Actor, playwright, impresario, screenwriter, film director
Years active
1902–1957
Spouses
Charlotte Lysès
(m. 1907; div. 1915)
Yvonne Printemps
(m. 1919; div. 1932)
Jacqueline Delubac
(m. 1935; div. 1939)
Geneviève de Séréville
(m. 1944; div. 1949)
Lana Marconi
(m. 1949)
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French:[gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career.[1] He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932.
Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have incidental music by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
The later years of Guitry's career were overshadowed by accusations of collaborating with the occupying Germans after the capitulation of France in the Second World War. The charges were dismissed, but Guitry, a strongly patriotic man, was disillusioned by the vilification he received from some of his compatriots. By the time of his death, his popular esteem had been restored to the extent that 12,000 people filed past his coffin before his burial in Paris.
^"SACHA GUITRY, 72, PLAYWRIGHT, DIES; Author of 115 Plays and 29 Movies--Actor Typified Gallic 'Great Lover' - The New York Times". The New York Times. 10 March 2018. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French: [gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter...
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historically based fiction by SachaGuitry who plays four roles in it (many of the other performers play multiple roles, as well). Guitry's Jean Martin investigates...
with his first opérette, Ciboulette (1923) and a collaboration with SachaGuitry, the musical comedy Mozart (1926). During the Second World War Hahn,...
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Mikhaylovsky) Theatre. His son, the future actor, writer and director SachaGuitry, was born in Saint Petersburg and named in honour of Tsar Alexander III...
directed by SachaGuitry and starring Guitry, Pauline Carton, Lana Marconi, and Marguerite Pierry. It was based on a play of the same title by Guitry. It was...
vedettes by Marc Allégret in 1955 and Si Paris nous était conté fr by SachaGuitry in 1956. In 1956 she took the theater role of Marinette in Marcel Pagnol's...
Cheat) is a 1936 film starring, written and directed by SachaGuitry. It was adapted from Guitry's only novel, Les Mémoires d'un tricheur, published in 1935...
était conté) is a 1956 French historical film directed and written by SachaGuitry. The admissions in France were 2,813,682 people. If Paris Were Told to...
gates of death itself." In 1922, she began rehearsing a new play by SachaGuitry, called Un Sujet de Roman. On the night of the dress rehearsal, she collapsed...
m'était conté) is a 1954 French-Italian historical drama directed by SachaGuitry. Described as "a historical film showing Versailles from its beginnings...
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The French actor, writer, manager and director, SachaGuitry had a prolific output of plays and films. His stage works range from historical dramas to...
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