Would-Be Gentleman
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Release: 1958-11-19
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 8.0
Drama
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Les Productions Cinématographiques
Filmsonor
La Comédie-Française
Cast
Georges Chamarat
as the master of philosophy
Jean Piat
as Cléonte, in love with Lucile
Jacques Charon
as the dancing master
Andrée de Chauveron
as Madame Jourdain
Henri Tisot
as A tailor boy
René Camoin
as First lackey
Jean Meyer
as Covielle, Cléonte's valet
Robert Manuel
as the music master
Jacques Eyser
as the fencing master
Micheline Boudet
as Nicole, servant
Michèle Grellier
as Lucile, daughter of M. Jourdain
Albert Lance
as Singer
Louis Seigner
as Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois
Georges Descrières
as Dorante, count, lover of Dorimene
Marie Sabouret
as Dorimène, marquise
