Marcel Marceau
| Born | March 22, 1923 |
| Hometown | Strasbourg, France |
| Height | 5'9" (1.75m) |
| Spouse | Anne Sicco, Huguette Mallette |
| Children | Camille Marceau, Aurélia Marceau, Michel Marceau, Baptiste Marceau |
| Parents | Charles Mangel, Anne Werzberg |
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Marcel Marceau’s War
Marcel Marceau was the most renowned mime on earth when he died in 2007, but long before that, during the war, he joined the French Resistance and helped some French Jewish children slip over the border to Switzerland. The movie about this, boringly called Resistance, combines clowning under Nazi rule with Alpine escape, so it’s Life Is Beautiful meets The Sound of Music. So call it Life Is Beautiful, Even If There’s a Mime Present. Or maybe The Sound of Mime.Resistance (which is offered via vid
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Review: Jesse Eisenberg brings Marcel Marceau's World War II heroics to life in 'Resistance'
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‘Resistance’ Film Review: Jesse Eisenberg Stretches Himself as Marcel Marceau, Nazi Fighter
Here’s the case for “Resistance”: You literally can’t leave your house right now, it’s a reasonably diverting drama available to stream, and it features Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Édgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Géza Röhrig, and Bella “Lady Mormont” Ramsey.Here’s the case against it: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drama doesn’t add as much to the beyond-crowded World War II genre as it could despite the genuinely compelling true story on which it’s based.Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau, a real-life mim
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'It's so strange': Jesse Eisenberg's new movie 'Vivarium' is coincidentally about a couple trapped at home
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Eisenberg's performance is the giddy standout of a bizarre and half-baked Holocaust thriller that’s otherwise absent any sense of self.
