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The Girl from Maxim's is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Frances Day, Leslie Henson, Lady Tree and Stanley Holloway. [1] It was an adaptation of the 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau. [2]
The Girl from Maxim's (French: La dame de chez Maxim's) is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Marcel Aboulker and starring Arlette Poirier, Saturnin Fabre and Marcelle Monthil. It is an adaptation of the 1899 farce La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau.
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By the late-1890s Georges Feydeau had established himself as the leading writer of vaudeville – known in English-speaking countries as French farce. At a time when a run of 100 performances was regarded in Parisian theatres as a success, Feydeau had enjoyed runs of 434 for Champignol malgré lui (1892) and 371 for L'Hôtel du libre échange (1894), bo...
Act 1
The scene is the house of Dr Petypon, a respectable middle-aged medical practitioner in Paris. His friend and colleague Dr Mongicourt calls and finds Petypon asleep on the floor. The two of them had been on the town celebrating a professional success and over-indulging at Maxim's. Petypon wakes with a serious hangover and a strange young woman in his bed. She is la Môme Crevette– roughly "the kid shrimp" – star dancer at the Moulin Rouge. His wife, Gabrielle, enters and finds la Môme's dress...
Act 2
At the general's château the provincial ladies are shocked but titillated by la Môme's free and easy behaviour and Parisian street-talk, including her catch phrase, "Eh! allez donc, c'est pas mon père!" ("Hey! come on, it's not my father!"), and they attempt to emulate her. Gabrielle arrives; when la Môme is introduced to her as "Madame Petypon" Gabrielle supposes her to be the general's wife. La Môme sings a rude song, which, fortunately, the ladies do not understand – though the general's a...
Act 3
Back chez Petypon, the mistaken identities proliferate, and characters are frozen in mid-action at crucial moments by sitting in the ecstatic chair. An amorous young duke lusting after "Mme Petypon" (la Môme) finds himself in the embrace of a rampaging Gabrielle. There is a chase scene, much slapping of faces, and a threatened duel is narrowly avoided. Eventually the truth emerges, along with a reasonably plausible innocent explanation of the various impersonations, and everyone ends up with...
The Paris correspondent of the London paper The Era reported, "[Feydeau's] new work is a masterpiece of jocoseness, abounding in frolicsome inventions, and overflowing with witty sayings. Its triumph was prodigious, quite phenomenal. … Seldom have I laughed so heartily in a theatre, and the whole house was with me". In Le Figaro, Henry Fouquier wro...
The piece was twice revived in Paris during Feydeau's lifetime. In 1910, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Georgette Delmarès played la Môme Crevette; in 1913 at the Variétés the part was played by Ève Lavallière, with Félix Galipaux as Petypon. After the First World War, the bawdy plays of the Belle Eppque were now seen as naive, and Feydeau's body of wor...
Sources
1. Gidel, Henry (1991). Georges Feydeau (in French). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-066280-4. 2. Noël, Edouard; Edmond Stoullig (1893). Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, 1892. Paris: Charpentier. OCLC 172996346. 3. Noël, Edouard; Edmond Stoullig (1894). Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, 1893. Paris: Charpentier. OCLC 172996346. 4. Noël, Edouard; Edmond Stoullig (1895). Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, 1894. Paris: Charpentier. OCLC 172996346. 5. Noël, Edouard; Edmond S...
Film Details. Genre. Comedy. Release Date. Oct 1, 1936. Premiere Information. London opening: Sep 1933; New York opening: week of 17 Sep 1936. Production Company. London Film Productions, Ltd. Distribution Company. J. H. Hoffberg Co. Country. France (with British financing) Screenplay Information.
- Alexander Korda
- Frances Day
Maxim's, presided over by Day's cunningly quixotic coquette, becomes a palace of boisterous female exhibitionism where men pay for their pleasure by exposing...
1h 49m. IMDb RATING. 5.7 /10. 21. YOUR RATING. Rate. Comedy. Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General...
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engagement of his niece and Lieutenant Corrignon, the kid's lover. The reception is likely to be very busy...
