The Woman I Loved Most
1942 film by Robert Vernay
The Woman I Loved Most (French: La femme que j'ai le plus aimée) is a 1942 French drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Arletty, Mireille Balin and Lucien Baroux. It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Occupied Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux.
Synopsys
A young man with a broken heart intends to commit suicide, and in order to console him, his uncle and friends tell the stories of their own broken hearts.
Cast
Arletty as Simone, surgeon's tenant
Mireille Balin as Ferval's wife
Lucien Baroux as Louis Drotort, artist
René Lefèvre as Georges, industrialist's son
André Luguet as lawyer
Noël-Noël as surgeon
Raymond Rouleau as Claude Ferval, playwright
Jean Tissier as Hubert Barnabé, theater director
Michèle Alfa as Michèle Fabreuse, female sculptor
Raymond Aimos as gladiator model
René Bergeron as concierge
Simone Berriau as artist's wife
Bernard Blier as funeral director
Renée Devillers as Jeanne, secretary
Maurice Escande as Gaëtan
Charles Granval as industrialist, father of George
Pierre Magnier as uncle
Raymond Segard as nephew
Marcel Vallée as critic
Alfred Adam as Charles, attorney
Paul Faivre as Panouille, clerk
Jacqueline Gauthier as Rose, Simone's maid
Pierre Jourdan as friend of Claude
Missia as housekeeper
Paul Demange as hairdresser
Geneviève Morel as flower girl
References
Bibliography
Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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