Holiday for Henrietta (La fete a Henriette) (1955)
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of moviemaking. Louis Seigner and Henri Cremieux play a team of screenwriters whose latest project is stuck in a mire of indecision. Should fictional heroine Henriette (Dany Robin) be… More Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of moviemaking. Louis Seigner and Henri Cremieux play a team of screenwriters whose latest project is stuck in a mire of indecision. Should fictional heroine Henriette (Dany Robin) be permitted a happy ending as the romantic Seigner insists, or suffer an unhappy one as "film noir" specialist Cremieux demands? While the screenwriters hash out their contrasting points of view, we see a film-within-a-film, dramatizing the formulating screenplay and its abrupt changes of mood and direction. Finally reaching a compromise, the writers are interrupted by one of the actors in their imaginary movie, who informs them that their "original" plot has already been filmed! When Hollywood got hold of Holiday for Henrietta, it pumped up this modest project into a bloated star vehicle for Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, titled Paris When It Sizzles (63). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Julien Duvivier
- Genres
- Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 24, 1955 Wide
- Studio
- Ardee Films
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Cast
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Michel Auclair
as Maurice/Marcel
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Dany Robin
as Henrietta
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Hildegarde Neff
as Rita Solar
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Michel Roux
as Robert
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Daniel Ivernel
as Detective
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Louis Seigner
as Script Writer
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Micheline Francey
as Script Girl
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Jeanette Batti
as Gisele
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Julien Carette
as Arthur
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Henri Crémieux
as Script Writer
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Paulette Dubost
as Mother
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Saturnin Fabre
as Man in Cafe
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Odette Laure
as Valentine
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Alexandre Rignault
as Father
- Hildegard Knef
