Quadrille

5.972

95 minutes

1/29/1938

Overview

The 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.

Cast List

Sacha Guitry
as Philippe de Morannes
Gaby Morlay
as Paulette Nanteuil
Jacqueline Delubac
as Claudine André
Georges Grey
as Carl Erickson (as George Grey)
Pauline Carton
as La Femme de Chambre de l'Hôtel
Jacques Vitry
as Le Docteur
Louis Baldy
as Durmel
Louis Vonelly
as Le Chef de Réception
Paul Alex
as Le Concierge
Marc Hélin
as Un Chasseur
Pierre Huchet
as Un Valet de Chambre
Georges Lemaire
as Le Régisseur
Marie-Claire Pissaro
as Une Femme de Chambre
Clary Monthal
as Une Habilleuse
Marguerite Templey
as Madame de Germond
Julien Rivière
as Le Maître d'Hôtel
Adolphe Borchard
as Lui-même dans le Générique
Robert Lefebvre
as Lui-même dans le Générique
Ray Ventura
as Himself (as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens)