"A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor."
Louis Jouvet
as Monchablon
Bourvil
as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
Saturnin Fabre
as Le marquis
Danièle Delorme
as Miquette
Mireille Perrey
as Madame veuve Hermine Grandier
Pauline Carton
as Perrine
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
as Mademoiselle Poche
Madeleine Suffel
as Noémie
Maurice Schutz
as Panouillard
Pierre Olaf
as Le jeune premier
Paul Barge
as L'abbé
Raymond Dandy
as Pierre
Jean Berton
as
Léon Larive
as Le suisse
Léonce Corne
as Le militaire à la représentation du 'Cid'
Georges Bever
as Le sacristain
Philippe Nicaud
as Robert de Flers
Marechal
as Gaston Arman de Caillavet
André Numès
as Le garçon
René Lacourt
as L'aveugle (as Lacour)
Georges Le Roy
Joëlle Bernard
as Lili - une comédienne
Geneviève Morel
as Une commère
Solange Certain
as Une comédienne
Henri Niel
as Lahirel
Jean Témerson
as Saint-Giron
Louis Seigner
as L'évêque
Sylviane Aladin
as (uncredited)
Charles Bayard
as Un curiste (uncredited)
Yvonne Dany
Hélène Delval
Henry Gerrar
Marie-Louise Godard
Olivier Hussenot
as Frédé (uncredited)
Paule Launay
Agnès Laury
as Hermance (uncredited)
Franck Maurice
as Un consommateur (uncredited)
Julienne Paroli
as Une commère (uncredited)
Denise Provence
Gabrielle Rosny
Eliane Salmon
Evelyne Salmon
Victor Tabournot
Renée Thorel
Yvonne Yma
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Director
Armand Thirard
Director of Photography
Louis Née
Jean Ferry
Screenplay
Raymond Borderie
Producer
Robert Dorfmann
Writer
Robert de Flers
Short Story
Gaston Arman de Caillavet
Paul-Edmond Decharme
Albert Lasry
Original Music Composer
Monique Kirsanoff
Editor
Georges Wakhévitch
Production Design
Costume Design
Jean Zay
Paul Joly
Production Manager
Jean-Pierre Marchand
Second Assistant Director
Serge Vallin
First Assistant Director
William Robert Sivel
Sound Engineer
Camera Operator