''Holiday for Henrietta'' (french: La fête à Henriette) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by

Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...

, and starring

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Michel Auclair Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born to a Serbian fathe ...

, and

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. While urgently trying to develop a screenplay for a new film, two screenwriters make it up as they bicker. The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was shot at the

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and on location around

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including at the

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cinema. ''Holiday for Henrietta'' was remade in English as the 1964 film ''

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'', starring

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and

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.Crisp p.243

Cast

as Henriette *

as Marcel *

as Rita Solar *

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as script writer *

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as Nicole, script girl *

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as script writer *

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as Robert *

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as detective *

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as Valentine *

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as Gisèle * Liliane Maigné as the cigarette girl *

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as The Concierge

References

Bibliography

* Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958''. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

* 1952 comedy films 1952 films Films directed by Julien Duvivier French comedy films 1950s French-language films Films about screenwriters French black-and-white films Films shot at Billancourt Studios Films shot in Paris Films set in Paris 1950s French films {{1950s-comedy-film-stub