''Les Femmes collantes'' is a

French film French cinema consists of the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad. It is the oldest and largest precursor of national cinemas in Europe; with primary influ ...

released in 1938, directed by Pierre Caron. It is based on the 1886

opéra bouffe Opéra bouffe (, plural: ''opéras bouffes'') is a genre of late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, inspiring the genre's name. Opéras bouff ...

of the same name by Léon Gandillot, and was preceded by a 1920 film written by Gandillot and directed by Georges Monca with Charles Prince.

Plot

Jacques Badinois is a wealthy lawyer with three women bent on marrying him: his mistress, a young widow, and his maid. He and his clerk's intended fiancée then fall in love. He gives all four women the same date and time for their wedding, and marries her.

Cast

* Henri Garat : Jacques Badinois *

Josseline Gaël Josseline Gaël (born Jeannine Augustine Jeanne Blanleuil; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1995) was a French actress who specialised in comedy roles. She is best remembered for her portrayal of Cosette in the 1934 film adaptation of Les Misérable ...

: Eloïse Duboucher * Betty Stockfeld : Gladys Grey * Mona Goya : Rose, the Badinois maid *

Pierre Stéphen Pierre Stéphen (1890–1980) was a French film actor.Goble p.346 Selected filmography * ''Irène'' (1920) * ''La dette'' (1920) * ''Gigolette'' (1921) * ''La brèche d'enfer'' (1923) - Le Vicomte de La Cardière * ''Le double piège'' (1923) * ...

: Hippolyte Loupiot, Badinois' clerk *

Armand Bernard Armand Bernard (born Armand Joseph Bernard; 21 March 1893 – 13 June 1968) was a French comic actor and composer known mainly for his prolific work in film. Selected filmography * '' Le traitement du hoquet'' (1918) * '' The Little Cafe ...

: Séraphin Campluchard, undertaker *

Marguerite Moreno Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau; 15 September 1871, Paris - 14 July 1948, Touzac, Lot) was a French stage and film actress. On 12 September 1900, in England, she married the writer Marcel Schwob, whom she had met in 1895 ...

: Madame Mourillon * : Monique Mourillon *

Marcel Vallée Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films. Selected filmography * '' ...

: Joseph Mourillon *

Jeanne Fusier-Gir Jeanne Fusier-Gir (1885–1973) was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir.Rège p. 442 Selected filmography * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (192 ...

: the Mourillon maid * Jean Tissier : Claude Patrice, fashion designer *

Marcel Pérès Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès w ...

: bailiff * * Marie Cruz * Willy Léardy * Monique Monnier

Release

''Les Femmes collantes'' opened in Paris on 27 April 1938. It was re-released on video in 2015 by René Chateau Vidéo.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Femmes collantes, Les French comedy films Operetta films French black-and-white films Films directed by Pierre Caron 1938 romantic comedy films 1930s French films