Writing

Yves Mirande

Born 1876-05-08 · Bagneux, Maine-et-Loire, France

Yves Mirande (Bagneux (8 May 1876 – 17 March 1957) was a French screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. Yves Mirande began his acting career in the theater, transitioning to movies in the silent era.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

What a Funny Kid! poster
7.0

Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.

What a Funny Kid!

1935

They Were Twelve Women poster
5.9

Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.

They Were Twelve Women

1940

Café de Paris poster
7.9

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?

Café de Paris

1938

No artwork available
7.0

A beautiful widow gambles away her fortune at baccarat and is forced her to sell her jewels and ask Victor for hospitality. Victor tries to seduce her but she loves the shy Gaston.

Luck

1931

Baccara poster
7.5

A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.

Baccara

1935

Baccara poster
7.5

A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.

Baccara

1935

Ménilmontant poster
7.0

Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.

Ménilmontant

1936

Une merveilleuse journée poster
5.7

The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.

Une merveilleuse journée

1980

Seven Men, One Woman poster
6.8

At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.

Seven Men, One Woman

1936

Seven Men, One Woman poster
6.8

At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.

Seven Men, One Woman

1936

No artwork available
7.0

On the eve of getting married by order of his mother to a wealthy American heiress, Leon learns that his former friend just had a child. She cannot keep him, however, being in poverty.

A Father Without Knowing It

1932

The Ladies in the Green Hats poster
5.5

Arlette and her brother are penniless orphans; as the man is to leave for Africa to work for a long time, the young girl is forced to live with her cousins, four spinsters, who place virtue over everything.

The Ladies in the Green Hats

1949

Life Dances On poster
7.0

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.

Life Dances On

1937

À nous deux, madame la vie poster
9.5

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.

À nous deux, madame la vie

1937

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's poster
5.2

Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and even acquire a country mansion. Retirement beckons and he is going to be able to enjoy the quiet life at last. The wedding of his daughter, Genevieve with Andre du Velin, a well born playboy is going to endanger this dream, for Genevieve is ignorant of her father's job. However, her fiance doesn't see any problem with this.

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

1953

My Heart Hesitates poster
10.0

Geneviève, ruined and destitute, visits a former servant working for a count who is absent for the moment. He offers Geneviève the bed of the count, who returns unexpectedly. After some adventures, the count passes Geneviève off as his sister, then marries this young girl he so curiously met.

My Heart Hesitates

1932

Little Nothings poster
7.7

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.

Little Nothings

1941

Moulin Rouge poster
6.5

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

Moulin Rouge

1940

Moulin Rouge poster
6.5

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

Moulin Rouge

1940

Le Billet de mille poster
9.0

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

Le Billet de mille

1935

La Famille Cucuroux poster
8.0

An aristocrat short of the readies, Gontran, is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth; but he has to get rid of his lover.

La Famille Cucuroux

1953

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The single father

1931

Behind the Facade poster
7.7

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.

Behind the Facade

1939

Behind the Facade poster
7.7

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.

Behind the Facade

1939