La dama de Chez Maxim's

Last updated

La dama de Chez Maxim's (or La Dame de Chez Maxim's [1] ) is a 1923 Italian silent comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Carmen Boni, Alfredo Martinelli and Pina Menichelli. [2] It is an adaptation of the 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau. [3]

Contents

Cast

Production

The work is the first film adaptation of a Feydeau play by Palermi, released two years before his screen version of Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1925). [4] It is also, more generally, one of various adaptations of melodrama and vaudeville plays made by the Italian director. [5]

Reception

The film is considered by Charles Ford in his History of Modern Film (1966), to be his best screen adaptation of a theater play. [6] It was the second silent screen adaptation of the play, [7] and in his book about the playwright, Jacques Lorcey found the effort to convey Feydeau's humour without dialogue amusing. [8]

Various commentators noted Menichelli's comedic performance. [9] [10] [11]

Preferences

  1. ↑ LA DAME DE CHEZ MAXIM'S (in Italian). Retrieved 20 February 2025– via www.cinematografo.it.
  2. ↑ Courrier cinematographique: Organe hebdomadaire indépendent de la cinematographie des arts, sciences et industries qui s'y rattachent (in French). 1925.
  3. ↑ Gidel, Henry (1991). Georges Feydeau (in French). Flammarion. ISBN   978-2-08-066280-4.
  4. ↑ Feydeau, Georges; Gidel, Henry (16 March 2012). Occupe-toi d'Amélie (in French). Le Livre de Poche. ISBN   978-2-253-15880-6.
  5. ↑ Jeanne, René; Ford, Charles (1966). Histoire illustrée du cinéma ...: Le cinéma muet, 1895-1930 (in French). Gérard et Cie.
  6. ↑ Ford, Charles (1 January 1987). Histoire moderne du cinéma (in French). (Marabout) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN   978-2-7062-2559-8.
  7. ↑ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-095194-3.
  8. ↑ Lorcey, Jacques (2004). Georges Feydeau (in French). Séguier. ISBN   978-2-84049-415-7.
  9. ↑ Jeanne, René; Ford, Charles (1969). Paris vu par le cinéma (in French). Hachette.
  10. ↑ Ford, Charles (1 January 1987). Histoire moderne du cinéma (in French). (Marabout) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN   978-2-7062-2559-8.
  11. ↑ Hebdo-film (in French). André de Reusse. 1925.

See also


Italy film clapperboard.svg

This article related to an Italian silent film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.