Louis Mercanton

Louis Mercanton

Nacimiento : 1879-05-04,

Muerte : 1932-04-29

Perfil

Louis Mercanton

Películas

Passionnément
Director
A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceval.
To have known
Director
An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
Students in Paris
Director
Jacques Dombreval gets a new job at a lawyers office in Paris and end up in a romantic entanglement.
He Is Charming
Director
A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine musical time.
Man of Mayfair
Director
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
These Charming People
Director
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Su noche de bodas
Director
Una estrella del cine marcha de vacaciones y acaba haciendo amistad con un extraño compositor de canciones.
Let's Get Married
Director
Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.
Sweetheart
Director
The Letter
Director
The Nipper
Director
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
The mystery of the pink villa
Director
Vénus
Producer
A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
Vénus
Director
A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
Croquette
Director
Prodigals of Monte Carlo
Director
Sir Hargrave Wendever learns that his days on this earth are numbered. When she hears that the Lord has canceled his order for a portrait, Betty Oliver, the fiancée of the artist, Robert Hewitt, who is sick, goes to him and begs for a loan. Touched by the situation, the Lord decides to use his fortune to brighten the days of the two unlucky souls and takes them to Monte Carlo. But Wendever's enemies try to make Robert jealous.
Heritage
Director
There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water. Pancho, Maria del Carmen's fiancé, hurts Xavier, son of the rich Domingo, so he has to leave the country. Maria proposes to take care of Xavier in exchange for Pancho's freedom. Unfortunately, Xavier falls in love with her and Domingo forces her to marry his son. Pancho reappears, ready to defy Xavier, but the two overhear a conversation and learn that Xavier's days are numbered. So he asks Pancho to elope with Maria.
Sarati, le terrible
Director
Phroso
Director
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the islanders, supported by an adventurer who desires Phroso, rise against the new master. The English are saved by the British governor, also under the spell of gorgeous Phroso. The latter, for her part, is not wholly insensitive to Lord Wheatley's distinction. The imbroglio still worsens with the meddling of a dark horse : the neighboring sultan.
Gosse de riche
Writer
Infatuation
Director
Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady proposition. Indignantly she orders him out of her room. When she takes up her flowers, preparatory to going forth to sell them, she discovers that Le Baron has trampled on them. Tempted by her poverty she steals a fur in a department store.
Le tournant
Director
The Blindness of Youth
Director
"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.
Midinettes
Writer
Midinettes
Director
Suzanne
Writer
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvanie fall in love with each other, but this is prohibited.
Suzanne
Director
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvanie fall in love with each other, but this is prohibited.
Golden Lotus
Director
Mothers of France
Director
A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
Jeanne Doré
Director
Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.
Vendetta
Director
Vendetta
Writer
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Director
A considered lost film from 1913
Queen Elizabeth
Director
Epsodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Camille
Director
Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.