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Would-Be Gentleman

8.0 96 mins Drama   Comedy   1958
Les Productions Cinématographiques   Filmsonor   La Comédie-Française  
Director(s): Jean Meyer

M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about Dorante's expenses and prefers her daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte. The two young men's servants use subterfuge to get M. Jourdain to accept Cléonte as son-in-law. They fake the arrival of the Grand Turk's son in Paris, and, in an Oriental ballet, confer upon M. Jourdain the title of Mammamouchi, his daughter marrying the son of the Grand Turk, who is none other than Cléonte in disguise.

Casts of Would-Be Gentleman

Jean Meyer

as Covielle, Cléonte's valet

Louis Seigner

as Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois

Robert Manuel

as the music master

Georges Chamarat

as the master of philosophy

Jean Piat

as Cléonte, in love with Lucile

Georges Descrières

as Dorante, count, lover of Dorimene

Jacques Eyser

as the fencing master

Jacques Charon

as the dancing master

Andrée de Chauveron

as Madame Jourdain

Micheline Boudet

as Nicole, servant

Marie Sabouret

as Dorimène, marquise

Michèle Grellier

as Lucile, daughter of M. Jourdain

Jean-Louis Jemma

as The master tailor

Henri Tisot

as A tailor boy

René Camoin

as First lackey

François Valère

as Second lackey

Bernard Demigny

as the student

Andrée Grandjean

as Singer

Albert Lance

as Singer

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