The Green Jacket
Directed byRoger Richebé
Written by
Produced byRoger Richebé
Starring
CinematographyJean Isnard
Edited byJean Mamy
Music byMarcel Lattès
Production
company
Films Roger Richebé
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
28 October 1937
Running time
109 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Green Jacket (French: L'habit vert) is a 1937 French comedy film directed by Roger Richebé and starring Elvire Popesco, Victor Boucher and Jules Berry. It is based on a play by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne.

The film is a farce set against the backdrop of the Académie française.

Cast

  • Elvire Popesco as La duchesse de Maulévrier
  • Victor Boucher as Le comte Hubert de Latour-Latour
  • Jules Berry as Parmeline
  • André Lefaur as Le duc de Maulévrier
  • Pierre Larquey as Pinchet - le secrétaire perpétuel de l'Institut
  • Meg Lemonnier as Brigitte Touchard - la secrétaire du duc
  • Bernard Blier as Le fils Pinchet
  • Abel Tarride as Jacques Durand - le nouveau Président de la République
  • Robert Seller as Saint-Gobain
  • Palau as Le baron Bénin
  • Lucette Desmoulins as Arlette Mareuil
  • Marie-Jacqueline Chantal as La voyageuse du train
  • Léonce Corne as Le tailleur
  • Georges Morton as Le général
  • Charles Lamy as Gondrecourt - le doyen de l'Académie française
  • Georges Pally as Le domestique des Maulévrier
  • Léon Arvel as Mourier
  • Jacques Beauvais as L'huissier
  • Marguerite de Morlaye as Une invitée à l'Élysée
  • Eddy Debray as Laurel
  • Gustave Gallet as Petit rôle
  • Anthony Gildès as Un académicien
  • Léone Leduc as Petit rôle
  • Robert Ralphy as Un académicien
  • Henri Richard as Petit rôle
  • Gaston Secrétan as Un académicien

References

  1. Forman p.56

Bibliography

  • Forman, Edward. Historical Dictionary of French Theater. Scarecrow Press, 2010.


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