Marie Glory
1905 - 2009
Le Diable au cœur
Marcel L'Herbier
Betty Balfour, Jaque Catelain
Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
Little Devil May Care
La femme idéale
André Berthomieu
André Alerme, Marie Glory
Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according to what he says. But when, while on holiday, Grégoire meets beautiful Madeleine, the shy young man becomes fired up. Back to his place of work, he can't help communicating his enthusiasm for Madeleine, so much so that he too is taken for a Don Juan. But Madeleine is not for him. Nevertheless, his unexpected change of attitude will have helped him to conquer the heart of Denise, a typist who loved him in secret.
An Ideal Woman
Le paquebot Tenacity
Julien Duvivier
Albert Préjean, Marie Glory
Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.
S. S. Tenacity
Le mort en fuite
André Berthomieu
Jules Berry, Michel Simon
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
The Fleeing Dead
Lo scapolo
Antonio Pietrangeli
Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
The Bachelor
Et Dieu… créa la femme
Roger Vadim
Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
...And God Created Woman
Avec le sourire
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Chevalier, Marie Glory
A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful.
With a Smile
La fugue de Monsieur Perle
Pierre Gaspard-Huit, Roger Richebé
Noël-Noël, Arlette Poirier
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
Run Away Mr. Perle
