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 edit
The 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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