Movies: Jeanne Helbling

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure...

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks....

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself....

Le Cordon Bleu doesn't refer to a ham-and-veal delicacy, though there is plenty of ham in this Gallic comedy. The scene is a posh Parisian hotel-restaurant, which ends up a hotbed of infidelity and mistaken identity. Hotel cook Regina is romantically...

"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family...

A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director....

A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconnect the bonds of a vacillating household....

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a...

Two different sales agents named Max Durand live at the same address. One of them pretends to be the other so he make the money and get the girl that he wants....

The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon....

The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with a fiancée provided by the agency....

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Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down....

In Algiers, Cesar Sarati who grudges the dockers, is, without realizing it, in love with his niece. But Rose loves Gilbert, a former gambler and debauchee who, out of love for her, changes his life. On the wedding day, Sarati commits suicide....

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A family of strict magistrates holds firm in protecting one of their members,who commits an error which provokes a storm of outrage....

A freedom-loving man has found a way in the midst of loan sharks and apaches to get it almost totally with a minimum of work, needs and connections. After a few misadventures, he continues to wander in Paris whose streets he loves more than anything ...

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