Would-Be Gentleman

    Would-Be Gentleman
    1968

    Synopsis

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

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    Cast

    • Michel SerraultM. Jourdain
    • Rosy VarteMme Jourdain
    • Daniel CeccaldiDorante
    • Jean-Pierre DarrasLe maître de ballet
    • Roger CarelLe maître de musique
    • Henri VirlogeuxLe maître de philosophie
    • Jacques LegrasLe maître-tailleur
    • Michel CretonCovielle
    • Georges AudoubertLe maître d'armes
    • Annick BlancheteauLucile