Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 in Pélussin, Loire â€" 13 October 1952),
whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French
playwright and theatre director. His stage adaptation of Gustave
Flaubert's Madame Bovary was presented in an English translation on
Broadway in 1937. Constance Cummings played the title role.[1] Baty is
also the author of a play entitled Dulcinea, which has been filmed
twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that
takes its inspiration from Miguel de Cervantes's great novel Don
Quixote and uses some of its characters. The second film version, made
in 1963, starred Millie Perkins as Dulcinea, and was released in the
U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha. He wrote Vie de l'art théatral, des
origines a nos jours in 1932 with René Chavance.
whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French
playwright and theatre director. His stage adaptation of Gustave
Flaubert's Madame Bovary was presented in an English translation on
Broadway in 1937. Constance Cummings played the title role.[1] Baty is
also the author of a play entitled Dulcinea, which has been filmed
twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that
takes its inspiration from Miguel de Cervantes's great novel Don
Quixote and uses some of its characters. The second film version, made
in 1963, starred Millie Perkins as Dulcinea, and was released in the
U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha. He wrote Vie de l'art théatral, des
origines a nos jours in 1932 with René Chavance.
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