Woman of Malacca

Woman of Malacca

Directed by	Marc Allégret
Written by	Francis de Croisset (novel) Claude-André Puget Jan Lustig
Starring	Edwige Feuillère Pierre Richard-Willm Betty Daussmond Jacques Copeau
Music by	Louis Beydts
Cinematography	Jules Kruger
Edited by	Yvonne Martin
Production company	Régina Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	1 October 1937
Running time	113 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Woman of Malacca (French: La dame de Malacca) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm and Betty Daussmond. It was based on a 1935 novel by the French writer Francis de Croisset. It was a major success on its initial release.^[1]

A separate German-language version Andere Welt was also made.

Synopsis

A young Englishwoman, Audrey Greenwood, marries an army officer to escape her dreary life as a school teacher. Accompanying her husband out for colonial service in Malacca, she soon grows unhappy with her marriage, and falls in love with a local sultan, Prince Selim.

Cast

Edwige Feuillère as Audrey Greenwood
Pierre Richard-Willm as Prince Selim
Betty Daussmond as Lady Lyndstone
Jacques Copeau as Lord Brandmore
Gabrielle Dorziat as Lady Brandmore
Jean Debucourt as Sir Eric Temple
Jean Wall as Le major Carter
Liliane Lesaffre as Lady Johnson
Ky Duyen as Le japonais
Foun-Sen as La servante
William Aguet as Gerald
Alexandre Mihalesco as Sirdae Raman
René Bergeron as Le Docteur
Magdeleine Bérubet as Mademoiselle Tramont
Charlotte Clasis as Une amie d'Audrey
Marthe Mellot as La sous-maîtresse de l'institut Tramont
Robert Ozanne as Un journaliste
René Fleur as Un journaliste
Michèle Lahaye as Une dame anglaise
Colette Proust as Une dame anglaise

References

↑ Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.104

Bibliography

Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
Passerini, Luisa, Labanyi, Jo & Diehl, Karen. Europe and Love in Cinema. Intellect Books, 2012.

External links

Woman of Malacca on IMDb

Select Films of Marc Allégret

Travels in the Congo (1927) (documentary)
J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931) (short)
Fanny (1932)
The Chocolate Girl (1932)
Lake of Ladies (1934)
Zouzou (1934)
Adventure in Paris (1936)
Under Western Eyes (1936)
The Terrible Lovers (1936)
Woman of Malacca (1937)
Gribouille (1937)
Orage (1938)
Le Corsaire (1939) (unfinished)
The Beautiful Adventure (1942)
Twilight (1944)
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
Lunegarde (1945)
Blanche Fury (1948)
The Naked Heart (1949)
Blackmailed (1951)
La demoiselle et son revenant (1952)
Julietta (1953)
School for Love (1955)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955)
Plucking the Daisy (1956)
Love Is at Stake (1957)
Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958)
Demons at Midnight (1961)
The Man from Chicago (1963)
The Ball of Count Orgel (1970)

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