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14 January 1939 (USA)
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A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. | Add synopsis »
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Cukor's theater world
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Cast
(in credits order) | 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 (as Ann Todd) |
| Rex O'Malley | ... | Bussy |
| Ernest Cossart | ... | Marchand |
 | Janet Waldo | ... | Simone |
| Dorothy Tree | ... | Mme. Dufresne |
| Monty Woolley | ... | Fouget |
| Maurice Murphy | ... | Henri |
| Frank Puglia | ... | Rug Dealer |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Billie Beurne | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Jeanne Blanche | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Michael Brooke | ... | Dandy (uncredited) |
| Frederika Brown | ... | Pierre's Wife (uncredited) |
| Jacqueline Daix | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Dayton | ... | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Rex Evans | ... | Michelin (uncredited) |
| Robert Fischer | ... | Pierre (uncredited) |
| Penny Gill | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Harriette Haddon | ... | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Hamburg | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Clarence Harvey | ... | Conductor (uncredited) |
| Darlyn Heckley | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Maude Hume | ... | Woman (uncredited) |
| Olaf Hytten | ... | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Alice Keating | ... | Maid (uncredited) |
| Virginia Larsen | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Emily Le Rue | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Alexander Leftwich | ... | Larou (uncredited) |
| Helaine Moler | ... | Dancer (uncredited) |
| John Power | ... | Conductor (uncredited) |
| John Powers | ... | (uncredited) |
| Duncan Renaldo | ... | Animal Trainer (uncredited) |
| Grace Richey | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Tom Ricketts | ... | Elderly Gentleman (uncredited) |
| Virginia Rooney | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Lillian Ross | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Peggy Russell | ... | Tiller Girl (uncredited) |
| Louise Seidel | ... | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Vera Steadman | ... | Extra (uncredited) |
| John Sutton | ... | Dandy (uncredited) |
| Olive Tell | ... | Jeanne Liseron (uncredited) |
| Colleen Ward | ... | French Girl (uncredited) |
| Phil Warren | ... | Dandy (uncredited) |
| Dorothy White | ... | Dancer (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| George Cukor | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Zoe Akins | (screenplay) (as Zoë Akins) | |
| Pierre Berton | (play) and | |
| Charles Simon | (play) | |
| Jules Furthman | contributor to screenplay construction (uncredited) | |
Produced by | |||
| Albert Lewin | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Friedrich Hollaender | (as Frederick Hollander) | ||
| Phil Boutelje | (uncredited) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| Charles Lang | (photographed by) (as Charles Lang Jr.) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Edward Dmytryk | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Hans Dreier | |||
| Robert Usher | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Edith Head | |||
Art Department | |||
| A.E. Freudeman | .... | interior decorator | |
Sound Department | |||
| Don Johnson | .... | sound recordist | |
| Harry D. Mills | .... | sound recordist (as Harry Mills) | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Gordon Jennings | .... | special photographic effects | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Eugene Joseff | .... | costume jeweller (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Phil Boutelje | .... | musical advisor | |
| Boris Morros | .... | musical director | |
| LeRoy Prinz | .... | stager: musical numbers | |
Other crew | |||
| Alla Nazimova | .... | production consultant | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Paramount Pictures (1939) (USA) (theatrical)
- Paramount (1939) (France) (theatrical)
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83 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until several years afterward.See more »
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Referenced in "Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: Claudette Colbert" (1962)See more »
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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.