Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Jean Delannoy on his birthday 🎂
📷 Sam Lévin
"Going into the Billancourt studios briefcase in hand, you would have sworn he was going to an insurance office."
- Jean-Luc Godard
In Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard & Truffaut denigrated Delannoy & his "cinema of quality".

Willy Ronis
Tournage de La Part de l'ombre, Sonzay, 1945
A striking shot of Jean Wall during the production of Jean Delannoy's film. Ronis must have enjoyed the chance to take advantage of studio lighting.
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The goat is trying hard to upstage Gina Lollobrigida in this shot by Raymond Voinquel. She was playing Esmeralda in Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, 1956.

Roger Corbeau
Michèle Morgan in Jean Delannoy's La Symphonie pastorale, an adaptation of an André Gide novella, made in 1946. Morgan won the inaugural Best Actress award at Cannes for her performance.
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Marcel Mouloudji in Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont faits, from 1947.
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Sam Lévin
Jean Marais & Michèle Morgan on the set of Jean Delannoy's Aux Yeux du souvenir, 1948

Roger Corbeau
Michèle Morgan in Jean Delannoy's La Symphonie pastorale, 1946. A classic profile shot.
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Raymond Voinquel
Michèle Morgan as Jeanne d'Arc in Destinées, 1954
Jean Delannoy directed one segment in this film about women & war. The other two stars are Claudette Colbert as Elisabeth Whitefield (dir. Marcello Pagliero) & Martine Carol as Lysistrata (dir. Christian-Jaque).