André Birabeau

André Birabeau (1890-1974) was a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Novels and short stories

• La débauche (1924) English trans. Revelation (1930) cited as the first novel about a homosexual man from the mother's point of view^[1]
• Voyage d'agrément became 1935 movie
• À vos ordres, madame (short story) became 1939 movie Ai vostri ordini, signora and 1942 French movie
• Le jardin aux vingt-cinq allées (1928)
• Désirable (1949)
• La bell égarée (1965)
• Rendez-vous avec l'amour (1972)
• L'amour naît où il veut (1974)

Plays

• Le coeur sur la main (1919)
• La peau with Nicolas Nancey (1919)
• Le bébé barbu (1920)
• La femme fatale (1920) became 1946 movie
• Une sacrée petite blonde with Pierre Woolf (1921)
• Est-ce possible? (1923)
• Un jour de folie (1923)
• On a trouvé une femme nue with Jean Guitton (1923) became 1934 movie
• La fleur d'oranger with Georges Dolley (1924) became 1944 movie Fiori d'arancio
• Un petit nez retroussé with Nicolas Nancey (1924)
• Le chemin des écoliers (1924)
• Mon vieux with Henri Bataille (1924)
• Le petit péché (1924)
• Chifforton (1925)
• Un déjeuner de soleil (1925) became 1927 musical Lovely Lady and 1927 movie Breakfast at Sunrise
• L'eunuque with Henri Duvernois (1927)
• La fille et le garçon with Georges Dolley (1927)
• Le chemin des écoliers (1927)
• Un déjeuner d'amoureux (1927)
• Votre sourire (1928)
• Côte d'Azur with Georges Dolley (1931)
• Les baisers perdus (1932) translated by Phyllis Roberts as "Lost Kisses"
• Ma sœur de luxe (1933)
• Tempête sur les côtes (1933)
• Dame Nature (1935) English adaptation by Patricia Collinge 1939 became 1953 movie The Age of Indiscretion
• Fiston (1936) became 1937 movie My Son the Minister
• La chaleur du sein (1937) aka Mother Love became 1938 movie
• Pamplemousse (1937) became Little Dark Horse (1941)
• Le nid (1938)
• Plaire (1941)
• Le séducteur (1945)
• El ojo de Moscú (written in Spanish) (1952)
• Souviens-toi mon amour (1954)
• El dúo de Manón (written in Spanish) (1926)
• Calor de nido (1955 Spanish trans. of Le nid)
• Trois pas sur le boulevard (1971) three one-act plays: L'amour avec un A majuscule, Papoupa and Le paladin.

Memoirs

• Tous feux éteints (1971)

Filmography

• L'âne de Buridan (1932) (scenario and dialogue)
• On a trouvé une femme nue (1934) from his 1923 play, directed by Léo Joannon
• Voyage d'agrément (1935) from his 1925 novel, directed by Christian-Jaque
• Un déjeuner de soleil (1937) from his 1925 play, directed by Marcel Cravenne
• La Chaleur du sein (1938) from his 1937 play, directed by Jean Boyer
• À vos ordres, madame (1942) from his short story, directed by Jean Boyer
• La femme fatale (1946) from his 1920 play

References

1. Slide, Anthony Lost Gay Novels Routledge 2003 ISBN 978-1-56023-414-2 p23

External links

• Works by or about André Birabeau at Internet Archive
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083215
• http://www.4-wall.com/authors/authors_b/birabeau_andre.htm