Almost everything that has been said…

INTERVIEWS WITH MARCEL PAGNOL

• “Un trésor qu’on gaspille “, remarks collected by Suzanne Chantal. Cinémonde, December 4, 1930.
• “Talking movies, the theater of tomorrow”, remarks collected by André Latellerie. Interview, October 18, 1932.
• “En laissant parler Marcel Pagnol”, by Claude Vermorel. Pour Vous, February 2, 1933.
• “I have not changed my profession…”, interview with Michel Gorel. Cinémonde, August 17, 1933.
• “Marcel Pagnol will no longer write for the theater”, interview with André Arnyvelde. Pour Vous, August 24th, 1933.
• “Marcel Pagnol exposes his revolutionary program to Roger Régent”. Candide, October 12, 1933.
• “I only do theater”, interview with Yvan Novy. Le Jour, May 17, 1935.
• Interview with Charles A. Rickard. Le XXe Siècle (Brussels), December 13, 1935.
• “Marcel Pagnol shoots “LA FEMME DU BOULANGER”, a report by Jean Renoir. Regards, June 4, 1938.
• “There is nothing more stupid than technique”, remarks collected by Maurice Bessy. Cinémonde, October 6, 1938.
• “Le congrès international du cinéma latin”, reportage by P.A. Buisine. Cinéma Spectacles (Marseille), 17 May 1947.
• “Meeting with Marcel Pagnol”, by Gabriel d’Aubarède. Nouvelles Littéraires, September 4, 1952.
• “Un débutant nommé Pagnol” (A beginner named Pagnol), interview with Gabriel d’Aubarède. Nouvelles Littéraires, May 16th, 1953.
• “Interview with Marcel Pagnol”, by Jean André Fieschi, Gérard Guégan and Jacques Rivette. Cahiers du Cinéma, December 1965.
• “To find a source, Marcel Pagnol has a kind of flair”, interview with Agnès Favalelli. Télérama, March 17th, 1968.
• “Interview with Marcel Pagnol”, by Claude Beylie and Guy Braucourt. Cinéma 69, March 1969.
• ” Le verbe et l’image “, interview with Guy Braucourt. Lettres françaises, March 13, 1969.
• ” Interview with Claude Sarraute “. Le Monde, March 19, 1969.
• “Le cinéma selon Marcel Pagnol” (The cinema according to Marcel Pagnol), texts and comments compiled by Claude Gauteur. La Revue du Cinéma/Image et son, May 1969.
• “Marcel Pagnol is going to refresh all his films”, interview with Jacques Ardent. Le Soir illustré (Brussels), January 1, 1970.
• “Various comments” collected by Claude Gauteur. Cinéma pratique, July/August 1970.

See also, in the following section: Audouard raconte Pagnol, by Yvan Audouard, Rencontres avec Marcel Pagnol, by Norbert Calmels, and Marcel Pagnol m’a raconté…, by Raymond Castans.

BOOKS ON MARCEL PAGNOL

• AUDOUARD (Yvan), Audouard raconte Pagnol (Stock), 1973.
• BENS (Jacques), Pagnol (Seuil), “Écrivains de toujours” series, 1984.
• BERNI (Georges), Wonderful Pagnol. Monte-Carlo,(Pastorelly), 1981. In the footsteps of Marcel Pagnol. Aubagne, 1988.
• BEYLIE (Claude), Marcel Pagnol (Seghers), “Cinéma d’aujourd’hui” series, 1974. Marcel Pagnol ou le cinéma en liberté (Éditions de Fallois), 1995.
• BEYLIE (Claude), DOUCHET (Jean), GIANNOLI (Paul) and TACCHELLA (Jean-Charles), Les Années Pagnol (5 Continents/Hatier), 1989.
• CALMELS (Norbert), Meetings with Marcel Pagnol. Monte-Carlo, (Pastorelly), 1978.
• CASTANS (Raymond), Marcel Pagnol m’a raconté… (Table Ronde/Ed. de Provence), 1975. Once upon a time… Marcel Pagnol (Éditions de Fallois), 1999. Les Films de Marcel Pagnol (in collaboration with André BERNARD). (Julliard), 1982. Marcel Pagnol (Jean-Claude Lattès), 1987.
• CLÉBERT (Jean-Paul), La Provence de Pagnol (Edisud), 1991.
• COMBALUZIER (Louis), Le Jardin de Pagnol (Les Œuvres françaises), 1937.
• DARRIES (Henri), Un bout de chemin avec Marcel Pagnol (Edisud), 1995.
• DEHAYES (Thierry), Marcel Pagnol à l’école de Jean Giono (Ed. La Mirandole), 2001.
• DUBOUT (Albert), Les Pagnol de Dubout (Michèle Trinckvel ed.), 1994.
• FERRARI (Alain), PAGNOL (Jacqueline), La gloire de Pagnol (Institut lumière-Actes Sud-SACD), 2000.
• JELOT BLANC (Jean-Jacques), Pagnol Inconnu (Michel Lafon-Editions de la Treille), 1998.
• LEPROHON (Pierre), Marcel Pagnol (Anthologie du Cinéma No. 88), supplement to L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, May 1976.
• LUPPI (Jean-Baptiste), De Pagnol Marcel à Marcel Pagnol (Paul Tacus scl Editeurs), 1995.
• MORE (Julian), Les chemins de Marcel Pagnol (Ramsay), 1995.
• POMPA (Dany), Marcel Pagnol (Artefact), 1986.

Chapters are dedicated to Marcel Pagnol, filmmaker, in the following books

• Qu’est-ce que le cinéma ? (tome II), by André BAZIN (Éd. Du Cerf).
• Les passagers de souvenir, by Maurice BESSY (Albin Michel).
• Au hasard des soirées et du meilleur au pire, by Pierre BRISSON (Gallimard).
• Le Ciné-monde, by Suzanne CHANTAL (Grasset).
• Réflexion faite and Cinéma d’hier, cinéma d’aujourd’hui, by René CLAIR (Gallimard).
• Les grandes rencontres, by Paul GIANOLLI (Presses de la cité).
• New portraits, by Françoise GIROUD (Gallimard).
• 70 years of adolescence, by Henri JEANSON (Stock).
• Ma vie privée, by Ginette LECLERC (La Table ronde).
• Présences contemporaines, by Pierre LEPROHON (Nouvelles Éditions Debresse).
• Raimu ou la vie de César, by Paul OLIVIER (Fournier-Valdes).
• En déjeunant avec…, by André RANSAN (Brussels, L’Écran du monde).
• Raimu, by Roger RÉGENT (Chavane et Cie).
• My life and my films, by Jean RENOIR (Flammarion).
• Beyond the screen, by Roger RICHEBÉ (Monte-Carlo, Pastorelly).
• Ma belle Marseille (Denoël et Steele), Mémoires d’une vieille vague (Gallimard) and Le Grenier d’Arlequin (Denöel), by Carlo RIM.
• Le Mouvement dramatique 1933-1934, by Edmond SÉE (Ed. de France).
• Le Temps retrouvé, by Denise TUAL (Fayard).
• Les souvenirs de Monsieur Brun, by Robert VATTIER (Robert Laffont).

Marcel Pagnol also has a place in dictionaries, encyclopedias and film histories.

The main ones are:

