Editing Jean Renoir (section)

===Hollywood===
After Germany invaded France in May 1940, Renoir fled to the United States with Dido Freire.<ref>Durgnat, p. 222.</ref><ref>Thompson and LoBianco, p. 87</ref> "Dido and I travelled by sea from Marseilles to Algeria, Morocco and Lisbon... At Lisbon we got places on an American ship, and I was delighted to find myself sharing a cabin with none other than the writer Saint-Exupéry."<ref>{{cite book| author=Jean Renoir| title=My Life and My Films| page=183}}</ref> In [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]], Renoir had difficulty finding projects that suited him.<ref>Volk, pp. 10–30</ref> His first American film, ''[[Swamp Water]]'' (1941), was a drama starring [[Dana Andrews]] and [[Walter Brennan]]. He co-produced and directed an anti-[[Nazi]] film set in France, ''[[This Land Is Mine (film)|This Land Is Mine]]'' (1943), starring [[Maureen O'Hara]] and [[Charles Laughton]].<ref>Durgnat, pp. 234–236.</ref><ref>Thompson and LoBianco, p. 183</ref> ''[[The Southerner (1945 film)|The Southerner]]'' (1945) is a film about [[Texas]] [[sharecropping|sharecroppers]] that is often regarded as his best American film. He was nominated  for an [[Academy Award for Directing]] for this work.<ref>Durgnat, p. 244</ref><ref>Bazin, p. 103</ref><ref name= honorary74>{{cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org |title= Jean Renoir |publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | website= awardsdatabase.oscars.org |date= | quote= 1974 (47th) HONORARY AWARD To Jean Renoir – a genius who, with grace, responsibility and enviable devotion through silent film, sound film, feature, documentary and television, has won the world's admiration. |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref>

''[[The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946 film)|Diary of a Chambermaid]]'' (1946) is an adaptation of the [[Octave Mirbeau]] novel, ''Le Journal d'une femme de chambre'', starring [[Paulette Goddard]] and [[Burgess Meredith]].<ref>Thompson and LoBianco, pp. 165–169.</ref><ref>Durgnat, p. 252.</ref> His ''[[The Woman on the Beach]]'' (1947), starring [[Joan Bennett]] and [[Robert Ryan]], was heavily reshot and reedited after it fared poorly among preview audiences in California.<ref>Durgnat, p. 261.</ref> Both films were poorly received; they were the last films Renoir made in America.<ref>Durgnat, p. 259.</ref><ref>Volk, p. 24.</ref><ref>''My Life and My Films'', p. 247</ref> At this time, Renoir became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States.<ref>Thompson and LoBianco, pp. 207, 270</ref>