The Ball (1931)

6.8/10 75 min Comedy Drama

Overview

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

Cast

Germaine Dermoz

Madame Kampf

Danielle Darrieux

Antoinette

Vanda Gréville

Miss Betty

Pierre de Guingand

Marcel de Brécourt

Marguerite Pierry

Aunt Isabelle

André Lefaur

Alfred Kampf

Paulette Dubost

Miss Yvette, the customer

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