The Ball
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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.
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Cast
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Germaine Dermoz
Madame Kampf
Known for
The Smiling Madame Beudet
Danielle Darrieux
Antoinette
Known for
Persepolis
The Earrings of Madame de...
Vanda Gréville
Miss Betty
Known for
Le Million
Pierre de Guingand
Marcel de Brécourt
Also in
Au Bonheur des Dames
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
Marguerite Pierry
Aunt Isabelle
Known for
Dr. Knock
André Lefaur
Alfred Kampf
Also in
The Phantom Baron
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Allan Durant
Also in
Marriage
Darwin - Die Abstammung des Menschen vom Affen
Paulette Dubost
Miss Yvette, the customer
Known for
The Last Metro
The Rules of the Game
Wilhelm Thiele Director · Curt Siodmak Screenplay Ladislas Fodor Screenplay
United States release September 27, 1932 · Produced in France · Original title Le Bal
Production
Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Le Bal
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · September 11, 1931
Theatrical
United States · September 27, 1932
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
Belgium
October 30, 1931 · Theatrical
Japan
July 1, 1932 · Theatrical
Spain
February 13, 1933 · Limited theatrical · Madrid
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