page_title: Jean Gabin
section_title: Career slump
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Gabin / Biography / Career / Career slump
caption_attribution_description: English: French actor Jean Gabin sitting with a cigarette between his fingers in the film The Little Rebels. Français&#160;: L'acteur français Jean Gabin dans le film Chiens perdus sans collier (1955).
context_page_description: Jean Gabin was a French actor and sometime singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films including Pépé le Moko, La grande illusion, Le Quai des brumes, La bête humaine, Le jour se lève, and Le plaisir. Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema.
context_section_description: In 1945 Carné chose Gabin to star in the film Gates of the Night with Dietrich as his co-star. She disliked the screenplay and feared her German accent would not go over well with postwar French audiences. When she withdrew from the project, Gabin followed suit, leading to a falling out with Carné. He found a French producer and director willing to cast him and Dietrich together, but the film, Martin Roumagnac, was not a success and their personal relationship soon ended. In 1948 Gabin starred in René Clément's poetic realist film The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles), which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Picture but garnered little recognition for Gabin. In 1949 he starred in his only role in legitimate theatre in Henri Bernstein's La Soif. It ran in Paris for six months, with Gabin critically praised as "a first-rate stage actor." Despite this recognition, his subsequent films did not do well at the French box office, and the next five years brought repeated failures.
caption: Gabin in The Little Rebels (1955)
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