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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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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.

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As the headstrong village baker, Fernandel is volubly insistent that his son would never do such a thing, refuses to recognize the infant as a descendant.

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

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Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences.

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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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