Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
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73% want to see it
(28 ratings)
Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been written… More Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been written by Oscar Wilde, another of Lewin's pets (e.g. The Picture of Dorian Gray). George Sanders plays an epigrammatic Parisian journalist, who rises to the top through the "kindnesses" of the various influential women that he's seduced and abandoned. This 19th-century rake's progress is ultimately halted by a duel, and somehow we're sorry that we don't get to see Sanders pull off at least one more caddish trick to save himself. Echoes from Lewin's previous works include his insertion of a Technicolor sequence (as he'd done in Dorian Gray and The Moon and Sixpence). George Sanders' stepping-stone ladies include Angela Lansbury, Frances Dee, Ann Dvorak, Marie Wilson, Katherine Emery and Susan Douglas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Albert Lewin
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
That it is a forgotten film today, is unfortunate.
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Cast
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George Sanders
as Georges Duroy/Bel Ami
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David Bond
as Norbert de Varenne
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Angela Lansbury
as Clothilde de Marelle
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Ann Dvorak
as Madeleine Forestier
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Frances Dee
as Marie de Varenne
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John Carradine
as Charles Forestier
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Jean Del Val
as Commissioner
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Susan Douglas Rubes
as Suzanne Walter
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Katherine Emery
as Mme. Walter
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Richard Fraser
as Philippe de Cantel
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John Good
as Paul de Cazolics
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Karolyn Grimes
as Laurine de Marelle
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Hugo Haas
as Monsieur Walter
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Lumsden Hare
as Mayor of Canteleu
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Olaf Hytten
as Keeper of the seals
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Leonard Mudie
as Potin
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Wyndham Standing
as Count de Vaudrec
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Charles Trowbridge
as Lawyer
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Warren William
as Laroche-Mathieu
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Marie Wilson
as Rachel Michot
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Albert Basserman
as Jacques Rival
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C. Montague Shaw
as Surgeon
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Larry Steers
as Second Surgeon
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Betty Fairfax
as Louise
