Fernandel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Fernandel won't sell bread to his friends turned foes, and the scenes swarm relentlessly, with so many Proven-gal provincials running around like so many Provencal provincials with their bread cut off.
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
The craggy old marquis, looking not unlike a pork-fed Fernandel, towers against a symbolic sunset sky, his fist clenched beside the busts of his dead friends Franklin and Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
French-made Sheep should at last give many U.S. moviegoers their long-overdue chance to meet Fernandel, and give him the American audience he deserves.
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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