Merchant of Love
1935 French film
- Edmond T. Gréville
- Henri Jeanson
- Jean Galland
- Rosine Deréan
- Françoise Rosay
Production
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H.O. Films
Release date
- 21 June 1935 (1935-06-21)
Running time
Merchant of Love (French: Marchand d'amour) is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Jean Galland, Rosine Deréan and Françoise Rosay.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild.
Cast
- Jean Galland as Jack Stephen
- Rosine Deréan as Lily
- Jacqueline Daix as Mitzi
- Robert Arnoux as Léo
- Françoise Rosay as Clara
- Paul Ollivier as Le commanditaire
- Maurice Maillot as Le jeune premier
- Félix Oudart as Le producteur
- Georges Bever
- Nane Germon
- Enrico Glori
- Fred Marche
- Viviane Romance
Reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly positive review, characterizing it as "a melodramatic and rather silly tale [...] directed with immense panache and a secret sense of amusement".[2]
References
- ^ Mazdon & Wheatley p.24
- ^ Greene, Graham (18 September 1936). "The Great Ziegfeld/It's Love Again/Marchand d'Amour/East Meets West". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 101. ISBN 0192812866.)
Bibliography
- Lucy Mazdon & Catherine Wheatley. Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations. Berghahn Books, 2010.
External links
- Merchant of Love at IMDb
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Films directed by Edmond T. Gréville
- The Train of Suicides (1931)
- The Triangle of Fire (1932)
- Princess Tam Tam (1935)
- Merchant of Love (1935)
- Whirlpool of Desire (1935)
- Gypsy Melody (1936)
- Brief Ecstasy (1937)
- Under Secret Orders (1937)
- Secret Lives (1937)
- Forty Years (1938)
- What a Man! (1938)
- Threats (1940)
- A Woman in the Night (1943)
- Dorothy Looks for Love (1945)
- Noose (1948)
- But Not in Vain (1948)
- The Romantic Age (1949)
- The Other Side of Paradise (1953)
- House on the Waterfront (1955)
- Temptation (1959)
- Beat Girl (1960)
- The Hands of Orlac (1960)
- The Accident (1963)
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