) (1952)
• Souviens-toi mon amour (1954)
• El dúo de Manón (written in Spanish) (1926)
• Calor de nido (1955 Spanish trans. of Le nid)
• Trois pas sur le boulevard (1971) three one-act plays: L'amour avec un A majuscule, Papoupa and Le paladin.

Memoirs

• Tous feux éteints (1971)

Filmography

• Breakfast at Sunrise, directed by Malcolm St. Clair (1927, based on the play Un déjeuner de soleil)
• The Girl and the Boy, directed by Wilhelm Thiele and Roger Le Bon (French, 1931, based on the play La fille et le garçon)
  • Two Hearts Beat as One, directed by Wilhelm Thiele (German, 1932, based on the play La fille et le garçon)
• Côte d'Azur, directed by Roger Capellani (France, 1932, based on the play Côte d'Azur)
• Orange Blossom, directed by Henry Roussel (France, 1932, based on the play La fleur d'oranger)
• Buridan's Donkey, directed by Alexandre Ryder (France, 1932, adaptation of a play by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers)
• On a trouvé une femme nue, directed by Léo Joannon (France, 1934, based on the play On a trouvé une femme nue)
• Votre sourire, directed by Monty Banks and Pierre Caron (France, 1934, based on the play Votre sourire)
• Voyage d'agrément, directed by Christian-Jaque (France, 1935, based on the novel Voyage d'agrément)
• My Son the Minister, directed by Veit Harlan (Germany, 1937, based on the play Fiston)
• Un déjeuner de soleil, directed by Marcel Cravenne (France, 1937, based on the play Un déjeuner de soleil)
• Mother Love (1938 film), directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1938, based on the play La Chaleur du sein)
• At Your Orders, Madame, directed by Mario Mattoli (Italy, 1939, based on the play Un déjeuner de soleil)
• À vos ordres, Madame, directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1942, based on the short story Chfr. 35)
• Punto negro, directed by Luis Mottura (Argentina, 1943, based on the play Pamplemousse)
• Fiori d'arancio, directed by Hobbes Dino Cecchini (Italy, 1944, based on the play La fleur d'oranger)
• Lost Kisses, directed by Mario Soffici (Argentina, 1945, based on the play Baisers perdus)
• La Femme fatale, directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1946, based on the play La Femme fatale)
• Too Young for Love, directed by Lionello De Felice (Italy, 1953, based on the play Dame Nature)

External links

• Works by or about André Birabeau at Internet Archive
• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083215
• http://www.4-wall.com/authors/authors_b/birabeau_andre.htm