Fernandel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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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