Folies Bergère de Paris
| Folies Bergère de Paris | |
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 Newspaper advertisement | |
| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Written by | Jessie Ernst (adaptation) Bess Meredyth (screenplay) Hal Long (screenplay) Darryl F. Zanuck (contributing writer-uncredited) |
| Based on | The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler |
| Produced by | William Goetz Raymond Griffith Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Starring | Maurice Chevalier Ann Sothern Merle Oberon |
| Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley Barney McGill |
| Edited by | Allen McNeil Sherman Todd |
| Music by | Alfred Newman (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy film that won at the 8th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category, along with Broadway Melody of 1936. The winner was Dave Gould. This is one of only four films to win in this category.[1] The film, based on the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, is a story of mistaken identity, with Maurice Chevalier playing both a music-hall star and a business tycoon who resembles him. This was Chevalier’s last film in Hollywood for twenty years, and reprised familiar themes such as the straw hat and a rendering of the French song "Valentine".[2] This is also the last film to be distributed by Twentieth Century Pictures before it merged with Fox Film to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.
Cast
- Maurice Chevalier as Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
- Ann Sothern as Mimi
- Merle Oberon as Baroness Genevieve Cassini
- Eric Blore as Francois
- Ferdinand Munier as Morrisot
- Walter Byron as Marquis René de Lac
- Lumsden Hare as Gustave
- Robert Greig as Henri
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as Perishot
- Halliwell Hobbes as Monsieur Paulet
- Georges Renavent as Premier of France
- Phillip Dare as Victor
- Frank McGlynn Sr. as Joseph
- Barbara Leonard as Toinette
- Olin Howland as Stage Manager
See also
References
- ^ "The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
- ^ L’homme des Folies Bergere, according to Chevalier by Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen, published in 1973 by The Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, (p 130-135).
- Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3 page 41
External links
- Folies Bergère de Paris at IMDb
- Folies Bergère de Paris at the TCM Movie Database
- Folies Bergère de Paris at AllMovie
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