''Parisian Life'' (French:''La Vie parisienne'') is a 1936 French
musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...
directed by
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as ''The Killers'' (19 ...
and starring
Max Dearly,
Conchita Montenegro
Conchita Montenegro (born Concepción Andrés Picado; September 11, 1911 – April 22, 2007) was a Spanish model, dancer, stage and screen actress. She was educated in a convent in Madrid.
Multitalented
Montenegro first worked professionally ...
and
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.447]
The film was made by
Nero Film, run by the émigré producer
Seymour Nebenzal
Seymour Nebenzal (22 July 1899 – 23 September 1961) was an American-born Jewish-German film producer. He produced 46 films between 1927 and 1961.
Biography Germany
He got into film production through his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (1870– ...
. It is based on the opera
La Vie parisienne. The film's sets were designed by
Jacques Colombier. A separate
English-language version, called ''
Parisian Life'', was also produced. The production was not a success, causing financial problems for the company.
Cast
*
Max Dearly as Ramiro Mendoza
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Conchita Montenegro
Conchita Montenegro (born Concepción Andrés Picado; September 11, 1911 – April 22, 2007) was a Spanish model, dancer, stage and screen actress. She was educated in a convent in Madrid.
Multitalented
Montenegro first worked professionally ...
as Helenita
*
as Jacques Mendoza
*
Christian-Gérard
Christian Gérard Mazas (4 October 1903 – 27 July 1984), known as Christian-Gérard,Sometimes spelt without hyphen. was a French stage and film actor as well as theater director.
Theatre
Comedian
* 1932 : ' by Jacques Deval, directed by J ...
as Georges
*
Germaine Aussey
Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, December 18, 1909 in Paris – March 15, 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress who worked with, among others, René Clair, Julien Duvivier, Paul Fejos, Jean Grémillon, Marc Allégret, and ...
as Simone
*
Marcelle Praince as Liane d'Ysigny
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Bergeol
*
Valentine Camax
*
Roger Dann
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*
Maurice Devienne
*
Gaston Dupray
Gaston Dupray (8 June 1886 – 12 December 1976) was a Belgian film actor.
Dupray was born Gaston Joseph Dopère in Schaerbeek and died in 1976 in Ixelles. Dupray spent most of his film career working in French cinema.
Selected filmography
* ''A ...
*
Enrico Glori
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*
Jacques Henley
Jacques Henley (born Jacques Dhote) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Our Masters, the Servants'' (1930)
* ''The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930)
* ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931)
* '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932)
* ''The Regiment's Champ ...
*
Richard Lamy
*
Georges Morton
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Jean Périer
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*
Claude Roussell
*
Germaine Sablon
Germaine Sablon (19 July 1899 at Le Perreux-sur-Marne – 17 April 1985 at Saint-Raphael) was a French singer, film actress and a WWII French Resistance fighter.
She starred in some 15 films between 1920 and 1956.
Biography
Germaine Sablon ...
*
Sinoël
*
Michèle Morgan
Michèle Morgan (; née Simone Renée Roussel; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered to have been one of the g ...
as Extra
*
Austin Trevor
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He played the parson in John Galsworthy's ''Escape'' at the world premiere in London's West End in 1926 an ...
as Don Joâo
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
1936 films
French musical films
1936 musical films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Films set in Paris
French multilingual films
Films based on operettas
French black-and-white films
1936 multilingual films
1930s French films
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