Germain Fried

Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), two members of the Russian nobility who'd been forced to relocate to France after the Revolution. Though the regal couple has been entrusted with the Imperial crown jewels, they'd sooner starve to death than betray the late Czar by selling the gems. As a result, they're reduced to taking jobs as servants in the home of a wealthy but somewhat zany family. Robert E. Sherwood's Americanized version of Deval's Tovaritch was filmed by Warner Bros. in 1937, with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.

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Irene, a young Hungarian becomes an elegant and brilliant Parisian for the love of a car racer. Her transformation earns her the heart of her beloved.

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Praised for its incisive dialogue by Henri Jeanson, the film is a social and urban satire following the antics of gate-crashers and opportunistic ticket scalpers.

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The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.

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René is hungry and has no money. He returns home, where only bills await him. Her neighbor Lulu is a film actress. She tries to get him hired as an extra on the set where she herself works. It is a film about gastronomy. He thinks he can finally get his fill of food, but bad luck, he plays the role of an old man who pushes her away. At the end of the day, he returns home and, passing in front of his landlady who receives, goes to mime them all that is supposed to have taken place during the filming by eating all the food offered to his appetite. After this meal, he will invite his neighbor Lulu to come to his place.

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Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.

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