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La dame de chez Maxim's (1950)

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Original title
La Dame de chez Maxim
Directed by
Marcel Aboulker
Genre
comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A farce about a respectable man whose life is turned upside down after a night out with a cancan dancer from a famous Parisian nightclub. His attempts to cover up the scandal lead to a series of increasingly absurd misunderstandings.

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What happens

The Girl from Maxim's (French: La dame de chez Maxim's) is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Marcel Aboulker and starring Arlette Poirier, Saturnin Fabre and Marcelle Monthil. It is an adaptation of the 1899 farce La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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