The Happy Man
1950 film
- 8 December 1950 (1950-12-08)
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The Happy Man or The Man of Joy (French: L'Homme de Joie) is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simone Renant and Jacques Morel.[1][2] It was based on a play of the same title by Paul Géraldy and Robert Spitzer.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne.
Synopsis
When a married women is shocked to discover that her husband is having a romantic flirtation with an actress. She engages a charming young man known as the "man of the joy" to draw the actresses' attention away from her husband.
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Aumont as Henri Perlis
- Simone Renant as Madeleine Jolivet
- Jacques Morel as Edouard Jolivet
- Lysiane Rey as Margot Baron
- Nadine Alari as Mireille Dalier
- Jacqueline Noëlle as Evelyne
- Henri Crémieux as M. Jolivet père
- Anita Palacine as Lisa
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- The Happy Man at IMDb
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Films directed by Gilles Grangier
- Adémaï bandit d'honneur (1943)
- The Black Cavalier (1945)
- Lessons in Conduct (1946)
- The Adventure of Cabassou (1946)
- Trente et Quarante (1946)
- Something to Sing About (1947)
- Rendezvous in Paris (1947)
- Danger of Death (1947)
- Par la fenêtre (1948)
- Woman Without a Past (1948)
- Jo la Romance (1949)
- Amour et compagnie (1950)
- Amédée (1950)
- The Little Zouave (1950)
- Les femmes sont folles (1950)
- The Straw Lover (1950)
- The Happy Man (1950)
- Les petites Cardinal (1951)
- The Prettiest Sin in the World (1951)
- Love, Madame (1952)
- Twelve Hours of Happiness (1952)
- Jeunes mariés (1953)
- Rhine Virgin (1953)
- Faites-moi confiance (1954)
- Trust Me! (1954)
- April Fools' Day (1954)
- Gas-Oil (1955)
- Spring, Autumn and Love (1955)
- Gas-Oil (1955)
- Blood to the Head (1956)
- The Schemer (1957)
- Speaking of Murder (1957)
- Three Days to Live (1957)
- Not Delivered (1958)
- Le Désordre et la Nuit (1958)
- Archimède le clochard (1959)
- 125 Rue Montmartre (1959)
- The Old Guard (1960)
- The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
- The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
- The Trip to Biarritz (1963)
- Maigret voit rouge (1963)
- My Wife's Husband (1963)
- That Tender Age (1964)
- Train d'enfer (1965)
- Les Bons Vivants (1965)
- The Man in the Buick (1968)
- Under the Sign of the Bull (1969)
- A Loser (1972)
- Gross Paris (1974)
- The Pirates of the Pacific (1975)
- Insula comorilor (1975)
- William the Conqueror (1982)
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