Beauties of the Night (1952)
Les belles de nuit (original title)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Gérard Philipe	...	Claude - un jeune compositeur rêveur
	Martine Carol	...	Edmée 1900 / Edmée de Villebois
	Gina Lollobrigida	...	La caissière du Grand Café / Leïla 1830
	Magali Vendeuil	...	Suzanne - la fille du garagiste / Suzanne 1789
	Marilyn Buferd	...	La postière / Madame Bonacieux (as Marylin Bufferd)
	Raymond Bussières	...	Roger - le garagiste / le tambour
	Raymond Cordy	...	Gaston / Le marquis
	Bernard La Jarrige	...	Léon - le gendarme (as Bernard Lajarrige)
	Albert Michel	...	Le facteur / Un révolutionnaire
	Palau	...	Le vieux monsieur qui critique toutes les époques
	Jean Parédès	...	Paul - le pharmacien
	Paolo Stoppa	...	Le directeur de l'Opéra
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Le Choeur Marguerite Mercier	...	Les choristes
	Claire Guibert	...	La caissière du Grand Café / Leïla (voice)

Storyline

Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. But in his dreams, he lives in other eras where he is appreciated, lionized, and the conquerer of delicious women (idealized forms of women he's seen in waking life). The dreams are suitably dreamlike, yet have a kind of reality, for he revisits them after waking. The conflict between waking and dream worlds leads to amusing, strange, even fantastic situations. Which world will prevail? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>  

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