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La Garçonne (The Bachelor Girl or The Flapper) is a 1936 French black-and-white film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte. It was directed by Jean de Limur and starred Marie Bell (in the title role), Arletty and Edith Piaf.

La Garçonne
Marie Bell in La Garçonne (1936)
Directed by	Jean de Limur
Written by	Albert Dieudonné (scriptwriter)
Based on	La Garçonne by Victor Margueritte
Starring	Marie Bell
Cinematography	Roger Hubert Charlie Bauer
Edited by	Jean Oser
Music by	Jean Wiener (including the music for Quand même, sung by Édith Piaf, lyrics by Louis Poterat)
Distributed by	Franco London Films
Release date	21 February 1936 (1936-02-21) (France)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Plot

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse character (played by Edith Piaf), ensuring the film became a succès de scandale. Another actress in the film, Arletty, said of it:

It was advanced, as an idea. Victor Margueritte, the author of the novel, took a major part in the production process. I maintained Marie Bell, in the film. One of the last times we saw each other, shortly before her death, we recalled this memory. "I maintained you in La Garçonne", I said to her, "and luckily this was not real life, otherwise you would have cost me dearly!" It has to be said of Marie that she was not cheap to keep! And how we laughed!...The film was a success thanks to the scandal it provoked. Seeing "bonnes femmes" as flappers, smoking opium...Seeing female homosexuals, in that epoque!" [1]

Cast

• Marie Bell : Monique Lerbier
• Arletty : Niquette
• Henri Rollan : Régis Boisselot
• Maurice Escande : Lucien Vigneret
• Jaque Catelain : Georges Blanchet
• Pierre Etchepare : Plombino
• Philippe Hersent : Peer Rys
• Jean Worms : Monsieur Lerbier
• Marcelle Praince : Madame Lerbier
• Vanda Gréville : Élisabeth
• Suzy Solidor : Anika
• Édith Piaf : the chanteuse
• Jean Tissier : Monsieur des Souzaies
• Marcelle Géniat : Aunt Sylvestre
• Junie Astor
• Jane Marken

Crew

• Director : Jean de Limur
• Writers: Albert Dieudonné after the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte (Éditions Flammarion, 1922)
• Adaptation : Marion Fort
• Dialogue : Jacques Natanson
• Music : Jean Wiener
• Song : Quand même, sung by Édith Piaf, lyrics by Louis Poterat, music by Jean Wiener[2][3]
• Cinematography: Roger Hubert, Charlie Bauer
• Sound engineers : Robert Tesseire
• Design : Lucien Aguettand
• Editing : Jean Oser

Production details

• Production company : Franco London Films (France)
• Principal photography : Began in December 1935
• Format : Black-and-white — Monophonic sound — 35 mm

References

External links

• La Garçonne at IMDb

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