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Entente cordiale (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Entente cordiale' is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen and Pierre Richard-Willm.BFI Film, TV, People database: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book 'King Edward VII and His Times' by Andr Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Cast
* Gaby Morlay ... La reine Victoria
* Victor Francen ... douard VII
* Pierre Richard-Willm ... Capitaine Charles Roussel
* Andr Lefaur ... Lord Clayton
* Arlette Marchal ... La reine Alexandra
* Junie Astor ... Une actrice / An actress
* Nita Raya ... Music Hall Star
* Dorville ... Le cocher / Coachman
* Carine Nelson ... Marjorie, une dame d'honneur
* Jean Prier ... Prsident Loubet
* Marcelle Praince ... Lady Clayton
* Jacques Baumer ... Clmenceau
* Jacques Grtillat ... Dput Roussel
* Bernard Lancret ... Jean Roussel
* Janine Darcey ... Sylvia Clayton
* Jean Worms ... Thophile Delcass
* Jaque Catelain ... Le prince consort
* Jean Toulout ... Lord Salisbury
* Andr Roanne ... Arthur Balfour
* Jean d'Yd ... Jo Chamberlain
* Louis Seigner ... L'ambassadeur d'Allemagne
* Robert Pizani ... Paul Cambon
* Aim Clariond ... L'ambassadeur de Russie
* Abel Tarride ... La matre d'htel
* Sinol ... Le concierge
* Pierre Labry ... Un journaliste / A journalist
* Jean Galland ... Gnral Kitchener
* Liliane Lesaffre ... La fille du concierge
* Suzanne Devoyod ... Une dame d'honneur
* Ginette Gaubert ... Jeanne Granier
* Gabrielle Fontan ... Une dame de la Cour
* Gnia Vaury ... Mme de Lormes
* Christiane Ribes ... Mme de Vaumoise
Production
'Entente Cordiale' was the third in Marcel L'Herbier's series of "Chroniques filmes" (following 'La Tragdie impriale' and 'Adrienne Lecouvreur', both in 1938) in which he dramatised historical subjects in a manner "very close to reality",Laurent Vray [ed.]. 'Marcel L'Herbier: l'art du cinma'. Paris: Association franaise de recherche sur l'histoire du cinma, 2007. p. 283: "une leon d'histoire, trs proche de la ralit". albeit reluctantly combined with some romantic fiction.Marcel L'Herbier. 'La Tte qui tourne'. Paris: Belfond, 1979. p. 271: "[Max] Glass insistait, hlas, pour qu'on y insrt une historiette d'amour franco-anglaise. C'tait la tare ingurissable de la production des annes 30."
Filming took place at the Studios de Saint-Maurice (south-east of Paris) in January & February 1939, and it was ready for its gala premire in April before representatives of the French and British governments.Marcel L'Herbier. 'La Tte qui tourne'. Paris: Belfond, 1979. p. 272.
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