Jean Nohain

Writing

Jean Nohain

Born 1900-02-16 · Paris, France

Jean Nohain (1900–1981) was a French playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter, and a radio and television producer and presenter. He was the son of the librettist Franc-Nohain and the brother of the actor Claude Dauphin. Source: Article "Jean Nohain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

La Danseuse nue poster
10.0

Colette gives up her studies to become a cabaret dancer. She breaks with her fiance who does not approve of her choice.

La Danseuse nue

1952

Boom on Paris poster
5.7

In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...

Boom on Paris

1954

The Chocolate Girl poster
8.0

Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.

The Chocolate Girl

1950

Welcome poster
4.5

The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.

Welcome

1953

Fantaisie d'un jour poster
8.0

Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typist chose a fur cape, much to her parents' disappointment. She has a fiancé, François, whom she now scorns a little. She returns to him, however, after an unfortunate foray into the big wide world, and gets rid of the cumbersome cape forever.

Fantaisie d'un jour

1955

Portrait of a Woman poster
9.0

A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her in-laws. Some time later, a body is found in a nearby lake.

Portrait of a Woman

1944

It Happened on the 36 Candles poster
5.5

Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.

It Happened on the 36 Candles

1957

Radio Surprises poster
6.5

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.

Radio Surprises

1940

Over the waves poster
9.0

Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.

Over the waves

1951

Trois vieilles filles en folie poster
4.0

A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.

Trois vieilles filles en folie

1952

King Ottokar's Sceptre poster
NR

An absent-minded sigillographer gets Tintin involved in a dangerous political intrigue in the Balkan nation of Syldavia.

King Ottokar's Sceptre

1957

King Ottokar's Sceptre poster
NR

An absent-minded sigillographer gets Tintin involved in a dangerous political intrigue in the Balkan nation of Syldavia.

King Ottokar's Sceptre

1957

The Broken Ear poster
NR

An Arumbaya fetish, a tribe living along the Badurayal river in Amazonia, has been stolen from the museum. Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set out to find this statue that has apparently no commercial value...

The Broken Ear

1959

The Broken Ear poster
NR

An Arumbaya fetish, a tribe living along the Badurayal river in Amazonia, has been stolen from the museum. Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set out to find this statue that has apparently no commercial value...

The Broken Ear

1959

Behind the camera