Maurice Desvallières

Ernest George Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th–20th-century French playwright.

Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academicians Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé).

He studied at lycée Condorcet.

He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.

Works 1879: Le premier bal 1879: Amis d'enfance 1881: On demande un ministre ! 1884: Prête-moi ta femme ! 1888: Les Fiancés de Loches (with Georges Feydeau) 1889: L'Affaire Édouard 1890: C'est une femme du monde ! (with Feydeau) 1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville (with Feydeau) 1892: Champignol malgré lui (with Feydeau) 1894: Le Ruban (with Feydeau) 1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange (with Feydeau) 1901: Le truc de Séraphin 1906: Le Fils à papa (adapted into Die keusche Susanne, 1910, and The Girl in the Taxi, 1912) 1920: Seine-Port et ses vieilles maisons

Filmography Le Fils à papa, directed by Georges Monca and Charles Prince (France, 1913, short film, based on Le Fils à papa) Champignol malgré lui (France, 1913, based on Champignol malgré lui) L'Hôtel du libre échange, directed by Marcel Simon (France, 1916, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange) The Girl in the Taxi, directed by Lloyd Ingraham (1921, based on Le Fils à papa) Chaste Susanne, directed by Richard Eichberg (Germany, 1926, based on Le Fils à papa) , directed by Fred Ellis (France, 1933, based on the play of the same name) , directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1934, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange) , directed by Maurice Cammage (France, 1936, based on Prête-moi ta femme) , directed by André Berthomieu (France, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa) The Girl in the Taxi, directed by André Berthomieu (UK, 1937, based on Le Fils à papa) La Casta Susana, directed by Benito Perojo (Argentina, 1944, based on Le Fils à papa) , directed by Luis César Amadori (Spain, 1963, based on Le Fils à papa) Äktenskapsbrottaren, directed by Hasse Ekman (Sweden, 1964, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange) Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville (UK, 1966, based on L'Hôtel du libre échange)

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