''Let's Touch Wood'' (French: ''Touchons du bois'') is a 1933 French

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directed by

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and starring

Jeanne Cheirel Jeanne Cheirel (born Jeanne Augustine Baltazar; 18 March 1869 – 2 November 1934) was a French film and stage actress. Greco p.189 She was in the original cast of two of Georges Feydeau's plays '' Tied by the Leg'' (1894) and '' The Turkey'' (18 ...

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and Lily Zévaco. It is based on the play ''

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'' by

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.Tanitch p. 271

Cast

as La générale de Saint-Preux *

as Auguste Chantilly * Lily Zévaco as Geneviève *

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as Minouche *

Jules Moy Jules Moy (1862–1938) was a French stage and film actor.Tanitch p.271 Selected filmography * '' The Vein'' (1928) * ''Cagliostro'' (1929) * '' Mistigri'' (1931) * '' The Man at Midnight'' (1931) * '' Let's Touch Wood'' (1933) *'' Bach the Detec ...

as M. Lebigre *

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as Jacques de Saint-Preux * Marcelle Barry as Mlle. Frontin *

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as Arlette *

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as La petite compagne d'amusement * Carlos Avril

References

Bibliography

* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. * Tanitch, Robert. ''Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen''. Methuen, 1999.

External links

* 1933 films 1933 comedy films French comedy films 1930s French-language films Films based on The Importance of Being Earnest Films directed by Maurice Champreux Gaumont (company) films French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films scored by Ralph Erwin French-language comedy films {{1930s-France-film-stub