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directed by

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and starring

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and

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.Crisp p.408

Cast

as Moutonnet et Mérac *

as Dumonthal *

as Frècheville *

Janine Crispin Janine Crispin (25 June 1911 – 18 June 2001) was a French film and television actress.Goble p.65 Selected filmography * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * '' High and Low'' (1933) * ''Song of Farewell'' (1934) * '' Second Bureau'' (1935) * '' The Secr ...

as Élise *

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as Dolly *

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as L'amie d'Élise * Paul Azaïs as Le garçon d'étage * Rodolphe Marcilly as L'esthète prétentieux *

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* Nina Bertin * Jacques B. Brunius *

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* Jean Deiss * Allain Dhurtal *

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* Marcel Lupovici *

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* Georges Montel *

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* Émile Saint-Ober * René Wheeler

References

Bibliography

* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

* 1936 comedy films French comedy films 1936 films 1930s French-language films French black-and-white films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub