Miquette

Miquette

★ 5.4IMDb Score
Released:1950-04-14
Genre:Comedy
Duration:95 min
Country:France
Director:Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors:Louis Jouvet, Bourvil, Saturnin Fabre, Danièle Delorme, Mireille Perrey
Production:Silver Films, Alcina, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique

Overview:

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.

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