La Chienne

by Jean Renoir, Georges de La Fouchardiere, Andre Mouezy-Eon

$375 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and two overlapping National Film Archive stamps on the verso.A key French film noir antecedent, based on the 1929 novel by Georges de La Fouchardiere, and the 1930 play by Andre Mouezy-Eon. An aspiring painter, trapped in an abusive marriage, falls in love with a prostitute, who scams him out of the money for his paintings with the help of her

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