Business Is Business (1942 film)

1942 film

Business Is Business

Directed by| Jean Dréville
Written by| Léopold Marchand
Based on| Business is Business Octave Mirbeau
Produced by| Edmond Pingrin
Starring| Charles Vanel
Aimé Clariond
Jacques Baumer
Cinematography| Nicolas Bourgassoff
Edited by| André Versein
Music by| Henri Verdun

Production
company

Les Moulins d'Or

Distributed by| Éclair-Journal

Release date

* 10 September 1942 (1942-09-10)

Running time

| 82 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

Business Is Business (French: Les affaires sont les affaires) is a 1942 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Charles Vanel, Aimé Clariond and Jacques Baumer.[1] [2] It was shot at the Studios Francois 1er in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux.

## Cast

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* Charles Vanel as Isidore Lechat
* Aimé Clariond as Le marquis de Porcellet
* Jacques Baumer as Grugh
* Germaine Charley as Madame Lechat
* Jean Debucourt as Le vicomte de la Fontenelle
* Jean Pâqui as Xavier Lechat
* Lucien Nat as Lucien Garraud
* Henri Nassiet as Dauphin
* Hubert de Malet as Melchior de Porcellet
* Marcel Pérès as Jules
* Henri de Livry as Le maître d'hôtel
* Renée Devillers as Germaine Lechat
* Robert Le Vigan as Phinck

## References

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1. ^ https://www.unifrance.org/film/4103/les-affaires-sont-les-affaires
2. ^ Rège p.336

## Bibliography

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* Moraly, Yehuda. Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France. Liverpool University Press, 2019.
* Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

## External links

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* Business Is Business at IMDb

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Films directed by Jean Dréville

* Autour de L'Argent (1928)
* A Man of Gold (1934)
* The Chess Player (1938)
* White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
* His Uncle from Normandy (1939)
* President Haudecoeur (1940)
* Annette and the Blonde Woman (1942)
* Business Is Business (1942)
* A Cage of Nightingales (1945)
* Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
* The Visitor (1946)
* Carbon Copy (1947)
* The Spice of Life (1948)
* Operation Swallow (1948)
* Return to Life (1949)
* The Girl with the Whip (1952)
* The Secret of the Mountain Lake (1952)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* Endless Horizons (1953)
* La Reine Margot (1954)
* Stopover in Orly (1955)
* The Suspects (1957)
* A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik (1958)
* La Fayette (1961)
* The Last of the Mohicans (1968)

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