''La bonne soupe'' (also known as ''Careless Love'') is a 1964 French film directed by
Robert Thomas.
Plot
A French woman recounts her many complicated romances to a casino croupier.
Cast
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Annie Girardot
Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women und ...
as Marie-Paule (young)
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Marie Bell as Marie-Paule (older)
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Gérard Blain
Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.
Biography
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard ...
as Painter
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Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
Life and career
His rotund features and ...
as Monsieur Joseph
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Jean-Claude Brialy as Jacquot
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Blanchette Brunoy
Blanchette Brunoy (5 October 1915 – 3 April 2005) was a French actress. She was born Blanche Bilhaud in Paris as the daughter of a physician, and died in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence of old age.
Career
Blanchette Brunoy appeared in over ...
as Angèle
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Claude Dauphin as Monsieur Oscar
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Sacha Distel
Alexandre "Sacha" Distel (29 January 1933 – 22 July 2004) was a French singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor who had hits with a cover version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1970, which reached No 10 in the UK Charts, " Scoubidou" ...
as Roger
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Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, ...
as Raymond
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Denise Grey
Denise Grey (born Édouardine Verthuy; 17 September 1896 – 13 January 1996) was an Italian-born actress who became a naturalized French citizen.
Biography
Édouardine Grey was born in Châtillon in the Aosta Valley of north-west Italy, clos ...
as Madame Boudard
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Jane Marken as Madame Alphonse
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Christian Marquand
Christian Marquand (15 March 1927 – 22 November 2000) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Marseille, he was born to a Spanish father and an Arab mother, and his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant. He was often ca ...
as Lucien Volard
Reception
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,800,000 in film rentals to break even and made $1,110,000, meaning it lost money.
References
External links
''La Bonne Soupe''at
TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of A ...
1964 films
1960s French films
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