Odette, a wealthy former actress and mistress to government minister Adrien, hires a sophisticated man named Désiré as her valet, leading to personal jealousy from her lover and sleep-talking revelations of a romance between employer and servant.
Social & External
The people behind it
Sacha Guitry
Désiré, le valet de chambre
Jacqueline Delubac
Odette Cléry, maitresse du ministre Montignac
Jacques Baumer
Félix Montignac, ministre des P.T.T.
Pauline Carton
Adèle, la cuisinière
Saturnin Fabre
Adrien Corniche
Geneviève Vix
Comtesse Diepchinska
Arletty
Madeleine, la femme de chambre
Alys Delonde
Mme Henriette Corniche, épouse d'Adrien
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