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Louise

What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier had revolutionized the "historical epic" genre with the awesome Napoleon. There was, however, little that was revolutionary in this cinemadaption of Gustave Charpentier's opera. Moore plays Louise, a poor seamstress who is led astray by the rakish Julien (Georges Thill). After falling from grace (no pun intended), our heroine is rescued by her understanding father (Andre Pernet), who demonstrates his forgiveness by singing to her (it is, after all, an opera). Though it played to enthusiastic crowds in both London and Paris, Louise turned out to be Grace Moore's final film; conversely, Abel Gance continued to make commercial potboilers well into the 1970s.

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Louise

April 16, 1939
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Cast (19)

Grace Moore
Louise
André Pernet
Le père de Louise
Suzanne Desprès
La mère de Louise
Rivers Cadet
Le chansonnier
Pauline Carton
La première
Marcel Pérès
Le sculpteur
Jacqueline Prévot
Une cousette
Edmond Beauchamp
Le philosophe
Robert Le Vigan
Le peintre Gaston
Claude Benedict
(uncredited)
Roger Blin
(uncredited)
Georges Douking
(uncredited)
Renée Gardès
(uncredited)
Simone Gauthier
A seamstress (uncredited)
Philippe Janvier
(uncredited)

Crew (7)

Directing

Abel Gance
Director

Writing

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Production

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Sound

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Art

Georges Wakhévitch
Production Design
Henri Mahé
Production Design

Camera

André Bac
Director of Photography
Curt Courant
Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Georges Annenkov
Costume Design

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Editing

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