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Jacques Feyder Greta Garbo in a velvet dress reclines on a sofa, gazing thoughtfully upward, in a scene from the 1929 silent film The Kiss.
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Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder French film director, Jacques Feyder.

Jacques Feyder

French director
Also known as: Jacques Frédérix
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Jacques Feyder (born July 21, 1888, Ixelles, Belgium—died May 24, 1948, Prangins, Switzerland) was a popular French motion-picture director of the 1920s and ’30s whose films are imbued with a sympathy for the common man and an attempt at psychological interpretation of character. His sharp criticism of French social and political trends was subordinated to his delineation of passionate and often poignant characters. Feyder came to Paris as an actor in 1912 and directed his...

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