''Foolish Husbands'' (French: ''Histoire de rire'') is a 1941 French

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directed by

Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...

and starring

Fernand Gravey Fernand Gravey (25 December 1905 in Ixelles (Belgium) – 2 November 1970 in Paris, France),Death certificate # 8/445/1970 also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was a Belgian-born French actor. Early life Gravey was the son o ...

, Marie Déa,

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and

Pierre Renoir Pierre Renoir (; March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first a ...

.https://www.unifrance.org/film/5456/histoire-de-rire It is based on a 1939 play of the same title by

Armand Salacrou Armand Camille Salacrou (; 9 August 1899 – 23 November 1989) was a French dramatist. Biography He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surre ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Robert Gys Robert Gys (1901–1977) was a French art director.O'Shaughnessy p.238 Selected filmography * '' Imperial Violets'' (1924) * '' The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge'' (1925) * ''Miss Europe'' (1930) * ''Dance Hall'' (1931) * '' The Dream'' (1931) * '' ...

Cast

as Gérard Barbier * Marie Déa as Hélène Donaldo *

as Adélaïde Barbier *

as Jules Donaldo *

Bernard Lancret Bernard Lancret (4 September 1912 – 5 September 1983) was a French film actor. He appeared in over thirty films between 1935 and 1956 in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Franz Schubert in the 1940 film '' Séré ...

as Jean-Louis Deshayes * Gilbert Gil as Achille Ballorson * Monique Rolland as Coco d'Antibes * Maurice Mosnier as Joseph * Gustave Gallet as Maisnier

References

Bibliography

* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. (1986) ''Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950''. Pygmalion * Rège, Philippe. (20090 ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''.

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. Page 639.

External links

* 1941 films 1941 comedy films French comedy films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier French black-and-white films 1940s French films French films based on plays {{1940s-France-film-stub