The Respectful Prostitute (film)
{{Short description|1952 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Respectful Prostitute
| image = File:The Respectful Prostitute (film).jpg
| caption =
| director = {{ubl|Marcello Pagliero|Charles Brabant}}
| producer = Georges Agiman
Charles Brabant
| writer = {{ubl|Alexandre Astruc|Jean-Paul Sartre}}
| starring = Barbara Laage
Ivan Desny
Marcel Herrand
| music = Georges Auric
| cinematography = Eugen Schüfftan
| editing = Monique Kirsanoff
| studio =Artès Films
Les Films Agiman
| distributor = Les Films Marceau
| released = {{film date|1952|10|08|df=yes}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
}}
The Respectful Prostitute (French: La Putain respectueuse) is a 1952 French crime drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and starring Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny and Marcel Herrand.Bessy & Chirat p.192 {{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/6908/la-p-respectueuse | title=La P... Respectueuse de Marcello Pagliero, Charles Brabant (1952) - Unifrance }} It is an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's 1946 play The Respectful Prostitute.{{IMDb title|id=0045060}} It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Courbevoie. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Colasson.
Cast
{{cast listing|
- Barbara Laage as Lizzie Mac-Kay, singer hostess
- Ivan Desny as Fred Clarke, the son of the senator
- Schetting as Sidney, the Negro
- Walter Bryant as Teddy Barnes, the nephew of the senator
- Marcel Herrand as the senator Edouard Clarke
- Yolande Laffon as Marie, the sister of the senator
- Marie Olivier as Annie, a companion of Lizzie
- André Valmy as Georges, the boss of the club
- Jacques Hilling as the drunkard of the night club
- Jean Danet as a client of the night club
- Byron et O'Thella as the stars of the club
- Grégoire Gromoff as a client of the night club
- Louis de Funès as a client of the night club
- Jack Ary as a lorry driver
- Luc Andrieux as the barman
- François Joux as the television journalist
- Nicolas Vogel as a client of the night club
- Robert Mercier as a man in the garage
- Jean Minisini as a man in the cabaret
- Gil Delamare as a man in the garage
}}
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955. Pygmalion, 1989.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0045060}}
- [http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_L_Amour_n_est_pas_un_peche_1952_rev.html L’Amour n’est pas un péché (1952)] at the Films de France
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Category:French crime drama films
Category:1950s French-language films
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Foreign films set in the United States
Category:French films based on plays
Category:Films directed by Marcello Pagliero
Category:1952 crime drama films
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