''Ciboulette'' () is a 1933 French

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directed by

Claude Autant-Lara Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director, screenwriter, set designer and costume designer who worked in films for over 50 years. He made films characterised by bourgeois Realism (arts), realism, anti- ...

and starring

Simone Berriau Simone Berriau (; 21 July 1896 – 26 February 1984) was a French stage and film actress. She appeared in more than ten films from 1933 to 1942, after which she moved to theatre pieces and became the director of the Antoine Theatre in Paris; the ...

Robert Burnier Robert Burnier (1897–1974) was a French film actor.Goble p.920 Selected filmography * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) * '' Let's Get Married'' (1931) * '' Miche'' (1932) * ''Côte d'Azur'' (1932) * ''Make-Up'' (1932) * ''Nothing But Li ...

and

Armand Dranem Dranem (23 May 1869 – 13 October 1935) was a French comic singer, music hall, stage and film actor. History Born Armand Ménard, in Paris, he began working as an apprentice jeweler in a local shop before embarking on a career in entertainment ...

.Goble p.114 It is an adaptation of the 1923 operetta of the same name. The film's

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was by

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

Alexandre Trauner Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer. After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the c ...

. It was part of a popular cycle of

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s during the decade.

Cast

as Ciboulette *

as Antonin *

as Le père Grenu *

André Urban André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal, ...

as Monsieur Duparquet *

Madeleine Guitty Madeleine Guitty (5 June 1870 – 12 April 1936) was a French stage and film actress.Crisp p.93 Selected filmography * ''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1922) * '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1925) * ''Montmartre'' (1925) * '' Paris in Five Days'' (1926) * '' ...

as La mère Pingret * Pomiès as Olivier Métra *

Thérèse Dorny Thérèse Dorny (born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni; 18 September 1891 – 14 March 1976) was a French film and stage actress. Biography Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni was born on 18 September 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, the only child ...

as Zénobie * Guy Ferrant as Roger de Lansquenet * Marcel Duhamel as Le voleur *

Jacques Prévert Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the Poetic realism, poetic ...

as L'Âne *

Ginette Leclerc Ginette Leclerc (born Geneviève Lucie Menut; February 9, 1912 – January 2, 1992) was a French film actress. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978. Her last TV appearance was in 1981. She was born in Ile-de-France, France and ...

as Une cocotte *

Viviane Romance Viviane Romance (born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns; 4 July 1912 – 25 September 1991) was a French actress. Viviane Romance was born in Roubaix, France. She began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. She was elected Miss Paris of 19 ...

as Une cocotte *

Monique Joyce Monique Joyce (1912–1994) was a French model, singer and actress.Burch & Sellier p.157 She began her career appearing in the Opéra comique. After winning the Mademoiselle Paris contest in March 1933, she received greater public attention and m ...

as Une cocotte *

Christiane Dor Christiane Dor (1892–1939) was a French stage actress, film actress and singer.Goble p.113 She appeared in numerous operettas and musical comedies on the Paris stage during the 1920s and 1930s. In cinema she played a number of supporting roles. ...

as La servante * Marie-Jacqueline Chantal as Une invitée chez Métra * Charles Camus as Grisart *

Louis Florencie Louis Florencie (4 December 1896 – 4 December 1951) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1927 and 1951. Selected filmography * '' Make a Living'' (1931) * '' Companion Wanted'' (1932) * '' Beauty Spot'' (1932 ...

as Trancher *

Pedro Elviro Pedro Elviro Rodríguez (died 24 August 1971), also known as Pitouto, was a Spanish actor. Between 1924 and 1972, he shot more than 170 films, a good part of them in France and Mexico. Selected filmography * '' The Darling of Paris'' (1931) as Au ...

as Arthur et Meyer *

Lucien Raimbourg Lucien Raimbourg (1903–1973) was a French film, stage and television actor. He appeared in the original performance of Samuel Beckett's ''Waiting for Godot''.Blair p.421 Selected filmography * '' L'affaire est dans le sac'' (1932) - Le client m ...

as Victor *

Raymond Bussières Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films from 1933 to 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actre ...

as Un clochard *

Eugène Stuber Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Pépa Cara *

Robert Casa Robert Gabriel Guillaume Casadesus, known as Robert Casa (23 January 1878 in Paris, France – 30 May 1940) was a French composer, singer and stage and film actor. He was a member of a prominent French musical family, and best known today as ...

* Andrée Doria * Gazelle * Jean Lods * Max Morise *

Léon Moussinac Léon Pierre Guillaume Moussinac (; 19 January 1890 – 10 March 1964) was a French writer, film and art critic, film historian and film theorist. Life and career Moussinac was born in the family of a railroad station master. He studied law an ...

* Pierre Sabas

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1933 films French musical films 1933 musical films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Claude Autant-Lara Operetta films Films based on operettas Films based on works by Francis de Croisset Pathé films French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films with screenplays by Jacques Prévert {{musical-film-stub