Crazy for Love
1952 film
- 7 November 1952 (1952-11-07)
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Crazy for Love (French: Le Trou normand) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Bourvil, Jane Marken and, in one of her first appearances, Brigitte Bardot.[2] Location shooting took place around Conches-en-Ouche in Normandy. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. The film's French title is a reference to an aperitif of calvados drunk between meals, which also features as the name of the film's disputed tavern.
Synopsis
The naive, simpleton countrymen Hippolyte inherits his uncle's inn in Normandy on the condition that he gain his primary school certificate. However his aunt Augustine, who stands to inherit if he does not, sets out to thwart his attempts to do so.
Cast
- Bourvil as Hippolyte Lemoine
- Jane Marken as Augustine Lemoine
- Brigitte Bardot as Javotte Lemoine
- Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Maria Courtaine
- Roger Pierre as Jean Marco
- Pierre Larquey as Testu
- Nadine Basile as Madeleine Pichet
- Noël Roquevert as Dr. Aubert
- Jacques Deray as Duval
- Georges Baconnet as Pichet
- Albert Duvaleix as Le notaire
- Marcel Charvey as L'automobiliste snob
- Florence Michael as Louisette
- Janine Clairville as La serveuse de la charcuterie
- René Worms as Le préfet
- Léon Berton as Le clerc
- André Dalibert as Firmin, un paysan
- Marcel Meral as Un paysan
- Jean-Pierre Lorrain as Un paysan
References
Bibliography
- Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier . French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. A&C Black, 2004.
External links
- Crazy for Love at IMDb
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Films directed by Jean Boyer
- Calais-Dover (1931)
- Monsieur, Madame and Bibi (1932)
- Antonia (1935)
- Counsel for Romance (1936)
- On the Road (1936)
- Mother Love (1938)
- My Priest Among the Rich (1938)
- Cocoanut (1939)
- Extenuating Circumstances (1939)
- Miquette (1940)
- Serenade (1940)
- The Acrobat (1941)
- Romance of Paris (1941)
- Frederica (1942)
- Prince Charming (1942)
- At Your Command, Madame (1942)
- Bolero (1942)
- The Lucky Star (1943)
- The Devil Goes to Boarding School (1944)
- That's Not the Way to Die (1946)
- The Adventures of Casanova (1947)
- Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)
- All Roads Lead to Rome (1949)
- Brilliant Waltz (1949)
- The Prize (1950)
- We Will All Go to Paris (1950)
- Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
- Monte Carlo Baby (1951)
- An Artist with Ladies (1952)
- Crazy for Love (1952)
- Women of Paris (1953)
- A Hundred Francs a Second (1953)
- My Seven Little Sins (1954)
- The Country of the Campanelli (1954)
- Madelon (1955)
- The Terror with Women (1956)
- Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
- Mademoiselle and Her Gang (1957)
- Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957)
- The Lord's Vineyard (1958)
- Nina (1959)
- The Indestructible (1959)
- It's Not My Business (1962)
- Virginie (1962)
- The Bamboo Stroke (1963)
- Relax Darling (1964)
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