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Marcel Achard
1974Sep, 4

Marcel Achard

Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.

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