The Darling of Paris
Paris-Beguin
France
1931
117 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
French
Synopsis
Jane Diamant is a popular but highly temperamental star at the Paris night spot Les Folies-Bergère. One evening, a burglar named Bob breaks into her villa. Seduced by Jane’s beauty and feminine charms, Bob decides to spend the night with her. The next day, Jane’s employer is surprised to find a sudden change in his star’s demeanour. Eros has worked his magic on her. Meanwhile, Bob has been arrested for murder, a crime of which he is innocent. He knows that Jane can provide him with the alibi he needs to prove his innocence, but he refuses to mention her name through fear of soiling her reputation… —Filmsdefrance.com
Director
Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina (January 28, 1892 – September 18, 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.
Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the “Film d’Arte Italiana”, that produces his first film “La moglie di sua eccellenza”. In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film Prix de beauté. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini’s cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by Lo squadrone bianco and in 1940 by The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real tragic accident that Giuseppe De Santis made one year before in Rome 11 O’Clock (Roma ore 11). —Wikipedia read more
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