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DUVIVIER JULIEN: (1896-1967) - DUVIVIER JULIEN: (1896-1967) French film director. A.L.S., Julien Duvivier , two pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. ( 'Lundi 6' , c.1938/39), to a friend, in French. Duvivier states that he hasn't received any news from his friend and continues, in part, 'Je suis en bagarre feroce avec Lauran au sujet de La fin du jour. Il veut le sortir au Colisee. Moi je ne veux pas. Devant les menaces, ils sont hesitants. Mais ils ont des contrats signes. Si le film sort dans cette salle je ne leur ferai pas le prochain prevu dans mon contrat......En ce qui concerne le film lui-meme, j'ai fait encore des petites coupures. On enregistre la musique le 10.....La copie definitive ne sera guere prete avant la premiere semaine de Mars. ”La Grande Valse” sort dans ce meme debut de Mars au Marignan.....Ce que je vais tourne n'est pas encore decide.....Les bons scenarii sont rarissimes' (Translation: 'I'm in a fierce fight with Lauran over The End of the Day. He wants to take it out at the Coliseum. Me, I do not want. Faced with threats, they are hesitant. But they have signed contracts. If the film is released in this theater I will not make the next one provided for in my contract......As for the film itself, I still made small cuts. We recorded the music on the 10th.....The final copy will hardly be ready before the first week of March. “La Grande Valse” comes out at the beginning of March at the Marignan.....What I am going to shoot is not yet decided.....Good scenarios are extremely rare' ) and in a postscript mentions having telephoned Jean Gabin and that they had dinner together. Some creasing and with an area of paper loss to the lower left corner, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise about VG Duvivier refers to his drama film La Fin du jour (1939) and his biographical film The Great Waltz (1938) which was very loosely based on the life of Johann Strauss II.