A 1936 French farce where everyone's sleeping with the wrong person — on purpose?
Popolka takes advantage of the absence of his shrew of a wife to indulge in the delights of single life. His manager showers him with favors because he is in love with a young woman whom he believes to be Popolka's wife. When Madame Popolka returns, the situation becomes confused...
Acting
Jeanne Fusier-Gir's shrew entrance — timing so sharp it cuts.
Direction
De Limur's doors-and-corridors choreography, pure French farce tradition.
Costume
1936 Parisian bourgeois fashion as social armor and disguise.
Director
Jean de Limur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1936 comedy arrived just before the Popular Front's cultural shift, capturing the final gasp of carefree boulevard theater before political reality crashed the party.
Director Jean de Limur survived the war in Hollywood; this rare surviving print preserves a performance style that talkies were already killing — the exaggerated physicality of silent-farce trained actors.
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