''A Telephone Call'' (French: ''Un coup de téléphone'') is a 1932 French

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directed by Georges Lacombe and starring

Jean Weber Jean Weber (25 January 1906 – 13 October 1995) was a French film actor.Goble p. 398 Selected filmography * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' Figaro'' (1929) * '' The Eaglet'' (1931) * ''The Man at Midnight'' (1931) * ''Take Care of Amelie' ...

Colette Darfeuil Colette Darfeuil (born Emma Henriette Augustine Floquet, 7 February 1906 – 15 October 1998) was a French actress whose film career began at age 14 in 1920 and continued through the early 1950s. Darfeuil made her screen debut in at age 14 ...

and

Jeanne Boitel Jeanne Boitel (; 4 January 1904 – 7 August 1987) was a French film actress. She played a role in the Resistance during World War II, using the surname of ''Mozart''. She met Jacques Jaujard during her resistance activities in the war, and marri ...

. It is based on a play of the same title by

Paul Gavault Paul Armand Marcel Gavault (1 September 1866 - 25 December 1951) was a French dramatist, playwright and former director of the théâtre de l'Odéon. Biography He enjoyed a hit with his 1906 comic play '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' whi ...

and

Georges Berr Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923. Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in c ...

.Goble p.38 The film's sets were designed by the

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Lazare Meerson Lazare Meerson (1900–1938) was a French cinema art director. After emigrating from Soviet Russia in the early 1920s, he worked on French films of the late silent cinema and the early 1930s, particularly those directed by René Clair and Jacques ...

and

Pierre Schild Pierre Schild (1897–1968) was a Russian-born art director known for his work in French and Spanish cinema. Born Lakka Schildknecht, he left Russia following the October Revolution in 1917. Following the German invasion of France in 1940 he emig ...

Cast

as Serpolet *

as Evelyne *

as Germaine * Mauricet as Le docteur Lejonquois *

Alexandre Arnaudy Alexandre Arnaudy was a French actor, born Marius Guarino on July 17, 1881 in Marseille, where he died on November 1, 1969. Filmography * 1932 : '' A Telephone Call'' from Georges Lacombe : Cormainville * 1932 : The Last Shock of Jacques ...

as Cormainville *

Germaine Sablon Germaine Sablon (19 July 1899 at Le Perreux-sur-Marne – 17 April 1985 at Saint-Raphael) was a French singer, film actress and a WWII French Resistance fighter. She starred in some 15 films between 1920 and 1956. Biography Germaine Sablon ...

as Mamette *

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a sM. Molleton *

Henri Vilbert Henri Vilbert (; 6 April 1904 – 20 April 1997) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films from 1921 to 1982. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vilbert, Henri 1904 births 1997 deaths 20t ...

as Cargouille *

Paulette Dubost Paulette Dubost (8 October 1910 – 21 September 2011) was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera. She appeared in over 250 films and worked with directors such as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls ('' L ...

as Clara *

Paul Velsa Paul Isaac Welsa (known professionally as Paul Velsa; 29 December 1905 – 20 May 1944) was a French stage and film actor.Alpi p.346 He appeared in more than thirty films between 1928 and 1938. Biography Paul Isaac Welsa was born on at the matern ...

as Ferdinand *

Odette Talazac Odette Pauline Talazac (; 6 May 1883 – 29 March 1948) was a French singer and stage and film actress.Capua p.129 Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing ...

as Mme Molleton *

Suzanne Christy Suzanne Christy (1904–1974) was a Belgian film actress.Goble p.429 Selected filmography * ''Le p'tit Parigot'' (1926) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1927) * '' The Divine Voyage'' (1929) * '' The Sandman'' (1932) * '' A Telephon ...

as Simone * Max Lerel as Le fiancé * Henri Étiévant as Octave * Nita Malbert as Eugénie *

Jane Pierson Jane Pierson was a French film actress.Goble p.130 She appeared in fifty five films between 1924 and 1952. Selected filmography * ''The Imaginary Voyage'' (1926) * ''Captain Rascasse'' (1927) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1927) * ...

as Rosine * Émile Saint-Ober as Le notaire

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1932 films French comedy films 1932 comedy films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Georges Lacombe French black-and-white films 1930s French films French films based on plays Films with screenplays by Charles Spaak Films based on works by Paul Gavault {{1930s-France-film-stub