Fernandel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She laughed again and told me there was a Fernandel movie she’d like to see.
From Literature
He's like a subtler Fernandel, Walter Matthau but less misanthropic, Jack Lemmon without the self-pitying tetchiness.
From The Guardian
Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences.
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
This wild oat is somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa.
From Time Magazine Archive
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