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

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

There’s a special category of superb filmmakers who started as writers, such as the novelists Éric Rohmer, Ousmane Sembène, and Marguerite Duras, as well as the playwrights Sacha Guitry and Kenneth Lonergan.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 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

The friends of the competitors crowd around the stage-door, and each of the successful ones is seized by the hand and congratulated and embraced, the youthful Guitry being especially surrounded.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various