
Known for
Directing
Born
August 14, 1899
Birthplace
Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Died
April 24, 1995 (aged 95)
Born to a French Jewish father and a Polish Catholic mother in present-day Poland, Marie Epstein moved to Switzerland with her mother Hélène and her brother Jean after the death of her father Jules in January 1907. The Epsteins later established themselves in Lyon, France, where Jean was completing his studies, and then in Paris around 1922, just a few months before Jean directed his first two feature films, L’Auberge Rouge (1923) and Coeur fidèle (1923). It was also in the early 1920s that Marie became involved in the world of cinema. She started as an actress—in L’Auberge rouge, where she appeared as an extra in just a few early shots, and in Coeur fidèle, two films that she co-wrote with...
2011
as Self (archive footage)
1962
as Self
1958
First Assistant Director
1938
Director
1937
Director, Writer
1936
Writer
1934
Director
1933
Director, Writer
1931
Director, Writer
1930
Writer, Producer, Assistant Director
1929
Director
1928
Director
1927
Writer
1927
Director
1925
Writer
1925
Writer
1923
as Crippled Woman, Writer
1923
Screenplay