The Girl from Maxim's
1933 film
- 18 August 1933 (1933-08-18) (UK)
Running time
The Girl from Maxim's is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Frances Day, Leslie Henson, Lady Tree and Stanley Holloway.[1] It was an adaptation of the 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau.[2] A French-language version was filmed at the same time under the title La dame de chez Maxim's.
Plot
A doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
Cast
- Leslie Henson as Doctor Petypon
- Frances Day as La Mome
- George Grossmith, Jr. as The General
- Lady Tree as Madame Petypon
- Stanley Holloway as Mongicourt
- Gertrude Musgrove as Clementine
- Evan Thomas as Corignon
- Desmond Jeans as Etienne
- Hugh Dempster as The Duke
- Eric Portman as Uncredited
Critical reception
TV Guide called it a "Dull British comedy."[3]
References
External links
- The Girl from Maxim's at IMDb
- The Girl from Maxim's at the TCM Movie Database
- The Girl from Maxim's at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
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Films by Alexander Korda
- Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
- The Duped Journalist (1914)
- Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
- Lyon Lea (1915)
- The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
- White Nights (1916)
- The Grandmother (1916)
- Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
- The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
- The One Million Pound Note (1916)
- Cyclamen (1916)
- Struggling Hearts (1916)
- The Laughing Saskia (1916)
- Miska the Magnate (1916)
- St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
- The Stork Caliph (1917)
- Magic (1917)
- Harrison and Barrison (1917)
- Faun (1918)
- The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
- Mary Ann (1918)
- Ave Caesar! (1919)
- White Rose (1919)
- Yamata (1919)
- Man of Gold (1919)
- Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
- Number 111 (1919)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
- Masters of the Sea (1922)
- A Vanished World (1922)
- Samson and Delilah (1922)
- The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
- Everybody's Woman (1924)
- Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
- Dancing Mad (1925)
- Madame Wants No Children (1926)
- A Modern Dubarry (1927)
- The Stolen Bride (1927)
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
- Yellow Lily (1928)
- Night Watch (1928)
- Love and the Devil (1929)
- The Squall (1929)
- Her Private Life (1929)
- Lilies of the Field (1930)
- Women Everywhere (1930)
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- The Men Around Lucy (1931)
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- Longing for the Sea (1931)
- The Golden Anchor (1932)
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- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
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- The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
- Rembrandt (1936)
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- Men of Tomorrow (1932)
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- Catherine the Great (1934)
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- The Fox Hunt (1936)
- Things to Come (1936)
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- Lydia (1941)
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- The Winslow Boy (1948)
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