A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.
Patricia Barry
- Hilda
- (uncredited)
William Bishop
- J.B.
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Symona Boniface
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Earl Brown
- Carnie
- (uncredited)
Jack Bruce
- Carnival Barker
- (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
- Wilson
- (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
- Carnival Barker
- (uncredited)
Roy Darmour
- Carnie
- (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
- Whitaker
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Nightclub Charity Guest
- (uncredited)
Jack Del Rio
- Frenchman
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmed in January-February 1948, but not released until a year later, in February 1949.
- Quotes
Louisa Gayle: You go to your church, I'll go to mine.
- ConnectionsReferenced in What Fate Holds (1957)
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N'est-ce pas?
It begins like Detlef Sierck's "das Hofkonzert.";in both movies ,the star is no longer available and they need a replacement ;music and dance make almost 50% of the movie in both although the German one was operetta .There the comparison ends.
It's a carnival dancer ,a would be folies bergères ex-artist who will play the part ; then the script turns Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" : her manners are not adequate , her grammar is worse ,so he asks a teacher to use phonetics to make a duchess out of the Flower Girl. Dancing ,singing and glamour are no problem for Miss Lamour , who even tries to live up to her so called reputation by learning a little bit of French (one can hear her utter "n'est-ce pas? " (in French,there's no problem with don't it ?and doesn't it ?,for it translates everything) ,"bonjour monsieur" ;hence the title .
But wouldn't Mary O'Leary lose her whole identity in the process when she became Rochelle Olivia ? And eventually won't his creator(Don amèche) be caught out at his own game ?
As it often happens in Douglas Sirk's imitation of life, reality and performances (the row between the director and his star) are difficult to distinguish;in his book , "exquisite ironies and magnificent obsessions ", Tom Ryan points out that his happy endings are often ironical and double-entendre.
It's a carnival dancer ,a would be folies bergères ex-artist who will play the part ; then the script turns Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" : her manners are not adequate , her grammar is worse ,so he asks a teacher to use phonetics to make a duchess out of the Flower Girl. Dancing ,singing and glamour are no problem for Miss Lamour , who even tries to live up to her so called reputation by learning a little bit of French (one can hear her utter "n'est-ce pas? " (in French,there's no problem with don't it ?and doesn't it ?,for it translates everything) ,"bonjour monsieur" ;hence the title .
But wouldn't Mary O'Leary lose her whole identity in the process when she became Rochelle Olivia ? And eventually won't his creator(Don amèche) be caught out at his own game ?
As it often happens in Douglas Sirk's imitation of life, reality and performances (the row between the director and his star) are difficult to distinguish;in his book , "exquisite ironies and magnificent obsessions ", Tom Ryan points out that his happy endings are often ironical and double-entendre.
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- ulicknormanowen
- Jan 9, 2022
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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