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With a Smile (film)
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Wikipedia article
'With a Smile' (French: 'Avec le sourire') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Maurice Tourneur and based on an original screenplay by Louis Verneuil. The film stars Maurice Chevalier and the title of the film is taken from one of his comic songs "With a Smile" ('Avec le Sourire', 1907).Rae Beth Gordon 'Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France' 2009 "In 1907, when Maurice Chevalier was still an Idiot Comic, he performed the comic monologue and song, "With a Smile," in which his usual grimaces and poses are combined with fantasies of Africa: "Strolling along in Africa one day, I was ..."
It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Carr and mile Duquesne.
Plot
A smooth talking but penniless vagrant (Maurice Chevalier) arrives in Paris and sets out to make it to the top with nothing more than his smile, charm and cunning mind.
Cast
* Maurice Chevalier as Victor Larnois
* Marie Glory as Gisle Berthier
* Andr Lefaur as Ernest Villary, le propritaire du "Palace"
* Paule Andral as Valentine Villary, son pouse
* Marcel Valle as Pascaud
* Lon Arvel as Templier
* as Fromentel, le directeur des Beaux-Arts
* Rivers Cadet as Albert, le chasseur du "Palace"
* Nicole de Rouves as l'pouse d'Albert
* Lon Morton as le matre d'cole
* Milly Mathis as la caissire du "Palace"
* Jean Gobet as Bruzin
* Henri Houry as l'entraneur
* Viviane Gosset as Suzy Dorfeuil, la vedette du "Palace"
* Lucien Callamand as Vauclin
* Jean Aym as le duc de Ganges
* Anthony Gilds as le baron Wurtz
* Simone Sandre as la dactylo
* Georges Bever as le valet de pied
* Vincent Hyspa as le prsident du tribunal
* Robert Ozanne as un invit la noce
* Georg as Genneval
* Lon Morton as le matre d'cole
* Robert Ozanne as un invit la noce
* Rivers Cadet as le chasseur
* Eugne Stuber as l'amant de la femme du chasseur
* Jean Tmerson as Cam
References
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