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Fernandel

/ ɛɑ̃ɛ /

noun

  1. Fernandel19031971MFrenchTHEATRE: comic film actor real name Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin . 1903–71, French comic film actor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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She laughed again and told me there was a Fernandel movie she’d like to see.

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He's like a subtler Fernandel, Walter Matthau but less misanthropic, Jack Lemmon without the self-pitying tetchiness.

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Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences.

Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama.

This wild oat is somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa.

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