• Les Maîtres du cinéma français, by Claude BEYLIE and Jacques PINTURAULT (Bordas), 1990.
• The Encyclopedia of Cinema, directed by Roger BOUSSINOT (Bordas), 1967.
• Le Cinéma, by Georges CHARENSOL (Larousse), 1966.
• Le Cinéma français des années 30, by Raymond CHIRAT (5 Continents/Hatier), 1983.
• Le Cinéma et ses hommes, by Henri COLPI (Montpellier, Causse, Graille et Castelnau), 1947.
• Les Malédictions du Cinéma français, by Francis COURTADE (Alain Moreau), 1978.
• Notice by Pierre DOMEYNE in Dossiers du Cinéma/Cinéastes 2 (Casterman), 1971.
• Note by Gérard GUÉGAN in Dictionnaire du Cinéma (Éd. Universitaires), 1966.
• 15 ans d’années trente, by Jean-Pierre JEANCOLAS (Stock/Cinéma), 1983.
• Notice by Fabien LABOUREUR in Dictionnaire du Cinéma (Larousse), 1986.
• Dictionnaire du Cinéma, tome III, Les Films by Jacques LOURCELLES (Robert Laffont), coll. ” Bouquins “, 1992.
• Le Cinéma, grande histoire illustrée du 7e Art, under the direction of Michel MARMIN, tome I (Atlas), 1982.
• Histoire du Cinéma, by Jean MITRY, volume IV (Jean-Pierre Delarge), 1980.
• La Société française à travers le cinéma, by René PRÉDAL (Armand Colin), 1972.
• Le Cinéma français by Georges SADOUL (Flammarion), 1962.
• Dictionnaire des cinéastes by Georges SADOUL (Seuil), 1965.
• “Une histoire du cinéma français”, Raymond BORDE, Freddy BUACHE, Gérard CAMY, Raymond CHIRAT, Francis COURTADE, Philippe d’HUGUES, Jacques KERMABON, Gilles LAPRÉVOTTE, Michel MARMIN, Vincent PINEL, René PRÉDAL, Michel ROUDEVITCH, under the direction of Claude BEYLIE. (Larousse), October 2000.

MAIN ALBUMS, FILES AND SPECIAL ISSUES DEDICATED TO MARCEL PAGNOL

• Opera, April 1946. Texts by Marcel Achard, Fernandel, Pierre Fresnay, Paul Nivoix, Henri Poupon, Raimu.
• Livres de France, March 1964. Texts by Jean-Jacques Gautier, Marcel Mithois, Gilbert Sigaux. Bibliography.
• Cahiers du Cinéma, December 1965. Texts by Gérard Guégan and André S. Labarthe, interview, testimonies by Charles Blavette, Marius Brouquier, Jean Lecocq and Suzanne de Troye.
• L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, July-September 1970. Text by Claude Gauteur, scenarios, filmography, bibliography.
• Le Figaro, April 19, 1974. Tributes by Robert Bruyez, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Robert Kanters, Pierre Mazars.
• Le Monde, April 19, 1974. Tributes by Jean de Baroncelli, Jean-Marie Dunoyer, Bertrand Poirot-Delpech.
• Paris Match, June 1974. Souvenir album, under the title “Pagnol’s glory”. Anonymous text, iconography.
• Écran 74, June 1974. Under the title “Le Secret de Maître Pagnol” (Master Pagnol’s Secret), text, tributes and bio-filmography, excerpts from Claude Beylie’s book, published by Seghers, op. cit.
• Literary magazine, April 1975. Texts by Yvan Audouard, Patrick Brion, Raymond Castans, Jean-Didier Wolfromm.
• Crédit commercial de France, October 1979. Handwritten tributes from Louis Amade, Robert Avierinos, Antoine Blondin, Gaston Bonheur, R.P Norbert Calmels, Raymond Castans, René Clair, Albert Cohen, Alain Decaux, Jean Delannoy, Maurice Druon, Louis Ducreux, Jean Dutourd, Max Favalelli, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Jean Guitton, Paul Guth, Louis Le Prince-Ringuet, Jean Matthyssens, Charles Moulin, Raymond Pellegrin, Tino Rossi, André Roussin, Georges Simenon, Paul Vialar, Henri Vilbert. (These tributes accompanied a Marcel Pagnol exhibition presented in the salons of the Maison de la Chimie, from October 4th to 9th, 1979).
• Le Figaro, December 10-11, 1988. Texts by Dominique Borde and Raymond Castans, interview with Jacqueline Pagnol by Marion Thébaud.
• L’Express, December 1994. Texts by Jean Contrucci, Jérôme Garcin and Olivier Le Naire, testimonies by François-Régis Bastide, Michel del Castillo, Gérard Guégan, Michel Tournier, collected by Martine de Rabaudy.
• Le Figaro Magazine, February 18, 1995. Texts by Bruno de Cessole and Bernard de Fallois.
• Marseille, Revue culturelle n°180 (May 1997), gathers almost all the papers presented during the symposium organized by the University of Provence in May 1995, on the topic “Marcel Pagnol et la Méridionalité”.

