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Release Date:
January 29, 1938
Original Title:
Quadrille
Genres:
Comedy | Romance
Production Companies:
Les Films Modernes
Productions Emile Natan
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 95
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
Administration:
Guy Lacourt
Assistant Camera:
Jean Brévignon
Léon Bellet
Assistant Director:
Jeanne Étiévant
Camera Operator:
Charles Bauer
Director:
Sacha Guitry
Director of Photography:
Robert Lefebvre
Editor:
Myriam Borsoutsky
Orchestrator:
Ray Ventura
Original Music Composer:
Adolphe Borchard
Producer:
Joseph Spigler
Émile Natan
Production Design:
Jean Perrier
Sound:
Antoine Archimbaud
Still Photographer:
Roger Kahan
Unit Manager:
Julien Rivière
Writer:
Sacha Guitry
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