Jacques Krauss

French art director

Jacques Krauss (21 October 1900 – 8 June 1957) was a French art director. He had a notable influence on the visual look of French poetic realist films before the Second World War, due to his work with Julien Duvivier.^[1]

He was born in Paris, the son of the actor Henry Krauss.

Selected filmography

• If I Were Boss (1934)
• Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
• A Rare Bird (1935)
• Thirteen Days of Love (1935)
• La Bandera (1935)
• They Were Five (1936)
• Claudine at School (1937)
• The Man of the Hour (1937)
• Pépé le Moko (1937)
• Woman of Malacca (1937)
• Another World (1937)
• A Woman of No Importance (1937)
• The Courier of Lyon (1937)
• The Curtain Rises (1938)
• Final Accord (1938)
• The End of the Day (1939)
• The Phantom Carriage (1939)
• Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)
• Monsieur La Souris (1942)
• Chiffon's Wedding (1942)
• Love Letters (1942)
• Romance for Three (1942)
• The Phantom Baron (1943)
• Sylvie and the Ghost (1946)
• Captain Blomet (1947)
• The Fugitive (1947)
• The Adventures of Casanova (1947)
• Monseigneur (1949)
• Du Guesclin (1949)
• Darling Caroline (1951)
• Gigolo (1951)
• A Caprice of Darling Caroline (1953)
• Caroline and the Rebels (1955)
• Élisa (1957)

References

1. Andrew p.186

Bibliography

• Dudley Andrew. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995.

External links

• Jacques Krauss at IMDb