Jean Jules Manse was
born on November 19, 1889 in Marseilles, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur France. Manse
started in film in the early 1930s by writing the screenplay for “The Terror of
the Pampas”, directed Maurice Cammage In 1938, he wrote the lyrics to “The
Heartbeat of Marcel Pagnol”, his first participation in a major blockbuster.
Brother-in-law Fernandel, who had married his sister Henriette Manse in 1925,
will then participate in most of his films that it took place in the 1950s
along with Jean Boyer (“Sénéchal
le magnifique”), John Berry (“Don Juan”), Christian-Jaque (“La loi, c'est la
loi”), Gilles Grangier (“La Cuisine au beurre”) and Henri Verneuil, with whom
Manse worked on La Vache et le Prisonnier his biggest success.
Manse wrote the
screenplays for three Euro-westerns: “Terror of the Pampas” 1932, “Ernest the
Rebel” (1938) and he supplied the French dialogue for “Dynamite Jack” (1960).
Jean Manse died
August 25, 1967 in Mareilles, Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, France.
Today we remember
Jean Manse on what would have been his 125th birthday.
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