Beautiful Star (French: Belle Étoile) is a 1938 French comedy drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Michel Simon, Meg Lemonnier, and Jean-Pierre Aumont.Crisp p.412 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul-Louis Boutié and Georges Wakhévitch.
Synopsis Meg Lemarchal doesn't want to marry the man her father has picked out for her. She is driven to suicide, but is saved by a young man Jean-Pierre. However she is then kidnapped, leading to Jean-Pierre trying to rescue her.
Cast Michel Simon as Léon Meg Lemonnier as Meg Lemarchal Jean-Pierre Aumont as Jean-Pierre Saturnin Fabre as Lemarchal Georges Lannes as Monsieur Albert Jean Aymé as Le receleur Marcel Vallée as Le président André Numès Fils as Charlot René Blancard as Le commissaire Robert Ralphy as Un passant
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Bibliography Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
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