Nightclub Hostess

Nightclub Hostess

95 mins | Drama | June 2, 1939

The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.

Nightclub Hostess

95 mins | Drama | June 2, 1939

Nightclub Hostess
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
Producers Les Films Raoul Ploquin, Universum Film (UFA)
Original title L'entraîneuse
Directors Albert Valentin, Louis Daquin
Writers Charles Spaak

Cast

Michèle Morgan

as Suzy

Gilbert Gil

as Pierre Noblet

Andrex

as Marcel

Gisèle Préville

as Lucienne Noblet

Arthur Devère

as Raymond, le domestique

Georges Lannes

as Philippe de Lormel

Catherine Fonteney

as Madame de Saint-Leu

Jeanne Lion

as Tante Louise

René Bergeron

as L'inspecteur Barnave

René Génin

as Le vieux professeur

Jimmy Gaillard

as André

Monique Joyce

as Florence

Robert Seller

as Loiseau

Solange Dartois

as Fanny

Robert Ozanne

as Victor

Henri Vilbert

as Le directeur