{{Infobox film | name = Les Femmes collantes | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = [[Pierre Caron (director)|Pierre Caron]] | producer = Pierre Caron <br/> [[Serge Sandberg]] | writer = [[Jean de Letraz]] | screenplay = | story = | based_on = ''Les Femmes collantes'', operetta by [[Léon Gandillot]] | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Henri Garat]] * [[Marguerite Moreno]] * [[Betty Stockfeld]] * [[Josseline Gaël]] }}<ref name=Fiches>{{cite web |url=https://www.fichesducinema.com/fiches-en-ligne/?fdcpath=/fdcg/film/9458/ |title=Femmes collantes |website=Les Fiches du Cinéma |language=fr |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref> | music = [[Vincent Scotto]] | cinematography = [[Willy Faktorovitch]] (as Willy) | editing = Jean Bert | studio = Les Films SACA <br/> Société de Production du Film Les Femmes Collantes | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=y|1938|04|27|Paris|ref1=<ref name=uni/>}} | runtime = {{convert|95|minutes}} | country = [[France]] | language = French | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Les Femmes collantes''''' is a 1938 French film directed by [[Pierre Caron (director)|Pierre Caron]].<ref name=uni>{{Cite web|url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/40634/les-femmes-collantes|title=Les Femmes collantes (1938)|website=UniFrance |access-date=18 January 2022}}</ref> It is based on the 1886 [[opéra bouffe]] of the same name by [[Léon Gandillot]], and was preceded by a 1920 film written by Gandillot and directed by [[Georges Monca]] with [[Charles Prince (actor)|Charles Prince]].<ref>{{cite book |author=James L. Limbacher |title=Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?: Remakes, Sequels, and Series in Motion Pictures and Television, 1896–1978 |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |publisher=Pierian Press |year=1979 |isbn=9780876501078 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfBkAAAAMAAJ&q=Les+Femmes+collantes+1938 |page=66 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa038d0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118183101/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa038d0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 18, 2022 |title=Les FEMMES COLLANTES (1920) |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kinotv.com/page/film.php?filmcode=83757&l=en |title=Les femmes collantes |website=KinoTV |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref>
== Plot == Jacques Badinois is a wealthy lawyer with three women bent on marrying him: his mistress, a young widow, and his maid. He and his clerk's intended fiancée then fall in love. He gives all four women the same date and time for their wedding, and marries her.<ref name=Fiches/><ref name=filmfr>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinema-francais.fr/les_films/films_c/films_caron_pierre/les_femmes_collantes.htm |title=Les Femmes collantes |website=Cinéma français |language=fr |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref><ref name=cinemem>{{cite web |url=http://cinememorial.com/film_1938_-_FEMMES_COLLANTES__.LES_16169.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806145007/http://www.cinememorial.com/film_1938_-_FEMMES_COLLANTES__.LES_16169.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |title=Femmes Collantes, les |website=CineMemorial |language=fr |date=2005 |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref><ref name=video>{{cite web |url=https://www.renechateauvideo.com/fr/article-389-femmes_collantes_les.php |title=FEMMES COLLANTES, LES |website=René Chateau Vidéo |language=fr |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/40634/les-femmes-collantes |title=Les Femmes collantes |website=UniFrance |language=fr |access-date=18 January 2022 }}</ref>
== Cast == * [[Henri Garat]] : Jacques Badinois * [[Josseline Gaël]] : Eloïse Duboucher * [[Betty Stockfeld]] : Gladys Grey * [[Mona Goya]] : Rose, the Badinois maid * [[Pierre Stéphen]] : Hippolyte Loupiot, Badinois' clerk * [[Armand Bernard]] : Séraphin Campluchard, undertaker * [[Marguerite Moreno]] : Madame Mourillon * {{ill|Michèle Béryl|fr}} : Monique Mourillon * [[Marcel Vallée]] : Joseph Mourillon * [[Jeanne Fusier-Gir]] : the Mourillon maid * [[Jean Tissier]] : Claude Patrice, fashion designer * [[Marcel Pérès (actor)|Marcel Pérès]] : bailiff * [[Albert Duvaleix]] * Marie Cruz * [[Willy Léardy]] * [[Monique Monnier]]<ref name=filmfr/>
== Release == ''Les Femmes collantes'' opened in Paris on 27 April 1938.<ref name=uni/> It was re-released on video in 2015 by René Chateau Vidéo.<ref name=video/>
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