André Birabeau

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French novelist, playwright and screenwriter (1890–1974)

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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)
**, 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)
**, 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 (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) "At Your Orders, Madame" is not the same story as "À vos ordres, Madame"! --
À vos ordres, Madame, directed by Jean Boyer (France, 1942, based on the short story Chfr. 35)
Punto negro, directed by (Argentina, 1943, based on the play Pamplemousse)
Fiori d'arancio, directed by (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)

References

Slide, Anthony ''[[Lost Gay Novels]]'' Routledge 2003 {{ISBN. 978-1-56023-414-2 p23

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