The Green Jacket

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. 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

Bibliography

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

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