Les timidités de Rigadin

1910 Comedy 8 minutes Directed by Georges Monca

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About Les timidités de Rigadin

Short of money, Rigadin asks his uncle for help and is told to marry the daughter of a family friend. He arrives shy, with a bouquet, and finds only the servants, who have dressed up and started a party of their own. He takes the maid for the mistress of the house and gives her the flowers.

Cast & crew

More about Les timidités de Rigadin

Georges Monca directed. Pathé Frères distributed. The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé lists the short at 8 minutes and names Charles Prince, Mistinguett, Gabrielle Debrives, and Gabrielle Lange. The English release title is A Shy Youth.

Themes

  • A shy caller
  • Servants playing at high society
  • A bouquet handed to the wrong woman
  • Rigadin
  • bouquet
  • servants
  • mistaken identity
  • uncle

Music

Silent.

Notes

  • Also known in Germany as Der schüchterne Moritz.
  • Mistinguett is on the Fondation cast list. A later viewer of the print wrote that she is billed as the fiancée and does not appear in the action.
  • Carlos Avril is named on some cast lists with Prince and Mistinguett.

Scenes

  • The servants, left alone, dress as their employers and open a party just as Rigadin rings.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-les-timidits-de-rigadin-aka-a-shy-youth)

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