Madelon (film) explained

Madelon
Director:	Jean Boyer
Music:	Louis Gasté
Runtime:	90 minutes
Country:	France

Madelon (French: La Madelon) is a 1955 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Jean Richard and Roger Pierre.^[1] It is inspired by the popular song of the First World War "La Madelon" about Madelon, a waitress working in a country inn encountered by a group of soldiers.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.

Synopsis

In the First World War, Madeleine, a singing waitress who has become of the idol to the French Army travels up to Paris and the Western Front searching for her lover, encountering on the way a variety of different nationalities who make up the Allied forces.

Cast

• Line Renaud as Madeleine Thullier, dite La Madelon
• Jean Richard as Antoine Pichot
• Roger Pierre as Le caporal Georges Beauguitte
• Pierre Larquey as Le curé
• Georges Chamarat as Auguste Thullier
• André Valmy as Le capitaine Van Meulen
• Gilbert Gil as Un commandant d'aviation chez Maxim's
• Jacques Dynam as Le chasseur de chez Maxim's
• Jean Martinelli as Le colonel de Saint-Marc
• Peter Walker as Un Américain
• Michèle Monty as Juliette
• Jess Hahn as Le général américain Gibson
• Émile Genevois as Le soldat Alfred
• Odette Barencey as Mme Thullier
• Edmond Chemi as Le gendarme qui arrête Antoine
• Michel Flamme as Un capitaine d'aviation chez Maxim's
• Jacques Hilling as Le soldat qui dort
• Daniel Ceccaldi as Un militaire chez Maxim's
• Georges Baconnet as M. Pichot
• Robert Dalban as L'adjudant La Tringle
• Robert Rollis as Julot
• Jean Carmet as Le soldat Mathieu
• Noël Roquevert as Le commandant Martin

References

1. The A to Z of French Cinema p.140

Bibliography

• Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.