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)