Jules Mary

Jules Mary (March 20, 1851 – July 27, 1922) was a French novelist. His melodramas were traditionally popular subjects for adaptation by filmmakers, and his best-known work Roger la Honte has been made into films five times.^[1]

Jules Mary
Born	20 March 1851 Launois-sur-Vence, Ardennes, France
Died	27 July 1922 Paris, France
Occupation	Writer

Biography

He was born in 1851 in the Ardennes. His father, Pierre Mary, was a hosier and his mother, Anne Marie Julie Lacatte, had no occupation.^[2] He went to school in his village, then to the minor seminary in Charleville. It was there that he met Arthur Rimbaud, with whom he formed a close.^[3]

Selected works

• Roger la Honte (1886)
• La Pocharde (1898)

Filmography

• Roger la Honte, directed by Adrien Caillard [fr] (1913, short film, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• The Man of Shame, directed by Harry Myers (1915, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• Blessée au coeur (1917, based on the novel Blessée au coeur)
• Les Feuilles tombent, directed by Georges Monca (1917, based on the novel Les Feuilles tombent)
• La Pocharde, directed by Henri Étiévant (1921, based on the novel La Pocharde)
• Víctima del odio, directed by José Buchs (Spain, 1921, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• La Fille sauvage, directed by Henri Étiévant (1922, based on the novel La Fille sauvage)
• Roger la Honte, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (1922, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• The House of Mystery, directed by Alexandre Volkoff (1923, based on the novel La Maison du mystère)
• La Goutte de sang, directed by Jean Epstein and Maurice Mariaud (1924, based on the novel La Goutte de sang)
• Roger la Honte, directed by Gaston Roudès (1933, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• The House of Mystery, directed by Gaston Roudès (1933, based on the novel La Maison du mystère)
• The Drunkard, directed by Jean-Louis Bouquet and Jean Kemm (1937, based on the novel La Pocharde)
• Roger la Honte, directed by André Cayatte (1946, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• The Revenge of Roger, directed by André Cayatte (1946, based on the novel Roger la Honte)
• The Drunkard, directed by Georges Combret (1953, based on the novel La Pocharde)
• Trap for the Assassin, directed by Riccardo Freda (1966, based on the novel Roger la Honte)