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14 January 1939 (USA) morePlot:
A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Cukor's theater world moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Claudette Colbert | ... | Zaza |
 | Herbert Marshall | ... | Dufresne |
| Bert Lahr | ... | Cascart |
| Helen Westley | ... | Anais |
| Constance Collier | ... | Nathalie |
| Genevieve Tobin | ... | Florianne |
| Walter Catlett | ... | Marlardot |
| Ann E. Todd | ... | Toto |
| Rex O'Malley | ... | Bussy |
| Ernest Cossart | ... | Marchand |
| Rex Evans | ... | Michelin |
| Robert Fischer | ... | Pierre (as Robert C. Fischer) |
| Janet Waldo | ... | Simone |
| Dorothy Tree | ... | Madame Dufresne |
| Duncan Renaldo | ... | Animal trainer |
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Director Cukor had a background in theater, and this is one of his films that allude to it (others include A Double Life, A Star is Born, Les Girls, and Heller in Pink Tights). He nicely evokes the camaraderie of a small group of travelling vaudevillians in 1890's France, and much of the action takes place backstage. Bert Lahr makes one of his few film appearances as Zaza's performing partner and conveys a gentle melancholy--possibly because his character is meant to be seen as gay and closeted or because he is hopelessly in love with Zaza. It's a little ambiguous, due perhaps to the Production Code. There's a wonderful and quite sensuous scene in which he casually plays piano and starts to sing a song that could be used by Zaza in the act and that she then starts to sing, first as she lounges on a bed in the next room. She is almost Dietrich-like, which is apt, as the song is by Frederick Hollander, who wrote so many of that diva's classics, including "Falling in Love Again."
It's a little hard to fathom Zaza's devotion to the character played by Herbert Marshall, and the film definitely shows its origins as a play, but it's worth taking a look at.