Emile the African (1948)
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
Director: Robert Vernay
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Fernandel as Emile Boulard |
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Alexandre Rignault as Ladislas Stany |
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Noëlle Norman as Suzanne Boulard |
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Félix Oudart as Romi, the director |
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Bernard Lajarrige as Daniel Cormier |
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Roland Armontel as Dibier |
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Jacqueline Dor as Martine Boulard |
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Madeleine Lambert as Madame Cormier |
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Jean Hébey as The notary's clerk |
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Line Dariel as Madame Zulma |
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Missia as The singer |
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Henri Coutet as The actor |
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André Marnay as The notary |
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Pierre Labry as The boss |
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Jean Sylvain as A machinist |
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Janine Viénot as The actress |
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Palmyre Levasseur as The dresser |
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Émile Riandreys as |
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Eugène Compain as |
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Marcel Meral as |
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Georges Sellier as |
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Albert Broquin as An extra |
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Lud Germain as Bimbo |
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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra as Passer-by (uncredited) |
| Directing | Robert Vernay | Director |
