Guitry
Americannoun
noun
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As the playwright Sacha Guitry so shrewdly observed, “you can pretend to be serious, but you can’t pretend to be witty.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2018
The first is a series of eight short dances Ravel wrote in 1911 in an updated Schubertian style, nostalgic yet also contemporary, like, say, an elegant Sacha Guitry French period film of the 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
Not that there’s a problem with cinematic rodomontade—some of the best directorial makers of images with words yield gleefully to it, whether in the on-screen worlds of Sacha Guitry or of Shirley Clarke.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2016
Of particular note, along with titles by Marcel Carné and Sacha Guitry, is Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Le Corbeau,” which managed to infuriate both the right-wing Vichy press and the anti-Nazi resistance in 1943.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2015
Now and then Paul Guitry glanced at his companion's profile, for the night was no longer inky black.
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