Marcel Achard - biography

“It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.”

“The bedfellows politics made are never strange.  It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.”

“The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue.  You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.”

“Women like silent men.  They think they’re listening.”

“When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.”

Marcel Achard contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Jean de la Lune (1931)
Mistigri (1931)
La Belle marinière (1932)
Une nuit à l’hôtel (1932)
La Veuve joyeuse (1934)
L’Homme des Folies-Bergère (1936)
Mayerling (1936)
Gribouille (1937)
L’Alibi (1937)
L’Étrange Monsieur Victor (1937)
Under Secret Orders (1937)
Naples au baiser de feu (1938)
Orage (1938)
Le Corsaire (1939)
Le Déserteur (1939)
Noix de coco (1939)
The Lady in Question (1940)
Parade en 7 nuits (1941)
Alibi (1942)
L’Arlésienne (1942)
La Belle aventure (1942)
Monsieur La Souris (1942)
Domino (1943)
Untel père et fils (1943)
Félicie Nanteuil (1945)
Lunegarde (1946)
Pétrus (1946)
Jean de la Lune (1949)
La Valse de Paris (1950)
Madame de... (1953)
Mam’zelle Nitouche (1954)
Sophie et le crime (1955)
Le Pays, d’où je viens (1956)
La Garçonne (1957)
Que les hommes sont bêtes (1957)
La Femme et le pantin (1959)
Amours célèbres (1961)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Patate (1964)


Marcel Achard has appeared in the following films:
Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951)
L’Amour, Madame (1952)
Les Durs à cuire (1964)


Marcel Achard directed the following films:
L’Homme des Folies-Bergère (1936)
Les Deux timides (1943)
Jean de la Lune (1949)
La Valse de Paris (1950)