Wicked Duchess
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Top cast
Edwige Feuillère
Antoinette de Langeais
Pierre Richard-Willm
Armand de Montriveau
Aimé Clariond
Ronquerolles
Lise Delamare
Madame de Serizy
Charles Granval
The vidame of Pamiers
Irène Bonheur
Caroline de Vanderesse
Marthe Mellot
The mother superior
Simone Renant
Viscountess Emilie de Fontaines
Hélène Constant
Paméla
Madeleine Pagès
Suzette
Dorothée Luss
Madame de Lestorade
Jacques Varennes
The Duke of Langeais
Catherine Fonteney
The Princess of Blamont-Chauvry
Georges Mauloy
The Duke of Grandlieu
Philippe Richard
Bonpied, the doorman
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 27, 1942
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Original language
- FR
- Original title
- La Duchesse de Langeais
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