Tonight at 21:10 C8 airs a feature film with Louis de Funes, in which the famous comedian plays not one, but two roles! Find out how the actress portrayed the face and lived up to this dual role!
He already played two roles in this feature film, which also won the Palme d’Or!
Marcel and Paulette Perignon, laborers, buy a beautiful American car for a pittance. The purchase doesn’t go so well for Marcel as he loses his job for having a better car than his boss and the police suspect him of car theft. And this is only the beginning of his problems…
The film contains a surprise, because in the first part, Louis de Funes appears in the role of Mr. Viralotti, the personnel manager of the factory in Marseille, who decides to get fired with the car he came to work, which replaces the big boss in the classroom. ! He is present in several scenes, including one where he gives a speech to the future Fougasse des Gendarmes: Jean Lefebvre!
But in the second part of La Belle Americaine, Marcel is called back to the station and this time he meets…Louis de Funes, again! This time he plays another Mr. Virallot, the previous twin brother! With all the mustaches and accents, as was the custom at the time:
When he began work in the late 1940s, Louis de Funes also appeared in a dual role in God’s Judgment. He will return to action in Courte, in which he plays three different characters, but it is in the film that Du Guesclin breaks his record, as he appears in four roles, including one behind the camera!
Louis de Funes in his dual role as “Du Guesclin”
American beauty is the third film of “Branquinioles” theater group. They made their big screen debut with Branquignol (1949), then Ah! Les belles bacchantes (1954), which surpassed 2 million. La Belle americaine reaches 3.5 million and becomes the biggest success of the 7th year in France.
Years later they teamed up again with Louis de Funes, who has since become a box office star, for Le Petit Baigneur, one of his great classics, featuring his top 5 cabaret!
Source: Allocine
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