Sacha Guitry

A man of theater and cinema, Alexandre Guitry, known as Sacha, was a multi-talented author. He became passionate about cinema as soon as movies became talkies and devoted himself to them more particularly after the Second World War. He started with Ceux de chez nous (Our People) in 1914, which was soundtracked in 1939. He met with great success with flms such as Désiré (1937), Quadrille (1937) and If Paris Were Told to Us (1955). Famous for his glibness, pride and alleged misogyny, Sacha Guitry was not always unanimously popular, which did not prevent him from receiving the Legion of Honor and remaining one of the most often performed authors in France.