GENERAL ARTICLES ON MARCEL PAGNOL

The order adopted in this section follows the chronology of publication of the texts.

• DURAN (Michel), “Pagnol and cinema”. Marianne, October 25, 1933.
• DUBREUILH (Simone), “Marcel Pagnol’s curious ideas”, Paris-Midi, October 30, 1933.
• CRÉMIEUX (Albert), “Marcel Pagnol versus René Clair”. Screenplay, November 1933.
• WAHL (Lucien), “Errors and truths”. Pour Vous, January 4, 1934.
• CLAIR (René), “Le sens du cinéma”. Candide, February 22, 1934.
• BEAUPLAN (Robert de), “Marcel Pagnol and talking movies”. La Petite Illustration, June 1st, 1935.
• LANG (André), “The Pagnol experience”. Pour Vous, December 26th, 1935.
• DORINGE, “Renoir, Guitry, Pagnol”. Ciné-France, January 14, 1938.
• GÉRARD (Philibert), “Do you know Marcel Pagnol? Actu, 1943.
• MINOTAURE (le), “Sketch on the head: Marcel Pagnol”. L’Écran français, April 3, 1946.
• BIZET (René), ” Le cinéma sous l’habit vert “. Cinémonde, April 16, 1946.
• MAURIAC (Claude), ” Suite au mythe du metteur en scène “. Le Figaro littéraire, June 23, 1951.
• AUBRIANT (Michel), “Marcel Pagnol and film historians”. Paris-Théâtre, December 1956.
• LEPROHON (Pierre), “Marcel Pagnol and cinematurgy”. Radio-Cinéma-Télévision, July 19, 1959.
• HANOTEAU (Guillaume), “Good evening, Mr. Pagnol”. 7 jours-Télé 60, March 26, 1960.
• CHAPIER (Henry), “Marcel Pagnol does not like cinema anymore”. Combat, December 17, 1963.
• LABARTHE (André S.), “Pagnol between center and absence”. Cahier du cinéma, December 1965.
• GUÉGAN (Gérard), ” L’importun du Midi “. Cahiers du cinéma, ibid.
• JEANSON (Henri), “Marcel Pagnol”. L’Aurore, March 26, 1968.
• BEYLIE (Claude), ” À cœur ouvert “. Cinema 69, March 1969.
• BEYLIE (Claude), “Pagnol’s glory”. Télérama, March 2, 1969.
• MARDORE (Michel), “Pagnol l’incapable”. Le Nouvel Observateur, April 14, 1969.
• CORNAND (André), “Marcel Pagnol revisited”. La revue du Cinéma/Image et son, May 1969.
• DELAHAYE (Michel), “La saga Pagnol”. Cahiers du cinéma, June 1969.
• GAUTEUR (Claude), “A la recherche de Pagnol”. La Revue du cinéma/Image et son, June-July 1969.
• GAUTEUR (Claude), “Marcel Pagnol today”. L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, op. cit.
• DOUIN (Jean-Luc), “Sur le cinéma de Marcel Pagnol”. Télérama, April 20, 1973.
• GAUTEUR (Claude), “Marcel Pagnol inconnu”. La revue du Cinéma/Image et son, September 1973.
• LIVIO (Robin), “Pagnol: les mythes d’oc”. Combat, April 19, 1974.
• DEBIESSE (F.), “Marcel Pagnol”. Cinématographie, June 1974.
• DUVAL (Roland), “Marcel Pagnol, prophet of the chief town”. Écran 74, October 1974.
• BEYLIE (Claude), ” Le rire qui vient du cœur “. Télérama, January 28, 1976.
• VIRMAUX (Alain and Odette), “Pagnol, filmmaker despite himself”. Cinématographe, July-August 1986.
• VITOUX (Frédéric), ” La gloire de Marcel “, Le Nouvel Observateur, August 1986.
• LAVAGNE (Henri), “Pagnolades”. Le Passant, July 1987.
• LANDEL (Vincent), “Pagnol ou la gloire des secrets”. Le nouvel Observateur, October 1993.
• GENIN (Bernard), “Marseille Pagnol”. Télérama, February 18 to 24, 1995.
• RAMIREZ (Francis) and ROLOT (Christian), “Fautes Exemplaires”, Cinémathèque, autumn 1999.

