Complex sentence: Playing secondary roles, Gabin made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur, but he only gained real recognition for his performance in "Maria Chapdelaine", a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier.
Split into simpler sentences: Playing secondary roles, Gabin made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained real recognition for his performance in "Maria Chapdelaine", a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier.