With a Smile (film)
Avec le sourire (With a Smile) is a 1936 French comedy directed by Maurice Tourneur and based on an original screenplay by Louis Verneuil.
| With a Smile | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
| Written by | Louis Verneuil |
| Starring | Maurice Chevalier Marie Glory André Lefaur |
| Music by | Marcel Lattès |
| Cinematography | Armand Thirard |
Production company | Les Films Marquise |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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).[1]
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 : Victor Larnois
- Marie Glory : Gisèle Berthier
- André Lefaur : Ernest Villary, le propriétaire du "Palace"
- Paule Andral : Valentine Villary, son épouse
- Marcel Vallée : Pascaud
- Léon Arvel : Templier
- Marcel Simon : Fromentel, le directeur des Beaux-Arts
- Rivers Cadet : Albert, le chasseur du "Palace"
- Nicole de Rouves : l'épouse d'Albert
- Léon Morton : le maître d'école
- Milly Mathis : la caissière du "Palace"
- Jean Gobet : Bruzin
- Henri Houry : l'entraîneur
- Viviane Gosset : Suzy Dorfeuil, la vedette du "Palace"
- Lucien Callamand : Vauclin
- Jean Aymé : le duc de Ganges
- Anthony Gildès : le baron Wurtz
- Simone Sandre : la dactylo
- Georges Bever : le valet de pied
- Vincent Hyspa : le président du tribunal
- Robert Ozanne : un invité à la noce
- Georgé : Genneval
- Léon Morton : le maître d'école
- Robert Ozanne : un invité à la noce
- Rivers Cadet : le chasseur
- Eugène Stuber : l'amant de la femme du chasseur
- Jean Témerson : Cam
References
- 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 ..."
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