ON SOME FILMS

• Marius : IDHEC form (Jacques KRIER), n.d.
• The Trilogy : Image and Sound file, July 1958.
• Topaz 1: Les Amitiés (Pierre LEPROHON), Saint-Étienne, 1933.
• Angèle : Ciné-Magazine (Henri AGEL), November 1934.
• Jofroi : illustrated story in Radio-Cinéma-télévision, September 9, 1951 sqq.
• Merlusse : notice by Raymond CHIRAT in Les Français et leur cinéma, catalog of the Maison de la Culture de Créteil, 1973.
• Cigalon : File in L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, op.cit.
• Le Schpountz : Dossier in L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, ibid.
• La Fille du puisatier: Cinéma de France (Roger RÉGENT), Bellefaye, 1948.
• Naïs: Opera (Jean FAYARD), November 28, 1945.
• La Belle Meunière : film narrated in Ciné-Digest, n°1, 1948.
• Manon des sources : Comœdia (Jean FAYARD), January 20, 1953. Critical file in Radio-Cinéma-Télévision, February 1, 1953.
• Les Lettres de mon moulin : Paris-Presse l’Intransigeant (Robert CHAZAL), September 22, 1954. Cahier du cinéma (André BAZIN), December 1954.

For further references concerning critical studies on Marcel Pagnol’s films, please refer to Pierre LEPROHON, Anthologie du Cinéma, op. cit.

OTHER REFERENCES TO MARCEL PAGNOL

• Professor Jean Bernard’s acceptance speech at the Académie Française, in Marcel Pagnol’s chair, was published in full in Le Monde on March 19, 1976.
• Many obituaries were published in the Paris and provincial press when Marcel Pagnol died in 1974.
• A number of texts were also published on the occasion of the centenary of Marcel Pagnol’s birth, in 1995.
• A multidisciplinary symposium was also held in Marseille and Aubagne, from May 18 to 20, 1995, under the auspices of the U.M.R. “Telemme” and the University of Provence, on the theme “Marcel Pagnol and Southernness”.
• A large 800 m2 exhibition: “Pagnol, un auteur mis en scène” (Pagnol, an author staged), combining video projections (film excerpts, testimonies, interviews) and reconstructed sets was held in 1995, on the occasion of the centenary of Marcel Pagnol’s birth. It was presented in Paris la Défense, Marseille and Monaco from February to October 1995. The same scenography could be used, for the most part, in the future Pagnol museum, planned at Château de La Buzine, in Marseille.

SOME DOCUMENTARY FILMS HAVE BEEN MADE ABOUT MARCEL PAGNOL (Non-exhaustive list).

• In the series “Cinéastes de notre temps” by André Labarthe and Janine Bazin, 1965. Documentary on Marcel Pagnol in two parts.
• “Selected pieces”. Series by Georges Folgoas and Pierre Tchernia, 1972.
• “Marcel Pagnol, un auteur à la caméra” (Marcel Pagnol, an author in front of the camera) on the occasion of the centenary of Marcel Pagnol’s birth. Production Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Films (CMF),
  Script and cut: Cécile Lecante and Jean-François Bedel
  Director: Jean-François Bedel. Broadcast on FR3, February 23, 1995.