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
 * 1889: L'Affaire Édouard
 * 1890: C'est une femme du monde !
 * 1890: Le Mariage de Barillon, three-act comédie en vaudeville
 * 1894: Le Ruban
 * 1894: L'Hôtel du libre échange
 * 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
 * 1959: Champignol malgré lui

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)
 * Champignol malgré lui (film), 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)