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Baby's Laxative

Original title: On purge bébé
  • 19311931
  • 46m
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6.0/10
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Nicole Fernandez, Georges Feydeau, Jacques Louvigny, Marguerite Pierry, Jean Renoir, and Michel Simon in Baby's Laxative (1931)
Comedy
A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
477
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    • Jean Renoir
    • Georges Feydeau(play)
    • Pierre Prévert(uncredited)
    • Jean Renoir(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Marguerite Pierry
    • Jacques Louvigny
    • Michel Simon
    • Jean Renoir
    • Georges Feydeau(play)
    • Pierre Prévert(uncredited)
    • Jean Renoir(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Marguerite Pierry
    • Jacques Louvigny
    • Michel Simon
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    • 5User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Jacques Louvigny, Marguerite Pierry, and Michel Simon in Baby's Laxative (1931)
    Fernandel, Marguerite Pierry, Sacha Tarride, and Olga Valéry in Baby's Laxative (1931)
    Marguerite Pierry and Sacha Tarride in Baby's Laxative (1931)
    Jacques Louvigny and Marguerite Pierry in Baby's Laxative (1931)

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    Marguerite Pierry
    • Julie Follavoine
    Jacques Louvigny
    • Follavoine
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    Michel Simon
    Michel Simon
    • Chouilloux
    Olga Valéry
    • Madame Chouilloux
    Nicole Fernandez
    • Rose
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    Fernandel
    • Truchet
    Sacha Tarride
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      • Jean Renoir
      • Georges Feydeau(play)
      • Pierre Prévert(uncredited)
      • Jean Renoir(uncredited)
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      Jean Renoir first sound film.
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      Featured in Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)

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    7/10
    Renoir Directs A Feydeau Play
    It's a busy morning in the household of Jacques Louvigny. Michel Simon is coming to discuss an army contract for hundreds of thousands of chamber pots; his wife, Marguerite Pierry, is wandering around distraught in her bath robe, complaining that their son is constipated and won't take his mineral oil; and he can't find the Hebrides under 'Z' in the dictionary.

    It's Jean Renoir's first sound film (he had already written one to be directed by Alberto Cavalcanti), from a play by Georges Feydeau, a specialist in satirizing the middle classes. There's gossip. There's ranting. There's cuckolding -- Simon's wife has been having an affair with Fernandel -- and there's bowling with unbreakable porcelain chamber pots that shatter. It's all very middle-class and rude and very funny.

    It's basically a one-set, one hour play opened up slightly for the camera. It's certainly not typical work for Renoir, but it's still a delight.
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      • June 21, 1931 (France)
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      • Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé
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    • 46 minutes
      • Black and White

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