''Adhémar'' (French: ''Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité'') is a 1951 French
comedy film
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directed by and starring
Fernandel alongside
Jacqueline Pagnol,
Bernadette Lange and
Meg Lemonnier.
[https://www.unifrance.org/film/3637/adhemar-ou-le-jouet-de-la-fatalite] It made at the
Victorine Studios in
Nice
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took place in
Paris
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, Nice and
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Eugène Piérac.
Cast
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Fernandel as Adhémar Pomme
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Jacqueline Pagnol as La marchande de fleurs
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Bernadette Lange as Clémentine
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Meg Lemonnier as La garde de nuit
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Sophie Mallet as La bonne de l'asile
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Maximilienne as La soeur du Marquis
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Primerose Perret as La bonne de l'hôtel
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Marguerite Pierry as Lady Braconfield
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Annie Ravel as La secrétaire
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T ...
as Tisalé
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Alexandre Arnaudy as Le ministre
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Maurice Bernard as Le quatrième conseiller
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Georges Bever
Georges Bever (1884–1973) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.38
Selected filmography
* '' The Crystal Submarine '' (1927)
* '' Chérie'' (1930)
* ''The Man in Evening Clothes'' (1931)
* '' I'll Be Alone After Midnight'' (1931)
* '' ...
as Le mari trompé
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Albert Duvaleix as L'employé du casino
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Jacques de Féraudy as Le Marquis de Saltarello
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Jean Hervé as Le premier tragédien
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Marcel Lévesque as Brunel-Lacaze
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Roger Monteaux
Roger Monteaux (1879–1974) was a French stage actor, stage and film actor.Goble p.346
Filmography
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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as Le troisième conseiler
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José Noguéro as Don Cristobal
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Jacques Sablon as Le détective privé
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Robert Vidalin as Le deuxième tragédien
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Robert Seller as Le premier conseiller
References
Bibliography
* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950''. Pygmalion, 1986
* Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1951 films
French comedy films
1951 comedy films
1950s French-language films
French black-and-white films
1950s French films
Films shot at Victorine Studios
Films scored by Louiguy
Films directed by Fernandel
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