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1932 film

Passionately

Directed by	René Guissart Louis Mercanton
Written by	Jean Boyer Albert Willemetz
Based on	Passionately by Maurice Hennequin
Produced by	Robert T. Kane
Starring	Florelle Fernand Gravey René Koval
Cinematography	Harry Stradling Sr.
Music by	André Messager
Production company	Les Studios Paramount
Distributed by	Les Studios Paramount
Release date	20 September 1932 (1932-09-20)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Passionately (French: Passionnément) is a 1932 French musical comedy film directed by René Guissart and Louis Mercanton and starring Florelle, Fernand Gravey and René Koval. It was produced by the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures and shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. It is an operetta film, based on the 1926 stage work of the same title composed by André Messager.

Synopsis

The young and beautiful American Ketty Stevenson arrives in France with her husband who is there to complete a business deal. Intensely jealous and wary of the reputation of Frenchmen, he insists his wife disguise herself as an older and less attractive woman. When she encounters Robert, who her husband hopes to trick into selling some land in Colorado he has inherited with oil on it, she pretends to be her own niece. The two fall in love, while her husband has discovered the joys of French champagne and himself fallen for Ketty's maid Julia.

Cast

Florelle as Ketty Stevenson
Fernand Gravey as Robert Perceval
René Koval as Monsieur Stevenson
Danièle Brégis as Hélène Le Barrois
Louis Baron fils as Monsieur Le Barrois
Davia as Julia
André Urban as Le commandant
Julien Carette as Auguste

References

Crisp p.396
Bessy & Chirat p.512

Bibliography

Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934. Pygmalion, 1988.
Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

Passionately at IMDb

v t e Films directed by René Guissart
Luck (1931) The Man in Evening Clothes (1931) Passionately (1932) The Improvised Son (1932) You Will Be a Duchess (1932) The Premature Father (1933) Primerose (1934) The Midnight Prince (1934) Dédé (1935) Dora Nelson (1935) The Hortensia Sisters (1935) Speak to Me of Love (1935) Ménilmontant (1936) You Are Me (1936) Alexis, Gentleman Chauffeur (1938) Sweet Devil (1938)

Films directed by René Guissart

Luck (1931)
The Man in Evening Clothes (1931)
Passionately (1932)
The Improvised Son (1932)
You Will Be a Duchess (1932)
The Premature Father (1933)
Primerose (1934)
The Midnight Prince (1934)
Dédé (1935)
Dora Nelson (1935)
The Hortensia Sisters (1935)
Speak to Me of Love (1935)
Ménilmontant (1936)
You Are Me (1936)
Alexis, Gentleman Chauffeur (1938)
Sweet Devil (1938)

v t e Films directed by Louis Mercanton
The Call of the Blood (1920) Miarka (1920) Possession (1922) Sarati the Terrible (1923) The Gardens of Murcia (1923) The Two Boys (1924) Monte Carlo (1925) Cinders (1926) Croquette (1927) The Maid at the Palace (1927) Venus (1929) Chérie (1930) The Nipper (1930) The Mystery of the Villa Rose (1930) Let's Get Married (1931) A Man of Mayfair (1932) These Charming People (1932) Passionately (1932) Students in Paris (1932) The Fish Woman (1932) Cognasse (1932) He Is Charming (1932)

Films directed by Louis Mercanton

The Call of the Blood (1920)
Miarka (1920)
Possession (1922)
Sarati the Terrible (1923)
The Gardens of Murcia (1923)
The Two Boys (1924)
Monte Carlo (1925)
Cinders (1926)
Croquette (1927)
The Maid at the Palace (1927)
Venus (1929)
Chérie (1930)
The Nipper (1930)
The Mystery of the Villa Rose (1930)
Let's Get Married (1931)
A Man of Mayfair (1932)
These Charming People (1932)
Passionately (1932)
Students in Paris (1932)
The Fish Woman (1932)
Cognasse (1932)
He Is Charming (1932)

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