The Green Dress

The Green Dress

1937 · 109 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy

Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a subterfuge, claiming that he has come to see the Duchess to seek support to be elected at the Institut de France, whose chairman is precisely her husband. The latter takes him at his word and Hubert becomes... a member of the French Academy! Which just shows that everything leads to everything.

Directed by Roger Richebé · Written by Roger Richebé

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Victor Boucher Le comte Hubert de Latour-Latour
Elvira Popescu La duchesse de Maulévrier
Jules Berry Parmeline
André Lefaur Le duc de Maulévrier
Pierre Larquey Pinchet, le secrétaire perpétuel de l'Institut
Meg Lemonnier Brigitte Touchard, la secrétaire du duc
Georges Morton
Robert Seller
Charles Lamy
Pierre Palau
Lucette Desmoulins
Abel Tarride

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