Would-Be Gentleman

Would-Be Gentleman

130 mins | Comedy, TV Movie | Dec. 28, 1968

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Would-Be Gentleman

130 mins | Comedy, TV Movie | Dec. 28, 1968

Would-Be Gentleman
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Producers Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Original title Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Directors Pierre Badel
Writers Molière

Cast

Michel Serrault

as M. Jourdain

Rosy Varte

as Mme Jourdain

Daniel Ceccaldi

as Dorante

Jean-Pierre Darras

as Le maître de ballet

Roger Carel

as Le maître de musique

Henri Virlogeux

as Le maître de philosophie

Jacques Legras

as Le maître-tailleur

Michel Creton

as Covielle

Georges Audoubert

as Le maître d'armes

Annick Blancheteau

as Lucile

René Bouloc

as Le premier laquais

Xavier Depraz

as Le Grand Turc

Philippe Étesse

as Cléante

Catherine Hiegel

as Nicole

Tania Torrens

as Dorimène

Armand Babel

as Le second laquais

Pierre Devevey

as L'élève du maître de musique

Michel Morano

as Le garçon tailleur

Anne-Marie Sanial

as Une soliste

Marc Vento

as Un soliste

Jean-Marie Humily

as Un soliste

Nathalie Bréhal

as Une danseuse