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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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Only hopelessly carnivorous viewers will refuse to take the pledge with Fernandel when, reunited briefly with Marguerite at film's end, he tells her, "I will never eat beef again."

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.

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

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John Barrymore once did the leading role in a Hollywood version, and Fernandel has done it in French.

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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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