''The Devil's Holiday'' (French:''Les vacances du diable'') is a 1931 American-French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and film producer, producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti".
Early life
Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, ...
and starring
Marcelle Chantal
Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) was a French stage and film actress. Chantal appeared in a number of leading roles in films such as Maurice Tourneur's '' In the Name of the Law'' (1932). Early in her career she married British banker Jefferson ...
,
Thomy Bourdelle
Thomy Charles Bourdelle (20 April 1891 – 27 June 1972) was a French actor.
Bourdelle was born in Paris and died in Toulon, Var, France.
Selected filmography
*'' Roger la Honte'' (1922)
* '' Surcouf'' (1925)
* '' Jocaste'' (1925)
* ''Jean ...
and
Jacques Varennes
Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film '' The Patriot''.Waldman p.156
Selected filmography
* ...
. It is the
French-language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
version of ''
The Devil's Holiday
''The Devil's Holiday'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code film starring Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, ZaSu Pitts, James Kirkwood, Sr., Hobart Bosworth, and Ned Sparks, and released by Paramount Pictures.
The movie was adapted by Edmund Goulding f ...
'' (1930).
[Gevinson p.328] It was made at the
Joinville Studios
The Joinville Studios were a film studio in Paris which operated between 1910 and 1987. They were one of the leading French studios, with major companies such as Pathé and Gaumont making films there.
A second studio was added to the original ...
in
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 ...
by the French subsidiary of
Paramount Pictures
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which invested heavily in
multi-language version
A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets. To offset the marketing restrictions of making sound films in only one ...
s during the early years of
sound
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In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
.
Cast
*
Marcelle Chantal
Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) was a French stage and film actress. Chantal appeared in a number of leading roles in films such as Maurice Tourneur's '' In the Name of the Law'' (1932). Early in her career she married British banker Jefferson ...
as Betty Williams
*
Thomy Bourdelle
Thomy Charles Bourdelle (20 April 1891 – 27 June 1972) was a French actor.
Bourdelle was born in Paris and died in Toulon, Var, France.
Selected filmography
*'' Roger la Honte'' (1922)
* '' Surcouf'' (1925)
* '' Jocaste'' (1925)
* ''Jean ...
as Mark Stone
*
Jacques Varennes
Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film '' The Patriot''.Waldman p.156
Selected filmography
* ...
as Charlie Thorne
*
Robert Hommet as Allan Stone
*
Maurice Schutz
Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film actor.
He starred in some 91 films between 1918 and 1952.
Selected filmography
* ''Quatre-vingt-treize'' (1920)
* '' Au-delà des lois humaines'' (1920)
* ''The Three Masks'' ...
as David Stone
*
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Jeanne Fusier-Gir (1885–1973) was a French stage actor, stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir.Rège p. 442
Selected filmography
* ''The Crime of Sylvestre Bonn ...
as La standardiste
*
Pierre Richard-Willm
Pierre Richard-Willm (3 November 1895 – 12 April 1983) was a French stage and film actor during the 1930s and 1940s."Pierre Richard-Willm" aCiné-Ressources Retrieved 1 November 2020.
Biography
Pierre Richard-Willm (originally Alexandre-Pi ...
as Dr. Reynolds
*
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 Kent Carr
*
Lucien Callamand
Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand (April 1, 1888, in Marseille – December 3, 1968, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career spanned six decades of French cinema. Between 1909 ...
as Hammond
*
Raymond Leboursier
Raymond Leboursier (22 May 1917 – 26 July 1987) was a French film editor, film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Filmography
Actor
* 1930: ''Le Réquisitoire'' (first title of the film: ''Homicide'') by Dimitri Buchowetzki
* 1931: ''The ...
as Monk McConnell
*
Rachel Launay
Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt ...
as Mary
*
Charlotte Martens
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as Anna
*
Jeanne Frédérique
Jeanne may refer to:
Places
* Jeanne (crater), on Venus
People
* Jeanne (given name)
* Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431)
* Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374)
* Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384)
* Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Americ ...
References
Bibliography
* Alan Gevinson. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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1931 films
1931 drama films
American drama films
French drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Films shot at Joinville Studios
Paramount Pictures films
French multilingual films
French black-and-white films
American black-and-white films
1931 multilingual films
1930s American films
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