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JEAN GABIN: The Actor Who Was France, Evolution of modern film- No passport necessary.

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https://www.mixcloud.com/WorldRadioParis/your-american-friend-in-paris-episode-14-joseph-harris/   Here is an interview to air in November with Joseph Harriss about JEAN GABIN and his significance  as artist and as a public figure, an "everyman" who came to personify France. J e an Gabin :  The Actor Who Was France The first biography in English of the iconic French film actor whose career and life mirrored both 20 th -century France and the early evolution of modern film. When Joseph Harriss published  T he Tallest Tower : Eiffel and the Belle Epoque, it was acclaimed as a definative book and it was written by an American. Now, the Paris based journalist has done it again with a different kind of icon in  Jean Gabin :  The Actor Who Was France (McFarland) .  Illustrated with more than 40 photographs, the book portrays in graphic detail G abin’s films and personal life, including his unhappy years in Hollywood and his largely unknown wartime se