# Jean Guitton (dramatist)

Jean Guitton (29 March 1887 - 8 April 1973) was a French dramatist, librettist, lyricist and screenwriter.

## Filmography

* Les Dévoyés, directed by Henri Vorins (France, 1926, based on the play La Nuit du 3)
* Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs [fr], directed by Nicolas Rimsky and Roger Lion (France, 1926, based on the play Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs)
* On a trouvé une femme nue [fr], directed by Léo Joannon (France, 1934, based on the play On a trouvé une femme nue)
* Jim la Houlette [fr], directed by André Berthomieu (France, 1935, based on the play Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs)
* Les Maris de ma femme [fr], directed by Maurice Cammage (France, 1937, based on the play Fallait pas m'écraser)
* Forty Little Mothers, directed by Busby Berkeley (1940, remake of the 1936 film Forty Little Mothers)
* Le Martyr de Bougival [fr], directed by Jean Loubignac (France, 1949, based on the play Et la police n'en savait rien)
* One Hundred Little Mothers, directed by Giulio Morelli [it] (Italy, 1952, remake of the 1936 film Forty Little Mothers)
* The Priest of Saint-Amour, directed by Émile Couzinet (France, 1952, based on the play Le Curé de Saint-Amour)
* Le Plus Heureux des hommes [fr], directed by Yves Ciampi (France, 1952, based on the play Je l'aimais trop)
* Au diable la vertu, directed by Jean Laviron (France, 1953, based on the play Elle attendait ça)
* Quintuplets in the Boarding School, directed by René Jayet (France, 1953, loose remake of the 1936 film Forty Little Mothers)
* Légère et court vêtue, directed by Jean Laviron (France, 1953, based on the play Un amour fou)
* Une nuit aux Baléares [fr], directed by Paul Mesnier (France, 1957, based on the operetta Une nuit aux Baléares)

### Screenwriter

* 1930: The Prosecutor Hallers, by Robert Wiene
* 1931: The Man at Midnight, by Harry Lachman
* 1932: Mise en plis, by Jacques Desagneaux
* 1932: Il a été perdu une mariée [fr], by Léo Joannon
* 1933: The Invisible Woman , by Georges Lacombe
* 1934: Rothchild, by Marco de Gastyne
* 1936: Les Gaîtés de la finance, by Jack Forrester
* 1936: Forty Little Mothers, by Léonide Moguy
* 1937: The Club of Aristocrats, by Pierre Colombier
* 1937: The Kings of Sport, by Pierre Colombier
* 1937: Le Porte-veine [fr], by André Berthomieu
* 1938: Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared, by Robert Péguy
* 1938: La Goualeuse [fr], by Fernand Rivers
* 1941: The Acrobat, by Jean Boyer
* 1943: Feu Nicolas [fr], by Jacques Houssin
* 1948:Woman Without a Past, by Gilles Grangier
* 1949: My Aunt from Honfleur, by René Jayet
* 1950: Le Gang des tractions-arrière [fr], by Jean Loubignac
* 1956: Coup dur chez les mous [fr], by Jean Loubignac
* 1963: The Bamboo Stroke, by Jean Boyer

## Operettas

* 1919: Chaste Suzy
* 1920: Clo-Clo
* 1928: L'Hostellerie de la vertu
* 1930: Six filles à marier
* 1931: Couss-Couss
* 1954: Une nuit aux Baléares. Operetta (with Loulou Gasté and Géo Koger [fr])

## Plays

* 1924 : On a trouvé une femme nue. Comedy in three acts (with André Birabeau). Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Nouveautés
* 1924 : La Nuit du 3. Drama in four acts. Premiered in Paris at the Eldorado
* 1926 : Jim la Houlette, roi des voleurs. Play in three acts
* 1935 : Fallait pas m'écraser. Vaudeville in two acts. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Renaissance
* 1936 : Elle attendait ça. Vaudeville in three acts. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal
* 1945 : Un amour fou. Vaudeville in three acts
* 1949 : Et la police n'en savait rien. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt
* 1951 : Je l'aimais trop. Comedy in three acts. Premiered in Paris at the Théâtre Saint-Georges
* Before 1952 : Le Curé de Saint-Amour. Play in three acts