''The Secret of Polichinelle'' (French:''Le secret de Polichinelle'') is a 1923 French silent

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directed by

René Hervil René Hervil (1881–1960) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director.Goble p.322 Most of his films were made during the silent era. He directed the ''Maud'' series of films between 1912 and 1915 starring the Anglo-French actress Aimé ...

and starring

Andrée Brabant Marie Thérèse "Andrée" Brabant (1901–1989) was a French film actress.Goble p.161 She played a number of leading roles during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Le droit à la vie'' (1917) * ''The Zone of Death'' (1917) * '' Flipotte' ...

, Gabriel Signoret and

Maurice de Féraudy Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 - died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter, stage and film director, and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy Jacques de F� ...

. It is based on a play by

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, and was remade as a sound film in 1936.Bessy & Chirat p.184

Cast

as Marie - la compagne * Gabriel Signoret as Le docteur Trévoux *

as Monsieur Jouvenel - le père *

Jeanne Cheirel Jeanne Cheirel (1869–1934) was a French film and stage actress. Greco p.189 She was in the original cast of two of Georges Feydeau's plays '' Tied by the Leg'' (1894) and '' The Turkey'' (1896). She made her screen debut in a 1909 short film and ...

as Madame Jouvenel - la mère *

Catherine Fonteney Catherine Fonteney (23 June 1879– 29 April 1966) was a French film actress.Goble p.386 Catherine Fonteney was born Marie Alexandrine Catherine Fontaine in Paris and died in Dijon. Selected filmography * '' Romain Kalbris'' (1923) * '' The Sec ...

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as Henri Jouvenel - le fils * Sigrist as L'enfant *

Carrel Carrel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Armand Carrel (1800–1836), French writer *Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French surgeon and biologist *Dany Carrel (born 1932), French actress *Félicité Carrel, Italian mountaineer * ...

* Émile Garandet as Le majordome

References

Bibliography

* Maurice Bessy & Raymond Chirat. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939''. Pygmalion, 1987.

External links

* 1923 films 1920s French-language films French silent feature films Films directed by René Hervil French films based on plays French black-and-white films French comedy films 1923 comedy films Silent comedy films 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub