How to Make a French Dish (1964)

★ 4.5 IMDb

In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.

How to Make a French Dish

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Annie Girardot
Annie Girardot as Marie / Marinette / Maryse / Marie-Paule young Died 2011 · Paris, France Annie Girardot (25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011) was a French actress. She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and...
Marie Bell
Marie Bell as Elderly Marie-Paule Died 1985 · Bordeaux, Gironde, France Marie Bell (23 December 1900 – 14 August 1985), born Marie-Jeanne Bellon-Downey, was a French tragedian, comic actor and stage director. She was the director of the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris from 19...
Gérard Blain
Gérard Blain as The painter Died 2000 · Paris, France Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971...
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier as Joseph Died 1989 · Buenos Aires, Argentina Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to...
Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy as Jacquot Died 2007 · Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria] Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French...
Blanchette Brunoy
Blanchette Brunoy as Angèle Died 2005 · Paris, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Blanchette Brunoy (5 October 1915 — 3 April 2005) was a French actress, who had appeared in over 90 film and television productions between 1936 and 1998. She...

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