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The Little Cafe is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Ludwig Berger released in USA on 20 january 1931 with Maurice Chevalier
The Little Cafe (1931)
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Add to a movie listThe Little Cafe (French:Le petit café) is a 1931 French-language American Pre-Code musical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Yvonne Vallée and Tania Fédor. The film is a foreign-language version of the 1930 film Playboy of Paris, which was based on the play The Little Cafe by Tristan Bernard. Multiple-language versions were common in the years following the introduction of sound film, before the practice of dubbing became widespread.
The film received a better reception from critics than the English-language version had.
Synopsis
Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne.Actors
Maurice Chevalier
(Albert Lorifian)
Tania Fédor
(Mademoiselle Berengère)
Yvonne Vallée
(Yvonne Philibert)
Émile Chautard
(Philibert)
Françoise Rosay
(Mademoiselle Edwige)
George Davis
(Paul Michel)
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