''Mademoiselle X'', 1945 - art by Rene Peron
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''Mademoiselle X'', 1945 - art by Rene Peron
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Movie World Posters
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Mixed Media - Vintage Movie Poster
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A vintage French movie poster of ''Mademoiselle X'', 1945 directed by Pierre Billon and featured actors Madeleine Sologne as Madeleine Ardouin, André Luguet as Dominique Ségard, and Ketti Gallian as Catherine Nanteuil. Other cast members included Aimé Clariond as Michel Courbet, Pierre Palau as Victor, André Bervil as Nicolas - l'acteur, Raymond Rognoni as Le maire, and Charles Lemontier as L'employé des pompes funèbres.
The film's production took place at Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris, with sets designed by Auguste Capelier and Georges Wakhévitch. The producer André Paulvé, who had been removed from "The Children of Paradise" due to his partial Jewish heritage, took on this project likely because of the intervention of his rival Alfred Greven from Continental Films. The film began production in May 1944, shortly before the Liberation of France during World War II.
About the poster artist:
René Péron (March 11, 1904, Paris – April 29, 1972, Le Landin, France) was a prolific poster designer and book illustrator from the late 1920s through the 1950s.
Péron designed more than 2,000 cinema posters between 1930 and 1960, including for major films such as "La Belle Marinière" (1932), "King Kong" (1933), "L'Eternel Retour" (1943), "Jour de fête" (1947), "French Cancan" (1954), "And God Created Woman" (1956) and "Spartacus" (1960).
He created posters that hardly go unnoticed, both in color palette and composition. Incredibly balanced scenes amaze these works of art for their bright colors, sharp contrasts, and bold titles. Peron's color selection explores the nuances of red, orange, pink, often creating differences between complementary colors. For example, blue stands out next to orange, yellow lights up, enhancing the overall picture.
Even the style of the titles is made to attract attention: he works on typefaces, often dynamic, other times geometric, or powerfully contoured. Peron's posters are a mixture of realistic faces, more abstract elements, and flashy texts. A superb balance of reality and poetry.
In the 1950s, he also designed numerous novel covers (especially for crime novels) and illustrations for club editions. After 1960, he devoted himself to illustrating children's books.
Search "Peron" to see more of his art.
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February 9th, 2022
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