Arlette and Love

Arlette and Love is a 1943 French romantic comedy film directed by Robert Vernay and starring André Luguet, Josette Day and André Alerme. It is based on the play Atout Coeur! by Félix Gandéra, adapted for the screen by Marcel Pagnol. It was filmed at the Marseille Studios while location shooting took place around Antibes and Aix-en-Provence. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.

Synopsis

Arlette meets and marries a man posing as a count, who robs her and absconds on her wedding night. Her mother then tracks down the real aristocrat whose name was stolen and insists that he is legally married to her daughter.

Cast

André Luguet as Le vrai comte Raoul de Tremblay-Matour
Josette Day as Arlette Milloix
André Alerme as Le baron Gingleux
Jimmy Gaillard as Maxime Noblet
René Alié as Le faux comte de Tremblay-Matour
Jean Aquistapace as Le curé
Andrée de Chauveron as Mme Millois – la mère d'Arlette
Alexandre Fabry as L'aubergiste
Albert Gercourt as Gilbert
Pierre Labry as Jules – le domestique
René Lefèvre as Le notaire
Robert Moor as Mathurin
Henri Poupon as Breteuil
Sylvette Saugé as Sylvie
Jean Toulout as Le comte de Brulant

Publications

The sermon long prepared by the priest for the future marriage of the real count, and of which he believes he has been cheated when he learns of the fake marriage, was included by Norbert Calmels, the abbot general of the Premonstratensians and a personal friend of Marcel Pagnol’s, in a collection of sermons from his works.