Holiday for Henrietta
1952 film
- 17 December 1952 (1952-12-17)
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Holiday for Henrietta (French: La fête à Henriette) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, and Hildegard Knef.[1] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location around Paris including at the Gaumont-Palace cinema. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. Holiday for Henrietta was remade in English as the 1964 film Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn,[2] which also featured d'Eaubonne as art director.
Synopsis
While urgently trying to develop a screenplay for a new film, two screenwriters, the downbeat Crémieux and the optimist Seignier, create contradictory storylines as they argue, and as each takes turns in taking the narrative forward, they force the lead characters Henriette and Maurice into weird situations. The film switches back and forth between the writers at home and the film as it develops according to their ideas.
Cast
- Dany Robin as Henriette
- Michel Auclair as Marcel
- Hildegard Knef as Rita Solar
- Louis Seigner as script writer
- Micheline Francey as Nicole, script girl
- Henri Crémieux as script writer
- Michel Roux as Robert
- Daniel Ivernel as detective
- Odette Laure as Valentine
- Jeannette Batti as Gisèle
- Liliane Maigné as the cigarette girl
- Geneviève Morel as The Concierge
References
Bibliography
- Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.
External links
- Holiday for Henrietta at IMDb
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Films directed by Julien Duvivier
- The Agony of the Eagles (1922)
- The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922)
- The Abbot Constantine (1925)
- The Red Head (1925)
- The Man with the Hispano (1926)
- The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)
- The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
- The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)
- The Divine Voyage (1929)
- La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930)
- David Golder (1931)
- Moon Over Morocco (1931)
- Here's Berlin (1932)
- The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932)
- The Red Head (1932)
- A Man's Neck (1933)
- The Little King (1933)
- Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
- Golgotha (1935)
- La Bandera (1935)
- Le 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)
- The Sinners (1949)
- Black Jack (1950)
- Under the Sky of Paris (1951)
- Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
- Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
- The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
- On Trial (1954)
- Marianne of My Youth (1955)
- Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
- The Man in the Raincoat (1957)
- Lovers of Paris (1957)
- The Female (1959)
- Marie-Octobre (1959)
- The High Life (1960)
- Boulevard (1960)
- The Burning Court (1962)
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
- Highway Pick-Up (1963)
- Diabolically Yours (1967)
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