Director

Emmanuelle Arsan

Writing

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 45

TMDB ID: 91574

IMDb ID: nm0037491

Known for: Writing

Born: January 19, 1932

Died: June 12, 2005

Age: 73

Place of birth: Bangkok, Thailand

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1966 - 2024

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 5.2

Wikidata: Q239376

Also known as

Marayat Bibidh • Marayat Rollet-Andriane • Marayat Krasaesin • Marayat Andriane

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Characters (35)Novel (6)Idea (2)Writer (1)

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Biography

'Emmanuelle Arsan' (her pen name, originally Marayat Bibidh) was a Thai writer, actor, and director, best known for her novel "Emmanuelle: Joys of a Woman" which happened at the right place and the right time of women's sexual liberation. It gave birth to a genre of film with the French series "Emmanuelle" starring Sylvia Kristel and many other Italian knockoffs starring Arsan lookalike Laura Gemser. Despite her very limited experience with the film industry (having a small but important role in The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen), Arsan decided to ride the wave and attempt to write and star in her own erotic fantasy film "Forever Emmanuelle" in the late 1970's with a largely Italian cast and crew. Producer Ovidio G. Assonitis had a major falling out with the film's two directors Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, which led to the film being credited to have been "Directed by: Anonymous". This in turn caused speculation that Arsan herself had directed the film.

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