Onésime est trop timide
About Onésime est trop timide
A matchmaker introduces Onésime to a young woman. The point of the meeting is marriage. He is so flustered that he puts the ring on the other girl.
Cast & crew
More about Onésime est trop timide
Jean Durand directed. Paul Castanet photographed it. Comptoir Ciné-Location distributed it. The Cinémathèque française gives the French release as April 12, 1912. The negative is 135 meters. An alternate title is Onésime est timide.
Themes
Making
Gaumont owned the character. Bourbon also turned up in the same troupe as Calino and Zigoto, sometimes in stories the unit had already used.
Look
Paul Castanet shot the 135-meter negative for Gaumont.
Notes
- Ernest Bourbon plays Onésime. Berthe Dagmar plays the fiancée.
- Marie Dorly plays the fiancée's aunt. Henri Fouchet plays the matchmaker. Gaston Modot is a guest.
- French Wikipedia times a viewing copy at 4 minutes 30 seconds.
- Unlike other Onésime shorts, this one does not rely on a camera trick. The joke is the wrong finger.
Scenes
- Faced with the woman he is meant to marry, Onésime slips the ring onto the other girl.
