The Mondesir Heir

The Mondesir Heir (French: L'héritier des Mondésir) is a 1940 French-German comedy film directed by Albert Valentin and starring Fernandel, Elvire Popesco and Jules Berry. It was shot in Berlin by the German studio UFA in a co-production arrangement with its own French subsidiary ACE. Made before the Second World War broke out, it was the last of twenty one such productions.

Cast

• Fernandel as Bienaimé de Mondésir, le baron de Mondésir & ses aïeux
• Elvire Popesco as Erika Axelos
• Jules Berry as Waldemar
• Gaby André as Janine Richard - La postière
• Monette Dinay as Rosette
• Jacques Derives as L'ordonnateur
• Yves Deniaud as Gaston
• Hugues Wanner as Lepetit
• Henri Beaulieu as Le colonel
• Lucien Dayle as Le notaire
• Marfa d'Hervilly as La cliente de Waldemer
• Fernand Flament as Martinot
• Frédéric Mariotti as Costecalde
• Edmond Ardisson as Justin - Le chauffeur
• Simone Gauthier as La première jeune fille du ciel
• Édouard Delmont as Firmin - Le majordome des Mondésir
• Tramel as Le curé
• Mathilde Alberti as Madame Cassard
• Bill Bocket as Le vitrier
• Jacques B. Brunius as Le médecin
• Ketti Dallan as Ginette
• Paul Denneville as Le marchand de cycles
• Marthe Derminy as Madame Février-Mars
• Drejac as Le fils du marchand
• Odile Dufay as Mademoiselle de Picoult
• Jacqueline Dufranne as Marguerite
• Suzy Flory as La commère
• Paul Fournier as Le bistro
• Sonia Gobar as Lucette
• Philippe Grey as Max
• Denise Helia as Gaby
• Elyane Herenguel as La deuxième jeune fille du ciel
• Anna Lefeuvrier as Irma
• Palmyre Levasseur as La patronne du bistro
• Jeanne Longuet as Raymonde
• Marcelly as L'épicière
• Jany Marsa as La voisine
• I. Mense as L'ami
• Auguste Mouriès as Quatrefages
• Léo Mouriès as Madame Costecalde
• Robert Ozanne as Petit rôle
• Roger Peter as Xavier
• Rocca as Le petit vieux
• André Saint-Germain as Chabernac
• Georges Serrano as Petit rôle
• Rita Stoya as Clara
• Solange Vallée as Mado
• Jacques Valois as Jimmy
• Ernest Varial as Le charron

References

Bibliography

• Fiss, Karen. Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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