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May 26, 1885 Pélussin, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France Died on 13 Oct 1952 (aged 67)
French playwright and theater director
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About Gaston Baty
- Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 in Pélussin, Loire – 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.
- 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.
