Les Collégiennes (English: The Twilight Girls) is a 1957 comedy-drama directed by André Hunebelle and starring Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Christine Carère and Estella Blain. It is the film debut of Catherine Deneuve (credited as Catherine Dorléac).[1]
| Les Collégiennes | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | André Hunebelle |
| Written by | Jacques Lancien Jean Lambertie Arlette Reinerg |
| Produced by | Lucien Masson René Thévenet |
| Starring | Marie-Hélène Arnaud Christine Carère Estella Blain Gaby Morlay Henri Guisol |
| Cinematography | Paul Cotteret |
| Edited by | Jean Feyte |
| Music by | Jean Marion |
Production companies | Sirius Films Contact Organisation |
| Distributed by | Sirius Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Cast
edit- Marie-Hélène Arnaud as Catherine Royer
- Christine Carère as Monique
- Estella Blain as Martha
- Gaby Morlay as Madame Ancelin
- Henri Guisol as Christian Brenner
- Véronique Verlhac as Solange
- Agnès Laurent as Anne-Marie
- Paul Guers as Gilles Mareuil
- Sophie Daumier as Nicole
- Jacqueline Corot as Sophie
- Anna Gaylor as Geneviève
- Anita Treyens as Betty
- Sylvie Dorléac as Adélaïde
- Madeleine Barbulée as Madame Letellier
- Made Siamé as Supervisor of the Girls
- Elga Andersen as Hélène
- Fernand Fabre as Doctor
- Catherine Deneuve as Schoolgirl
- Gérard Barray as Television Journalist
- Yvonne Monlaur as Older Girl
- Georgina Spelvin as Topless Girl #2 (US Insert, Uncredited)
- Louisa Colpeyn
- Marcelle Hainia
Release
editThe film was released in France in 1957 by Sirius Films and in America in 1961 by Audubon Films, for which the film was dubbed and re-edited and additional footage added by Radley Metzger, making the film more explicit.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "Catherine Deneuve's six-decade career rewarded at French festival". RFI. 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
- ^ Gorfinkel, Elena (2017-10-15). Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-5489-9.
- ^ Wittern-Keller, Laura (2008-01-11). Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3840-4.
External links
edit- Les Collégiennes at IMDb
- Les Collégiennes at Rotten Tomatoes
- Les Collégiennes at AllMovie
- Les Collégiennes on Ciné-Ressources
- Les Collégiennes on UniFrance
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