Quadrille (1938 film)

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Quadrille
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Directed by Sacha Guitry
Written bySacha Guitry
Produced by Emile Natan
Joseph Spigler
StarringSacha Guitry
Gaby Morlay
Jacqueline Delubac
Cinematography Robert Lefebvre
Edited by Myriam Borsoutsky
Music by Adolphe Borchard
Production
company
Les Films Modernes
Distributed bySociété Nouvelle des Films Dispa
Release date
  • 29 January 1938 (1938-01-29)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
Language French

Quadrille is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Gaby Morlay and Jacqueline Delubac. [1] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Perrier. The title refers to the quadrille, a dance in which the participants keep changing partners. It was later remade as a film of the same title by Valérie Lemercier.

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In Paris the arrival of an American film star upsets the routine of a French newspaper editor and his two female companions.

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  1. The A to Z of French Cinema p.197

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