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- DirectorSacha GuitryFernand RiversStarsSacha GuitryJean PérierJosé SquinquelThe biography of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), the French biologist credited for his research on vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
- DirectorSacha GuitryFernand RiversStarsSacha GuitryJacqueline DelubacPauline CartonA girl, Marie, who got engaged to a boy who is leaving for military training (thirteen days), wins two million on the raffle thanks to an older man, Claude, whom she calls her good luck charm. While the fiance is away, he takes her to a honeymoon before the wedding, spending a lot of money on caviar, Renoir paintings, castles and other trivia. As Marie is of unknown father, Claude contemplates adopting her.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryJacqueline DelubacChristian GérardBased on Guitry's own stage play about a sanctimonious fellow who is eventually victimized by his own hypocrisy.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryAdolphe BorchardMarcel LucienA charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGaston DuboscSerge GraveAfter being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryRaimuJacqueline DelubacA husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, in a daze. Another man is there, and the dazed man confesses his infidelity to this stranger--who turns out to be his wife's lover.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueSacha GuitryStarsJacqueline DelubacSacha GuitryLyn HardingThree narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryJacqueline DelubacJacques BaumerShavian social satire. Odette is an actress who's now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties. Things go well for a short time: the wealthy talk about the servants, the servants talk about their employers. Then, Désiré has explicit dreams about Odette; his outbursts wake the maid in the next room nightly. Odette has the same dream each night, awaking the minister and his jealousy. Is there any decorous way to handle these subconscious attractions?
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGaby MorlayJacqueline DelubacThe battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
- DirectorSacha GuitryRobert BibalStarsSacha GuitryLucien BarouxJean PérierLet Guitry take you down cause he's going to...Elysées Fields .
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryMax DearlyElvire PopescoFast-thinking Guitry contrives a scheme to earn easy money from rich women with expiring visas by marrying them with clochards and at the same time to win the charms of beautiful Polish countess. Everything seems to go wrong when the clochards, once married with the foreigners, want to comply with their marital duties...
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGaby MorlayJacques VarennesHistorical romance, made under the Nazi occupation, centering on a woman, played by two different actresses, who influenced the life of Napoleon.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGeneviève GuitryAimé ClariondThe sculptor François Bressolles falls in love with the young Catherine. They envision a life together, but one day François becomes distant and cruel. He begins to lose his sight, and does not want to let Catherine engage with a blind man.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsGeori-BouéSuzy PrimMona GoyaThe rise and fall of a diva circa 1820.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiPauline CartonBiography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiÉmile DrainFrom the late 18th thru the early 19th century Talleyrand, known for his skill at compromise, serves 6 regimes.A George Arliss style vehicle gave Guitry, accused of opportunism during the Occupation, a chance to defend himself.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLouis Le BarbenchonAndré RoyA man remarried his wife's sister whom he believes died in a fire. The alleged deceased reappears and sows trouble and discord in the new household.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiJeanne Fusier-GirMichel Desnoyer has turned his private life into a comic stage play. But the volcanic Ecaterina is not at all pleased to find out that Michel's sister is the mistress of the man she loves.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiAziza AlliWhile he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryFernandelLana MarconiA wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiHenri BellyJean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel SimonJean DebucourtJacques VarennesThrough a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryBernard BlierLana MarconiA husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the did to happen a third time. And yet it does.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel SimonMarguerite PierryLaurence BadieA mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel AuclairJean-Pierre AumontJean-Louis BarraultThe history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsJean-Pierre AumontJeanne BoitelPierre BrasseurNapoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsFrançoise ArnoulJeanne BoitelGilbert BokanowskiA witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsJean PoiretMichel SerraultMagali NoëlA man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel SimonSophie DesmaretsPhilippe NicaudAn actor was murdered in Montmartre while filming a comedy. Commissioner Bernard was immediately in charge of the investigation, but his investigations stalled until the day it was discovered that the crime had been filmed.