Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company Les Compagnons de la Chimère [The Companions of the Chimera],:157 which mounted productions in a variety of Parisian theatres in the 1920s and 30s.:2 He was also a member of Le Cartel des Quatre [The Cartel of Four], a group of four directors in Paris who offered an alternative to both "academic and commercial theatre".:178 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. Theater director 1919: La Grande Pastorale by Charles Hellem and Pol d'Estoc, Cirque d'hiver 1920–1929 1920: Les Esclaves by Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, Théâtre des Arts 1920: Le Simoun by Henri-René Lenormand, Comédie Montaigne 1921: L'Avare by Molière, Comédie Montaigne 1921: 29 degrés à l'ombre by Eugène Labiche, Comédie Montaigne 1921: Les Amants puérils by Fernand Crommelynck, Comédie Montaigne 1921: Le Héros et le soldat by George Bernard Shaw, Comédie Montaigne 1921: L'annonce faite à Marie by Paul Claudel, Comédie Montaigne 1921: Haya by Herman Grégoire, Comédie des Champs-Élysées 1921: La Belle de Haguenau by Jean Variot, Comédie des Champs-Élysées 1922: Césaire by Jean Schlumberger, Comédie des Champs-Élysées 1922: La Farce de Popa Ghéorghé by Adolphe Orna, Théâtre des Mathurins 1922: Martine by Jean-Jacques Bernard, Théâtre des Mathurins 1922: Intimité by Jean-Victor Pellerin, Théâtre des Mathurins 1922: Le Voyageur by Denys Amiel, Baraque de la Chimère, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1922: Je veux revoir ma Normandie by Lucien Besnard, Baraque de la Chimère, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1922: Cyclone by Simon Gantillon, Baraque de la Chimère, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1922: L'Aube et le soir de Sainte-Geneviève by Marie Diemer, Baraque de la Chimère, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1923: La Souriante Madame Beudet by Denys Amiel and André Obey, Théâtre de l'Odéon 1923: