Gribiche
About Gribiche
In a Paris department store, Gribiche finds a handbag and gives it back. The owner, Edith Maranet, a rich American widow, offers to adopt him. His mother, a war widow in Grenelle, is sure he will refuse. He accepts. In an Auteuil house he gets tutors, a timetable, and servants who do not want him. On July 14 she will not let him go to the street parties. He runs back to Grenelle. His mother and her new husband take him in.
Cast & crew
More about Gribiche
Jacques Feyder directed and wrote it, from Frédéric Boutet's story. Maurice Desfassiaux and Maurice Forster photographed. Films Albatros produced it. Released April 2, 1926. Jean Forest plays Gribiche. Françoise Rosay plays Edith Maranet. Cécile Guyon plays the mother, Anna Belot. Rolla Norman plays her new husband. The English-language article lists 153 minutes.
Themes
Look
Maurice Desfassiaux and Maurice Forster shot the store, Grenelle, and the Auteuil house.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- He returns the bag and will not take the money. The adoption comes the next morning.
- Bastille Day is the day he leaves the house.
- Rosay is Maranet. Forest is the boy.
- The rooms in Auteuil are dressed in the Art Deco of 1926.
Scenes
- He hands the bag back and refuses the reward.
- He slips out on July 14 and goes home to Grenelle.
Influenced by
- Frédéric Boutet's story Gribiche
