''The Man of the Hour'' (French: ''L'homme du jour'') is a 1937 French musical film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Maurice Chevalier,

Elvire Popesco Elvira Popescu (; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian- French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Life and career P ...

and

Josette Day Josette Day (Paris, July 31, 1914 – Paris, June 27, 1978) was a French film actress. Born Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory, she began her career as a child actress in 1919 at the age of five. When she was 18, Day was the mistress of Paul M ...

.Mazdon & Wheatley p.35 The film was shot 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 ...

, with sets designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. An ordinary man saves the life of a great actress by giving blood, and she in turns decides to promote him as a singing star.

Partial cast

* Maurice Chevalier as Alfred Boulard / Himself *

as Mona Thalia *

as Suzanne Petit * Raymond Aimos as Le vieux cabot *

André Alerme André Alerme (9 September 1877 – 31 January 1960) was a French actor. Alerme was born Marie André Alerme in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and died at the age of 82 in Montrichard, Loir-et-Cher, France. Selected filmography * ''Black and Wh ...

as François-Théophile Cormier de la Creuse * Marguerite Deval as Mme Christoforo *

Marcelle Géniat Marcelle Géniat (1881-1959) was a French film actress.Goble p. 121 She was born Eugénie Pauline Martin in St. Petersburg, Russia, to French parents. Partial filmography * ''Le retour du passé'' (1916) * ''L'imprévu'' (1917) - Hélène Rav ...

as Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'Alfred * Paulette Élambert as La petite soeur de Suzanne * Robert Lynen as Milot - l'apprenti électricien * Marcelle Praince as Mme Pinchon - une pensionnaire *

Robert Pizani Robert Pizani (26 April 1896 – 17 June 1965) was a French stage and film actor whose 45-year career encompassed leading roles in numerous plays, revues and operettas as well as dozens of films. In operetta Pizani's roles in operetta and musica ...

as Le poète efféminé *

Pierre Sergeol Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

as La Breloque * Charlotte Barbier-Krauss as Mme Legal - la patronne de la pension de famille * Simone Deguyse as La petite femme à la terrasse du café *

Renée Devillers Renée Devillers (1902–2000) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.328 Selected filmography * ''The Sweetness of Loving'' (1930) * '' The Man of the Hour'' (1937) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Roger la Honte'' ( ...

as Fanny Couvrain - la fille aux fleurs *

Fernand Fabre Fernand Fabre (1899–1987) was a French stage, television and film actor.Goble p.49 Selected filmography * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' The Indictment'' (1931) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1934) * '' ...

as Le peintre à la réception *

Jeanne Fusier-Gir Jeanne Fusier-Gir (1885–1973) was a French 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 Bonnard'' (192 ...

as La chanteuse à l'audition *

Germaine Michel Germaine Michel (7 November 1892 – 9 January 1976) was a French stage and film actress. She was born in Paris and died in Clichy-la-Garenne. Selected filmography * '' The Wandering Beast'' (1932) * '' Cognasse'' (1932) * '' Paprika'' (193 ...

as La bouchère * Missia as La dame du monde à la réception

References

Bibliography

* Lucy Mazdon & Catherine Wheatley. ''Je T Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations''. Berghahn Books, 2010.

External links

* 1937 films French musical films 1937 musical films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Julien Duvivier Films shot at Joinville Studios French black-and-white films 1930s French films {{musical-film-stub