Name: Le père de Mademoiselle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1953-07-17
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Arletty, Suzy Carrier, André Luguet

Marcel L'Herbier's last movie is the follow up to "Les Derniers Jours De Pompéi" which was already a big failure ;"Le Père De Mademoiselle" ditches epics and comes back to the filmed stage production style which was France 's dominant genre at the beginning of the talkies era . The only reason why you would watch that is Arletty 's presence ;she is cast as an actress who stars in one of her former successes "Madame Sans Gene" a riotously funny comedy she played on stage and on the screen.She has a secretary whose parents are very bourgeois ,the father a magistrate whose dream is to end his career in Paris ,and the mother a snob socialite who longs for a money match for her daughter. With a little help from her employer,the secretary becomes the actress' s desirable mansion "owner" an a young attaché will help the dad with her problem ;although string-pulling is still a topical subject,the story seems straight out of the ark ,as old as the "Quatre Chevaux" car the girl's squeeze drives .

A poor ending for an often brilliant career.

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The father of the girl is a magistrate with a high sense of duty.The daughter, Françoise is a romantic girl.The mother of the girl is an ambitious woman who doesn't accept the second place of her husband in a town of province.Françoise escapes from her family because she didn't agree with an arranged matrimony and goes to Paris where she becomes the secretary of Edith Mars, a great comedian.In a letter to her sister she wrote that she was working in an American company and gave the address of Edith as her address.Now the parents are arriving from Nancy to Paris.

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