A brassy café waitress chooses love over money while WWI crashes the party.
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter.
Acting
Line Renaud's brassy, scene-stealing turn as the titular Madelon.
Costume
Glorious 1910s peasant-chic meets 1950s Technicolor fantasy.
Director
Jean Boyer
Line Renaud
Madeleine Thuilier aka 'La Madelon'
Jean Richard
Antoine Pichot
Roger Pierre
Corporal Georges Beauguitte
Pierre Larquey
Vicar
Edmond Chemi
Gendarme who arrests Antoine
Georges Chamarat
Auguste Thullier
André Valmy
Captain Van Meulen
Gilbert Gil
Aviation commander at Maxim's
Jacques Dynam
Bellboy from Maxim's
Jean Martinelli
Colonel de Saint-Marc
Peter Walker
American
Jess Hahn
American General Gibson
Émile Genevois
Soldier Alfred
Odette Barencey
Mrs. Thullier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Line Renaud was already a massive music-hall star; this film capitalized on her recording of 'La Madelon,' a real WWI soldiers' song that became her signature.
Director Jean Boyer specialized in this exact formula: take a popular chanson, build a featherweight plot around it, cast a beloved singer, profit. The 1927 silent version with Léonie Yahne was arguably more successful.
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