Sins of Youth (film)

1941 film

Sins of Youth (French: Péchés de jeunesse) is a 1941 French comedy drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Harry Baur, Lise Delamare and Monique Joyce.^[1] It was produced by the German-backed Continental Films.^[2] It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne.

Synopsis

Monsieur Lacalade an aging millionaire thinks of the three sons and their three separate mothers he abandoned decades before. He sets out on a quest to find them and reconnect.

Cast

• Harry Baur as Monsieur Lacalade
• Lise Delamare as Madeleine
• Monique Joyce as Miss Florence
• Suzanne Dantès as Louise Noblet
• Marguerite Ducouret as Emma Vacheron
• Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Henriette Noblet
• Yvette Chauviré as Gabrielle
• Guillaume de Sax as Le docteur Pelletan
• Pierre Bertin as Gaston Noblet
• Fred Pasquali as Edmond Vacheron
• Jean Bobillot as Lucien Noblet
• Jean-Marie Boyer as Philippe
• Jean Buquet as Frédéric
• Georges Chamarat as Fernand Noblet
• Andrée Champeaux as Simone, la serveuse
• Bernard Daydé as André
• Henri de Livry as Le placeur à l'opéra
• Carmen Deraisy as La chiromancienne
• Lucien Desagneaux as Un admirateur
• Gabrielle Fontan as L'habilleuse
• Mona France as Une admiratrice
• Michel François as Maurice
• Janie Grazia as Un serveuse
• Hennery as Un spectateur
• Palmyre Levasseur as La cuisinière
• Marcel Maupi as Le commissaire
• Marcel Melrac as Le chauffeur
• Clary Monthal as Marthe Noblet
• Marcelle Monthil as Mademoiselle Archimbaud
• Noëlle Norman as L'infirmière
• Julienne Paroli as La couturière
• Marcel Pérès as Le bonimenteur
• Marcelle Rexiane as Jeanne Noblet
• Robert Rollis as Le groom
• Nina Sinclair as Adèle, la servante
• Eugène Stuber as Un forain
• Jacques Varennes as Firmin, le maître d'hôtel
• Jules Vibert as Delormel, le critique
• Yvonne Yma as La grosse spectatrice

References

1. Waldman p.159
2. Leteux p.80

Bibliography

• Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986
• Leteux, Christine. Continental Films: French Cinema under German Control. University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.

External links

• Sins of Youth at IMDb