''Let's Make a Dream'' (French: ''Faisons un rêve...'') is a 1936 French
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and follow ...
and starring Guitry,
Raimu
Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946), whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' ('' Marius'', '' Fanny'' and '' César'').
Life and career
Born in T ...
and
Jacqueline Delubac
Jacqueline Delubac (1907–1997) was a French stage and film actress.Williams p.158 She was married to Sacha Guitry and appeared in a number of his productions on both stage and screen.
Selected filmography
* '' Let's Get Married'' (1931)
* '' T ...
.
[Oscherwitz & Higgins p.24] It is an adaptation of the 1916
play of the same title by Guitry.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Robert Gys
Robert Gys (1901–1977) was a French art director.O'Shaughnessy p.238
Selected filmography
* '' Imperial Violets'' (1924)
* ''The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge'' (1925)
* ''Miss Europe'' (1930)
* ''Dance Hall'' (1931)
* '' The Dream'' (1931)
* '' ...
. It was shot at the
Epinay Studios
The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures. The earliest was built in 1902 by Eclair Film. A second studio was controlled by the French subsidia ...
on the outskirts of
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
, and distributed by the French subsidiary of
Tobis Film
Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company. Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as a leading German sound studio. Tob ...
.
Cast
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Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and follow ...
as L'amant
*
Raimu
Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946), whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' ('' Marius'', '' Fanny'' and '' César'').
Life and career
Born in T ...
as Le mari
*
Jacqueline Delubac
Jacqueline Delubac (1907–1997) was a French stage and film actress.Williams p.158 She was married to Sacha Guitry and appeared in a number of his productions on both stage and screen.
Selected filmography
* '' Let's Get Married'' (1931)
* '' T ...
as La femme
*
Arletty
Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat (15 May 1898 – 23 July 1992), known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including '' Hotel du N ...
as Une invitée (prologue)
*
Louis Baron fils
Louis Bouchêne, known as Louis Baron, fils (born Paris 24 December 1870, died Dieppe 30 November 1939), was an actor and singer, who took part in many operettas and comédie-musicales, and was in 30 films between 1929 et 1938. He was the son of ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
Pierre Bertin
Pierre Victor Théophile Bertin (24 October 1891 – 13 May 1984) was a French stage and film actor. In 1948, he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under Sacha Guitry.
He was the librettist of the opéra-comique ''La Gageure imprévue ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
Victor Boucher
Victor Louis Armand Boucher (24 August 1877 – 21 February 1942) was a French actor.
Biography
Victor Boucher was born, on 24 August 1877, in Rouen, in a house on the rue Saint-Étienne-des-Tonneliers. His parents had a café-restaurant in ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
Jean Coquelin
Jean Coquelin (1865–1944) was a French film and stage actor and the son of Benoît-Constant Coquelin
Benoît-Constant Coquelin (; 23 January 184127 January 1909), known as Coquelin aîné ("Coquelin the Elder"), was a French actor, "one of the ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
Claude Dauphin as Un invité (prologue)
*
Rosine Deréan
Rosine Deréan (23 February 1910 – 14 March 2001) was a French actress. She was born in Paris and died in Genille, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Selected filmography
*'' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931)
* '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932)
* ''The Beautiful ...
as Une invitée (prologue)
*
Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert (; born Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865 – 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the ''Belle Époque''.
Biography
Born in Paris into a poor family as Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, Guilbert be ...
as Une invitée (prologue)
*
André Lefaur
André Lefaur (25 July 1879 – 5 December 1952) was a French film and theatre actor, notably working several times with director Sacha Guitry.
Partial filmography
* ''La Vénus d'Arles'' (1911)
* ''L'homme qui assassina'' (1913)
* ''Ainsi v ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
Marcel Lévesque
Marcel Lévesque (6 December 1877 – 16 February 1962) was a French film actor.
Born Joseph Marcel Lévesque in Paris, he died in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames.
Selected filmography
* ''Les Vampires'' (1915)
* ''Judex'' (1916)
* ''La dama de Chez Ma ...
a Un invité (prologue)
*
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 189 ...
as Une invitée (prologue)
*
Gabriel Signoret
Gabriel Signoret (November 15, 1878 – March 16, 1937, in Paris, France) was a French silent film actor.
He starred in some 70 films between 1910 and 1938.
In 1920 he appeared in Guy du Fresnay's ''Flipotte''.
His brother Jean Signoret (bor ...
as Un invité (prologue)
*
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 Un invité (prologue)
*
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People
* Andrée (given name)
* Andree (surname)
Places
* Andree, Minnesota, unincorporated community in Stanchfield Township, Isanti County, Minnesota
* 1296 Andrée, asteroid
* Andrée Land (Svalbard)
* Andrée ...
as Une servante
*
Robert Seller
Robert Seller (1889–1967) was a French stage and film actor.Crisp p.156
Also known by his surname, Seller began his film career in 1931 in Maurice de Canonge's film, ''Olive se marie''. He had parts in many films and plays by Sacha Guitry, i ...
as Un maître d'hôtel
*
Louis Kerly
Louis Kerly (1872–1936) was a French stage actor, stage and film actor.Goble p.475
Selected filmography
* ''In Old Alsace (1920 film), In Old Alsace'' (1920)
* ''The Bread Peddler (1923 film), The Bread Peddler'' (1923)
* ''The Two Boys (1924 f ...
as Le valet de chambre
References
Bibliography
* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
*
1936 romantic comedy films
1936 films
Films directed by Sacha Guitry
Films shot at Epinay Studios
French films based on plays
French romantic comedy films
1930s French-language films
Tobis Film films
1930s French films
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