''Lake of Ladies'' or ''Ladies Lake'' (French: ''Lac aux dames'') is a 1934 French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...
and starring
Rosine Deréan,
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 ...
and
Illa Meery.
[Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.78]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Lazare Meerson
Lazare Meerson (1900–1938) was a Russian-born cinema art director. After emigrating to France in the early 1920s, he worked on French films of the late silent cinema and the early 1930s, particularly those directed by René Clair and Jacques F ...
. It is based on a novel by
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as ''Grand Hotel (novel), Gran ...
. It was released by the French branch of
Tobis Film
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.
Cast
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Rosine Deréan as Danny Lyssenhop
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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 Puck
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Illa Meery as Anika
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Odette Joyeux
Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist.
Biography
She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 19 ...
as Carla Lyssenhop
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Maroulka as Vefi
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont (born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons; 5 January 1911 – 30 January 2001) was a French actor, and holder of the Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Croix de Guerre for his World War II military service.
Ea ...
as Eric Heller
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Vladimir Sokoloff
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a Russian-American character actor of stage and screen. After studying theatre in Moscow, ...
as Baron Dobbersberg
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Maurice Rémy Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
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Le comte Stereny
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Paul Asselin as Brindel
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Romain Bouquet
Romain may refer to:
People
Given name
* Romain Bussine (1830–1899), French poet and voice professor
* Romain Rolland (1866–1944), French writer
* Romain de Tirtoff (1892–1990), French artist and designer known as Erté
* Romain Belleng ...
as L'aubergiste
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Eugène Dumas as Matz
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Michel Simon
Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss-French actor. He appeared in many notable French films, including ''La Chienne'' (1931), ''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (1932), ''L'Atalante'' (1934), ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' The He ...
as Oscar Lyssenhop
*
Anthony Gildès
Anthony Gildès (13 August 1856 – 6 October 1941) was a French actor.
Anthony Gildès was born Anatole Gleizes in Metz, France. He died in Paris at age 85.
Selected filmography
* '' The Zone of Death'' (1917)
* '' The Torture of Silence'' (191 ...
*
Germaine Reuver
Germaine Reuver (1885–1953) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.18
Selected filmography
* '' Miss Helyett'' (1933)
* '' Lake of Ladies'' (1934)
* '' Inspector of the Red Cars'' (1935)
* '' Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935)
* '' Caprices' ...
See also
* ''
The Three Women of Urban Hell
''The Three Women of Urban Hell'' (german: Die drei Frauen von Urban Hell) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Mona Maris, Fred Doederlein, and Hilde Maroff. It was shot at the Marienfelde Studios of Terra Film in Be ...
'' (1928)
References
Bibliography
* Bergfelder, Tim & Harris, Sue & Street, Sarah. ''Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema''. Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
External links
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1934 films
1934 drama films
1930s French-language films
French drama films
Films based on Austrian novels
Films directed by Marc Allégret
French black-and-white films
Remakes of German films
Sound film remakes of silent films
1930s French films
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