- Henri Bernstein
Henri/Henry Bernstein, Henri/Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (
June 20 ,1876 - 1953) was a Frenchplaywright associated withBoulevard theatre .The
far right royalists "Camelots du Roy ", youth organization of the "Action française ", organized an anti-Semiticriot against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During theSecond World War he fled to theUnited States , and lived inNew York at theWaldorf Astoria .Jean-Pierre Aumont relates in his work "Le Soleil et les Ombres" (Robert Laffont , 1976) the luxury in which he lived as well as his general disinterest in the war.He is buried in the
Cimetière de Passy inParis .Works
* "Le rafale", 1905
* "Samson", 1907
* "Israël", 1912
* "Le Secret", 1913
* "Judith", 1922
* "Mélo ", 1929
* "Le Messager", 1937
* "Victor", 1951External links
* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077056/
* http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=6211
* http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=315875:France-writer-stub:Judaism-bio-stub
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