The Man of the Hour

For the 1914 film directed by Maurice Tourneur, see The Man of the Hour (1914 film).

The Man of the Hour
Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Produced by	Julien Duvivier José Marquis
Written by	Julien Duvivier Charles Spaak Charles Vildrac
Starring	Maurice Chevalier Elvire Popesco Josette Day André Alerme
Music by	Jean Wiener
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Marthe Poncin
Production company	Les Films Marquis
Distributed by	Distribution Parisienne de Films
Release dates	26 February 1937
Running time	93 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Man of the Hour (French:L'homme du jour) is a 1937 French musical film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Maurice Chevalier, Elvire Popesco and Josette Day.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. An ordinary man saves the life of a great actress by giving blood, and she in turns decides to promote him as a singing star.

Partial cast

Maurice Chevalier as Alfred Boulard / Himself
Elvire Popesco as Mona Thalia
Josette Day as Suzanne Petit
Raymond Aimos as Le vieux cabot
André Alerme as François-Théophile Cormier de la Creuse
Marguerite Deval as Mme Christoforo
Marcelle Géniat as Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'Alfred
Paulette Élambert as La petite soeur de Suzanne
Robert Lynen as Milot - l'apprenti électricien
Marcelle Praince as Mme Pinchon - une pensionnaire
Robert Pizani as Le poète efféminé
Pierre Sergeol as La Breloque
Charlotte Barbier-Krauss as Mme Legal - la patronne de la pension de famille
Simone Deguyse as La petite femme à la terrasse du café
Renée Devillers as Fanny Couvrain - la fille aux fleurs
Fernand Fabre as Le peintre à la réception
Jeanne Fusier-Gir as La chanteuse à l'audition
Germaine Michel as La bouchère
Missia as La dame du monde à la réception

References

↑ Mazdon & Wheatley p.35

Bibliography

Lucy Mazdon & Catherine Wheatley. Je T Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations. Berghahn Books, 2010.

External links

The Man of the Hour at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Julien Duvivier

Filmography

Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (1919) The Reincarnation of Serge Renaudie (1920) The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922) The Agony of the Eagles (1922) Les roquevillard (1922) The Reflection of Claude Mercœur (1923) L'oeuvre immortelle (1924) Coeurs farouches (1924) A Machine for Recreating Life (1924) Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes (1924) The Abbot Constantine (1925) The Red Head (1925) Le mystère de la tour Eiffel (1927) The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927) L'homme à l'Hispano (1927) L'agonie de Jérusalem (1927) The Maelstrom of Paris (1928) Mother Hummingbird (1929) The Divine Voyage (1929) La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1930) David Golder (1931) The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932) La Vénus du collège (1932) Here's Berlin (1932) The Red Head (1932) A Machine for Recreating Life (1933) A Man's Neck (1933) The Little King (1933) S.S. Tenacity (1934) Maria Chapdelaine (1935) Golgotha (1935) La Bandera (1935) The Golem (1936) They Were Five (1936) The Man of the Hour (1937) Pépé le Moko (1937) Life Dances On (1937) The Great Waltz (1938) The End of the Day (1939) The Phantom Carriage (1939) Lydia (1941) Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Heart of a Nation (1943) Flesh and Fantasy (1943) The Impostor (1944) Panique (1946) Anna Karenina (1948) Au royaume des cieux (1949) Black Jack (1950) Under the Paris Sky (1951) The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) Holiday for Henrietta (1952) The Return of Don Camillo (1953) L'affaire Maurizius (1954) Marianne of My Youth (1955) Deadlier Than the Male (1956) The Man in the Raincoat (1957) Pot-Bouille (1957) The Female (1959) Marie-Octobre (1959) The High Life (1960) Boulevard (1960) The Burning Court (1962) The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) Chair de poule (1963) Diabolically Yours (1967)

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