President Haudecoeur
1940 film
- Harry Baur
- Betty Stockfeld
- Marguerite Deval
Production
company
company
E.D.I.C.
Release date
- 11 April 1940 (1940-04-11)
Running time
President Haudecoeur (French: Le président Haudecoeur) is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Harry Baur, Betty Stockfeld and Marguerite Deval.[1] It was shot at the Marseille Studios of Marcel Pagnol in Southern France. The film's sets were designed by the art director Roland Quignon.
Synopsis
A magistrate in Aix-en-Provence rules his family tyrannically and forbids his son to marry the girl he loves as he wants him to marry a wealthy heiress. However, his ordered life is thrown upside down when he encounters a charming Canadian lady.
Cast
- Harry Baur as Le président Haudecoeur
- Betty Stockfeld as Mrs. Betty Brown
- Marguerite Deval as Mme Bergas-Larue
- Robert Pizani as L'abbé Margot
- Cecil Grane as Pierre Haudecoeur
- Georges Chamarat as Le cousin Alexis
- Jean Témerson as Capet
- André Numès Fils as Brouillon
- Marcel Maupi as Le jardinier
- Sonia Gobar as Antoinette
- Jeanne Provost as Angéline Haudecoeur
References
- ^ Rège p.278
Bibliography
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- President Haudecoeur at IMDb
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Films directed by Jean Dréville
- Autour de L'Argent (1928)
- A Man of Gold (1934)
- The Chess Player (1938)
- White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
- His Uncle from Normandy (1939)
- President Haudecoeur (1940)
- Annette and the Blonde Woman (1942)
- Business Is Business (1942)
- A Cage of Nightingales (1945)
- Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
- The Visitor (1946)
- Carbon Copy (1947)
- The Spice of Life (1948)
- Operation Swallow (1948)
- Return to Life (1949)
- The Girl with the Whip (1952)
- The Secret of the Mountain Lake (1952)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
- Endless Horizons (1953)
- La Reine Margot (1954)
- Stopover in Orly (1955)
- The Suspects (1957)
- A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik (1958)
- La Fayette (1961)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1968)
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