An Ideal Woman
About An Ideal Woman
In Seville, Parisian businessman Angel Caal goes blind in a car accident. Mercédès, who had meant to enter a convent, nurses him. His sight returns. They fall in love. He takes her to Paris, and she meets the city’s temptations. Jean Durand directed and wrote the film. The French title is La femme rêvée. It is based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. Arlette Marchal, Charles Vanel, and Alice Roberts star.
Cast & crew
More about An Ideal Woman
The Wikipedia release date is 5 July 1929. The film is silent, with French intertitles. A Commons file runs 2 hours, 8 minutes, and 15 seconds. IMDb lists 130 minutes. This record uses the Commons timing.
Themes
Making
Durand set the blindness and the nursing in Seville, then moved the couple to Paris for the second half.
Preservation
The film survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The convent is the life Mercédès was headed for before the accident.
- Vanel and Marchal lead the cast with Alice Roberts.
- The Commons file uses the English title.
- IMDb lists 130 minutes. The Commons file is timed at 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Scenes
- Caal loses his sight in the crash.
- Mercédès nurses him instead of entering the convent.
- In Paris she meets the temptations he has brought her to.
Influenced by
- A novel by José Pérez de Rozas
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (An Ideal Woman (1929).webm)
