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-{{Template}}'''Eugène Brieux''' ([[January 19]], [[1858]] - [[December 6]], [[1932]]), [[France|French]] [[dramatist]], was born in [[Paris]] of poor parents. Two American films by the name ''[[Damage Goods]]'' were based on one of his plays.+{{Template}}
- +'''Eugène Brieux''' ([[January 19]], [[1858]] - [[December 6]], [[1932]]), [[France|French]] [[dramatist]], was born in [[Paris]] of poor parents. Two American films by the name ''[[Damaged Goods]]'' were based on his play ''[[Les Avariés]]'' ([[1901]]), forbidden by the censor, on account of its medical details on [[STD]]s, was read privately by the author at the [[Théâtre Antoine]].
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-Although DAMAGED GOODS is one of the 50% of films made before 1950 to be lost, it is worth commenting on it here to express its importance in telling about venereal diseases before film and literature dealt with that subject regularly. The film deals with Sexually-Transmitted Diseases as contacted to a young student by an older girl. The story deals with a young college graduate who doesn't know what to do with his future. He is applauded by his parents and their friends at their Los Angeles home. One night, he meets an older woman who is a friend of his parents. Since the woman's husband is not home, the graduate drops her off at her house, then she ends up inviting him inside and seducing him. (Sound familiar?) The film could be entertaining today...if it survived. Richard Bennett stars as the college graduate(yes, that is the same Richard Bennett who played Major Amberson in Orson Welles' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS [1942]). Anyhow, don't despair film buffs! Preservationists like Brownlow, Shepard, and the UCLA film preservation committee have salvaged hundreds of films once thought lost. One day, this artifact might turn up in somebody's basement or some long-forgotten film vault in some old forgotten Hollywood studio. One can only hope... --http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003815/ [May 2005] +
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-Damaged Goods (1937) - Phil Goldstone +
-During the late 1930s and into the '40s, this film was constantly revived on the roadshow circuit with a spicy ad campaign and a new title: "Forbidden Desires". Surviving publicity material shows plenty of lascivious appeal but mentions nothing about the film being about venereal disease. --http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028754/ +
 +== More plays ==
A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before he obtained another hearing, his ''Ménage d'artistes'' being produced by [[André Antoine (actor)|Antoine]] at the Théâtre Libre in 1890. A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before he obtained another hearing, his ''Ménage d'artistes'' being produced by [[André Antoine (actor)|Antoine]] at the Théâtre Libre in 1890.
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''Les trois filles de M. Dupont '' (1897) is a powerful, somewhat brutal, study of the miseries imposed on poor middle-class girls by the French system of [[dowry]]; ''Le Résultat des courses'' (1898) shows the evil results of betting among the Parisian workmen; ''La Robe rouge'' (1900) was directed against the injustices of the law; ''Les Remplaçantes'' (1901) against the practice of putting children out to nurse. ''Les trois filles de M. Dupont '' (1897) is a powerful, somewhat brutal, study of the miseries imposed on poor middle-class girls by the French system of [[dowry]]; ''Le Résultat des courses'' (1898) shows the evil results of betting among the Parisian workmen; ''La Robe rouge'' (1900) was directed against the injustices of the law; ''Les Remplaçantes'' (1901) against the practice of putting children out to nurse.
-''Les Avariés'' (1901), forbidden by the censor, on account of its medical details, was read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine; and ''Petite amie'' (1902) describes the life of a Parisian shop-girl.+''Petite amie'' (1902) describes the life of a Parisian shop-girl.
Later plays are ''La Couvée'' (1903, acted privately at Rouen in 1893), ''Maternité'' (1904), ''La Déserteuse'' (1904), in collaboration with M. [[Jean Sigaux]], and ''Les Hannetons'', a comedy in three acts (1906). Later plays are ''La Couvée'' (1903, acted privately at Rouen in 1893), ''Maternité'' (1904), ''La Déserteuse'' (1904), in collaboration with M. [[Jean Sigaux]], and ''Les Hannetons'', a comedy in three acts (1906).

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Eugène Brieux (January 19, 1858 - December 6, 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents. Two American films by the name Damaged Goods were based on his play Les Avariés (1901), forbidden by the censor, on account of its medical details on STDs, was read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine.

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A one-act play, Bernard Palissy, written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before he obtained another hearing, his Ménage d'artistes being produced by Antoine at the Théâtre Libre in 1890.

His plays are essentially didactic, being aimed at some weakness or iniquity of the social system. Blanchette (1892) pointed out the civic results of education of girls of the working classes; Monsieur de Réboval (1892) was directed against pharisaism; L'Engrenage (1894) against corruption in politics; Les Bienfaiteurs (1896) against the frivolity of fashionable charity; and L'Évasion (1896) satirized an indiscriminate belief in the doctrine of heredity.

Les trois filles de M. Dupont (1897) is a powerful, somewhat brutal, study of the miseries imposed on poor middle-class girls by the French system of dowry; Le Résultat des courses (1898) shows the evil results of betting among the Parisian workmen; La Robe rouge (1900) was directed against the injustices of the law; Les Remplaçantes (1901) against the practice of putting children out to nurse.

Petite amie (1902) describes the life of a Parisian shop-girl.

Later plays are La Couvée (1903, acted privately at Rouen in 1893), Maternité (1904), La Déserteuse (1904), in collaboration with M. Jean Sigaux, and Les Hannetons, a comedy in three acts (1906).

Eugène Brieux died in 1932 and was interred in the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes on the French Riviera.





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