Jacques Deval

Jacques Deval (27 June 1895 – 19 December 1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Novels

 * Marie Galante (1931)

Plays

 * Une faible femme; a comedy in three acts (1920)
 * Dans sa candeur naïve; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as Her Cardboard Lover (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse
 * Étienne; a play in three acts (1930)
 * Mademoiselle; a comedy in three acts (1932)
 * Tovarich; a play in four acts (1933)
 * Marie Galante; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel Marie Galante. Music by Kurt Weill (1934)
 * Soubrette; a comedy in three acts (1938)
 * Oh, Brother!; a comedy in three acts (1945)
 * La Femme de ta jeunesse; a play in three acts (1947)
 * Le Rayon des jouets; a comedy in three acts (1951)
 * Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; a play in two acts (1955)
 * La Prétentaine; a comedy in two acts (1957)
 * Romancero; a play in three acts (1958)

Filmography

 * The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
 * The Passionate Plumber, directed by Edward Sedgwick (1932, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
 * A Weak Woman, directed by Max de Vaucorbeil (France, 1933, based on the play Une faible femme)
 * Étienne, directed by Jean Tarride (France, 1933, based on the play Étienne)
 * Journal of a Crime, directed by William Keighley (1934, remake of the 1933 film Une vie perdue)
 * Marie Galante, directed by Henry King (1934, based on the novel Marie Galante)
 * Tovaritch, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1935, based on the play Tovaritch)
 * Tovarich, directed by Anatole Litvak (1937, based on the play Tovaritch)
 * Say It in French, directed by Andrew L. Stone (1938, based on the play Soubrette)
 * Her Cardboard Lover, directed by George Cukor (1942, based on the play Dans sa candeur naïve)
 * Una vírgen moderna, directed by Joaquín Pardavé (Mexico, 1946, based on the play Mademoiselle)
 * Miss Tatlock's Millions, directed by Richard Haydn (1948, based on the play Oh, Brother!)
 * Tuesday's Guest, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1950, based on the play La Femme de ta jeunesse)
 * Women's Club, directed by Ralph Habib (France, 1956, remake of the 1936 film Women's Club)
 * , directed by Steno (Italy, 1961, based on the play Le Rayon des jouets)
 * Geliebte Hochstaplerin, directed by Ákos Ráthonyi (West Germany, 1961, based on the play La Prétentaine)
 * L'altra metà del cielo, directed by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1977, based on the play Romancero)

Screenwriter

 * Le Mauvais Garçon, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1923)
 * Jenny Lind, directed by Arthur Robison (French, 1932)
 * Une vie perdue, directed by Raymond Rouleau (France, 1933)
 * Women's Club, directed by Jacques Deval (France, 1936)
 * Cafe Metropole, directed by Edward H. Griffith (1937)
 * Domenica, directed by Maurice Cloche (France, 1952)
 * When You Read This Letter, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1953)