The Lady Doctor
About The Lady Doctor
Mistinguett plays a doctor too busy for her husband, Charles Prince. He leans in for a kiss and she sends him out of the consulting room; a pan through the wall shows the waiting room full. She sets him to the accounts with the housekeeper, who flirts with him until he slips away. A friend talks him into going out, and they fall in with a circus troupe. By the end she gives up the practice for the marriage.
Cast & crew
More about The Lady Doctor
Georges Monca directed the French short, released 16 November 1911. The original title is La doctoresse. A BFI shot summary, quoted on later catalog sites, supplies the waiting-room pan and the housekeeper scene. Running time is listed as 7 minutes.
Themes
Look
A pan moves through a wall used as a split screen, from the doctor’s room to a waiting room full of patients.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Madame Pâquerette and Fernand Tauffenberger are in the cast lists alongside Prince and Mistinguett.
- The German release title was Die Doktorin.
- Mistinguett and Prince had already appeared together in Les timidités de Rigadin (1910).
Scenes
- The camera pans through the wall and finds the waiting room packed while the doctor waves her husband away.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-la-doctoresse)
