
Georges Neveux
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-08-26
Day of Death
1982-08-27 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Poltava, Russian Empire
Georges Neveux
Biography
From Wikipedia
Georges Neveux (1900-1982) was a French dramatist and poet.
Neveux's first notable work was the play Juliette ou la clé des songes (Juliet or the key to dreams), written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of Theodor Schaefer's melodrama Julie aneb Snar (Julie or the Book of Dreams) for piano, jazz instruments, and small orchestra, from 1934, Bohuslav Martinů's opera, Julietta, from 1937, and for the 1951 film Juliette, or Key of Dreams.
During the 1930s, when he was general secretary of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he wrote little. In 1943 appeared Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage of Theseus), which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera (Ariane, 1958). In 1945 he translated and adapted Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Neveux also wrote numerous filmscripts, although he greatly preferred the theatre; as he said, 'the first because one must earn a living, the second because one must deserve to live'.
Known For
Crew
(1962)
Conduite à gauche
Adaptation
(1959)
Katia
Writer
(1958)
Tamango
Dialogue
(1958)
Christine
Writer
(1955)
The Case of Poisons
Writer
(1954)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Adaptation, Dialogue, Screenplay
(1953)
The Lovers of Midnight
Dialogue
(1951)
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Dialogue, Writer
(1948)
In the Eyes of Memory
Writer
(1948)
By the Window
Writer
(1947)
The House Under the Sea
Screenplay
(1943)
Lucrèce
Writer
(1941)
Foolish Husbands
Writer
(1937)
Street of Shadows
Writer
(1937)
La Chanson du Souvenir
Dialogue
(1937)
The Call of Life
Director
(1935)
Un homme de trop à bord
Dialogue
(1935)
Le Miroir aux alouettes
Dialogue, Adaptation
(1935)
Jonny, haute-couture
Dialogue
(1933)
(1933)
(1931)
The Lovers of Midnight
Screenplay
(1931)
Halfway Up the Sky
Dialogue Coach