Noël-Noël

A beloved, warmly popular French character player and screenwriter in his heyday, Noël Noël was born Lucien Édouard Noël on August 9, 1897 in Paris. He initially developed his celebrity in music halls and the cabaret venue, where he created his Adémaï Joseph comic character, a blundering, oafish French soldier. He eventually took this character successfully to film in the early 30s and remained in movies as both actor and sometime writer and director in both his own vehicles and those of others top comedians. A leftist cartoonist at one time not to mention a skillful songwriter, many of his ideals seeped into his work. Noël Noël began immediately in starring roles with the comedy La prison en folie (1931) (Prison Madness); as a buffoonish lover in the more dramatic Mistigri (1931) opposite Madeleine Renaud; as a fiancé torn between two women in the comedy Father Unawares (1932); as the title comic role in Monsieur Albert (1932); and as a snubbed lover in [the social comedy Mam'zelle S