The Good Girls

The Good Girls

100 mins | Drama, Romance, Mystery | April 22, 1960

Four attractive young women who work together in an appliance store in Paris spend their free time looking for love and fulfilment with little success. High-spirited Jane is picked up by a couple of lechers who are only interested in one thing. Ginette hopes to become a great singer but is forced to perform in a seedy music hall. Rita is engaged to a man who appears more concerned with pleasing his parents than caring about her. Only the reserved Jacqueline seems to have found true romance. But is the mysterious figure on a motorcycle really the man of her dreams?

The Good Girls

100 mins | Drama, Romance, Mystery | April 22, 1960

The Good Girls
Four attractive young women who work together in an appliance store in Paris spend their free time looking for love and fulfilment with little success. High-spirited Jane is picked up by a couple of lechers who are only interested in one thing. Ginette hopes to become a great singer but is forced to perform in a seedy music hall. Rita is engaged to a man who appears more concerned with pleasing his parents than caring about her. Only the reserved Jacqueline seems to have found true romance. But is the mysterious figure on a motorcycle really the man of her dreams?
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Panitalia, Paris Film
Original title Les bonnes femmes
Directors Charles L. Bitsch, Claude Chabrol
Writers Paul Gégauff, Claude Chabrol

Cast

Clotilde Joano

as Jacqueline

Stéphane Audran

as Ginette

Pierre Bertin

as Monsieur Belin

Jean-Louis Maury

as Marcel

Albert Dinan

as Albert

Ave Ninchi

as Madame Louise

Sacha Briquet

as Henri, Rita's fiancé

Claude Berri

as André, young soldier

Jean Barclay

as Louis, poet

Rossana Rossanigo

as Polly Cartoon

Dolly Bell

as herself

Gabriel Gobin

as Henri's father

France Asselin

as Henri's mother

Jean-Marie Arnoux

as host of a concert in a restaurant

Dominique Zardi

as Charlie Boston, conductor

Philippe Castelli

as stage manager

Mario David

as André Lapierre, motorcyclist

Liliane Dreyfus

as Jane & Jacqueline's girlfriend (uncredited)

Henri Attal

as Jane & Jacqueline's friend (uncredited)

Charles Belmont

as Jane & Jacqueline's friend (uncredited)

André Dino

as man with glasses in the subway (uncredited)

Jean Douchet

as customer (uncredited)

Serge Bento

as Nounours, delivery guy (uncredited)

Charles Bayard

as electric battery buyer (uncredited)

Charles L. Bitsch

as soldier in prison cell (uncredited)

Louison Roblin

as Sylvie, Marcel's secretary (uncredited)

Claude Chabrol

as swimmer (uncredited)

Karen Blanguernon

as girl at the ball (uncredited)

André Jocelyn

as guy at the ball (uncredited)