Marcel L'Herbier

Marcel L'Herbier was born in Paris on 23 April 1888, a year that other sources give as 1890. A graduate in law and literature, he first wrote poems and kept away from the cinema, until a film by Cecil B. DeMille converted him to it. Assigned in 1917 to the army's film service, he then founded his own production company, Cinégraphic. In 1943 he founded the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, then directed many television programmes, and died in November 1979.

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• CinemaThe Inhuman WomanL'InhumaineMarcel L'Herbier · 1924Cinema