''Mitsou'' (or ''Mitsou ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles...'') is a 1956

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directed by

Jacqueline Audry Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post- World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-w ...

and starring

Danièle Delorme Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier or Yv ...

, Fernand Gravey and

François Guérin François Guérin (1927–2003) was a French film and television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media ...

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singer becomes involved in a

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with an older, wealthy man and a young army officer. It is based on the 1919 novella '' Mitsou'' by

Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her ...

. The title role is played by

who had previously appeared as Gigi in the 1949 film adaptation of Colette's work '' Gigi'' which was also directed by Audry.

Cast

as Mitsou * Fernand Gravey as Pierre Duroy-Lelong *

as Robert, Le Lieutenant Bleu *

Claude Rich Claude Rich (8 February 1929 – 20 July 2017) was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955. Personal life He married actress Catherine Renaudin on 26 June 1959. They had two daughters, ...

as Lieutenant Kaki *

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as Beauty *

Denise Grey Denise Grey (born Édouardine Verthuy; 17 September 1896 – 13 January 1996) was an Italian-born actress who became a naturalized French citizen. Biography Édouardine Grey was born in Châtillon in the Aosta Valley of north-west Italy, clos ...

as Estelle *

Jacques Duby Jacques Duby (7 May 1922 – 15 February 2012) was a French stage, film and television actor. He was born in Toulouse. Jacques Duby as narrator Some of his works include '' 101 Dalmatians'' (1961), ''Pinocchio'' (1968), and '' The Jungle ...

as Raphaël

References

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* 1956 films 1950s French-language films Films based on works by Colette Films directed by Jacqueline Audry 1956 comedy films French comedy films 1950s French films {{1950s-comedy-film-stub