Keep an Eye on Amelia

Keep an Eye on Amelia

92 mins | Comedy | Dec. 16, 1949

Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?

Keep an Eye on Amelia

92 mins | Comedy | Dec. 16, 1949

Keep an Eye on Amelia
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Lux Film, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Original title Occupe-toi d'Amélie !
Directors Claude Autant-Lara
Writers Georges Feydeau, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost

Cast

Danielle Darrieux

as Amélie d'Avranche

Jean Desailly

as Marcel Courbois

Victor Guyau

as Van Putzeboom

Grégoire Aslan

as The Prince

André Bervil

as Étienne

Charles Dechamps

as The Mayor

Louise Conte

as Irène

Marcelle Arnold

as The Lady in Purple

Lucienne Granier

as Palmyre

Julien Carette

as Pochet (as Carette)

Robert Auboyneau

as Adonis