Guitry

American  

[gee-tree, gee-tree] / ˈgi tri, giˈtri /

noun

1. Sacha 1885–1957, French actor and dramatist, born in Russia.

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Guitry British  

/ ɡitri /

noun

1. Sacha (saʃa). 1885–1957, French actor, dramatist, and film director, born in Russia: plays include Nono (1905)

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Example Sentences

Her commercial breakthrough came in 1993 with the blockbuster “The Visitors,” which earned her a César for best supporting actress, and she made her feature debut as a director in 1997 with “Quadrille,” an archly stylish, beautifully art-directed adaptation of a Sacha Guitry play.

From New York Times

Looping, swooping arabesques, bodies sinuously elongated and twisted, never a graceless line — virtually every Broadway star from Sacha Guitry, his first, to Tommy Tune, his last, is rendered in heart-stabbingly valid likenesses halfway between design and portraiture.

From New York Times

Two collaborationist friends, the theatrical eminences Jean Cocteau and Sacha Guitry, intervened to save him, but the release order arrived too late: He had died of pneumonia the day before.

From Washington Post

And then there are the informative interviews, often vintage ones from French television, but also mixing in savvy contemporary directors like Olivier Assayas, who makes the connection between dialogue-heavy golden age French director Sacha Guitry and Quentin Tarantino because, for both of them, “language moves the plot forward.”

From Los Angeles Times

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