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Charley's Aunt (French: La marraine de Charley) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Lucien Baroux, Olly von Flint and Monique Rolland.[1] It is based on the 1892 play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis
A young man invites his fiancee and her father to visit him at his lodgings at Oxford University. He expects them to be chaperoned by his aunt arriving from from Brazil but when she is delayed he gers his servant to impersonate her.
Cast
- Lucien Baroux as William
- Olly von Flint as Olly Parker
- Monique Rolland as Kitty Spettik
- Julien Carette as Spettik
- Claude Lehmann as Charley
- Georges Mauloy as Le colonel
- Robert Goupil as Pitt
- George Rigaud as Jack
- Marguerite Moreno as Lucie d'Alvadorez
- Léna Darthès as Betty
- Jean Dax as L'huissier
- Guy Derlan as Le secrétaire
- Hubert as Un rédacteur
- Max Lerel as Un rédacteur
References
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
- Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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