''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (French: ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'') is a 1930 French
mystery film directed by
Marcel L'Herbier and starring
Roland Toutain
Roland Toutain (October 18, 1905 - October 16, 1977) was a French actor, songwriter and stuntman. He appeared in 55 films between 1924 and 1957, both in leading and supporting roles.
Life and career
Toutain is known for playing the aviator And ...
,
Huguette Duflos, and
Léon Belières.
[The A to Z of French Cinema p.257] It is based on the 1907
novel of the same title by
Gaston Leroux. L'Herbier made a sequel, ''
The Perfume of the Lady in Black'', the following year.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Lazare Meerson.
Cast
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Roland Toutain
Roland Toutain (October 18, 1905 - October 16, 1977) was a French actor, songwriter and stuntman. He appeared in 55 films between 1924 and 1957, both in leading and supporting roles.
Life and career
Toutain is known for playing the aviator And ...
as
Joseph Rouletabille
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Huguette Duflos as Mathilde Stangerson
*
Léon Belières as Sainclair
*
Edmond Van Daële
Edmond Van Daële (11 August 1884, in Paris – 11 March 1960, in Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France) was a Dutch- French film actor.
Born as Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz, he appeared in the 1923 silent film ''Coeur fidèle'', directed by ...
as Robert Darzac
*
Marcel Vibert as Frédéric Larsan
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Maxime Desjardins
Maxime Desjardins (1861–1936) was a French stage actor and film actor of the silent and early sound era. Fleischer p.66 He was a member of the Comédie-Française.
Selected filmography
* '' The Eaglet'' (1913)
* '' Patrie'' (1917)
* ''J'accuse ...
as Professeur Stangerson
*
Pierre Juvenet
Pierre Juvenet (1883–1951) was a French stage and film actor.Powrie p.231 A character actor, he appeared in more than a hundred films frequently portraying officials and authority figures.
Selected filmography
* '' The Mystery of the Yellow ...
as Le juge
*
Henri Kerny as Père Jacques
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Charles Redgie as Le garde-chasse
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Kissa Kouprine
Ksenia Alexandrovna Kuprina (russian: Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Куприна́, 21 April 1908 – 8 December 1981) was a French model and actress of Russian and Hungarian origins. A daughter of the Russian writer Alexander Kupr ...
as Marie
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Jean Diéner
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* J ...
as L'avocat
*
Marcel Vallée as Journaliste
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Duchange as Journaliste
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Georges Tréville as Le président
References
Bibliography
* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1930 films
French mystery films
1930 mystery films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier
French black-and-white films
Films based on French novels
Films based on works by Gaston Leroux
1930s French films
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