The Weaker Sex (1933 film)

The Weaker Sex
The Weaker Sex
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Édouard Bourdet (play and screenplay) ; Henry Koster
Produced by	André Haguet
Starring	Mireille Balin ; Victor Boucher ; Pierre Brasseur
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Music by	Henri Verdun
Production; companies	Les Films André Haguet ; Nero Film
Distributed by	César Films
Release date	17 October 1933;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Weaker Sex (French: Le Sexe faible) is a 1933 French comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Mireille Balin, Victor Boucher and Pierre Brasseur.^[1] It was based on a 1929 stage farce of the same name by Édouard Bourdet.

It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jacques-Laurent Atthalin and Hugues Laurent.

Cast

Victor Boucher as Antoine
Jeanne Cheirel as Madame Leroy-Gómez
Betty Stockfeld as Dorothy Freeman
Marguerite Moreno as La comtesse Polacchi
Pierre Brasseur as Jimmy
Mireille Balin as Nicole
Suzanne Dantès as Christina
Fernand Fabre as Manuel
Philippe Hériat as Philippe
Maud Mayer as Clarisse
José Noguéro as Carlos Pinto
Nadine Picard as Lily
Suzy Delair as une couturière
Marcel Maupi as le faux policier

References

^ Oscherwitz & Higgins p.68

Bibliography

Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, Maryellen. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Hervé Dumont (1 January 1981). Robert Siodmak: le maître du film noir. L'AGE D'HOMME. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-2-8251-3349-1.

External links

The Weaker Sex at IMDb
Video on YouTube (small portion of film)

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[1] Oscherwitz & Higgins p.68

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Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)