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Lady Killer (1937 film)

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'Lady Killer' is a 1937 French drama film directed by Jean Grmillon and starring Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin and Marguerite Deval. It has been classified as both a film noirSpicer p.50 Walker-Morrison p.28 and an entry into the poetic realist group of films of the late 1930s.Driskell p.178 Williams p.420 It was produced by the German company UFA in conjunction with its own French subsidiary ACE. Like 'Port of Shadows' it drew on the tradition of German expressionism in its lighting and set design, although the Nazi authorities were opposed to the expressionist style.Williams p.420

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location around Cannes, Orange and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Asmus and Max Mellin. The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast



*Jean Gabin as Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour'

*Mireille Balin as Madeleine

*Pierre Etchepare as hotel owner

*Henri Poupon as Monsieur Cailloux

* as Le valet de chambre

*Pierre Magnier as Commandant

*Marguerite Deval as Madame Courtois

*Ren Lefvre as Ren

*Jane Marken as Madame Cailloux (as Jeanne Marken)

*Paulette Noizeux

* as restaurant manager (as Simon)

*Pierre Labry as printer

* as client

*Louis Florencie as waiter (as Florencie)

*Paul Fournier as client

* as Captain

*Maurice Baquet as the sick soldier

*Frdric Mariotti as Le cantonnier (as Mariotti)

References



Bibliography



* Driskell, Jonathan . 'The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France'. I.B.Tauris, 2015.

* Spicer, Andrew (ed.) 'European Film Noir'. Manchester University Press, 2019.

*Walker-Morrison, Deborah. 'Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire'. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

* Williams, Alan Larson. 'Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking'. Harvard University Press, 1992.


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