''A Son from America'' (French: ''Un fils d'Amérique'') is a 1932 French-Hungarian

comedy drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by

Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Itali ...

and starring Albert Préjean, Annabella, and

Gaston Dubosc Gaston Dubosc (1861–1941) was a French stage and film actor.Goble p.38 Selected filmography * '' A Gentleman of the Ring'' (1932) * '' A Son from America'' (1932) * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * ''Once Upon a Time'' (1933) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1 ...

.Driskell p.208 It was a co-production made at the Hunnia Film Studios in

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. The same story had previously been made into a 1924 silent film of the same name.

Cast

* Albert Préjean as Pierre Berterin * Annabella as Dorette *

as M. Berterin *

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as Guy Dupont *

Henri Kerny Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

as Mouchin *

Jane Loury Jeanne Loury or Jane Loury (1876–1951) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.199 Selected filmography * '' My Aunt from Honfleur'' (1923) * '' House in the Sun'' (1929) * ''All That's Not Worth Love'' (1931) * '' A Son from America'' (1 ...

as Mme. Mouchin *

Simone Simon Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon (23 April 1910 or 1911 – 22 February 2005) was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. Early life Born in Marseille, France, she was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin Clair Simon, a French J ...

as Maryse

References

Bibliography

* Jonathan Driskell. ''The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France''. I.B.Tauris, 2015.

External links

* 1932 films 1932 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films Hungarian comedy-drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Carmine Gallone Remakes of French films Sound film remakes of silent films French films based on plays French black-and-white films Hungarian black-and-white films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub