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Fernandel

British  
/ fɛrnɑ̃dɛl /

noun

  1. real name Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin . 1903–71, French comic film actor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A crowd of 200,000 turned out happily on the Place de la Concorde to dance in the street, watch fireworks, and cheer Fernandel, Juliette Greco, the cancan line of the Moulin Rouge.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old ski nose returns, assisted by an equally great clown, France's Fernandel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama.

From Time Magazine Archive

She laughed again and told me there was a Fernandel movie she’d like to see.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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