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directed by Albert Valentin and starring

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, Elvire Popesco and

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. It was shot in

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by the German studio

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in a co-production arrangement with its own French subsidiary ACE. Made before the

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broke out, it was the last of twenty one such productions.Fiss p.136

Cast

as Bienaimé de Mondésir, le baron de Mondésir & ses aïeux * Elvire Popesco as Erika Axelos *

as Waldemar * Gaby André as Janine Richard - La postière *

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as Rosette *

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as L'ordonnateur * Yves Deniaud as Gaston *

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as Lepetit * Henri Beaulieu as Le colonel * Lucien Dayle as Le notaire * Marfa d'Hervilly as La cliente de Waldemer * Fernand Flament as Martinot *

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as Costecalde *

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as Justin - Le chauffeur * Simone Gauthier as La première jeune fille du ciel * Édouard Delmont as Firmin - Le majordome des Mondésir * Tramel as Le curé * Mathilde Alberti as Madame Cassard *

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as Le vitrier * Jacques B. Brunius as Le médecin * Ketti Dallan as Ginette *

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as Le marchand de cycles * Marthe Derminy as Madame Février-Mars * Drejac as Le fils du marchand * Odile Dufay as Mademoiselle de Picoult *

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as Marguerite * Suzy Flory as La commère * Paul Fournier as Le bistro * Sonia Gobar as Lucette * Philippe Grey as Max * Denise Helia as Gaby * Elyane Herenguel as La deuxième jeune fille du ciel * Anna Lefeuvrier as Irma *

Palmyre Levasseur Palmyre Levasseur (24 December 1888 – 4 August 1963) was a French stage and film actress.Aping p.234 Selected filmography * '' Culprit'' (1937) * '' Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' The Emigrant'' (1940) * '' Th ...

as La patronne du bistro * Jeanne Longuet as Raymonde * Marcelly as L'épicière * Jany Marsa as La voisine * I. Mense as L'ami * Auguste Mouriès as Quatrefages * Léo Mouriès as Madame Costecalde * Robert Ozanne as Petit rôle * Roger Peter as Xavier * Rocca as Le petit vieux *

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as Chabernac * Georges Serrano as Petit rôle * Rita Stoya as Clara * Solange Vallée as Mado * Jacques Valois as Jimmy * Ernest Varial as Le charron

References

Bibliography

* Fiss, Karen. ''Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France''. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

External links

* 1940 films 1940 comedy films French comedy films German comedy films 1940s French-language films UFA GmbH films Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche Films with screenplays by Pierre Bost German black-and-white films French black-and-white films 1940s French films {{1940s-France-film-stub