Happy Arenas (French: Arènes joyeuses) is a 1958 French musical comedy film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Fernand Raynaud, Danielle Godet and Colette Ripert.Powrie & Cadalanu p.248Rège p.801 It is an operetta film, based on the 1934 operetta of the same title by Henri Allibert, René Sarvil and Vincent Scotto. Location shooting took place around Martigues and the Camargue. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.https://www.unifrance.org/film/2039/arenes-joyeuses The operetta had previously been made into the 1935 film Happy Arenas directed by Karl Anton.
Cast Fernand Raynaud as Fernand Cyprien, de Chalamond Danielle Godet as Marina Colette Ripert as Marguerite René Sarvil as Maître Arno Jean Vinci as Rémy Rellys as Hernandez Antoine Balpêtré as Le clochard Victoria Marino as Thérèsa Milly Mathis as Mme. Arno Luis Montez as Pablo Marie-José Nat as Violette André Vylar as Pepito
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Bibliography Powrie, Phil & Cadalanu, Marie . The French Film Musical. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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