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Good Luck (1935 film)

1935 film

Sacha Guitry
Fernand Rivers

Written bySacha GuitryProduced by

Maurice Lehmann
Fernand Rivers

Starring

Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac
Pauline Carton

CinematographyJean BacheletEdited byPierre SchwabMusic byVincent Scotto

Production
companies

Productions Maurice Lehmann
Les Films Fernand Rivers

Distributed byLes Grandes Exclusivités Européennes

Release date

20 September 1935 (1935-09-20)

Running time

78 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Good Luck (French: Bonne chance!) is a 1935 French romantic comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac and Pauline Carton.^[1] In it a woman becomes convinced a man she has met is a good luck charm after she wins a lottery.

It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location in Paris and Monaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.

In 1940 it was remade as an American film Lucky Partners starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers.

Cast

Sacha Guitry as Claude
Jacqueline Delubac as Marie
Pauline Carton as La mère de Marie
Paul Dullac as Le maire de Marie
Montel as Un vieux monsieur qui passe
André Numès Fils as Prosper
Rivers Cadet as Le greffier
Robert Darthez as Gastion Lepeltier
Andrée Guize as Henriette Lepeltier
Lucienne Givry as L'élégante
Simone Sandre as L'épicière
Madeleine Suffel as La gantière
Antoine as Antoine, le coiffeur
Louis Baldy as L'employé de banque
Renée Dennsy as Une radeuse
Gustave Huberdeau
Régine Paris
Robert Seller as Le maître d'hôtel
Louis Vonelly as Le marchand de tableaux

Critical reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, describing it as "a charming silly film in the Clair genre, a lyrical absurdity". Greene notes that it is only cinema and music that can produce such uplifting transience and joy.^[2]

References

^ Oscherwitz & Higgins p.197
^ Greene, Graham (28 February 1935). "Things to Come/Bonne Chance". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 55–56. ISBN 0192812866.)