Les Collégiennes
1957 film by André Hunebelle
Les Collégiennes (English: The Twilight Girls) is a 1957 comedy-drama directed by André Hunebelle and starring Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Christine Carère and Estella Blain. It is the film debut of Catherine Deneuve (credited as Catherine Dorléac).
Cast
Marie-Hélène Arnaud as Catherine Royer
Christine Carère as Monique
Estella Blain as Martha
Gaby Morlay as Madame Ancelin
Henri Guisol as Christian Brenner
Véronique Verlhac as Solange
Agnès Laurent as Anne-Marie
Paul Guers as Gilles Mareuil
Sophie Daumier as Nicole
Jacqueline Corot as Sophie
Anna Gaylor as Geneviève
Anita Treyens as Betty
Sylvie Dorléac as Adélaïde
Madeleine Barbulée as Madame Letellier
Made Siamé as Supervisor of the Girls
Elga Andersen as Hélène
Fernand Fabre as Doctor
Catherine Deneuve as Schoolgirl
Gérard Barray as Television Journalist
Yvonne Monlaur as Older Girl
Georgina Spelvin as Topless Girl #2 (US Insert, Uncredited)
Louisa Colpeyn
Marcelle Hainia
Release
The film was released in France in 1957 by Sirius Films and in America in 1961 by Audubon Films, for which the film was dubbed and re-edited and additional footage added by Radley Metzger, making the film more explicit.
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