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Title: Beauties of the Night (1952)
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| 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 | |
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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 | |
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Bernard Lajarrige | ... | Léon - le gendarme |
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Albert Michel | ... | Le facteur / Un révolutionnaire |
| Palau | ... | Le vieux monsieur qui critique toutes les époques | |
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Jean Parédès | ... | Paul - le pharmacien |
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Paolo Stoppa | ... | Le directeur de l'Opéra |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Le Choeur Marguerite Mercier | ... | Les choristes |
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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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FrenchRelease Date:
April 1954 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Beauties of the Night See more »Filming Locations:
Studios de Boulogne-Billancourt/SFP - 2 Rue de Silly, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, FranceCompany Credits
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MonoColor:
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1.37 : 1
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Finnish censorship visa # 38333 delivered on 19-5-1953. See more »Alternate Versions
The dubbed Italian version incorporates shots of road signs written in Italian. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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....when France used to colonize (and civilize it)!When you know how that story ends ,such words make you wonder....
Gerard Philipe precisely plays a music teacher who 's dreaming his life away.His daydreaming takes him back to the French revolution -with all the usual clichés- ,to 1900 and to French Algeria .THe moral of this story is that you haven't got to travel far to find happiness cause it's always near you.
Two gorgeous ladies ,Gina Lollobrigida - he met the precedent year in the highly superior "Fanfan la Tulipe"- and Martine Carol give Philipe adequate support.
Probably inspired by "the secret life of Walter Mitty " (1947)