''Holiday for Henrietta'' () is a 1952 French

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directed by

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and starring

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, and

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. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location around

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including at the

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cinema. The film's sets were designed by the

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Jean d'Eaubonne. ''Holiday for Henrietta'' was remade in English as the 1964 film '' Paris When It Sizzles'', starring

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and

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,Crisp p.243 which also featured d'Eaubonne as art director.

Synopsis

While urgently trying to develop a screenplay for a new film, two screenwriters, the downbeat Crémieux and the optimist Seignier, create contradictory storylines as they argue, and as each takes turns in taking the narrative forward, they force the lead characters Henriette and Maurice into weird situations. The film switches back and forth between the writers at home and the film as it develops according to their ideas.

Cast

as Henriette *

as Marcel *

as Rita Solar * Louis Seigner as script writer * Micheline Francey as Nicole, script girl *

Henri Crémieux Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896 – 10 May 1980) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1930 to 1980. Selected filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cremieux, Henri 1896 births 1980 deaths Male actors from ...

as script writer *

Michel Roux Michel Roux, OBE (; 19 April 1941 – 11 March 2020), also known as Michel Roux Snr., was a French chef and restaurateur working in Britain. Along with his brother Albert Roux, Albert, he opened Le Gavroche, which subsequently became the first ...

as Robert * Daniel Ivernel as detective * Odette Laure as Valentine * Jeannette Batti as Gisèle * Liliane Maigné as the cigarette girl * Geneviève Morel as the concierge * Don Ziegler as the American

References

Bibliography

* Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958''. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

* 1952 comedy films 1952 films Films directed by Julien Duvivier French comedy films 1950s French-language films Films about screenwriters French black-and-white films Films shot at Billancourt Studios Films set in Paris 1950s French films Films with screenplays by Henri Jeanson {{1950s-comedy-film-stub