{{short description|1937 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Woman of Malacca | image = File:Woman of Malacca.jpg | caption = | director = Marc Allégret | producer = | writer = Francis de Croisset (novel) <br> Claude-André Puget <br> {{Interlanguage link|Jan Lustig|de}} | starring = Edwige Feuillère <br> Pierre Richard-Willm <br> Betty Daussmond <br> Jacques Copeau | music = Louis Beydts | editing = Yvonne Martin | cinematography = Jules Kruger | studio = Régina Film Compagnie <br> La Magie Films | distributor = Tobis Film | released = {{Film date|1937|10|01|df=yes}} | runtime = 113 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = | gross = }} '''''Woman of Malacca''''' (French: '''''La dame de Malacca''''') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm and Betty Daussmond. It was based on a 1935 novel by the French writer Francis de Croisset. It was a major success on its initial release.<ref>Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.104</ref> It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. A separate German-language version ''Another World'' was also made.
==Synopsis== A young Englishwoman, Audrey Greenwood, marries an army officer to escape her dreary life as a school teacher. Accompanying her husband out for colonial service in Malacca, she soon grows unhappy with her marriage, and falls in love with a local sultan, Prince Selim.
==Cast== * Edwige Feuillère as Audrey Greenwood * Pierre Richard-Willm as Prince Selim * Betty Daussmond as Lady Lyndstone * Jacques Copeau as Lord Brandmore * Gabrielle Dorziat as Lady Brandmore * Jean Debucourt as Sir Eric Temple * Jean Wall as Le major Carter * Liliane Lesaffre as Lady Johnson * Ky Duyen as Le japonais * Foun-Sen as La servante * William Aguet as Gerald * Alexandre Mihalesco as Sirdae Raman * René Bergeron as Le Docteur * Magdeleine Bérubet as Mademoiselle Tramont * Charlotte Clasis as Une amie d'Audrey * Marthe Mellot as La sous-maîtresse de l'institut Tramont * Robert Ozanne as Un journaliste * René Fleur as Un journaliste * Michèle Lahaye as Une dame anglaise * Colette Proust as Une dame anglaise
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. ''Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s''. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013. * Passerini, Luisa, Labanyi, Jo & Diehl, Karen. ''Europe and Love in Cinema''. Intellect Books, 2012.
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0028756}} {{Marc Allegret}}
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