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Guy de Maupassant (short stories "Mademoiselle Fifi" and "Boule de Suif")
Josef Mischel (screenplay) ...
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She faced a question as old as Eve!
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In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors... more | add synopsis
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Actor Kurt Kreuger Dies
(From WENN. 20 July 2006)
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Fifi donc! more (12 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Simone Simon | ... | Elizabeth Bousset - A Little Laundress |
| John Emery | ... | Jean Cornudet |
| Kurt Kreuger | ... | Lt. von Eyrick - Called 'Fifi' |
| Alan Napier | ... | The Count de Breville |
| Helen Freeman | ... | The Countess de Breville |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | A Wholesaler in Wines (as Jason Robards) |
| Norma Varden | ... | The Wholesaler's Wife |
| Romaine Callender | ... | A Manufacturer |
| Fay Helm | ... | The Manufacturer's Wife |
| Edmund Glover | ... | A Young Priest |
| Charles Waldron | ... | The Curé of Cleresville |
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Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi (USA) (complete title)
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69 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #10066) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:PG | Spain:13
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Featured in Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) (TV) more
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La Marseillaise more
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Simone Simon doesn't take the title role in Mademoiselle Fifi – that dubious honour goes to Kurt Krueger – but it's still her best role outside of the Cat People films. A rare non-horror credit for Val Lewton, it's a well-mounted and surprisingly effective combination of two of Guy De Maupassant's stories about passive resistance in the Franco-Prussian war that works as an effective WW2 propaganda piece. Simon's character may have been changed from a plump prostitute to a petite laundress (this was the 1940s, after all), but the first half, based on the story that inspired Stagecoach, is still a remarkably effective adaptation that segues comfortably into the second story, linking them both by a battle of wills with the titular bored Prussian officer who wants the population to submit to his whims purely as a mark of obsequiousness. Nicely directed by Robert Wise, it deserves to be much better known and it's a shame that Warners couldn't find a place for it on their Val Lewton boxed set, though Editions Montparnasse's French DVD is an acceptable transfer.