''Moutonnet'' is a 1936 French
comedy film
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directed by
René Sti
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and starring
Noël-Noël
Noël-Noël (born Lucien Noël, 9 August 1897 – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter.
Partial filmography
* ''La prison en folie'' (1931) - Yves Larsac
* '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) - Léon Mirol
* '' Mistigri ...
,
Lucien Rozenberg
Lucien Rozenberg (11 June 1874 – 1 November 1947) was a French actor, theatre director, playwright and film director. He was principally known as a stage performer, but during the First World War he starred in a series of short comedy films, and ...
and
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 H ...
.
[Crisp p.408]
Cast
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Noël-Noël
Noël-Noël (born Lucien Noël, 9 August 1897 – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter.
Partial filmography
* ''La prison en folie'' (1931) - Yves Larsac
* '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) - Léon Mirol
* '' Mistigri ...
as Moutonnet et Mérac
*
Lucien Rozenberg
Lucien Rozenberg (11 June 1874 – 1 November 1947) was a French actor, theatre director, playwright and film director. He was principally known as a stage performer, but during the First World War he starred in a series of short comedy films, and ...
as Dumonthal
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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 H ...
as Frècheville
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Janine Crispin
Janine Crispin (25 June 1911 – 18 June 2001) was a French film and television actress.Goble p.65
Selected filmography
* ''Court Waltzes'' (1933)
* '' High and Low'' (1933)
* '' Song of Farewell'' (1934)
* '' Second Bureau'' (1935)
* '' The Sec ...
as Élise
*
Suzy Prim
Suzy Prim (11 October 1896 – 7 July 1991) was a French actress.
She was born Suzanne Mariette Arduini in Paris and died in 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She began her screen career as a child actress during the silent era.
Selected fil ...
as Dolly
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as L'amie d'Élise
*
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 ...
as Le garçon d'étage
*
Rodolphe Marcilly
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as L'esthète prétentieux
*
Léon Arvel
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*
Nina Bertin
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Jacques B. Brunius
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Assistan ...
*
Marcel Carpentier
Marcel Maurice Carpentier (2 March 1895 – 14 September 1977) was a French Army general who served in World War I, World War II and First Indochina War.
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Born on 2 March 1895 in Marseille, he was the eldest son in his family. At 1 ...
*
Eddy Debray
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Jean Deiss
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* Jean ...
*
Allain Dhurtal
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*Marcel Allain (1885â ...
*
Marcel Duhamel
Marcel Duhamel (16 July 1900 in Paris – 6 March 1977 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var) was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir's 1936 ''The Crime of Monsieur Lange''.
In ...
*
Louis Florencie
Louis Florencie (4 December 1896 – 4 December 1951) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1927 and 1951.
Selected filmography
* ''Companion Wanted'' (1932)
* ''Beauty Spot (film), Beauty Spot'' (1932)
* ''Suza ...
*
Anthony Gildès
Anthony Gildès (13 August 1856 – 6 October 1941) was a French actor.
Anthony Gildès was born Anatole Gleizes in Metz, France. He died in Paris at age 85.
Selected filmography
* '' The Zone of Death'' (1917)
* '' The Torture of Silence'' (191 ...
*
Paul Gury
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Claire Gérard
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*
Marcel Lupovici
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*
Albert Malbert
Albert Malbert (1914–1972) was a French film actor.Goble p.66
Selected filmography
* ''The Crisis is Over'' (1934)
* '' Return to Paradise'' (1935)
* ''Bach the Detective'' (1936)
* ''Moutonnet'' (1936)
* ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936)
* ''Culpr ...
*
Gaston Mauger
Gaston Mauger (13 March 1878 – 18 October 1954) was a French stage and film actor. He made around forty film appearances, including the 1932 thriller '' Narcotics''.Youngkin p.465
Selected filmography
* ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929)
* '' Acc ...
*
Marcel Melrac
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*
Georges Montel
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Georges Paulais
Georges Paulais (16 September 1884 – 12 December 1967) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born in Guimps, Charente, France and died in Chabanais, Charente, France.
Selected filmograph ...
*
Émile Saint-Ober
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René Wheeler
René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film ''A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination i ...
References
Bibliography
* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.
External links
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1936 comedy films
French comedy films
1936 films
1930s French-language films
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
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