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3.1/5 Mubi Initial release 20 July 1943 Story by Émile Zola | 6.7/10 IMDb 5/5 MovieDetective Release date 1943 (1943) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Produced by Continental FilmsPanitalia Screenplay by André CayatteAndré LegrandMichel Duran Based on Au Bonheur des Damesby Émile Zola Starring Michel SimonAlbert PréjeanBlanchette Brunoy Cast Michel Simon, Blanchette Brunoy, Albert Préjean Similar Au Bonheur des Dames, Pierre et Jean, La fausse maîtresse, We Are All Murderers, An Eye for an Eye | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shop Girls of Paris (original title Au Bonheur des Dames, "The Ladies' Delight") is a 1943 French film directed by André Cayatte and starring Albert Préjean. It is an adaptation of the novel Au Bonheur des Dames by Émile Zola.
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It was the second film adaptation of Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames, after Au Bonheur des Dames in 1930.
Plot
M. Baudu, an irascible old man, runs a small fabric shop in 1860s Paris. A large department store, the first of its kind, opens nearby, putting Baudu's business in peril. Things get even more complicated for him when his niece and two nephews, all recently orphaned, leave their small village to go live with him.
Denise, his young niece, is hired as a saleswoman at the department store, to Baudu's displeasure. She does well at her job, and begins receiving both professional and romantic interest from the store's owner, the wealthy and charming Octave Mouret.