''Monsieur Octave'' is a 1951 French
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Maurice Boutel Maurice Boutel (30 July 1923, at Maghnia in Algeria - 5 January 2003 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) was a French film director, screenwriter and dialoguist.
Filmography
;Director
* 1951 : '' The Case of Doctor Galloy '' (under his real nam ...
and starring
Pierre Larquey
Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77.
Selected filmography
* ''Patr ...
,
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 was ...
and
Mady Berry
Mady Berry (14 October 1887 – 18 January 1965) was a French stage and film actress.Waldman p.146
Selected filmography
* '' Gloria'' (1931)
* ''All That's Not Worth Love'' (1931)
* '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931)
* ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931)
...
.
[Bessy, Bernard & Chirat p.450] A recently retired railway worker borrows money to build a new house.
Cast
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Pierre Larquey
Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77.
Selected filmography
* ''Patr ...
as Monsieur Octave
*
Paul Azaïs
Paul François Robert Azaïs (6 May 1902 – 17 November 1974) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1929 and 1966.
Selected filmography
* ''The Three Masks'' (1929) - Le fils Vescotelli
* ''Le défenseur'' (1 ...
*
Mady Berry
Mady Berry (14 October 1887 – 18 January 1965) was a French stage and film actress.Waldman p.146
Selected filmography
* '' Gloria'' (1931)
* ''All That's Not Worth Love'' (1931)
* '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931)
* ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931)
...
*
Georges Bever
Georges Bever (1884–1973) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.38
Selected filmography
* '' The Crystal Submarine '' (1927)
* ''The Man in Evening Clothes'' (1931)
* '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931)
* ''Fun in the Barracks'' ( ...
*
Raymond Cordy
*
Léonce Corne
Léonce Charles Corne (18 March 1894 – 31 December 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1974.
Selected filmography
* ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931)
* ''Luck'' (1931)
* ''The Premature Father'' (1933)
...
*
Irène de Trebert
Irène de Trebert (1921–1996) was a French singer, dancer and actress.Larry Portis p.104 A singer of Swing music, she enjoyed great popularity during the years of the German occupation of France despite Nazi disapproval of her style of music. I ...
*
Édouard Delmont
Édouard Delmont (5 December 1883 – 22 November 1955) was a French actor born Édouard Marius Autran in Marseille. He died in Cannes at age 72.
Filmography
*1930 : '' L'Arlésienne'' de Jacques de Baroncelli
*1930 : ''Maison de danses'' de ...
*
Juliette Faber
Juliette Faber (1919–2008) was a Luxembourg-born French stage and film actress.Goble p.428
Selected filmography
* ''Happy Days'' (1941)
* '' The Strangers in the House'' (1942)
* '' Shop Girls of Paris'' (1943)
* ''The Temptation of Barbizon'' ...
*
Grégoire Gromoff
Grégoire is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname / Family name
*Alexandre Grégoire (1922–2001), Haitian painter
* Augustus Gregoire (1936–1972), Dominican cricketer
*Christine Gregoire (born 1947), ...
*
René Génin
René Génin (25 January 1890 – 24 October 1967) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1965.
Selected filmography
* ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936)
* ''27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936)
* ''Nights ...
*
Yvonne Hébert
*
Maximilienne
*
Gaston Modot
Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors.
Biography
Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th cen ...
*
Marguerite Pierry
Marguerite Pierry (26 December 1887, Paris – 20 January 1963, Paris) was a French actress.
Selected filmography
* ''On purge bébé'' (1931)
* '' The Two Boys'' (1936)
* ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937)
* '' Southern Mail'' (1937)
* ''Confl ...
*
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 was ...
*
Guy Saint-Clair
*
Louis Seigner
Louis Seigner (23 June 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a French actor.
He was born in Saint-Chef, Isère, France, the son of Louise (Monin) and Joseph Seigner, and died in Paris. He was the father of actress Françoise Seigner, with Marie Cazeaux, ...
*
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 ...
References
Bibliography
* Maurice Bessy, André Bernard & Raymond Chirat. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955''. Pygmalion, 1989.
External links
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1951 films
1951 comedy films
French comedy films
1950s French-language films
Films directed by Maurice Boutel
French black-and-white films
1950s French films
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