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The Ball

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

Top Cast

  • Germaine Dermoz

    Germaine Dermoz

    Madame Kampf

  • Danielle Darrieux

    Danielle Darrieux

    Antoinette

  • Vanda Gréville

    Vanda Gréville

    Miss Betty

  • Pierre de Guingand

    Pierre de Guingand

    Marcel de Brécourt

  • Marguerite Pierry

    Marguerite Pierry

    Aunt Isabelle

  • André Lefaur

    André Lefaur

    Alfred Kampf

  • Allan Durant

    Allan Durant

  • Paulette Dubost

    Paulette Dubost

    Miss Yvette, the customer

Overview

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

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