Fernandel
Britishnoun
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John Barrymore once did the leading role in a Hollywood version, and Fernandel has done it in French.
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A crowd of 200,000 turned out happily on the Place de la Concorde to dance in the street, watch fireworks, and cheer Fernandel, Juliette Greco, the cancan line of the Moulin Rouge.
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There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film.
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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.
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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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