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1945 film

Box of Dreams

Directed by	Yves Allégret Jean Choux
Written by	René Lefèvre Viviane Romance Yves Allégret
Produced by	Cesare Marvasi André Paulvé Michele Scalera Salvatore Scalera
Starring	Viviane Romance Henri Guisol Frank Villard
Cinematography	Jean Bourgoin
Edited by	Jean Sacha
Music by	Jean Marion
Production companies	DisCina Scalera Film
Distributed by	DisCina
Release date	11 July 1945 (1945-07-11)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Box of Dreams (French: La boîte aux rêves) is a 1945 French comedy drama film directed by Yves Allégret and Jean Choux and starring Viviane Romance, Henri Guisol and Frank Villard. Simone Signoret had a minor role in the film; she would later marry Allégret and collaborate with him on several films that contributed to her rise to stardom.

Filming originally began in 1943 during the Italian occupation of France but the film was not released until the end of the Second World War. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Auguste Capelier and Georges Wakhévitch. It was shot at the Cimex-controlled Saint-Laurent-du-Var Studios on the outskirts of Nice. The film had 2,792 admissions in France.

Cast

v t e Films directed by Yves Allégret
Tobias Is an Angel (1940) Two Timid Souls (1943) Box of Dreams (1945) Dawn Devils (1946) Dédée d'Anvers (1948) Une si jolie petite plage (1949) Manèges (1950) Miracles Only Happen Once (1951) Desperate Decision (1952) Leathernose (1952) The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) Oh No, Mam'zelle (1954) Oasis (1955) The Best Part (1956) Young Girls Beware (1957) Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957) The Daughter of Hamburg (1958) The Restless and the Damned (1959) Jack of Spades (1960) Konga Yo (1962) Germinal (1963) Johnny Banco (1967)

Films directed by Yves Allégret

v t e Films directed by Jean Choux
The Vocation of André Carel (1925) The Dying Land (1927) The Kiss That Kills (1928) Espionage (1929) The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1932) A Dog That Pays Off (1932) The Guardian Angel (1934) Motherhood (1935) Miarka (1937) Paris (1937) A Woman of No Importance (1937) Peace on the Rhine (1938) Angelica (1939) The Birth of Salome (1940) The Lost Woman (1942) Home Port (1943) Box of Dreams (1945) The Angel They Gave Me (1946)

Films directed by Jean Choux

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