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- Birth nameJules Eugène Louis Jouvet
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Louis Jouvet was a living glory of the French theatre where he debuted in 1910. In his life he has worked as pharmacist, manager of a theatre, actor and theatre teacher. He debuted at the movies in 1932 and his best films were of the Golden Age of French cinema called the "poetical realism", e.g. "Hotel du Nord (1938)" or "La fin du jour (1939)". His character, his eagle-like profile and his unique way of speaking made him unforgettable.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Volker Boehm
- SpouseElse Collin(September 26, 1912 - August 16, 1951) (his death, 3 children)
- In 1941, having experienced serious problems with the censorship of the German occupier, he took his repertory company on international tours. He was not to return to France until the war was over.
- Auditioned for the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in his early years and was rejected three times.
- Uncle of Peter Wyngarde.
- The Athénée theater in the center of Paris, of which he was the director from 1934 to 1951, now includes his name as an homage: Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet.
- In 1936 he became teacher of acting technique and theatrical history at the Conservatoire de Paris but he did not like that work and had probably had to accept it unwillingly. Very often he arrived late to lessons and compared his watch with a grandfather clock that was in the classroom. One day he explicated his habit to the students telling them: "It's always amazing for me to see something going ahead in this institution that is still since a century".
- One works in the theatre because one senses that one has never been oneself, that one cannot be oneself - that, at last, one has found the way to become oneself.
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