Miss Bonaparte (1942)
"Mam'zelle Bonaparte" (original title)

Director:

Maurice Tourneur

Writers:

Gérard Bourgeois (novel), Pierre Chanlain (novel),

Stars:

Edwige Feuillère, Monique Joyce, Raymond Rouleau

Cast

Credited cast:
Edwige Feuillère	...	Cora Pearl
Monique Joyce	...	Lucy de Kaula
Raymond Rouleau	...	Philippe de Vaudrey
Guillaume de Sax	...	Le prince Jérôme Bonaparte
Simone Renant	...	Adèle Rémy
Marguerite Pierry	...	La Blandin
Nina Sinclair	...	Augustine
Aimé Clariond	...	Le duc de Morny
Roland Armontel	...	Arsène
Noël Roquevert	...	Criscelli
Jacques Maury	...	Le comte de Brimont
Camille Bert	...	Le gouverneur du fort
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
André Carnège	...	Alexandre Dumas
Andrée Champeaux
Jacques Courtin	...	Un ami de Lucy

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

27 August 1943 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Miss Bonaparte

Company Credits

Production Co:

Continental Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Napoleon's rag.

This is one of the worst examples of the French cinema during the German occupation.The appalling screenplay casts Feuillère as the mistress of Napoleon the third 's cousin Jerome.She does not love him but ,as she makes it clear: "you do not know what it is to be hungry".Alas,she falls in love with a legitimist (a royalist).

Edwige Feuillère and the whole cast's playing is obsolete and ridiculous.There's even a priceless duel sequence between the courtesan and her -female -enemy ,a duel with foils!

Maurice Tourneur turned around from that disaster and made a genuine fantastic masterpiece "la main du diable" the following year.

Napoleon the third's reign was never lucky:the most famous movies which deal with it are duds:"violettes impériales" (Richard Pottier;1952)"La Castiglione" (1954,with American star Yvonne De Carlo)