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.Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.104 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. A separate German-language version Another World 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
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.
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