Love Songs (1930 film)

Love Songs
Directed by	Robert Florey
Written by	Carl Boese Jacques Bousquet (play) Henri Falk (play) Robert Florey Walter Hasenclever Jean-Charles Reynaud
Starring	Yolande Laffon Pierre Bertin Janine Merrey
Cinematography	Eduard Hoesch Otto Kanturek
Music by	Armand Bernard Franz Grothe Artur Guttmann Eduard Künneke
Production companies	Harmonie-Film Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé
Distributed by	Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé
Release date	21 November 1930 (1930-11-21)
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	France Germany
Language	French

Love Songs (French: L'amour chante) is a 1930 French-German musical film directed by Robert Florey and starring Yolande Laffon, Piere Bertin and Janine Merrey. ^[1] A separate German-language film Rendezvous ^[2] and a Spanish version My Wife's Teacher were also released.

It "a musical comedy based on the humorous complications created by an adulterous young wife in the lives of everyone around her ." ^[3]

The film was shot in Germany because France was not equipped to produce talkie films of sufficient quality for musicals. ^{[4] [5]}

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Marc Allégret ^[6] and Julius von Borsody.

Cast

• Yolande Laffon as Madame Lherminois
• Pierre Bertin as Claude Merlerault
• Janine Merrey as Loulou, Darling
• Louis Baron fils as Monsieur Lherminois
• Saturnin Fabre as M, Crispin
• Fernand Gravey as Armand Petitjean
• Josseline Gaël as Simone Crespin
• Maryanne as Une mère d'élève
• Renée Montel
• Nicole de Rouves
• Marcelle Monthil as Mlle. Bouclier
• Michéle
• Jim Gérald
• Henri Lesieur
• Florelle

References

1. Powrie & Rebillard p.25
2. Montebello, Fabrice (11 January 2005). Le cinéma en France: Depuis les années 1930 (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN   978-2-200-24751-5.
3. Taves, Brian (1987). Robert Florey, the French Expressionist. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-1929-0.
4. Crisp, C. G. (1993). The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-31550-2.
5. Andrew, Dudley (9 November 2021). Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-23944-6.
6. Gilles, Christian (2002). L'avant-guerre, 1937-1939 (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN   978-2-7475-2601-2.

Bibliography

• Powrie, Phil & Rebillard, Éric. Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

External links

• Love Songs at IMDb